Kleine Gallery

Kleine Gallery, is three street facing windows on Vliegtuigstraat, where a small space holds big art. We believe art and design should be accessible to all, and can be displayed in interesting and surprising ways.

Interested in the space? For details on current works or to exhibit at Kleine Gallery, send an email to Jacqui Dolan with hello@jacquidolan.com or hello@schinkeldistrict.com

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Sterre Pomper

From June 4th

COWBOY AT SEA: OBJECTS LEFT BEHIND. BY STERRE POMPER

Through found objects and archival material—both real and constructed—the exhibition at the windows of Kleine Gallery explores how a life can unfold through fragments, objects and fabricated histories. It questions the importance of truth in storytelling: when does a story become “real,” and how much does authenticity matter when something still leaves an emotional or psychological impact?

The act of placing a work of art behind glass—whether in a cabinet or a display case—can significantly affect the relationship between the spectator and the artwork. The gaze is a powerful force that shapes our perceptions, our understanding of reality, and our sense of self.

Behind the windows, the story of a character called Cowboy at Sea begins to emerge. A persona that may never have truly existed, yet still leaves behind evidence, memory, and presence. The character becomes a vehicle for autonomy in gender expression, queer liminality, and freedom in general. Once placed behind glass, these objects and narratives shift in meaning; they become artefacts to be observed, interpreted, and projected onto.

When a work of art is placed behind glass, it may be seen as an attempt to control the viewer’s gaze by limiting physical access to the artwork and directing attention toward certain aspects of it. However, the glass may also reflect the viewer’s own gaze at them, creating a disorienting effect that disrupts the power dynamic between the viewer and the viewed.

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Bert Teunissen

From April 9th

After World War II, tourism in the Netherlands gained momentum thanks to reconstruction, rising prosperity, and increasing leisure time. During this period, in 1948, KLM became the first European airline to put the American Convair 240 into service. With a fleet of 12 aircraft, they flew various European routes until 1959. They could accommodate 40 passengers, meeting the growing demand from the burgeoning tourism industry. Fast forward to the year 2000. An office building called the Convair Building is being built at Schiphol East. Photographer Bert Teunissen is asked by KLM to contribute an art piece to this building. He searches for an original Convair 240 aircraft and finds one near Los Angeles. To keep the image of the aircraft as isolated as possible, he chooses to photograph it at night.

This results in several epic photos. The work was to be placed in the atrium of the Convair Building, reaching from the first to the fifth floor. However, while the series was being completed, the art project was cancelled, and the photos presumably disappeared into a basement. No one has ever seen the work. Until now.

Starting April 2nd, photographs of this vintage aircraft will be on display at the Kleine Gallery at Vliegtuigstraat 11, in the heart of the Schinkel district where the National Aerospace Research Institute was founded. Curator Jacqui Dolan has created an exhibition with Bert Teunissen that transports you back to a time you can hardly imagine today. Alongside his previously unseen photos of the Convair, the exhibition features historical images, technical drawings, scale models, and colorized video footage of one of its first flights.

Join the viewing

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Ruben Jurrien

September – December 2025

Ruben describes his signature as gender free happiness. He uses big silhouettes as a canvas to experiment with colour, print, silhouette, and semiotics. In Rubens design practice he sees the power in giving things a new purpose or significance. Sometimes he refers to his creations as movable, wearable protest signs made for the “Rebel in Progress”—for those of us who don’t yet have the courage to entirely defy social norms but wish to rebel against it. Ruben’s approach to fashion design is not just to create something to be admired but also to make fashion more accessible and inclusive. Visually admiring fashion is wonderful but engaging with it is much more enjoyable.

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Bibi Malu Rico

May – August 2025

Bibi Malu Rico born in the heart of the Jordaan, Amsterdam, with mixed English, Spanish, Dutch, and Cuban roots. Creativity moves through Bibi and her family’s diverse heritage through language, literature, art, and design.

An autodidact artist and poet who creates on her own terms, resulting in experimental freedom that is pure and authentic. Every piece she creates expresses her reality, a collision of tenderness and brutality.

This exhibition features large works on canvas alongside a selection of paper works and poetry.

Bibi paints and writes from the tension between possession and loss. Passion runs through her work – fierce, raw, and unapologetic. Her pieces are not quiet reflections, but emotional confrontations.

