Jewellery Making Workshop with Anca Barjovanu

Join us for the next jewellery making workshop where you are invited to create your own stunning sterling silver piece using colorful gemstones. Design a one-of-a-kind silver ring that reflects your style. Play with bold color gemstones—like green and pink or blue and orange—woven into an organically textured band. This workshop offers a unique learning opportunity for anyone who wants to dive into the art of silver clay.

Throughout the workshop you will be taught step by step how to build, sculpt and polish using silver clay - a very flexible and fun material that through the process of burning becomes solid sterling silver. Using specialised tools and materials, each participant will be able to create their desired piece in a safe and cozy environment, at the artist incubator, SeeLab. You will be guided through each step of the making by the visual artist and jeweller Anca Bârjovanu. Anca followed a bachelor in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague after which she studied for a master degree in Jewellery Design and Goldsmithing at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. She later on worked and trained as a goldsmith at the jewellery company Tiffany and Co.

About Anca Barjovanu
Anca Barjovanu is a visual artist and jeweller with a background in fine arts and jewellery design. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and a Master’s degree in Jewellery Design and Goldsmithing from the Royal Academy in Antwerp. Anca has also worked and trained as a goldsmith at Tiffany & Co.

Workshop Dates:

• Saturday, 27th of September 2025
  (Additional dates will be announced in the upcoming newsletter)

Location:
See Lab, Duinstraat 55, The Hague

Time:
13:00 - 18:00

Participation Fee:
€120 (Includes 7 grams of silver and colorful cubic zirconia of your choice)

RSVP:
As space is limited, please reserve your spot by emailing Anca at ancabarjovanu.studio@gmail.com.
For any further questions, don’t hesitate to reach out via email.

We look forward to seeing you there and creating together in the cozy and inspiring environment of See Lab!

Under the Lime tree

GUEST ARTIST - Farah Rahman

Residency and exhibition:
Opening hours:
Thursday July 31st (opening): 17:00 - 21:00 h
In addition to the opening event on Thursday, the work-in-progress will also be on view on:
Friday, August 1 and Saturday, August 2 from 11:00 to 15:00 h

Farah Rahman is a visual artist whose research- art science based practice parallels that of an ethnobotanist. Rooted in her own family history, which traces back to Suriname and India, her work explores the complex relationships between trees, plants, people, and culture. Through multisensory installations, Rahman weaves together forgotten ancestral knowledge and current political, ecological, and spiritual questions about the entanglement of humans and the plants/trees world.

During her artist residency at SeeLab, she focuses on the limes tree in and around the garden, using them as both inspiration and material for new botanical image-making processes. Working with historical photographic techniques such as anthotypes, Rahman extracts pigments and impressions directly from plants/ vegetables collected locally or the Hague market. Her research-based approach deconstructs inherited traditions and seeks to uncover the symbolic, spiritual and medicinal roles of plants/trees across generations.

At the core of Rahman’s work lies a deep respect and admiration for medicinal plants and their role as carriers of cultural memory. A core aim of her work is to counter plant blindness, the widespread cultural tendency to overlook the vital presence and intelligence of the vegetal world. By highlighting medicinal plants as carriers of cultural memory, Rahman invites audiences to see plants and trees not merely as background decor or resources, but as sentient beings embedded in ritual, healing, and storytelling.

Her time at SeeLab forms an important chapter in her ongoing exploration of cultural plant tree knowledge and experimental eco-imaging.

About the artist:
Farah Rahman is a multidisciplinary ArtScience artist, art educator, and freelance museum guide at Kunstmuseum The Hague. She also serves as an independent advisor in the Pro Committee of Stroom The Hague. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as CBK Zuidoost, Zone2Source Amsterdam, the Dutch Fotomuseum, Museon, WORM Rotterdam, Stroom The Hague, and the LUMC Art Gallery in Leiden University Medical Center. She has led educational workshops for organizations including Filmhuis Den Haag, Into the Great Wide Open Festival, Boijmans van Beuningen, and the Instrument Inventors Initiative. Rahman holds a BA in Audiovisual Design from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and earned her MA in ArtScience in 2022 from the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Her ArtScience research practice mirrors that of an ethnobotanist, drawing from her family roots in Suriname and India to explore cultural and spiritual relationships with plants.

