Joyce Zwerver – To Move Mountains
About this activity.
From December 7, 2025, to February 15, 2026, visual artist Joyce Zwerver presents her solo exhibition 'To Move Mountains' at Afslag BLV. She showcases her series of the same name, consisting of twenty-five mixed-media collages, complemented by a site-specific installation created especially for the exhibition, 'And the blue that binds it all together'. In her collage works, Zwerver explores the boundaries between two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms. Working in response to specific locations serves as her point of departure. Whether indoors or outdoors, in or with the landscape, she approaches each site visually—searching for usable shapes, lines, sizes, and proportions. Sometimes this results in a striking contrast, at other times in a poetic coherence.
To Move Mountains
'To Move Mountains' (2024–2025) is a personal series in which the deepening of Zwerver’s artistic practice converges with the processing of a profound personal experience. The starting point for the series is a photograph of a mountain landscape that she took herself during one of her travels. Through various approaches, the image is examined and expanded to explore questions about landscape, composition, form, materiality, tactility, and spatiality. The title, referring to the saying “to move mountains,” alludes both to the literal mountain in the photograph—visually shifted in the works—and to the metaphorical act of dealing with personal transformation.
And the blue that binds it all together
The blue band running across the floor of Afslag BLV connects the three exhibition spaces. This line, which seems to guide visitors through the rooms, forms the basis for the installation 'And the blue that binds it all together' (2025). It introduces a playful element that opens up the space and removes visual noise. The presence of the blue hue links directly to the works in the 'To Move Mountains' series, reinforcing their visual cohesion and allowing the individual works to present themselves even more clearly as a unified whole.
About the artist
Joyce Zwerver (b. 1990) studied at Academie Minerva and the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, where she continues to live and work. Her practice takes shape through monumental installations and spatial, sculptural collages.
Museum Belvédère.
Location.
Afslag BLV
Minckelersstraat 11
8442 CE Heerenveen
www.museumbelvedere.nl/nl/