Thursday, September 25 – Sunday, September 28, 2025

Hold Your Horses: An exhibition by PIET ZWART INSTITUTE FINE ART CLASS 2025

In continuing the tradition begun last year, the students from the Master of Fine Art program at Piet Zwart Institute will partially take over our spaces for three short days, this time occupying the ground floor and mezzanine. Hold your Horses presents recent works by artists at the midway point in their graduate studies. This exhibition marks the end of the first year of study and beginning of the second, a threshold in the arc of their studies and artistic practices. Coming together around wide-ranging definitions and methods of research as a framework, the artists in the exhibition consider the historical, social, and spatial contexts of A Tale of A Tub as a testing ground. Experimental forms of making, collecting, hosting and archiving among other strategies offer new ways of engaging with cultural legacies, histories and conversations that expand from local to global contexts.

Hold Your Horses is curated by course director Daniel Giles and features Szilvia Bolla, Simone Brerup, Giulia Crivellaro, João de Castro Faria Paim, Erin Donnelly, Sam Janssen, Chryso Amaya Michailidis, Ambrose O’Meagher, Raziel Perin, Micha Prinsen, Noah van de Wetering and Suyoung Yang.

Throughout the exhibition there will be three events taking place:

Thursday, September 25, 6:45pm (during the opening)
Lecture performance by Erin Donnelly

Thursday, September 25, 7:30pm (during the opening)
Performance by my imaginary friends (of which I have many), a sound project by Chryso Amaya Michailidis

Saturday, September 27, 3pm
The Drawing Experience: Workshop with Raziel Perin, 3–4pm

What happens when drawing becomes a tool for deep listening, presence and reciprocal exchange? Through gestures and encounters, we explore how lines can hold questions, care, friction and surprise, discovering how our own ways of seeing and relating with the world can shape the ground for authentic expression. During the workshop, the participants develop a deeper awareness of drawing as a process of perception rather than replication and strengthen creative confidence through intuitive and exploratory practices. They discover the expressive potential of marks, gestures, and materials and engage in multisensory exercises to refine visual and bodily perception. Finally, they connect artistic practice to a broader process of self-discovery and transformation. By the end of this workshop, each participant will create an average of12 drawings. To participate send an email to razielperin@gmail.com.