Supported by: Gemeente Den Haag and See Lab

Phantom Memorabilia

Title: Phantom Memorabilia

Duo exhibition: Anca Barjôvanu & Cathelijne Boele
Duration: 06.06.2025 to 06.30.2025
Opening hours: via appointment at ancabarjovanu.studio@gmail.com
Opening: 06.12.2025 - 5:00 PM

Sound by: Rat Radio

About: Phantom Memorabilia

From a dream-like world, our phantoms emerge. They linger and follow us subconsciously through the mundanity of life, guiding and shaping our fantasies, memories and hidden longings. Intangible yet feeling real, these phantoms materialize through the symbolism of our past, where each piece of memorabilia serves as an associative point of connection to a specific time or experience.

The duo-exhibition titled Phantom Memorabilia explores the various pathways and rhythms of memory, emphasizing their constant movement between prominence, obscurity, and impermanence. The artistry of both Anca Bârjovanu and Catelijne Boele captures the delicate balance between memories that haunt us and those driven by a fantastical kind of nostalgia - resulting in a search that oscillates between the desire to let go and the need to preserve. Through their own visual language and magical worlds, they question which memories we selectively and willingly keep with us, and the ones we unwillingly and sometimes unknowingly store in our subconscious.

En par. - Ch.I ——— dusk

Solo Exhibition: En par. Ch.I ——— dusk
Artist: Renata Mirón
Date: 14-16 February, 2025
Opening hours:
Opening: February 14, 17:00 - 20:00 H
Exhibition hours: February 15-16, 12:00 - 18:00 H

About:
From February 14 to 16, SeeLab hosts En par. Ch.I ——— dusk, a solo exhibition by Renata Mirón. This installation delves into the concept of duality—the coexistence of contradictions, the movement between opposites, and the equilibrium that emerges from tension and transition.

Guided by intuition and curiosity, Renata explores duality through myth revisioning, addressing the absence of nuance in gender ideology. Drawing inspiration from feminist reinterpretations of Mesoamerican and European pre-patriarchal cosmologies, she weaves seemingly unrelated narratives together in an attempt to break free from the patriarchal gaze.

Through clay sculpture and water fountains, she shapes botanical and mythological figures, their voices entwining stories of hope and ruin. En par. Ch.I ——— dusk reflects on resistance to ecocide and the rise of fascist politics, with water serving as a portal—an animate force connecting all species and their myths into a shared reality.

Renata’s ongoing research into form is deeply rooted in the methodology of repetition, a practice inherited from her background in textile production. Through repetitive gestures in clay, she continues to push the boundaries of material exploration over long durations.

Orde.Kosmos

Pre-launch of the publication:
Title: Orde.Kosmos
Artist: Aliki van der Kruijs
Date: 12.12.2024
Opening hours: 16:00 - 21:00 H

About:
On December 12th, we celebrated the pre-launch of Orde.Kosmos, a publication by artist Aliki van der Kruijs, set to be released in Spring 2025. During this event, unbound segments of the book were presented, offering a unique opportunity to explore the visual research that shapes the project. Orde.Kosmos compiles 12 years of Aliki’s archived inspirations, notes, experiments, and relational material, forming the foundation for much of her diverse body of work. The 672-page book, designed at Espace Ness and edited with Aliki, marks a significant milestone in her artistic journey, capturing the essence of her studio's evolution. Featuring 654 color illustrations, it serves as a reflection on her creative practice and the years since founding her studio.

sponsored by:
Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie & Jaap Harten Fonds