Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS is delighted to present Rearrangement of Priorities #16: Blessings, an exhibition by Art and Solidarity Collective: Rainbow Soulclub, a collective founded by artists Saskia Janssen and George Korsmit eighteen years ago in Amsterdam.
Opening December 2 from 3 to 7pm.
The collective came to existence after Janssen and Korsmit visited the Blaka Watra walk-in centre from De Regenboog Groep, a non-profit organisation that helps people with issues related to poverty, addiction, homelessness. and “undocumentedness”. As artists with socially engaged practices, they were asked to organise a workshop in the shelter, and following its success, it became a weekly event, progressively leading towards the foundation of the collective.
Rainbow Soulclub is an artistic collective composed of different kinds of makers and thinkers with different kinds of backgrounds. Meeting regularly at the collective studio in the Blaka Watra centre, as well as Janssen and Korsmit’s studio, the collective is a melting pot of people that learn from one another and work together to realise artistic projects. The collective is ever-expanding and connecting people from different walks of life, with stories of adversity, overcoming, and well-being. The collective enriches their network not only with hardship in common, but also through collaborations with other forms of collectivities, like art students across the Netherlands.
Art and Solidarity Collective: Rainbow Soulclub are the winners of the Amsterdamprijs voor Bewezen Kwaliteit in 2022, awarded for the merit of breaking the boundaries between the artistic and social domains. Recent presentations include Meet the Masters | Rainbow Soulclub at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2023), Refuge, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2023), 31553589 Obsessie voor Nummers en Schema’s, Museum van de Geest (2022), Rearrangement of Priorities #9 (Home) at Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (2021), Labyrinth, Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven (2021), Rearrangement of Priorities #10, C’est pas du Luxe festival, Avignon (festival of the FEANTSA, European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless), Rearrangement of Priorities #7, Cargo in Context, Amsterdam (2020).
