In this ever-changing world, artists act as social actors of societal resilience. Art enables us to keep an open mind, free up mental space for reflection and form a well-founded opinion from different perspectives. In their work, the twelve selected artists create spaces for resilience. The artists encourage the public to be resilient. Finally: the world starts with ourselves.
Personal resilience: Manouk Streur, Alessia Talo (with collective) and Joost van Wijmen
Resilience in images / art: Diederik Stevens, Arjan van Arendonk and Henny Schakenraad
Political and social resilience: Willemijn van Dorp, Manita Kieft, Caren van Herwaarcen
Going along with resilience: Boudewijn Mijnlieff, Lucas Kastelijn and Roos Terra.

Curator: Linda Köke, Willem Twee Fabriek, 's-Hertogenbosch, 12 April to 27 May 2025

Puppet Masters is an exhibition by curator Merel van den Nieuwenhof in Museum Jan Cunen in Oss (North Brabant), which opens on September 14, 2025 until February 8, 2026.

Who is pulling the strings? Puppets fascinate, move and frighten. They can be playful or
sinister, a source of comfort or an object of desire. We project our deepest emotions
onto them, while at the same time they hold up a mirror to us. In Puppet masters the
boundaries between puppeteer and puppet, between control and surrender, between art and reality are blurred. Are we the players, or are we being played?
With work by Gijs Assmann, Tobias Bradford, Hans Bellmer, Julius von Bismarck, Claude Cahun, Caren van Herwaarden, Job Koelewijn, Paul Kooiker, Sarah Lucas, Nathaniel Mellors, Tamara Muller, Judith Nab, Remy Neumann and Tony Oursler (subject to change).