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 within an ongoing relationship between 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 practice, sculpture is approached as something that remains open to change through its relationship with space and the body. Her installations and ceramic works emerge from processes of shaping, weight, displacement and interaction. Objects gain meaning through the ways in which they relate to their surroundings and to human presence. By allowing space for the unexpected and the imperfect, her works remain open to shifting interpretations.
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.
UNSEAL refers to a state in which boundaries remain open: between object and space, surface and depth, perception and matter.