17 july 2026, Flor Linckens
Sweet Summer Weeks at Project 2.0 Gallery
This summer, Project 2.0 Gallery in The Hague presents the first edition of 'Sweet Summer Weeks', a series of group exhibitions that brings together new combinations of artists throughout the season. The first presentation, on view until 2 August, features work by Sanja Marušić, Frank Fischer and Laurien Renckens. Although their artistic practices differ considerably, all three artists explore the ways in which colour, form and composition can shape our perception. The exhibition demonstrates that this shared pursuit can lead to remarkably diverse outcomes.
Photography lies at the heart of Sanja Marušić's multidisciplinary practice, but she combines the medium with painting and collage. In carefully staged scenes, often featuring the artist herself wearing self-made costumes, Marušić explores the boundary between reality and imagination while creating a certain distance from everyday life. After digitally and manually manipulating her images, she transforms them into dreamlike, surreal and increasingly abstract worlds in which her travels and personal experiences evolve into universal narratives. Escapism also plays a significant role in her work, not as a means of escaping reality but as a way of viewing the world from a different perspective. The Dutch-Croatian artist (1991) studied at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Her work was previously exhibited at the Nederlands Fotomuseum, the Mauritshuis, Melkweg Expo and the Photo Biennale Oostende.
Swiss artist Frank Fischer uses iconic masterpieces from art history as the point of departure for his paintings. He digitally reduces reproductions of these celebrated works to sequences of colour information, which he subsequently translates with exceptional precision into new compositions on aluminium. Applying glossy paint one drop at a time, he creates linear patterns in which the original image has disappeared, leaving only its underlying chromatic structure. Fischer was born in Zurich in 1974 and earned a master's degree from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. In 2007, he received the Jerwood Painters Prize.
The exhibition at Project 2.0 Gallery also features new work by Laurien Renckens. Following a period of experimenting with reclaimed materials and small folded talismans, Renckens returns to painting in her latest series: "Bird of Paradise". The experiences she gained during her travels through Kenya continue to resonate in these works, albeit in a very different form. Her figures, strange birds in the broadest sense of the term, are composed of colourful planes and patterns. They begin as paper models before being translated onto canvas layer by layer. Renckens also drew literal inspiration from birds of paradise: recent research has shown that certain species process light in a remarkable way, absorbing wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye before converting them into visible colours. Renckens was born in the Netherlands in 1966 and lives and works in Nijmegen. Her work has been exhibited at Museum Het Valkhof, among other venues.
