During Art Antwerp 2025, we will present a group exhibition featuring work by artists Fiona Lutjenhuis, Erik Mattijssen and Saar Scheerlings. At the fair, we will showcase an exciting combination of sculptures by Saar Scheerlings on matching pedestals, an installation by Fiona Lutjenhuis and work on paper by Erik Mattijssen.

About the artists

The work of Fiona Lutjenhuis (Zevenaar, NL, 1991) revolves around depicting and reinterpreting the religious ideologies she grew up with. During her childhood, she lived with her family in a village in North Brabant, where her parents joined a sect based on a mixture of theosophical ideas, esoteric cosmologies, stories about extraterrestrial life and the existence of supernatural life forms. Drawing on personal memories and archival material, she explores and transforms the ideological legacy of her childhood. Rather than a literal reconstruction, her work offers a poetic retelling: an attempt to make the unknown tangible, without the intention of judgement.

Saar Scheerlings (Eindhoven, NL, 1990) explores the meaning of cultural objects. Her art is an endless cycle of production, constantly susceptible to outside influences. It is a process like a trade route or port city where all kinds of previously unknown things can influence each other. For Saar, anything can be a starting point or a link to embark on a new path, such as a tea box lying around in the studio or a technique she has invented herself.

Plastic buckets, dolls, tin cans and furniture. They populate the scenes that artist Erik Mattijssen (Veenendaal, NL, 1957) builds in his drawings of pencil, gouache and pastel crayon. Like in a theatre, he tells stories, often set in interiors in which things take the leading role. People are absent. What happened there, the solidified life stories, thoughts and memories, are told in these tableaux vivants with props.