Upstream Gallery proudly presents Reading a Wave, a duo exhibition with an early work by Marinus Boezem and recent work by Noor Nuyten. Marinus Boezem (1934, NL) belongs, together with Jan Dibbets and Ger van Elk, to the most important representatives of the Conceptual Art and Arte Povera movement in the Netherlands. In the 1960s, Boezem discovered that he could use elusive elements such as air, weather, movement and light as visual materials and made a name for himself with radical, immaterial works that were far ahead of their time. Noor Nuyten (1986, NL) creates conceptual works that appeal strongly to the imagination of the viewer. Nuyten is artistically akin to the movement of conceptual artists from the late 1960s, however at the same time her work is undeniably contemporary. In her new body of work, Noor Nuyten unpacks the materiality of the digital world by fusing crafts with tech-iconic materials.

In this exhibition we bring together two generations of conceptual artists who both have their own approach to capturing elements out of everyday life and elevate them to art. The mediums they work with are often immaterial, such as (digital) movement and time.

Read more about the exhibition on our website.