Artistic team Bosch Parade 2024

Bosch Parade is a multi-disciplinary art event, with visual art as its starting point, but with significant input from theatrical and musical aspects. A multi-disciplinary artistic team is therefore also responsible for artistic quality and cohesion. 

ARTISTIC TEAM

David Bade, curator and visual artist

In a word, assemble is key to the oeuvre of David Bade (Willemstad, 1970). Bade makes drawings and paintings, sculptures and installations. He also gives community art workshops and is the founder of the Instituto Buena Bista in Curaçao. 

Koen van Seuren

Koen van Seuren is a theatre director and writer who graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Theatre in 2020. Together with David Westera, he has formed the artistic team of Antiklimax since 2021. Koen’s performances are characterised by rapidly alternating ideas, genres and images. Philosophical dialogues are supported by a good dose of humour and the Western canon is put through the shredder to be brought to life with shocks and squeaks as Frankenstein’s monster.

Nicoline Soeter, composer        

Nicoline Soeter (1974) composes contemporary music for acoustic and electronically amplified instruments. Her compositions are particularly imaginative in sound, characterised by original inventions in harmony and choice of instruments. Driven by a great love of the relationship between music and text, she is regularly commissioned to write vocal music, but she is also particularly at home in musical theatre. She is also the artistic director of the VONK ensemble. 

Imke Ruigrok, curator

Curator Imke Ruigrok (1978) creates exhibitions and events with contemporary artists, designers, ecologists, humanities and related disciplines. She is the artistic director of the RE_NATURE festival for art and nature. As a curator she develops programmes with a focus on current ecological, social and societal developments. 

Matthijs Bosman, curator and visual artist

Matthijs Bosman (1976) has a full-time practice as a visual artist, researcher and guest curator in various group exhibitions, solo exhibitions and temporary and permanent art projects in public spaces. He has developed projects such as ‘Monument voor wat niet is gebeurd’ [??’Monument for what didn’t happen’] and ‘de jas die oplost’ [??’the coat that dissolves’}. His organisation SUPERLAND is the largest non-existent ideology in the Netherlands.                         

Miesjel van Gerwen, outgoing artistic director

Miesjel (1950) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, designer, parade expert and art project developer. As the creator of the ‘parade on water’ concept, he has been involved in the Bosch Parade since its inception in 2009. He uses his many years of experience in the Brabant Day communities in Heeze to raise the project profile. His mantra is that the collaboration between cultural workers and professionals enriches the range of skills (professional and personal) for both audiences. 

Joachim Robbrecht, librettist

Joachim works as an author, director and performer, sets up his own projects from St. Showmachine and frequently collaborates with other groups and makers. His theatre departs from a poetic commitment to the world: he searches for metaphors, representations, inflections, new relationships between aesthetics and ethics, between the humour of language and the sensuality of the body. He wants to touch feeling and thinking, and a slightly painful laugh is never far away.

Lucas Kastelijn, dramatist and visual artist

“Theatre is capable of incorporating all other art forms. I therefore like to work with other makers and other disciplines. Preferably in location theatre. As a visual artist, I work mainly with pinhole photography. Always looking for the ritual and theatrical aspects of that photography.”

Meike Veldhuijzen, director KOP Breda

“With my background as both maker and organiser, I move easily between different worlds and am therefore able to build bridges. In the workplace, I am known as ambitious, enterprising, persistent, positive thinking and passionate. At KOP, I am correct committed to creating space for the new generation of artists.”

Camiel Corneille, creator and visual artist

Using the aerial bands in combination with his visual and digital background, Corneille has a layered interdisciplinary working attitude intertwined with his own physical language. From the age of nine, Camiel Corneille longed to explore human possibilities. Thinking he found it when he graduated from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, cum laude, with distinction 2011, Fine Art and Education), he came in contact with the Circus (Codarts Circus Arts Rotterdam, graduated 2015).

HertogNadler, artist duo

Chaja Hertog (1978) and Nir Nadler (1977) are an Amsterdam-based artist duo working in various disciplines of visual art, performance and film. Their work explores the relationships between the natural and the artificial, the political and the poetic, often combined with physicality, humour and the passage of time. Coming from different backgrounds – Europe and the Middle East – their collaboration combines two approaches into a vision that embraces contradiction. In each new project, they combine cinematic and theatrical languages to respond to a particular location, history and myths.

Boost Productions, visual circus company 

Boost (Lennie Visser 1970 & Jelle Engel 1970) makes associative visual circus. Boost Productions Foundation produces for festivals, on location, in museums and for small & medium-sized venues. Boost defines its signature as visual, acrobatic and theatre, which makes it distinctive within the Dutch performing arts. Boost wants to touch and make as many different people as possible think about the individual relates to others and to the changing world we live in. Boost expresses this by positioning circus in a theatrical, dynamic context of an immersive scenography mixed with live music. Searching for new forms of collaboration and experimentation are key to this idiosyncratic concept.

Panama Pictures, circus/dance company 

Dynamic, raw and sometimes spectacular, but also vulnerable and intimate. That is the style of Panama Pictures. The company creates performances at the intersection of dance and circus, where disciplines merge effortlessly and dialogue with architectural sets and live music. A new universe is created for each performance. Dance and acrobatics are interwoven with classical music, electronic beats and song.

Panama Pictures takes the audience into a sensory and physical story about universal themes. Choreographer Pia Meuthen translates literary and philosophical inspirations into poetic images and manages to touch her audience with overwhelming physical impact and human charisma. She shows worlds that are recognisable to the viewer, while always leaving room for personal interpretation.

Sarah Moeremans, director and future artistic director at Het Zuidelijk Toneel

Sarah works on Bosch Parade from Het Zuidelijk Toneel. She is a European independent theatre maker, curator and thinker. She builds visual essays, using language, literature, philosophy and art history as construction materials, steadily creating a body of work in which theory and practice confusingly interact against a three-dimensional cardboard theatrical backdrop.

Aart Strootman, composer

Pioneering guitarist and composer Aart Strootman (b. 1987) is an emerging personality in the contemporary music business. His intellect and frank, fresh perspective on musical genres and styles warrant a prominent position in the music scene. He studied classical guitar and composition at the Fontys & Zuyd conservatory and obtained an MA in Musicology at Utrecht University. He is currently a PhD student at Leiden University through the DocArtes programme.

The final direction of Bosch Parade 2024 is in the hands of Koen van Seuren under the auspices of Het Zuidelijk Toneel