A new year, a new Art Market! From textiles and prints to zines, paintings, and ceramics: we look back on three wonderful editions of the Art Market, where 17 artists have already exhibited and sold their work at VHDG. Now it is time for chapter four.
For this fourth edition, we have invited eight artists, each with a distinct and individual signature. Once again, you can expect a diverse selection of work by local talent. Art Market #4 opens its doors on January 9, and on January 30 we will conclude this special period with a festive finissage.
About the artists:
Ngoc Nguyen (Mae)
Ngoc Nguyen, also known as Mae, is a multimedia artist and designer. Her work focuses on Vietnamese culture and on the connections between humans and other forms of life and matter. With an open and exploratory approach, she investigates themes of identity, relationships, and interconnectedness.
Graciela María González
Graciela María González (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, March 4, 1996) is a poet and visual artist active since 2015. She holds a Master’s degree in Artistic Research from the Royal Academy of Art in the Netherlands and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from UAGRM in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Her work moves fluidly between language and image.
Sadaf Khani
Sadaf Khani is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist and musician based in the Netherlands. She creates quiet, surreal worlds in which small figures move through unfamiliar spaces composed of everyday objects and abstract forms.
Her work centers on simplicity, emotion, and atmosphere, exploring how the ordinary can transform into gentle, imaginary environments where imagination and introspection meet.
Marta Calero Segura
Marta Calero Segura’s work explores desire and femininity, tracing the ideological and art-historical threads that shape her experience as a female artist. She uses her lived experiences as a point of departure, with a strong focus on material she aims to give shape to intimacy, identity and the body. Drawing from feminist theory, literature and art history, she questions how societal expectations around love, devotion, and sexuality intersect with individual subjectivity. Through these explorations, she seeks to create spaces where personal experiences intersect with societal discourse, questioning how desire and intimacy are culturally mediated, and offering a space for female self-representation.
Hana Zare
Hana is a painter based in Groningen, her work explores imagined landscapes where memories, myths, and elements of nature intertwine. Using thin, transparent layers of paint, she creates airy scenes that echo the old stories she heard as a child and the rituals in which people once had a deeper connection with nature. Her paintings invite viewers to form their own narratives, while themes such as change, belonging, and the search for a place of home remain central to her practice.
Atelier Nachtvlinder
Atelier Nachtvlinder is an eco-conscious textile and clothing label with a humanitarian and ecological vision. The atelier aims to restore collective awareness of the ancient connection between humans and nature, grounded in the belief that humans are part of the living world rather than superior to it.
Through handmade garments made from natural fibers, plant-dyed fabrics, and natural textile workshops, Atelier Nachtvlinder invites people to live and create from a place of unity and care.
Bente Blom
Bente Blom (1999) is an illustrator working from Friesland and Utrecht. She lives on a boat and is currently graduating from the Illustration program at HKU. Her work is characterized by bold use of color, playfulness, and a subtle sense of absurdity. She works intuitively and is strongly material-driven, frequently using risoprint, silkscreen printing, and ceramics. By combining these techniques, she develops a direct and accessible visual language.
Depy Antoniou
Depy Antoniou (1996) is a Greek interdisciplinary artist based in the Netherlands. She works across digital art, sound design, installations, performance, and painting. Her practice explores the relationship between sound, space, and the human body, with particular attention to the interaction between the physical and digital body. Walking is a key element of her artistic process, during which she collects sounds from natural and urban environments. These are transformed into immersive soundscapes and abstract paintings, where rhythm, repetition, and texture evoke heterotopian experiences of time and space.
Gerben Vernhout
Gerben Vernhout is a documentary photographer who works in long-term series centered on subjects that fascinate him. His photography plays with the possibilities and limitations of cameras, lenses, and the conditions in which the images are created. He works both digitally and analog, primarily photographing existing situations with minimal staging. In his work, he explores the relationship between humans and their surroundings, both with and without human presence in the frame.
