Museum van Bommel van Dam believes it is important to support local artists and offer them a platform. This is one of the ways in which the museum works on a better production and artistic habitable climate. In addition, it helps residents and inhabitants from the region to see and recognize local talent and thus gain confidence in their own creative environment. Museum van Bommel van Dam is participating in BR for the fourth time this year. During this period it has seen the importance of the network, not only offering assignments or a podium, but also facilitating an expansion in network, contacts, friends and like-minded people. Agata Siwek will create a number of workshops within the education and participation department of the museum, will appear in an upcoming exhibition with pieces from the collection of museum van Bommel van Dam and will take an autonomous place as an artist-in-residence.

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The last artist in residence Rosa Vrij (NL, 1994) was traveling through the province of Limburg for HOUSE III, an exercise in mindfulness and in an attempt to find out what makes a house a home. This is a central concept Vrij means to interrogate during her residency, and the fruits of her labour will be connected to a solo exhibition of the work of architectural photographer Machteld Schoep (August 15th 1962 - May 15th 2019, Venlo). Throughout her career Schoep skilfully centred human beings in her architectural photographs, something quite unusual considering her field of work. Mecanoo Architects, Schoep’s employer, applauded her for her unique perspective. In the end, architecture is an object in which we live, work, dream, and experience. The exhibition at museum van Bommel van Dam will focus on its beauty as a space, the people in it, and the architecture surrounding it. Rosa Vrij will react to these topics and formulate a response grounded in her own artistic practice.