UNSEAL
NAP+, Amsterdam, 17–20 September 2026
For NAP+, Bradwolff & Partners presents a dialogue between Eva Spierenburg and Ruta Butkute. The presentation brings together drawings, ceramic and textile works, sculptures and installations around the question of how materials take shape, transform and acquire meaning through their relationship with body, environment and time. For both artists, material is not a neutral carrier of form, but an active presence in which traces of gesture, transformation and encounter remain visible.
In UNSEAL, materials are approached as evolving structures in which traces of time, touch and the processes of making remain visible. Form is never fixed or complete: ceramics, textiles and paint retain the marks of their manipulation and development. The works reveal not only a final form, but also the processes through which they came into being.
In Eva Spierenburg’s practice, body and landscape become intertwined. Her works exist at the threshold between drawing, painting and sculpture. Materials such as ceramic, textile, cotton, pigment and paint converge in layered, tactile structures. These forms carry traces of growth, erosion and transformation, appearing as the result of a continuous process of becoming. Her works move between vulnerability and strength, between the body and the landscape, revealing how matter can continually manifest itself in new ways.
In Ruta Butkute’s work, sculpture emerges from the relationship between material, object, and space. Her installations and ceramic works develop through processes of forming, shifting, and placing. She sometimes combines ceramics with everyday objects, which can take on a different meaning when placed in a new context. By bringing materials and objects together in new ways, Butkute shows how the meaning of an object can change through the way it is used and positioned.
At NAP+, the works of Spierenburg and Butkute come together to form a space of encounter. Differences in material, scale and form become visible, opening up new connections between body, object and environment.
VIP Opening — by invitation
17 September, 14:00–17:00
Public Opening
17 September, 17:00–21:00
18–19 September, 11:00–19:00
20 September, 11:00–17:00