WALL PLUGS Susanne Khalil Yusef, Ellemieke Meijers, Eunsae Lee
About this activity.
WALL PLUGS
Susanne Khalil Yusef, Ellemieke Meijers, Eunsae Lee
Exhibition: 16th of January to 8th of February 2026
Opening: Thursday 15th of January at 5:00 PM
Wall Plugs are large-format murals, two-dimensional and spatial combinations filled with imagined experiences of detachment, origins and home, and the search for identity and a state of being. Susanne, Ellemieke & Eunsae reflect our times from a personal perspective. They seek inviting ways to communicate this to us. And they ask for your feedback. Wall Plugs creates non-hierarchical connections, uses alter egos as mouthpieces, and launches cries from the heart into the world.
Under the firmament of Wall Plugs:
January 17th: Hypertrove III. Hyperreal, hyperpop, hypermeta, hyperdata!
Get lost get hold! Performances, music, dj’s & tooth germs from 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM (with Radina Kordova & Enrica Arbia / ES/NS art route). https://sign2.nl/websign/events/hypertrove-iii/
February 8th: Decolonial Practices: An Introduction 15:30-18:30 hrs + soup and drinks to follow!
In collaboration with Yara, Khashayar Najafi, Neele Schlette & Research groep Image in Context, Minerva Groningen. Excerpt from Decolonial Dialogues. Exact time follows. With Yara, Khashayar Najafi, Neele Schlette & Research group Image in Context, Minerva Groningen.
About the artists: Ellemieke Meijers is an artist whose work lies at the intersection of visual art and conceptual reflection. In her work, she explores fundamental questions about identity, meaning, and human logic. She creates alter egos, such as the Christian Equine Therapist, the Holy Draft Stopper, and the Gap Filler, which function as mouthpieces for philosophical and existential themes. Her artistic practice encompasses text, image, and large-scale installations. Through the use of absurd elements and seemingly nonsensical narratives, she creates space for reflection and interpretation. This method allows visitors to enter her world of thought and discover new perspectives on meaning, truth, and knowledge development within it. Ellemieke Meijer graduated in 2024 at Academy Minerva
Susanne Khalill Yusef is often collaborating with Palestinian friends on a mural. Visitors can add comments. Susanne Khalil Yusef makes immersive colourful installations by combining a wide range of media such as ceramics, textiles, and sculpture. At first glance, Yusef’s brightly coloured work seems light-hearted and playful, but if you look closer it refers to distress and dangerous situations. She raises critical questions about themes such as homeland and displacement, identity and socio-geographic power relations. The stories in her work are closely related to her own biography, such as the conflicts in her home country, Palestine. Susanne Khalill Yusef was resident 2022-2024 at Rijksacademie.
Looking at Eunsae Lee‘s paintings is looking at our contemporary society through a morphing and vibrant mirror. Behind the soft curves and colorful brush strokes lies boredom, anger, or guilt, emotions she uses to fuel her creative energy and to produce artworks that either depict or rebel against sources of frustration and discontent. Lee’s early works already bared her signature energetic colorful brush strokes. But contrarily to her current pieces, they were almost abstract. She used to pick up scenes from the media and depict them in a fragmented way, detached from their context. She zoomed in, and deleted characters or backgrounds, emphasizing emotions rather than figuration. Lee´s more recent work takes a different turn but remains a relevant reflection of our time. Eunsae Lee was resident at Rijks Academie 2023-2025
SIGN.
SIGN is een levendige en experimentele projectruimte voor actuele interdisciplinaire kunst op nationaal niveau. Zij biedt jonge kunstenaars een podium voor verdere profilering, ontwikkeling en intensivering van hun kunstenaarschap. Daarbij wordt nieuw werk geïnitieerd in bijzondere contexten en wordt de nodige reflectie gegeven. Presentaties zijn er in SIGN, op allerlei locaties, en in openbare ruimte met een variatie aan omstandigheden, invalshoeken, disciplines.
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Location.
SIGN
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