Flowers — Form, Meaning and Transience
The flower is one of the oldest and most layered motifs in art. It stands for beauty and growth, but also for vulnerability, time and transformation. In this exhibition, the flower does not appear as a single, fixed image, but as an open field of meanings, in which each artist takes a distinct position.
In the work of Marc Mulders, the flower emerges as a spiritual and painterly landscape: exuberant, physical and imbued with light and decay. His paintings evoke a cyclical awareness of life and death, in which blooming and disintegration are inseparable.
Kiki van Eijk approaches the flower through form and craftsmanship. Her work moves between design, sculpture and fine art, dissecting, repeating and reconstructing floral structures. Here, the flower becomes an architectural principle — at once playful and precise.
In the work of Taqwa Ali, the flower acquires a more symbolic and personal charge. She uses the motif as a carrier of identity, memory and emotion, allowing natural forms to merge with narratives of femininity, strength and vulnerability.
Anna Aagaard Jensen explores the flower in relation to textile, tactility and handcraft. Her works emphasize the sensory and the intimate: the flower as something not only to be seen, but almost to be felt. The act of making itself takes center stage, as a slow and attentive process.
In the work of Sam Werkhoven, the flower appears within a contemporary, sometimes unsettling context. The motif is stripped of its romantic connotations and deployed as an image that balances between beauty and discomfort, nature and culture.
Alongside these artists, others also participate, each offering their own interpretation of the floral motif. Together, they demonstrate how the flower is continually reinvented — as a painterly gesture, sculptural form, symbolic sign or tactile object.
The exhibition reveals that the flower is not a decorative motif, but a powerful vehicle for reflecting on time, identity, processes of making, and the relationship between humans and nature.