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Gaudeamus Festival 2026

Each late summer, Utrecht briefly stops standing like a city and starts sounding like an instrument.By Patou J. Foetisch

Each late summer, Utrecht briefly stops standing like a city and starts sounding like an instrument. A library trades its usual hush for something louder, just for a while. So, improbably, does a…

Juna Horstmans

Hidden Agenda Monthly: Edition #6 - July 2026By Patou J. Foetisch

Juna Horstmans' work often feels suspended between two recurring forms: the window and the flower. One frames perception, offering a partial view into something beyond itself; the other unfolds…

Marieke Druiven

Hidden Agenda Monthly: Edition #5 - June 2026By Patou J. Foetisch

Marieke Druiven's work feels suspended somewhere between the familiar and the unreal. Her figures and environments carry the strange familiarity of something half-recognised, as though ordinary…

Una Jongenelis

Hidden Agenda Monthly: Edition #4 - May 2026By Patou J. Foetisch

Not everything moves in a straight line. Some processes unfold through hesitation and repetition that are never quite the same. What first may appear as a digression begins to fall into its own…

Strip Fest 2026

Hidden Agenda Monthly: Edition #4 - May 2026By Patou J. Foetisch

In a city that rarely lacks for festivals, Strip Fest offers a distinct perspective on how one can be experienced. Rather than presenting a single, fixed programme, it proposes a way of encountering…

Layla Gijsen

Hidden Agenda Monthly: Edition #3 - April 2026By Patou J. Foetisch

Our conversation prior to this interview begins with something trivial: undercooked rice, before drifting into questions of making and momentum. Although unrelated, the anecdote hints at something…

Anna Fleuri Wolters

Hidden Agenda Monthly: Edition #2 - March 2026By Patou J. Foetisch

Some may know Anna Fleuri Wolters through sound, as the drummer of Housepainters or from Beatrix, others through images, posters and printed matter signed under her own name or the Scania moniker.…

Andrew Tseng

Hidden Agenda Monthly: Edition #1 - February 2026By Patou J. Foetisch

Andrew Tseng’s practice is often approached through interpretation, emotional, symbolic, even psychological, yet the way his images come into being is far more practical than those readings might…

In conversation with Bianca Scout for Hybrid Festival

In her hard drive and in her mind, both relic and revenant. This is the caoineag ballerina. This is Bianca Scout.By Patou J. Foetisch

There’s too much out there—too many good things I will never experience. Names and faces that have surfaced and slipped away, flitting through different points in my life like half-remembered dreams.…

Who Decides What Withstands?

By Patou J. Foetisch

The first time I edited an interview, I realised how easy it was to reshape someone else’s words. A small cut here, a shift in phrasing there, and suddenly, the tone changed. Especially when…