Jochem Mestriner
Jochem is graduating this year from the Master of Fine Arts program at the Piet Zwart Institute. In his work, he explores how decaying scientific worldviews continue to influence art history, literature, and our current thinking. His layered paintings, mostly in oil, interweave stories about ecology, still lifes, and the diverse (shadow) sides of the forest. Sottobosco, as Jochem calls it. He creates a poetic balance between life and decay in a mysterious and layered visual language.
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Jochem Mestriner
‘Torpor’
2024
Oil, oil crayon, oil pastel, and colored pencil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Luna Smiesing
Luna is graduating from ArtEZ University of the Arts in Cross Media Design. In her work, she explores the interplay between transience and durability. She uses natural materials like cotton and moss, which she completely saturates with porcelain. After firing, a fragile structure remains: the original material is gone, but the form lives on. In “Vereeuwiging,” themes such as strength and vulnerability, tradition and transformation converge.
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Luna Smiesing
“Vereeuwiging”
2025
Cotton and porcelain
135 x 165 cm.
Yubin Lee
Yubin is a graduate of the Fine Art Department at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. Her work explores spiritual transformation and self-reflection, inspired by Buddhist philosophy and meditative practices. She combines drawing, painting, and sculpture in monumental installations that intertwine personal, social, and ecological narratives. In her project Saerang-i (새랑이), she gives shape to an inner journey of growth, longing, and acceptance. Using materials such as hanji (Korean paper), rice paper, and ink, a layered work emerges that questions the boundaries between inner and outer worlds.
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Yubin Lee
‘Saerang-i (새랑이)’
2024
Gouache and ink on hanji
Variable sizes (1–25 m²)
