frans van hoek

We’re very excited to share the upcoming show Wound Machine, a solo show by Frans van Hoek. We warmly invite you to the opening on March 20 from 19:00 onwards. @franslucent Graphic design by @dansjirgensons @vincentcbecher

NorthFace Armour (2024) steel, etching A handmade armour in the shape of a NorthFace puffer jacket and Adidas pants. A play on modern and classical masculinity, and the capitalist crusade across nations, extracting resources, gathering loyalty.

𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘰 ~𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨?, 2022 steel, etching, MacBook, mouse NEST, The Hague (NL) ⤷ An armor for laptop and mouse, based on Kolman Helmschmidt cuirass 1510-20. Daniel Hopfer's engraving 1510-1520 shows the saints hard at work - St. George fighting the dragon, mother Mary nurturing her child Jesus, St. Christopher carrying the infant through the river. And the cherubs and fanfares that await them in heaven. But what rest awaits us when this war of life is over? Where do we wage it? And can't this be the site of great bravery too? An Idle Escape, NEST 01.04.22 @nestruimte

Thanks to everyone who came by last Saturday for the performance of News (May 1) by @franslucent and @longginus.alyandu . It was a beautiful second edition of Counter serenade. The show will run until the 9th of May. We’re open on Friday and Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00. PS. last few shirts in collaboration with @biquet.studio available through DM.

We’d like you to invite you this Saturday to the live performance of News (15 March), 2026. The performance will be done by Frans van Hoek (E.Gtr.) and Longginus Ademerode (Vc.). On the occasion we are selling Wound Machine shirts in collaboration with @biquet.studio . You can pre-order a t-shirt through DM with your preferred size. Everyone is welcome from 17:00 onwards, performance will start at 18:00. See you on Saturday! Graphic design by @dansjirgensons & @vincentcbecher

We’d like you to invite you this Saturday to the live performance of News (15 March), 2026. The performance will be done by Frans van Hoek (E.Gtr.) and Longginus Ademerode (Vc.). On the occasion we are selling Wound Machine shirts in collaboration with @biquet.studio . You can pre-order a t-shirt through DM with your preferred size. Everyone is welcome from 17:00 onwards, performance will start at 18:00. See you on Saturday! Graphic design by @dansjirgensons & @vincentcbecher

🌐 WWW — Young Artist Open Call How do you remember war? What does displacement leave behind? NGO DEI is launching an open call for young artists in the UK and the Netherlands to explore these questions in their own creative way. We welcome all forms of expression that engage with conflict, memory, and movement. Two young artists will be selected to co-create a summer exhibition in our gallery — a space to open up conversation, exchange visions, and build connection. 🟢 Open to artists under 30 🟢 Across all disciplines and backgrounds 📍 Mentoring Event: 20 June (The Hague X @franslucent & Bristol X @oshiiblklgt ) ⏳ Open Call Deadline: 29 June 🗓️ Exhibition: 8–16 August Register NOW for the Open Call through the link in our bio: linktr.ee/ngodei #youngartists #opencall #thehague #artopportunities

Frans van Hoek Kid Frans Neon (Blood) acrylic LED neon sign 2026 A series of LED neons of felt-tip drawings the artist made at age five, covering topics such as 9/11, gun crime, crucifixion, and colonial oppression. Seemingly showing a child coming to terms with the violence of the world. In a medium of capitalism famed for stripping away this lofty childhood grandiosity. How such innocence cannot function in a commercial world. Come by this weekend! From this week on we are open during new opening hours: Friday and Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00, or by appointment.

Frans van Hoek Crime and Punishment Jenga books, wood 2026 A Jenga tower made of custom format copies of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866). This continual global interplay between the two. Law and order, good and evil, innocence and violence. In Dostoevsky’s novel, the most immoral character is a young law student, who is saved by the friendship of a sex worker outcast from society. Come see Crime and Punishment Jenga and the rest of Machine Wound next week during our new opening hours. Friday and Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00, or by appointment.

Frans van Hoek Baby Dutch LED board, audio (8min) 2026 An Afrikaans children’s story from a 1982 radio broadcast describing the origin of Table Mountain’s iconic cloud formations: a slave trader and the devil having a tobacco smoking contest on Devil’s Peak. Often referred to as ‘baby Dutch’, the Afrikaans language is a stripped down version of Dutch. Verb conjugations, gendered nouns, and excess letters have been jettisoned over the 400 years of colonial violence, stress, miscommunication, memory loss and heat. Regressing to its infant form in the harshness of colonial life. