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annual report 2026

cover Michiel Paalvast | THE DIRECT LINE drawings on the windows of CAESUUR ruimteCAESUUR | Lange Noordstraat 67 NL-4331 CC Middelburg www.caesuur.nu | caesuur@zeelandnet.nl K.v.K. 4111439 | NL65 RBRB 0787 6747 53

content 05 Romee van Oers A plane tilts forward, a line recoils 23 Anke Land A swan’s feather 33 Hannelotte van Elst This is how I cope, this is how I hope 47 Michiel Paalvast The direct line 68 Aleš Zapletal Where does the shit go if there is no outside 88 Ton Kruse R.S.O.L | Room for the Study Of Loneliness colophon links to the catalogues ruimteCAESUUR

Romee van Oers plane tilts forward, a line recoils 07/02/’26 – 05/04/’26

Anke Land A swan’s feather 01/o4 – 31/05/2026

Hannelotte van Elst This is how I cope, this is how I hope 20/06/’26 – 02/08/’26

The Two-headed Calf By Laura Gilpin Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

Michiel Paalvast THE DIRECT LINE

03/08 – 13/09, 2026

sketches

expo | work

vaststelling | determination september 12, 2026

Aleš Zapletal Where does the shit go if there is no outside? September 12 – Oktober 25, 2026

Aleš Zapletal is an artist living in Prague, Czech Republic. In recent years, from this Central European region, he has travelled to places where great rivers seemingly end their journey by meeting the sea — to river deltas. In these peculiar microcosms, however, the river loses its linear movement, just as the landscape loses its solidity, and the idea of an outside or of an ending recedes. Aleš travels to these places to observe the landscape itself and to talk to local people, asking both the landscape and its inhabitants the central question of his project Cosmogram: What is the world? After his recent journeys to the Nile and Mississippi deltas, Aleš began to make greater use of branching diagram structures in his painting and drawing, while also engaging more deeply with the idea of solipsism — the possibility that there is only consciousness and everything around it is its projection. The question that has become the title of the exhibition connects this intuition with the wonder of observing water as it travels from its source through fields, cities and factories to the oceans, only to somehow return, mysteriously purified, to where it began.

opening | september 19, 2026

exhibition | work

Ton Kruse R.S.O.L | Room for the Study Of Loneliness space for contemporary art; the cognitive ecology of the studio November 14, 2026 – January, 2027

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colophon ruimteCESUUR

Michiel Paalvast | August 03 – September 13, 2026 THE DIRECT LINE

Thanks to | all the artists all the visitors Leni van den Berge | de roofprintpers | postiljon d'amour the happy shareholders of CAESUUR the municipality of Middelburg links naar de catalogi | links to the catalogues catalogue Romee van Oers catalogue Anke Land catalogue Hannelotte van Elst

catalogue Michiel Paalvast catalogue Aleš Zapletal catalogue Ton Kruse ruimteCAESUUR 1995 - 2026

ruimteCAESUUR Since 1995, some hundred thirty 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.

annual report 2026