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Welcome to Holding Pain | Artist Talk + Lab Opening | Ritzo ten Cate

NP3 | RE:Search:Gallery
29 March 2026

About this activity.

Welcome to Holding Pain - Ritzo ten Cate
Artist talk + Lab opening

Free entrance / Language: English.

Registration via this form is required, as spots are limited.

 

Sunday March 29th

14.15 - Doors open

14.35 - Doors (really) close
14.45 -
Start programme

17.00 - Doors reopen / drinks / winding down

 

Welcome to Holding Pain
Ritzo ten Cate shares images, audio, insights and the source code behind “Holding Pain”: a photographic ritual in which he collectively explores grief, vulnerability, and connection through ongoing research.

On March 29th, Ritzo introduces his work with an artist talk (with experiential elements), followed by a reflective and hands-on participatory afternoon centred on open-source collaboration. Participants are invited to experiment with the material —individually or together— in an open lab for exploration and create new (but connected) work.

Artists and makers are welcome to participate in a multi-session making-process at NP3 using Ritzo’s work as a starting-point for a collective making practice. By responding to, transforming, or combining the Holding Pain code and data with their own artistic practice, this open process prioritises collective exploration of vulnerability and grief over sole authorship of ideas. 

About Holding Pain:
Holding Pain is a digital shamanic, photographic ritual inquiry into how we deal with what we would rather avoid. In Ritzo’s setup, one-on-one winter rituals took place in nature; in March the participants of these rituals meet in the closed session “Holding Pain Together” — to share what can be shared, turning the individual into the collective. 

 

Then follows the start of “What Remains of Holding Pain”, an exposing, an exposure of what remains, where the individual and collective may dissolve into the universal. This process starts with “Welcome to Holding Pain”

And you are welcome.

More info about the work: Holding Pain.

NP3.

NP3 is een tentoonstellings- en onderzoeksruimte voor hedendaagse experimenterende kunst. Zij beschikt over drie unieke locaties in de stad van Groningen met ieder een eigen architectuur, functie en uitstraling: RE:Search:Gallery aan de Hofstraat 21, de containerkunsthal MOBi aan de Suikerlaan 41 en eMMa het 24/7/365 interactieve programma in de Videobusstop van Rem Koolhaas op het Emmaplein.

Location.

NP3 | RE:Search:Gallery
Hofstraat 21
9712JA Groningen
tel +31(0)50 - 2044 783
www.np3.nu/