Kleine Gallery

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.

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.

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.

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.