Michiel ten Bokum (1973) and Sander van Noort (1986) are inspired by the astonishment about the sense that their environment gives to everyday life.

Social structures, customs and petty bourgeois opinions that amaze or irritate provide inspiration for paintings, drawings and spatial work. Provocation and self-mockery are the basic tools for shaping the ideas of ten Bokum and van Noort. Subjective observations of unethical violence, individual insanity and all forms of abjectity are shaped in an ironic and humorous way into a varied exhibition.

Whereas ten Bokum has a preference for rejects and the unadapted and places them on a pedestal, Van Noort uses his work to fool and since he is humane and sociable nonetheless, he uses images instead of words.

Michiel ten Bokum studied at the Academy for Art and Design in Den Bosch and was a resident at the Ateliers in Amsterdam. Sander van Noort studied at the HKU and was nominated in 2018 for the Royal prize for free painting.