The Divine Play Solo exhibition @galerie r8m Cologne, Germany
solo exhibition @ galerie r8m Cologne, Germany Oct. 31 – Nov.28 2025 Galerie r8m Luxemburger Straße 197 50939 Köln www.r8m.cologne The Divine Play The Divine Play refers to the “play” in the creative process and in life. Not as entertainment, but a divine play of awakening consciousness. It’s not about the outcome, but the process […]
SUBTLY SCULPTURAL @ Galerie r8m Cologne, Germany
SUBTLY SCULPTURAL @ https://r8m.cologne/ “The artworks of the project “Subtly Sculptural” work their way along that narrow interface where two- and three-dimensional form-language meet and enter into a certain productive conflict with each other. Its aesthetic appeal arises precisely from this tension.” excerpt text by Peter Lodermeyer Project initiators: Gerda Kruimer, Zaida, Oenema, Nelleke […]
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Will you be my +1? Artists & Their Invitees STEVEN BARIS + NELLEKE BELTJENS KEVIN FINKLEA + MEL PREST MARK KHAISMAN + JEFFREY STOCKBRIDGE JOHN PREUS + ELI CRAVEN ERIK SPEHN + SARAH GIANNOBILE JANUARY 12 – FEBRUARY 24, 2024 OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, January 12, 6 – 8 PM | Artist remarks at 7 PM. […]
PRESENTLY #2 at Kunstraum K634 Cologne, Germany
Opening days: Sat. Aug.5 and Sunday Aug.6 2 – 6pm (14.00 – 18.00) With artists: Sarah Walker, Thomas Kemper, Nelleke Beltjens Exhibition and Catalog presentation of the PRESENTLY project. www.k634.de
It Aways Is @ Gallery r8m Cologne, Germany Fri.Jan.13, 2023
Nelleke Beltjens is interested in the philosophical implications of the actual, of what is versus our necessarily incomplete interpretations of reality. She sees life as a process, an opportunity and possibility to lend resonance or relevance to what otherwise might be encountered as an overwhelming meaninglessness. At its best, art invites us to look more closely and carefully - to potentially translate that process back into our broader perceptions, which are indelibly colored by or predicated upon prior expectations, experiences, or long-held dogmas. As Dr. Gabor Maté says, “we don’t respond to what happens but to our perception of what happens”. Life is a possibility to see what is. It Always Is.