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KunstRai

30 April – 4 May 2025
Tribute Rob Koudijs, curated by Ward Schrijver
Rademakers Gallery

Kunstrai Amsterdam
Booth 100
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DIVA talk

Maria Konschake en Beppe Kessler
19.00 h
DIVA Museum Antwerp (BE)

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Perfect Match

Paintings, sketches, drawings and jewellery
Organized by: Quittenbaum Gallery and Thereza Pedrosa Gallery

Opening: Wednesday 12th, 16.00 – 19.00 hour
Time: from 12th – 16th march, from 12.00-18.00 hour

Location:
Quittenbaum Gallery
Theresienstrasse 58
80333 München
tel: +49 17682119989

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painters alive

Groupexhibtion
From January 8 to March 23, 2025
Opening: Saturday January 11, 2025 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM 

Rademakers Gallery
Nijverheidslaan 3A 9, 1382 LE Weesp
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Opgespeld

DIVA Antwerpen
October 25 2024 – April 21 2025

Two of my brooches are part of the exhibition.

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About holy shit

We live in a time when nature asunder thread, in a world increasingly dominated by conflict. What can you do as an artist? Cursing softly holy shit and cherishing the beauty that lies ahead, transformed into this tiny piece. To be worn and propagated!

holy shit

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a time of seeing

Video afspelen

A registration of my exhibition a time of seeing, in the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn,
(November 4, 2019 – March 1, 2020) is ready.

The film is made by Paul de Ruijter.

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for ever

What if you suddenly hear that you are ill…
What do you do afterwards, when you are totally ok again, what do you want to say and make, how to start?
Come back.

What do you do with all those half things that lie in drawers, stored in boxes: damaged, broken, kept, worthless and of value.

Jewelry that you no longer wear, made of gold or silver, worn links, broken clasps. There are memories…. A medallion of horn, inlaid with silver and mother-of-pearl, worn daily as a teenager in their heyday, the 1960s, just like the gold link bracelet.
A precious coral brooch you never wore, too much of a jewel, too fine.
Cufflinks, received as a keepsake.

But also a damaged Japanese lacquer box, an ebony violin key.
A milk tooth, no idea whose.
A jat that you don’t know how you got it.
Shells and pieces of coral collected by your mother in Indonesia in the late 1940s.
Tin figures.
The charm chain full of silver creatures, people, things, objects around your neck, each with their meaning. Ringing worn and cherished.

I’m putting them all back in the spotlight. I prefer to immortalize them forever.
I isolate or disassemble them, I combine them and give them a second life in a composition with pearls and rabbit droppings sprinkled in between. Together they grow into new, tiny stories in the form of a brooch. New life.

© Beppe Kessler