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Roxanne Wilm

March – April 2025

Roxanne Wilm is a French-Dutch theatre designer and photographer, raised in the Netherlands and based in Amsterdam. After graduating as a theatre designer from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in 2016, she decided to delve deeper into photography and graduated from the Fotovakschool in 2019. Her work is conceptual and experimental, focusing on staged settings. Her exploration of the female body through various materials and alienation results in a diverse portfolio that merges theatre and photography. Her work continually evolves, playing with dualities and incorporating both digital and analog techniques.

She debuted with her first solo exhibition at Mina Gallery in Amsterdam, featuring her on going series ‘Microcosme’, 2024 and multimedia installation ‘Order | Disorder’, 2019 which reveals the external influences on the individual. This is made visible through 320 analog photographs projected onto self-portraits using a slide projector.

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Arno Hoogland

October 2024 – February 2025

Kleine Gallery No. 5 features the sexy shapes and playful colors of @arnohoogland. Arno Hoogland is a futurist, artist, and maker who creates immersive interior spaces that blur the line between art and function. With a foundation in traditional woodworking and industrial design at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Arno combines craft, digital technology, and innovative production techniques to design environments that feel both organic and futuristic. His interiors feature kinetic sculptures and abstract natural elements, inviting visitors to experience a harmonious blend of the organic and mechanical. Inspired by visionaries like Frank Lloyd Wright, George Lucas, and Katsuhiro Otomo, Arno’s work reimagines interiors as living, interactive spaces that foster a unique relationship between humans and technology.

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Kumi Oguro

September – October 2024

Kumi Oguro is a Japanese photographer, based in Antwerp, Belgium since 1999.

Oguro works with female models in staged settings, to create a world without any logical flow or narrative, which is similar to our dreams.

During her twenty-year career, 2 photobooks have been published: NOISE (2008) and HESTER (2021).

The works included in these publications are not from 2 separate series. They are a continuation in which you can find her development, transformation and also what is consistent.

For Kleine Galley No. 4, Oguro has selected works from HESTER, which is a the name of a title character in the novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving. She is drawn to this particular fictional woman, because of her extreme nature; she is an extrovert, aggressive and chaotic, but also sensitive, loving and charming, and Oguro. Affectionately calls all the women in her photographs ‘Hester’.

She has studied photography in London and Antwerp. She also completed studies in film and image studies and culture at the University of Antwerp.

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Lisa Thissen

July – September 2024

Lisa Thissen is a dynamic designer and ceramicist based in Amsterdam. Driven by a deep-rooted passion for pottery and working with her hands, she has embraced clay as her primary medium.

Exhibition Statement Buildings’ are one-of-a-kind clay objects that embody the artists fascination with urban landscapes and brutalist architecture. Inspired by the gritty charm of apartment buildings and neighbourhoods in cities like Berlin and Cairo, Lisa’s latest series ‘Big City Life’, marks the third release in the Buildings collection and the first to feature clustered structures, forming intricate cityscapes with rooftop terraces and staircases.

Handcrafted without templates or moulds, each piece in the series stands out for its distinct glazing techniques and the emotions captured during its creation.

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Anna van Dorsten

June – July 2024

During Anna’s previous career as a psychologist, she became fascinated by the rhythm of the life/death/life cycle as a way to understand the natural course of change from within.

The instinctive nature of women is the source of inspiration for her work, wih the womb as metaphor for the origin of life, and our need for warmth, safety and connection to facilitate the self to renew and blossom.

Anna creates her ‘Soft Sculptures’ with different types of wool, silk, yarn and felting techniques influenced by the textures and shapes arising both from design and from chance entanglements of the fibers. Anna facilitates the fusion of her materials forming these sculptures that literally and figuratively come to life on the spot. Organic and frameless, imperfect and capricious. Anna lives in Amsterdam with her 3 Sons.

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Fons Venner

May – June 2024

The first exhibition in the Kleine Gallery consisted of work by Fons Venner (1988), independent product designer, maker and goldsmith. For the latter, Venner attended the vocational school

in Schoonhoven, where he soon felt the need to make things that were larger than the average piece of jewelry. That is why he continued his education at the art academy of Utrecht. Venner

now works in his studio in Utrecht art installations and impressive interior pieces, experimenting with a variety of materials, such as wood, steel and plastic. His work is both precise and abstract, and as harmonious as it is striking.