Duo exhibition by Evi Vingerling and Katja Mater.
In 2025, the Centraal Museum will also be a guest at Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd. Between spring and autumn, there is annual work by renowned contemporary artists who live in the Netherlands and are internationally renowned. This year, from April 11 to October 26, 2025, a one-off duo exhibition will take place at this special location.
On the first floor of the mansion, the Centraal Museum presents exhibitions where the power of art is leading. Artist-driven, which means that each artist gets an open stage to present work and wishes in interaction with the historic rooms. This is how this historic country estate is being made a current sanctuary, where both art lovers and park visitors are treated to a special art experience.
Evi Vingerling and Katja Mater
A wide selection of paintings by Evi Vingerling (Gouda 1979) comes together with the more conceptual crossovers by Katja Mater (Hoorn 1979). Despite their different approaches, the artists share a fascination with the experience of time and space. Both are focused on the unexpected poetry of the moment — the flash of insight that comes to mind when keenly observed, the split second that creates an endless afterimage in your mind. With themes like belonging — how do I relate to the world around me — and grief involve Vingerling and Mater with their own experiences and thus encourage (self) reflection.
Especially for this exhibition, Evi Vingerling is painting a dozen new works. Key pieces from her 20-year artistic career strengthen continuity and familiarity. Vingerling's paintings come from drawings and notes, from moments when she experiences that colors and shapes pull her “out of her mind”. On linen, she lets the chaotic world, which is constantly moving, come to a standstill for a moment.
Katja Mater is working on an installation for the first floor of the mansion. In it, she lets in the surrounding Dutch landscape, like an echo of the original paper wallpaper in the Chinese salon below. In addition, Mater shows film work that invites you to experience a different kind of time: a film made for the exhibition, an older film and her recent installation When Things Fall Apart — a mourning log that merges a seemingly lost past and an inevitable future.
The exhibition features original poems by Omar Kholeif, celebrated author, artist and cultural historian, woven throughout the space. These poems serve as punctuation, annotation and work in dialogue with the work of Mater and Vingerling. They are all collected and accompanied by a beautiful new essay by Dr. Kholeif in a guide specially produced for the exhibition.
More information can be found on the website of Oud Amelisweerd Country House.