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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett | 1983 | Worstward Ho

DISTANT SUFFERING LVVII | i.d. of a self-perpetuating cloud

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works | exhibitions 2026 - 2027

Oleg Kharch Group and Hans Overvliet at Open Open'$ KyivUkraine, Ivan Bilik Street 11, Room 155 March 5, 2026 to April 22, 2026 “In 2022, the whole world began to closely follow the open military invasion of country 404 against Ukraine. Hans was one of the first in the Netherlands to look for ways to support Ukrainian artists. Oleg Kharch was fortunate enough to meet Hans in 2020 and even organize a joint art action in Kyiv with Hans' poster “i.d. of ineauality.” “Hans went to ‘his’ coast in February 2022. The clouds on the horizon reminded him of the painful news from Ukraine. He began to see certain signs and symbols—such as explosions—although in reality, of course, these were only the artist's imagination.” “Later, he sent a small package to me with the landscapes that are now on display, accompanied by warm words of support: “Distant Suffering XXXI except for joyful peace, no news from the western front, with the connotation "what idiot came up with the idea of fighting each other over a piece of land? On February 24, 2022, Oleg and Olga's sovereignty was challenged. Russia then began to destroy Ukraine."” February 2026 | Oleg Kharchenko

Oleg Kharch Group and Hans Overvliet at Open Open'$ | KyivUkraine

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DISTANT SUFFERING together with Pier Pennings in

plan.d. produzentengalerie e.v. | Düsseldorf March 21 - April 19, 2026 DISTANT SUFFERING XXI | i.d. of a shared ice bullet DISTANT SUFFERING LI | i.d. of the persistence of the clinique DISTANT SUFFERING LIV | i.d. of a vanishing object DISTANT SUFFERING LVI | i.d. of shared betrayal DISTANT SUFFERING LVIII | i.d. of the face (i.d. des Antlitzes)

Thanks

S.B.K.M. Vleeshal

DISTANT SUFFERING XXI | i.d. of a shared ice bullet

produzentengalerie plan-d | Düsseldorf opening performance by Peter & Sonja March 21 – April 19, 2026

DISTANT SUFFERING XXI | i.d. of a shared bullet

plan.d. produzentengalerie e.v. | Düsseldorf | 21.03. - 19.04.2026 Work / material Mold ‘hot Bullet Shape Mode’ from Etsy, Hong Kong 061207 1 H14-03-020 1 PL191 129 02 187 A; small bottles from Etsy, Hong Kong; High borosilicate glass, cork, volume: 85 oz (25ml), 90 mm x 20 mm; opening: about 13 mm; Severin GB 8882 – fridge

Time-laps video Catalogue Peter & Sonja made the bullets and handed them out during the opening

DISTANT SUFFERING LI

i.d. of the persistence of the clinique Colmar | Deir al-Balah catalogue

Work Triptych November 2024 – January 2025 Intra-Venous (IV) material; folding mattress BASIC F15 | JYSK; three plexiglas cubes 35 x 35 x 35 cm.

DISTANT SUFFERING LXII

i.d. of a self-perpetuating cloud edition #4 Kunstverein plan-d | Düsseldorf March 21 – April 19, 2026 Material Doubled cloud / explosion; 14 texts in Candara, varying languges, varying font; 14 viscose cloths Albert Heijn, yellow, before washing 38 x 40 cm; 14 textile transfers for inkjet, A4, Quantore; Inkjetprinter Canon TS 700; Ink: 123inkt.nl, CU-581C XXL. Photos in situ plan-d | DüsseldorfGER courtesy of ©2026 Jochem Weststrate

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DISTANT SUFFERING LVI | i.d. of shared betrayal

DISTANT SUFFERING LVI | i.d. of shared betrayal Work Un-edited video, courtesy by ©Myuz Ahmed, July 27, 2025, Gaza Strip combined with the sound of an Israëli drone; 24” TV- Samsung LF22T450FQUX | Speedlink BRIO - Stereo Soundbar; Cotton pouches made by Bo de Jong with bullet holes caused by air pistol Webly Tempest 4,5 mm, nr. 221796, Webly&Scott LTD; Albert Hijn reusable vegetable bags; Shagai Parboil riceIN, mixed with Riz noir interdit, Maison SabarotFR; On the floor | Rizo Carnaroli di LucedioIT; Albert Hijn reusable vegetable bags; Brown paper bag from bakehouse ’t Zand, Middelburg; Monzana Storage Rack Bookcase, 5 Shelves, 135,5 x 58 x 27 cm; July 27, 2025 – February 27, 2026. Photos in situ plan-d | DüsseldorfGER courtesy of ©2026 Jochem Weststrate Link to the catalogue; Link to a short introduction video.

DISTANT SUFFERING LVIII | i.d. of the face

German version | revisited (2025-2026) i.d. des Antlitzes Click here for a short introduction video

face à face

Abdallah Alwan Holy Quran Radio, Midan, Mugtama, Al-Jazeera Ermordet in Jabalia, 18. Dezember 2023. Den Haag war leider unbeeindruckt.

