Soft Transition
Groupshow
30.01 - 07.03.2026
Soft Transition presents work by Vivian Ammerlaan, Anne Kaere, Yolet Luijendijk, Marlike Marks, Twan Peeters, and Dineke Versluis. The exhibition brings together photographic works that share a restrained, attentive approach, in which quiet observation takes precedence over narrative or spectacle.
The works move at a similar pace, allowing space for pauses, subtle shifts, and moments of stillness. Soft Transition functions as a gentle passage: a moment between, where nothing demands urgency and meaning emerges through attentive looking.
Waanplekken 12, 2017
© Vivian Ammerlaan
Weed of stars, 2024
© Anne Kære
In her ongoing series Waanplekken (Illusory Places), Vivian Ammerlaan creates imagined landscapes using photography and everyday materials. The works shown here focus on the sea, exploring its calm, beauty, and darker, more elusive qualities, while remaining part of a broader investigation into overwhelming nature and the sublime. By consciously reconstructing what cannot truly be captured, she embraces the paradox of attempting to depict untouched landscapes through carefully staged images.
Anne Kære’s work is rooted in the Japanese concept of yūgen, a subtle and profound beauty that is felt rather than seen. In Nature’s Symphonies – The (Healing) Sounds of Nature, she translates the rhythms and resonances of the natural world into visual form. Light, texture, and composition function as instruments, allowing her photographs to convey the silent music of leaves, water, and earth. Her images invite a contemplative way of looking, where nature is experienced as harmony and resonance.
In Echoes Unseen, Yolet Luijendijk explores the boundary between what is visible and what remains hidden. Using black ink on transparent plexiglass, layered forms interact with light and space. The installation slowly reveals itself, inviting quiet attention and moments of stillness.
Innermost 01, 2025
© Twan Peeters
Marlike Marks’ series Familiar Water revolves around repeated encounters with the same body of water: its surface, reflections, and what moves beneath. The ongoing series forms a time capsule of the same place observed again and again, revealing subtle shifts across seasons and moments.
In Innermost, Twan Peeters turns his camera inward, focusing on the overlooked spaces within his home. Made during a period in which going outside became increasingly difficult, the work seeks intimacy and meaning within familiar surroundings. Through subtle observation, the photographs reveal stillness, vulnerability, and a renewed sense of belonging in the everyday.
Dineke Versluis often visits the beach to walk, swim, and look at the horizon. In her Swell series, she reflects on the idea that it is not water but energy that travels through waves. The work is shaped by a sense of vastness and connection, as swells are formed by storms far beyond the place where they break.
Swell 2, 2020
© Dineke Versluis
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Curated by Marlike Marks
Cover image © Marlike Marks