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Micha Patiniott a turn in its line / tomorrow is my turn 28 september - 15 november 2025

Wanneer spreekt een gebaar? Kan een opening zichzelf bereiken? Wie kijkt terug? In deze tentoonstelling onderzoekt Micha Patiniott de mogelijkheid van direct contact met zelf en stem. Via schilderijen en een video volgt hij het moment waarop expressie zich naar binnen keert. Figuratie verschijnt als intimiteit: een hand, een figuur van achteren gezien. De beelden cirkelen rond een holte. In de video zingt Nina Simone, terwijl een tekst zich in tautologieën vouwt – echo’s van Gertrude Steins continuous present. De werken vormen een lus van uitgestelde openingen. Bij de tentoonstelling verschijnt een in eigen beheer uitgegeven kunstenaarsboek (A5, 86 pagina’s, oplage 25).

When does a gesture speak? Can an opening reach itself? Who looks back? In this exhibition Micha Patiniott explores the possibility of direct contact with self and voice. Through paintings and a video he follows the moment when expression turns inward. Figuration appears as intimacy: a hand, a figure glimpsed from behind. The images circle around a hollow. In the video Nina Simone sings, while a text folds into tautologies – echoes of Gertrude Stein’s continuous present. Together the works form a loop of deferred openings. A self-published artist’s book (A5, 86 pages, edition of 25) accompanies the exhibition.

inhoud | content opening tentoonstelling / exhibition | werken / works some words about the installation short C.V. list of works colofon / colophon ruimteCAESUUR

opening | 11/11/2025 ©Bo de Jong

Giel Louws | turn

exhibition | tentoonstelling foto’s | photos ©Micha Patiniott

some words about the installation short C.V. list of works

The installation unfolds across three surfaces, each activating a different register of Micha Patiniott’s vocabulary of gesture, opening, and surface: intimacy, fractured looking back, looping in time and space. The space’s own “fragments of reopened time” - visible layers of history embedded in the architecture - echo what Patiniott explores in the paintings themselves. One constellation of works stays closest to the body, though only in glimpses. The back of a figure at a desk, a frozen hand, doubled folds resembling hearts or wounds: each painting offers intimacy while withholding it. Set against the textured, aged wall, these images read as palimpsests, as if the body has been written and rewritten, each gesture bleeding through the next, forming an opening. Further on, the register shifts. The body recedes, leaving its apertures behind: voids, thresholds, zones of passage. They are at once bodily (navel, orifice, eye socket) and cosmic (black hole, a portal into elsewhere), scale slipping between inside and beyond.

Then there is a breach and a return. The body re-enters through rupture. A face peers through the skin of paper, meeting the viewer head-on. A hand presses outward, caught in the act of puncturing the surface. Framed by the brick arch, these works take on a theatrical charge, like figures staged within an opening. Suspended among these registers, the video The Whole Story introduces Nina Simone’s voice and a tautological text inspired by Gertrude Stein. It cuts across the plane of the walls and asserts a different temporality. “The line turns in on itself, becomes a crack, and coincides with itself, disappearing into itself… the threading now.” MP

Micha Patiniott lives and works in Amsterdam. He was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2006-07) and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (2008-09 and 2023-24). International solo and group exhibitions include: Anna Zorina Gallery (New York), Chistian Ouwens Galerie (Rotterdam), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Whitechapel Gallery (London), Provincetown Art Association and Museum (US), Dordrechts Museum, Museum Hilversum, Cinnamon (Rotterdam), Heden (Den Haag), WHATSPACE (Tilburg), MKgalerie (Rotterdam/Berlin), Galerie Sturm (Nuremberg), PuntWG (Amsterdam), Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam), Provinciehuis Noord-Holland (Haarlem)

List of works Vellum XXIII after Dialogue (2009) 2025 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm

Portal I - Omphalos 2021 | oil on canvas, 40 × 45 cm Portal II - Socket 2022 | oil on canvas, 40 × 45 cm

Vellum XXIV after Two Letters (2009) 2025 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm

Vellum IV - Yellow Thermal Paper 2023 | oil on canvas, 45 × 35.5 cm

Vellum XVIII - Double Analemma 2024 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm

Peak I 2024 | oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm

Vellum XXV - Caesura 2024 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm

The Whole Story | 2025 | video loop, 6:23

Vellum XXVI - Caesura - Lined Paper 2024 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm

Vellum XXI after Loud Shirt (2007) 2024 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm

Vellum VIII 2023 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm Portal III - A Clearing 2023 | oil on canvas, 40 × 50 cm

Vellum XXII after Body of Work (2010) after The Incredulity of Saint Thomas (1603) by Caravaggio 2024 | oil on canvas, 45 × 40 cm

colophon | ruimteCAESUUR

Since 1995, some hundred twenty plus exhibitions of contemporary art have been made in ruimteCAESUUR (spaceCAESUUR). From 1999 on at the Lange Noordstraat 67 in Middelburg. Visual arts, in relation with the contemporary art discourse, are always the guiding principle for an exhibition, but a historical and social perspective also determine our choices. ruimteCAESUUR stands for the autonomy of art embedded in larger systems, and puts the artist’s oeuvre at the center of organizing its (solo) exhibitions. Young, novice as well as "arrived" artists are offered a platform in order to present their work in a noncommercial environment. Real meeting and learning from each other play important roles within our annual planning.

ruimteCAESUUR is a private initiative, without any profit motive, with Willy van Houtum and visual artist Hans Overvliet as its core; they form the board of the CAESUUR foundation. teamCAESUUR is more than completed by the artists Jorieke Rottier and Giel Louws. The exhibitions also in 2024 will be organized as much as possible in cooperation with art initiatives from other countries such as Lípa Art Collection and Luxfer Open Space, both from the Czech Republic, Gallery Durden and Ray uit Los Angeles, U.S.A., Slipvillan from Sweden, Bloom Gallery in Valencia in Spain, etc. Exchange with Dutch artists ensures reciprocity in this process. The unique composition of this team crosses borders of art practices, gender and generations. Visit Would you like to visit us? Please mail us at caesuur (at) zeelandnet.nl.

Micha Patiniott a turn in its line / tomorrow is my turn 28 september - 15 november 2025