The Torentje, the office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, German version, seen from the Mauritshuis, from the room with the last self-portrait of Rembrandt van Rhijn from 1669.

The work Two videos (one of which is mirrored horizontally at 1800) with photos of 186 media professionals who were killed by the Israeli army between October 7, 2023, and September 14, 2025; Video with 186 postcards of places my dear Willy and I visited in Europe while thinking of those places and those people – German version; Three monitors | measuring 50.5 x 32.0 cm | Iiyama Prolite E2273HDS; each controlled by a Mini HD Media Player - afinjo.nl; Multiplex board 150 x 60 cm black satin gloss Histor RAL 9005; 186 Postcards on 300 gsm paper; Prints by De Witte Print & Design; Handi Stitch Classic pinking shears | 4 teeth - 2 mm high. / 18 mm wide; Two photo albums (280 mm x 265 mm x 50 mm) blind-stamped title on front cover and Two boxes for photo albums | title blind-stamped on the side Bookbinder De Boeckenherrebergh | Ruth Bonnewel; Budu Book Holder | black | 33 x 24 x 6.2 cm. Photos in situ plan-d Düsseldorf | courtesy of ©r2026 Jochem Weststrate. Click here for the catalog of an earlier version, included in Verbeke Foundation collection. Ilja Tuning from Omroep Zeeland made a news item about the first version.

DISTANT SUFFERING LIV | i.d. of a vanishing object

Leiden 1959 | West Bank 2025

DISTANT SUFFERING LIV | i.d. of a vanishing object

Leiden 1959 – Gaza 2023 - 2025 Work from our family archive: 10 black and white photoprints; 9 x 14 cm | 300 grs Plano; folding mattress BASIC F15 | JYSK; plexiglas cube 30 x 30 x 30 cm; wooden console | 30 x 30 x 20 cm ; painted matte white. Soap Nablus soap, imported by Zepig from the Nablus Soap Company. Photo Leiden, 1959 | Wil Freeke Pieter de la Courtstraat 67 grandparents back garden Left to right: our niece Annemieke Freeke, me and my brother Marten Photos in situ plan-d | DüsseldorfGER courtesy of 2026 Jochem Weststrate Catalogue

DISTANT SUFFERING XXII | i.d. of inequality

DüsseldorffBRD | produzentengalerie plan-d | 13/02/26

Catalogue

DISTANT SUFFERING XXXX

utterly endlessly repurposed naive incantation gesture

AIR BIEKORF | 10.0: ‘TIN’ April 10 - June 7 2026 curator Jan Verhaghe

Photos courtesy of 2o26©Jan Verhaeghe

Gallery ValenciaSpain April 2026 DISTANT SUFFERING LXI i.d. of a treacherous sky

Work DISTANT SUFFERING LXI | i.d. of a self-perpetuating cloud 9 kites, bamboo sticks Ø4-4.5 mm, upright ±55 cm, cross bar ±40 cm, attached to the upright on ±17 cm; Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, December 2025; 9 A3 black-and-white prints of clouds / explosions in the Netherlands / Gaza; Tesa flexible masking tape, beige, 20 mm; Ledent braided rope white polyamide, Ø3 mm; Albert Heijn water-based craft glue; Bison wood glue; GAMMA interior paint, white, matt; Bieme double-sided, acid-free adhesive tape, 20 mm; Foamboard, 5 mm; Velcro fastener; Tails: white cotton sheets.

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ik geef je mijn raam / i give you my window | Vlissingen

ik geef je mijn raam / i give you my window | Vlissingen An art exhibition project by Sylvia Hubrouck Window Exhibition #32 Monday, April 20th - Sunday, May 31st, 2026 coincides with May 4th - 5th - Remembrance Day and Liberation Festival Vlissingen DISTANT SUFFERING LXII | i.d. of a self-perpetuating cloud

Material Doubled cloud / explosion; 13 texts in Candara, varying languges, varying font; 13 textile transfers for inkjet, A4, Quantore; one question: ‘never again?’; 13 viscose cloths Albert Heijn, yellow,38 x 40 cm; 13 wooden clothes pegs Albert Heijn; 0.8 mm copper wire; Inkjetprinter Canon TS 700 | Ink: 123inkt.nl, CU-581C XXL. Click here for the catalogue.

PAKJE KUNST | 20 photo prints 6 x 9 cm on 5 mm foam

of a double explosion with the text never again? in twenty languages and dialects.

DISTANT SUFFERING LXIV

i.d. of gentle resistance catalogue

VARIOUS MAIL - ART PROJECTS

contribution to the exhibition | June 2027 INVERTEBRATES 2026 by MINIPRINT Buenos Aires | Argentina Sessilia | Barnacle edition | 7 + 2 A.P. cyanotype (blueprint) on Fabriano 300 g/m3 | 15 x 15 cm; Aquard Cyanotype 2 components set; Van Beek Universal Matte Finishing Varnish.

contribution to exhibition 19 September | 29 October 2026 in the Tasso and Postal History Museum in Camerata Cornello (BG) | Italy dedicated to Ruggero Maggie Sessilia | Barnacle cyanotype (blueprint) on Fabriano 300 g/m3 | 15 x 15 cm; Aquard Cyanotype 2 components set; Van Beek Universal Matte Finishing Varnish.

