Wherever I am working I’m always looking for the smallest details that tell more than they seem to at first glance. Small things that are often ignored or overlooked tend to play a huge part in my work. Almost nobody sees these small details consciously, but everyone will recognize them once I show them to you. I collect them on paper and this way give them the space they need to let them tell their story clearly.

Whether it is the characteristics of a festival, a durability program on the other side of the world, or a whole ecosytem in the middle of a city; I will submerge myself in my new surroundings and look further than its surface to put them on paper. This way telling the bigger story by painting the smaller picture.

Joost

Selected Clients

Van Gogh Museum, The Gourmand, Nike, National Geographic Traveler, Soho House, Volkskrant Magazine, Thames & Hudson, Provincie Flevoland, Oerol, Das Mag, Centraal Museum, Lowlands Festival, HP/de Tijd, VPRO Magazine, O’Neill, Into The Great Wide Open Festival, Excelsior Recordings, TivoliVredenburg, Soundway Records, NRC, Hendrick’s Gin, Foam Amsterdam, EKKO, Noah’s Ark, Another Something, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, Rapha, Tenue de Nîmes, Dox Records, EMI Records.

Artist In Residencies

Cabiner, Drenthe, The Netherlands (2020)
Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2020)
Studio Bosk, Friesland, The Netherlands (2019)
A Visual Safari, Flevoland, The Netherlands (2019)
Grafixx Fest, De Studio, Antwerp, Belgium (2018)
Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2017)
The Jaunt, Moscow, Russia (2016)
Into The Great Wide Open Festival, Vlieland, The Netherlands (2014)
Trondheim, Norway (2010)

Selected Exhibitions

The Jaunt – Collective Show, Circus Network, Porto, Portugal (2019)
Five Years of Mini Galerie, Mini Galerie, Amsterdam (2019)
Museumnacht, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam (2018)
Van Gogh & Japan, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (2018)
I See plants Shaking Hands, Hutspot, Amsterdam (2017)
Grafixx Fest, De Studio, Antwerp, Belgium (2016)
Love letters to no one in particular, EKKO, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2015)
Blue Jeans, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2013)
Chapter 8, Kapitaal, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2013)
COUP the last 24 hours of antiphotojournalism, FOAM, Amsterdam (2011)
We Look For The Sun In The Wrong Places, Your:Own Gallery, Amsterdam (2010)
It’s Not The Snow Falling Down, Babel, Trondheim, Norway (2010)