Art Zuiderzee Founders
Bas Kuiper Art Zuiderzee Curator
Bas was born in Utrecht and graduated as a psychologist. He is now Advisor to the Board of Directors at Arkin. He has been collecting art since the age of sixteen and later curated various art initiatives such as AMFAD Houthavens 2014 and AMFAD Spaander 2021. As a collector, Bas is in the Top 100 of the most important living Dutch art collectors, but also in the Apollo Magazine ‘Top 40 under 40 Europe list’ and Larry’s List. Bas lives and works in Volendam, Naarden and Amsterdam. His ancestors come from Den Helder and Zwartsluis.
Initiatives/curator/founder
A 1000 Living Painters
Architecture, Media, Fashion, Art, Design
Artist in Residence Spaander
Art around the former Zuiderzee
Petra Hart Art Zuiderzee Organizer
Petra was born in Hoorn and trained as a concept thinker. She is now a professional artist, organizes Art Zuiderzee and studies Event & Tourism Management and Event Operations in her evenings. She worked as an art director for eight years (plus two years as an intern direct marketing (assistant art director), sales promotion (junior art director) and above the line (art director)) at renowned international advertising agencies for A-brands. In 2001, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie atmitted her. During this study she made her breakthrough with her charity art project Heart-World, making a better world. Since 2003 until COVID-19 she gave art dinners in
her studio (1-30 people three times a week). In 2014 she founded AMFAD and showed a mix of architecture, media, fashion, art and design in an empty building in the Houthavens and in 2021 she showed the same group in Hotel Spaander. In 2021 she set up
AiR Spaander, a residency program in Hotel Spaander. In 2022 Josilda da Conceição Gallery presented her art in a duo show and in November 2022 Upstream Gallery selected her work ‘different perspectives’ to participate in BYOB an open source concept by Rafaël Rozendaal. Petra lives and works in Volendam and Naarden with ancestors from Hoorn, Volendam and Enkhuizen, her son is a half-blood Frisian.
Initiatives/organizer/founder
Architecture, Media, Fashion, Art, Design
Artist in Residence Spaander
Art around the former Zuiderzee
Story
Petra grew up within the triangle of Hoorn, Medemblik and Enkhuizen and lived for a while in Paris and London and thirty years in Amsterdam. In 2009 she had a son Jimmy, a Frisian half-blood. Partly due to her father born in Hoorn and her grandfathers, who were born in Enkhuizen and Volendam, she grew up around the former Zuiderzee between monumental buildings, heritage, mills, castles, monuments, forts, churches and picturesque harbours. Connecting these places through art through water, land and air has always been on her mind.
The wild and unpredictable Zuiderzee existed from about the beginning of the late Middle Ages until 1932. Her ancestors lived since 1800 near Katham (Volendam) against the dike and close to the 'Kathammer' mill and one of them was the dike keeper. The flood disaster of 1916 ensured that the Zuiderzee was tamed in 1932.
When Petra's grandfather was seven years old, the dike in front of the farm where he lived broke. After that, it was no longer allowed to build so close to the dike. The new farmhouse, where he laid the first stone, is now on the other side of the mill. He always kept part of the land outside the dikes and when Petra stood on the dike with her grandfather, he always said: 'I will keep this land until the municipality of Volendam comes to me and wants to turn it into a tourist destination. to make'.
Unfortunately he couldn't be there, but he was right. Petra's parents sold the land in 2002 and since 2007 part of the Marina Park has stood on the beautiful new harbor of Marina Volendam.
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Petra groeide op binnen de driehoek Hoorn, Medemblik en Enkhuizen en woonde een tijdje in Parijs en Londen en dertig jaar in Amsterdam. In 2009 kreeg ze een zoon Jimmy, een Friese halfbloed. Mede door haar in Hoorn geboren vader en haar grootvaders, die in Enkhuizen en Volendam zijn geboren, groeide zij op rond de voormalige Zuiderzee tussen monumentale panden, erfgoed, molens, kastelen, monumenten, forten, kerken en pittoreske havens. Deze plekken verbinden door middel van kunst via water, land en lucht is altijd in haar gedachte geweest.
De wilde en onvoorspelbare Zuiderzee bestond van ongeveer het begin van de late middeleeuwen tot 1932. Haar voorouders woonden sinds 1800 bij Katham (Volendam) tegen de dijk aan en vlakbij de ‘Kathammer’ molen en een van hen was de dijkwachter. De watersnoodramp van 1916 zorgde ervoor dat de Zuiderzee in 1932 getemd werd.
Toen Petra’s opa zeven jaar oud was, brak de dijk voor de boerderij waar hij woonde door. Daarna mocht er niet meer zo dicht bij de dijk gebouwd worden. De nieuwe boerderij, waar hij de eerste steen legde, staat nu aan de andere kant van de molen. Hij heeft altijd een deel van het land dat buitendijks lag gehouden en als Petra met haar opa op de dijk stond, zei hij altijd: ‘Ik hou dit land net zolang aan totdat de gemeente Volendam naar me toe komt en er een toeristische bestemming van wilt maken’.
Helaas kon hij er niet bij zijn, maar hij had gelijk. De ouders van Petra hebben de grond in 2002 verkocht en sinds 2007 staat er een deel van het Marinapark op aan de prachtige nieuwe haven Marina Volendam.