I.D. OF A LIMINAL BANNER DISTANT SUFFERING LXV i.d. of a liminal banner Liminal: The concept derives from the Latin words limen, which means threshold. Also from limes, meaning border or border path. It describes in-between moments, spaces, or feelings where you have left one phase behind but haven't fully entered the next one yet or of a stimulus just strong enough to be consciously experienced.

I.D. OF A LAMENTED RUG DISTANT SUFFERING LXVI | i.d. of a lamented rug How Mr. Karam, a solar eclipse, a sandy beach, a rug, a genocide, Daheisha, Kahn Younis and Majdal Shams came together

statement

Martha Jager, curator Vleeshal in MiddelburgNL about the oeuvre after a studio visit: The dedication to art as a relational verb is central to Overvliet's work. On the one hand, the balance between poetry and criticism is special, in that the work never becomes bitter or pedantic, while at the same time the dialogue with the viewer is actively maintained. It is a tender form of activism that moves and urges action and at the same time also continuously questions the role of art.

Since 2013, by means of the ongoing art-series DISTANT SUFFERING, the Dutch artist Hans Overvliet (Leiden, 1952) investigates the role of the media in their representation of (military) violence. This, in the context of themes as perception, memory, inequality and identity formation. Overvliet uses a various range of media, symbols and codes, bringing together dichotomies like beauty and violence, refinement and brutality, the sublime and the vulgar. Aspects of power, politics, exclusion, censorship and the connection between artist, artwork and viewer infiltrate his multifaceted conceptual oeuvre. As a reporter, Overvliet was an eyewitness to the events in the Middle East during the 1980s. Of course these experiences resonate in distant suffering. Elements of DISTANT SUFFERING were exhibited in the Netherlands, Belgium, Pakistan, England, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Albania, Germany, Lebanon, the U.S.A., Brasil, Argentina and Spain. In 2023, his whole body of paper collages ( 1999 – 2012 ) joined Geert Verbeke’s renowned collection of collages and assemblages. In 2024 - 2025 the whole oeuvre of DISTANT SUFFERING was exhibited in the museum part of the Verbeke Foundation. All works were included in the permanent collection. Next to his art-work Hans is, together with his wife Willy van Houtum, the founder and every day guardian of ruimteCAESUUR, the 31-year old space for contemporary art in Middelburg in the province of Zeeland.

acknowledgement Thanks | people Willy, Giel, Jorieke, Jochem, Geert , CarlaBelgium, MarieBelgium, Ko, Johan, TinekeBelgium, CarlitaBelgium, JürgenGermany, Dani, Bo, Erjee, Ilja, leon, Chris, Edwin, WilfriedGermany, Leni, Pier, Anke, Thomas, OlegUkraine, OlgaUkraine, OlenaUkraine, Ruth, JanBelgium, IssamYemen, ElizabethSpain, JyrgGermany, AnnaUkraine, Ingrid, Andrea, IsaGermany, MyuzGaza, Sylvia, Rita, Barbara, IbrahimSpain, PeterGermany, SonjaGermany, DirkGermany, Ulrike Germany, SfântuRomenia, CiucRomenia, Erin, LucíaArgentina, NélidaArgentina, KappaItaly, RuggeroItaly (†), Fabiotaly, SafaaLebanon, Belgium

Thanks | instututes kunstwerkplaats Kipvis / Vlissingen, Verbeke Foundation / Kemzeke Belgium, ruimteCAESUUr / Middelburg, no-institute / KasselGermany, plan-d / DüsseldorfGermany, Bloom Gallery / ValenciaSpain, CultuurCentrum / BruggeBelgium, Ik Geef Je Mijn Raam / Vlissingen, Pakje Kunst / Terneuzen, Open O’pen$ / KyivUkrain, G9 Szeklerland Graphic Art BiennialRomenia, Dutch Culture,

MiniprintArgentina, the Tasso and Postal History MuseumItaly, International Palestine StudiesLebanon,

hans overvliet studio-address | Dreesstraat 2 Vlissingen home-address | Lange Noordstraat 67, NL-4331 CC Middelburg www.hansovervliet.com | curiositas@zeelandnet.nl team member of www.caesuur.nu team member of www.ikbeneengod.one click here for my condensed portfolio click here for my extended portfolio click here for my C.V. International reference: DutchCulture

An object that tells of loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them? Deluge. Jasper Johns Sketchbook | 1964

DISTANT SUFFERING XXI | i.d. of a shared bullet

plan.d. produzentengalerie e.v. | DüsseldorfGermany | 21.03. - 19.04.2026 Peter & Sonja made the bullets and handed them out during the opening

work | exhibitions 2026 - 2027