Studio Frowijn

🪱 Save The Soil / The Date for Wiede Wold 🪱

Dear friends,
This Spring (28 April - 30 June 2024), together with other artists, Studio Frowijn will be part of the art and design festival Wiede Wold in the village Echten, on invitation by curators Lisa Hardon & Jorn Konijn, initiated by the municipality De Wolden in Drenthe, the Netherlands, celebrating De Wolden’s cultural anniversary under the theme ‘The Future of the Rural’.

Our trilogy Soil Stewards to Soilistic Bodies prompts a reevaluation of our relationship with soil and foregrounds its hermaphrodite stewards: worms. The project contains an interactive sculpture breaking open the garden of a teahouse in Echten, the online essay Imagining Soilscapes, Or Queering Common Ground focusing on the soil as a commodified gender construct whilst advocating its relational value, and a soundscape staging voices from various perspectives on the soil. By observing worm-soil relations and envisioning q***r possibilities, this triptych imagines rural futures as opaque aesthetics and symbolizes interconnectedness between rural and urban spaces.

The official opening is due on Sunday afternoon, 28 April 2024, with an immersive route full of art and design through Echten, and you are very welcome to join us there. For the press, there will be a special weekend organized on 11 & 12 May 2024. 

>>> Please send us a DM before 1 April to RSVP if you would like to join one of these days. 

Photography: detail clay model Soil Stewards to Soilistic Bodies by Studio Frowijn


Misfit #5, 2023
50 x 40 x 80 cm
recycled clothing, wooden dress boy, glass, clay
photography by Io Cooman