To be or not!
Sep 30, 2023
'To be or not!' Made for the exhibition 'The Blue of Longing' at the Vishal in Haarlem.
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‘The Journey’
Sep 20, 2023
My installation 'The Journey', filmed on location in Olderbekoop.
‘The Journey’, at ‘Open Stal’.
Aug 04, 2023
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Wagon No.1
Jun 26, 2023
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Ornament for the first wagon installation ‘the Journey’
Jun 16, 2023
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Artist talk ArtZaanstad.
May 30, 2023
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Preview installation ‘The journey’
Apr 25, 2023
This project is about the times we live in now and our hedonistic way of life. We have serious problems with: CO2 excess, global warming, rising oceans, melting polar caps, pandemics, fake news, conspiracy theories and dictators turning the world upside down.
We all see it happen but try like an ostrich to 'bury our head in the sand'. We refuse to look at our role as co-producer and consumer. All of these factors lead us to “The journey to the rim of the volcano.”
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‘Beestenboel’ at ArtZaanstad.
Apr 25, 2023
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‘Companionship for the home’ at Art Center Haarlem.
Nov 27, 2022
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Interview TV North Holland, Culture Club
Nov 07, 2022
Human hair and grandma's porcelain, Chrystl makes art out of everything
Soup tureens with cheerful animal heads, kitschy porcelain figurines with a Big Mac in their hand, the Coronavirus with legs; in the Haarlem studio of Chrystl Rijkeboer it is full of work in progress. Culture Club visited her.
'Party animals' is what Rijkeboer calls her tableware with cheerful animal heads. Just like the porcelain figurines, the idea originated in Corona time. "I needed something cheerful, work where I didn't have to think too much and which looked ‘nice’.”
After the death of her parents, Chrystl suddenly had a lot of new workingmaterial. "Porcelain figurines have always been my 'guilty pleasure'. Ever since I was very little I loved the figurines in my grandmother's closet, but I was only allowed to look at them with my hands behind my back. When I cleared out the house my parents, I came across so many old treasures that I thought: they are mine now and I do what I want with them. Actually I make recycling art."
Not a nice little farmer
Yet the works are not only cheerful and funny. Rijkeboer also has something to say. "Look", she points to a figurine of a Delft blue peasant with an inverted flag as a sash: "I'm going to make pieces of meat and offal, it's also a kind of criticism, like: this is not just a sweet little peasant. Art should be aesthetic, but it should also be abrasive."
human hair
And ‘sanding’ has been doing its job for decades. Before turning to porcelain and pottery, Chrystl made art from human hair. After she had spun the hair that was often sent to her, she knitted or crocheted figures or objects from it. "I understand that it has a dark side. When people saw my work, they often thought it was horse hair. When I told them that I worked with human hair, they were very shocked."
"All my work is about identity, but the hair art has much more impact than the ceramics. I haven't worked with hair for some time now, because it was too gloomy and too labour-intensive, but now I'm ready for a combination. Who knows what the future will bring "
Chrystl's work can be seen this weekend and November 12 and 13 during the Kunstlijn Haarlem in the building below her studio at Smedestraat 9 in Haarlem.
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