About this activity.

Pieter Duijser

Order and Estrangement

28 February to 26 March

Opening: 28 February, 5 pm, by Trudy Dijkshoorn, Berrie Kuilman and Gert van Oortmerssen.

Wies Boschma, partner of Pieter Duijser, present in the gallery: Sunday 1, 8, 15 and 22 March, 1–5 pm

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Pieter Duijser (1955–2025) worked as a painter and designer on abstract compositions carefully constructed from forms, structures and planes of colour. His work originates in everyday reality, yet is released from recognisable representation and transformed into a distinct visual language.

Through repetition, ordering and abstraction, a subtle sense of estrangement emerges. Landscapes, architecture and urban structures remain perceptible, yet withdraw from direct meaning. The compositions are precise and thoughtfully considered. For Duijser, a work was only complete when composition and colour were in balance.

His images do not demand explanation; instead, they invite attentive looking, slowness and imagination. This posthumous exhibition presents the work of an artist who, through structure and aesthetics, created space for a different way of experiencing.

Pieter Duijser lived and worked in Adorp. He studied at Academie Vredeman de Vries and Academie Minerva. From the 1980s onwards, his work was regularly shown in exhibitions and projects.

Galerie Noord.

Galerie Noord is een expositieruimte in hartje Groningen. Vierwekelijks bieden we kunstenaars uit het Noorden de mogelijkheid recent werk te tonen, solo of in kleine groepen. Galerie Noord richt zich op autonoom, experimenteel en onderzoekend werk in vrijwel alle disciplines. We willen bezoekers verrassen door tentoonstellingen te bieden met een wisselend karakter. 
 
Galerie Noord wordt volledig gerund door vrijwilligers. In 1997 werd de galerie opgericht als kunstenaarsinitiatief.

Location.

Galerie Noord
Nieuwstad 6
9711 JP Groningen
tel 050-3113322
www.galerienoord.nl