All the work for the exhibition 'De Rode Draad' (the red thread) arrived from Gallery Kaleido, in Uppsala, Sweden 10 days ago. Monday and Tuesday of this week was spent putting the exhibition together in Gallery Zone, and rearranging the permanent displays to accomodate it.
We are now almost ready for the official opening by Lisa Leistra, cultural attache to the Swedish Embassy, at 2.00pm on Sunday 5 September. .......

the window display will be revealed on Sunday.

Here are a couple of preliminery pictures...
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inside, a glimpse of part of the exhibition!

After a long break its time to start blogging again. Most of us have been away on vacation at various times over the last few months, but Gallery Zone has remained open. At the end of July we spent two days giving it a much needed, and very thorough "spring clean" - this meant vacuuming, dusting, washing down, white-washing and polishing.

The gallery is now gleaming and glowing and looking lovelier than ever - ready to host 'The Red Thread' exhibition, which has its opening on Sunday 5th September. This is a joint exhibition with a sister collective in Sweden (see earlier blogs for more information).

The Textile Blog: Jette Clover and the Graffiti of Life

The Textile Blog: Jette Clover and the Graffiti of Life

While many members of the Zone collctive will be in Sweden this weekend for the opening of' 'The Red Thread', back home in Leiden there are also exciting events taking place.....

The first edition of Festival Iberia takes place in Leiden next week, from 13 - 20 June, Iberia being the ancient name for Georgia.
As part of the festivities various galleries, including Gallery Zone, will be taking part with exhibitions by eminent Georgian artists, under the  theme 'Fighters Against Greyness'.
Dimitri Eristavi is one of the most outstanding representatives of 20th century Georgian art, and his work will be on show in Gallery Leiden all week - for this week only we will be opening on Mondaay and Tuesday from 14.00 - 17.00, as well as our normal Wednesday - Sunday times.

For more information about Festival Iberia in general, or Dimitru Eristavi in particular see http://www.festivaliberia.nl/

Less than a week to go! The exhibition 'The Red Thread' will be opened in Gallery Kaleido, Uppsala, Sweden (see http://www.kaleidoo.nu/  for more information) at 12.00 o'clock on Saturday June 6th, by Pieter Ramaer of The Royal Netherlands Embassy. A number of Zone members will be there to represent Gallery Zone and meet members of the Kaleido collective.  

In September the exhibition comes to Leiden. On  Sunday September 5th, at 2.00 pm, the cultural attache from the Swedish Embassy in the Netherlands, Lisa Leistra, will open the exhibition at Gallery Zone. We hope some members of the Kaleido collective will be able to come to the Netherlands for that opening.

On June 12th a representative of the Netherlands Embassy in Sweden will open a Dutch/ Swedish exhibition at the Kaleido Gallery in Uppsala, Sweden.
Entitled "The Red Thread", this is a joint enterprise between the members of two artists collectives - Zone and Kaleido (http://www.kaleido.nu/), and is the result of two years hard work by Annica Delfos (Zone) and Maria Lewis (Kaleido). Thanks to them members of both collectives have produced a variety of exciting work which can be seen together first in Gallery Kaleido, Uppsala, from June 12 2010, and then from September in Gallery Zone in Leiden.
It is also thanks to Annica and Maria that both the Netherlands and the Swedish Embassies have given financial support to this project, enabling an idea to become a reality.

Watch this space for pfotos of the opening in Sweden, and for news of the opening in Leiden (September 5th 2010).

The furniture and ceramics of husband and wife team Stefan and Nesrin During have been on display in Galerie Zone since the beginning of April. Stefan's furniture can be seen until the end of July, while Nesrin's ceramics are here until the end of May.

Of course the work of Zone-member Frida van der Poel, such as her 'red box' shown here, is permanently on display in the gallery, and continues to delight visitors with its quirkiness. Often featuring long spindly legs, and unexpected angles, it sometimes seems as though her furniture is about to start dancing.

And last, but not least, the furniture of Edward Meijer is also on show until August, and maybe for longer. A picture of his work will follow here shortly!