Collaborations

'A gust of wind gives voice to the trees' brings together the practices of Lee Chae, Maja Klaassens, Paul Beumer, and Willem Hussem through a shared sensitivity to nature understood not as image, but as force, process, and condition. The exhibition explores the tension between gesture and stillness, highlighting a shared aesthetic between East Asian minimalist traditions and European abstraction. Across the four practices, simplicity is not an end in itself, but a method through which material essence, duration, and presence are brought into focus. Within this framework, wind functions as an invisible agent, shaping form without appearing as motif.

This group exhibition is a collaboration between Namuso and Dürst Britt & Mayhew, curated by Jaring Dürst Britt and Alexander Mayhew. 

As part of VITRINE’s gallery collaboration programme in Bermondsey, Dürst Britt & Mayhew (The Hague, NL) and VITRINE are proud to present the first solo exhibition of Willem Hussem’s work in London. The presentation focuses on paintings from the 1960s and 70s and includes a selection of Hussem’s characteristic short poems.
Willem Hussem (1900-1974) was a renowned Dutch artist & poet who continually experimented and produced highly diverse works of art, including painting, drawing and sculpture. A constant aspiration towards simplicity and purity underlies his entire oeuvre. It was in Zen Bhuddism that he found the intellectual basis for the universalistic outlook on the world that would determine his thought and work.