Thomas van Dun
Thomas van Dun presents three large-scale paintings that explore intimacy, desire, and ecstasy through color, light, and atmosphere. The works do not tell a specific story but evoke emotional and sensory experiences that are both personal and universal. Painted in oil on canvas, the works are constructed through a layered process employing techniques such as impasto and glazing. Thick layers of gesso reflect light off their irregular surface, while translucent layers add depth and clarity. This interplay between texture and transparency reflects the balance between outward appearance and inner feeling. Together, the paintings form a cohesive exploration of human connection, inviting the viewer into spaces of vulnerability, desire, and transcendence.
Tim Weerdenburg
Tim Weerdenburg (1988) is a freelance fashion photographer from Delft. After studying Conceptual Image at the Netherlands Photo Academy, his photos have been published in Numéro, FAULT, Het Parool, MirrorMirror, and Kaltblut, among others.
Weerdenburg photographs on analog negatives and develops them himself. His images often focus on staged situations involving human bodies, in which he makes use of fashionable elements, theatrical lighting, and alienating décors.
In his work, Weerdenburg plays with the past, the present, and the future. For example, he uses AI to create images that he projects onto models, after which he captures these models using analog methods—or he photographs models on film and subsequently brings them to life with the help of AI. The contrast between the future and the past is also visible in his images through the use of contemporary styling and an aesthetic from the 80s and 90s in the use of color, lighting, and set design.
Devon Ress
Devon Ress, born in Canada and raised in Los Angeles, moved to Amsterdam in 1989 and has lived and worked here ever since. He completed his studies in graphic design and illustration at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, where his collages form a mix of post-punk aesthetics, vintage photography, found objects, and a surreal, dark humor. His drawings have been exhibited at DOL House and appeared in the magazines Soapbox and Pride Art 2025. His recent work includes the series Monsters of Love and Friend of a Friend, colorful catalogues of grinning monsters, summer boys, tender lovers, and confused strangers.
Through his drawings and mixed-media work, he brings a colorful and emotionally charged world to life. With a style that lies somewhere between painting and sketching, his figures, playful, detached, familiar, float through fields of color, sometimes pausing to party, pose, or simply exist. By blending the surreal with the sincere, his series Monsters of Love and Friend of a Friend reflect on connection, queer intimacy, and the ever-shifting spaces between strangers and lovers.
