About this activity.

Gabrielle Kroese

On keeping a notebook

5 April to 1 May 2025

• Opening: 5 April, at 5 pm
• Watching Art with Jaap: 17 April, 8 pm
• Gabrielle in the gallery: 11 and 20 April, 1pm - 5pm

‘For no matter how dutifully we register everything around us, the common denominator of everything we see is always, overtly and blatantly, the inexorable ‘me’.’ Joan Didion

Gabrielle Kroese engages in colour research in the immediate natural habitat of a given place. Her colour capsules abstract what is naturally present in that place. She aims to slow down the act of looking and thereby intensify it. In this way, she facilitates a form of slow watching. In On keeping a notebook, Kroese shows two projects.

The Sierra de Maria Colour Dictionary is a research project to create a colour dictionary of a specific place: the Sierra de Maria in Andalusia. The project's 33 colour capsules contain 66 different colours from the mountain range's surroundings. The project also includes two special soundscapes and a new magazine.

The Summer Garden Series is a series of painted prints of a bouquet of flowers from Kroese's garden. In the series, she works from the feeling of being connected to a tradition that spans generations. By painting a grid of white dots over the image, she disrupts or enhances or protects it.

Gabrielle Kroese was educated at Kunstacademie Minerva and worked in several residencies, including in Iceland and Japan. She has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions and her work is in the collections of Museum Belvédère and Gasunie, among others. Her studio is located in the Biotoop in Haren.

Galerie Noord.

Galerie Noord is een expositieruimte in hartje Groningen. Vierwekelijks bieden we kunstenaars uit het Noorden de mogelijkheid recent werk te tonen, solo of in kleine groepen. Galerie Noord richt zich op autonoom, experimenteel en onderzoekend werk in vrijwel alle disciplines. We willen bezoekers verrassen door tentoonstellingen te bieden met een wisselend karakter. 
 
Galerie Noord wordt volledig gerund door vrijwilligers. In 1997 werd de galerie opgericht als kunstenaarsinitiatief.

Location.

Galerie Noord
Nieuwstad 6
9711 JP Groningen
tel 050-3113322
www.galerienoord.nl