In Simone Hooymans’ practice, a world opens where drawing slowly begins to move. Plants pulse, waves emerge from lines and landscapes transform almost imperceptibly before the viewer’s eyes. Her work moves in the borderland between drawing, animation and installation, inviting the visitor into a space where time slows down and perception shifts.

The exhibition brings together eight works in which Hooymans explores nature as a site of fantasy, mysticism and transformation. The images originate from hand-drawn watercolours and ink drawings, digitally animated into slow, circular movements — visual landscapes to step into and move freely within. 

For Hooymans, animation is a way of moving beyond the literal realism of the camera. Where film records the world as it is, animation opens the possibility of entering the image and allowing it to expand into a living environment. Her working method is intuitive and associative — rather than following a narrative, the works move through different emotional states and moods. 

Several of the works carry an undercurrent of apocalyptic imagery. In pieces such as Ras (2019) and The Perpetual Tapestry (2025), nature emerges as a force in constant motion, where beauty and destruction coexist. Collapse is portrayed not only as ruin but also as transformation. 

Sound plays a central role. Through close collaborations with musicians, individual soundscapes are developed that interact with the animated images. Together, image and sound form a polyphonic environment in which the elements of nature appear as living presences rather than still objects. 

Simone Hooymans (1974) was born in the Netherlands and lives and works in Norway. She has graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem (Artez) and Breda (St Joost). She has participated in international exhibitions and festivals, including Ars Electronica and the Changwon Sculpture Biennale. 

Exhibition opening

Date: Saturday, June 13
Time: 1 pm