Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam: Groupshow: Bruises of Another Dream

8 - 12 October 2025 
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At the 2025 edition of Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, the Amsterdam-based gallery The Millen House presents its debut with a poetic and sensorial exhibition titled Bruises of Another Dream. The presentation brings together female artists who shape their mediums by hand — through folding, stitching, painting, and hammering — working on the threshold between two- and three-dimensionality. Each work explores materiality, beauty, and inner worlds, evoking a dreamlike atmosphere of stillness, strength, and sensorial comfort.
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Natasha Papika, Fertile Ritual I, 2024
Natasha Papika, Fertile Ritual I, 2024

he Millen House debuts at Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam 2025
Exhibition: Bruises of Another Dream

At the 2025 edition of Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, the Amsterdam-based gallery The Millen House presents its debut with a poetic and sensorial exhibition titled Bruises of Another Dream.

The presentation brings together female artists who shape their mediums by hand — through folding, stitching, painting, and hammering — working on the threshold between two- and three-dimensionality. Each work explores materiality, beauty, and inner worlds, evoking a dreamlike atmosphere of stillness, strength, and sensorial comfort.

Featured artists:

  • Diana Bitar (lives and works in Brussels) creates dreamlike landscapes in hand-dyed and meticulously pleated silk — a technique she has specialized in over recent years. Her wall objects resemble underwater worlds or fossils. The labor-intensive process of dyeing, folding, and stitching transforms each piece into a sensorial skin: fragile and layered.

  • Natasha Papika (Greece) paints on wood with an exceptionally precise and poetic touch. Her spherical, mythological landscapes feature floating forms, figures, and symbols. They recall the fantastical worlds of Hieronymus Bosch and Joan Miró, yet remain deeply rooted in her own imagination. Wood becomes a living carrier for her stories, in which themes such as identity, womanhood, and vulnerability converge.

  • Bregje Sliepenbeek (Netherlands) presents the wall sculpture ANCIENT GARDEN in hammered aluminium. Her works refer to ruins or ritual gateways, yet their forms are unexpectedly soft. By treating industrial materials in a highly crafted way, she creates sculptures that feel like relics from another time — silent, layered, and imbued with meaning.

With Bruises of Another Dream, The Millen House presents a cohesive universe in which color, texture, material, and emotion come into balance. A presentation about the longing for softness, the body as landscape, and making inner worlds tangible.

 

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