A presentation by artist Heike Tjepkema about her future project with René Tosari and about her own work and book. We are happy to invite you to our 5th Thursday-Night-Feature for this year, on Thursday May 3rd. On this evening you will be able to enjoy a presentation of Heike Tjepkema, a guest artist from the Netherlands, introduced to us by artist René Tosari, with whom she is working on a joint project for...
Art project Rinaldo Klas and Leonnie van Eert with children with disabilities in French Guiana On Thursday April 5th Readytex Art Gallery will host the fourth Thursday-Night-Feature (TNF) of this year. This upcoming TNF will highlight a wonderful project that the artists Rinaldo Klas and Leonnie van Eert were recently involved with in French Guiana. The project was executed in Cayenne, and was initiated by EMEGA, an organization in French Guiana that aims to help children with disabilities integrate in their...
Sunil Puljhun: New work and the experiment After the grand celebration of Readytex Art Gallery’s 25th anniversary in February, it is already time for the third Thursday-Night-Feature (TNF) of this year, on Thursday, March 1st. Taking his turn this time around, is visual artist Sunil Puljhun, an artist who is best known for his predominantly dark, black and white works. At his TNF of Thursday March the 1st, Puljhun shares several of his new works with the public, while also...
Readytex Art Gallery 25 years! Readytex Art Gallery is 25 years old on February 8th 2018. A significant milestone! The gallery celebrates this with a special anniversary exhibition that opens in the evening on March 8th, and is open to the public from the 9th thru the 24th of February. Who would have thought when the gallery opened its doors on February 8th 1993, upstairs from the Readytex Craft & souvenirshop at the Maagdenstraat, that Readytex Art Gallery would be located in such a large...
Roddney Tjon Poen Gie participation in Forest Art Guyane, French Guiana After hopefully a wonderful years end and a promising start of the new year to all, at Readytex Art Gallery we have transitioned into 2018 with many good intentions and great plans in mind. We kick them off with our first Thursday-Night-Feature (TNF) on Thursday January 4th. On this evening visual artist Roddney Tjon Poen Gie will give a presentation about his participation in ‘Forest‘ Art Guyane 2017’ in...
" December Special Gift Edition " We are approaching the final Thursday-Night-Feature at Readytex Art Gallery for this year of 2017. This means of course, that the holidays are also upon us. A joyous, but hectic time of fun parties and frantic quests for the right Christmas gifts, has arrived. We have decided to lend you a helping hand with this on our upcoming Thursday-Night-Feature. The TNF on December 7th will be all about unique gift giving ideas, for this...
Thursday ‘Frightly’ Feature (Halloween Edition) How time flies! We are already planning the one before the last Thursday-Night-Feature (TNF) at Readytex Art Gallery for this year. As always it will be another interesting and enjoyable evening spent together with our guests. This particular TNF will not involve a guest presenter, but similar to the last one it will be based on a special theme. And again, the theme was largely inspired by a special event at or near this date. Considering...
Thursday-Night-Feature ‘Beastly’ art The month October makes its entry and brings with it the new school year, the celebration of World Animal Day, and of course also the new edition of the Thursday-Night-Feature (TNF) at Readytex Art Gallery on October 5th. On schedule for this month’s TNF is a casual ‘Open house’, one that we have given a bit of a ‘beastly’ character. No need to be alarmed though, because all this has to do with is this year’s...
International guest artist Masha Ru about eating soil, also in SurinameAt the upcoming Thursday-Night-Feature (TNF) of Readytex Art Gallery on September 7th, visitors will learn more about a surprising, and for Suriname still rather unfamiliar, form of art. For on this evening we introduce guest artist Masha Ru, born in Russia and living and working in the Netherlands since 2007, whose work is centered around the subject of edible soil.These TNF’s in which we offer international artists a platform...
TNF August 3rd : ‘Pe un’ moksi kon na wan’ The upcoming Thursday-Night-Feature (TNF) at Readytex Art Gallery (RAG) on August 3rd, introduces a surprising new concept; one quite different from the previous TNF’s. This is because the August TNF is the result of an interesting collaboration between RAG and ‘Het Koto Museum’ of Mrs. Christine van Russel-Henar. A valuable collaboration that ultimately also involved other enthusiastic persons and organizations from the cultural sector, and a group of experienced visual...
