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Paula Biemans and Klaas Kloosterhuis

We are together for more than 25 years and working together as a couple in art since summer 2022.
We are considering birth - growth - regeneration - the search for continuation - our bodies getting older - our minds getting richer. We are in search for ourselves and each other in art.
For that is the only way.

Waiting for the tide

this relation is under construction

Innertube

artcraftlove

Letters to the Baltic Sea

Huispijn
Folly Art Norg
july 27 - august 24 2025
'We have lived in the same house for 25 years.
A big house in a small village. When we first entered the house we immediately felt that something was strange:
it seemed like a place that had suffered damage in the past. Not materially, but emotionally.
For FAN we make a line drawing of iron and provide it with text: our stories about this house; about how we found it, in what condition we found it, how we cured the sick house.'


podcast for BK-info
about radical change in art practice
with Esther Didden
september 2025

what's new

what's happened

Gebroken Spel
iron works and sound
june 29 - august 25 2024
Limburg Biënnale
Marres Maastricht


Time under Construction
april 28 - june 1 2024
Pictura Groningen
video installation - performances - talk with Douwe Draaisma


interview for Kunstpunt Groningen
may 2024


Helix - video work
march 21 - march 28 2024
Knowing me Knowing you
Academie Minerva Groningen


Dihan
Wachten op het tij
video and talk about creative pressure and exhaustion
december 2023


Tug of war (rain edition)
Suikerunieterrein Groningen
november 2023


Wachten op het tij
video triptych
Nevengeul IJsselbiënnale
Turnhal Ellecom 17 juni - 17 september 2023


performance Tug of war
Nevengeul IJsselbiënnale
Turnhal Ellecom 19 - 20 augustus 2023


assignment to design
valuation award for gemeente Eemsdelta
july 2023 (not selected)


one week residency Farmart
april 30 - may 5 2023
where we were beings, together
walked talked
and played as if we were wind mills
and swam in the Lethewater


Letters to the Baltic Sea
for Struggling Art Space/
Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm
april 2023
a performative and interactive action
letters on water soluble paper
and photographs
on which we write each other


Dihan
performance
Innertube
standing together in a empty inner tube we blow in separate valves in a composition of breathing till the tube is full and our bodies squeezed together.
december 2022


Dihan
performance
ArtCraftLove
on pieces of paper we try to hold on to our own projected images getting smaller walking towards to horizon
november 2022

contact: paulabiemansklaaskloosterhuis@outlook.com

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Tug of war

Time Under Construction in Pictura Groningen
was a first major exhibition, after we started working together in art. No clarity, but questions. In order to collaborate, we researched our ideas. We tried to lower shields, carefully and lovingly, new patterns were recognized. We gave, loosened and pulled. We approached each other and moved away. We created and recreated. In a momentum, temporary. If this didn't work. What then?

There is so much to say, so much to discuss now that we have started our collaboration.

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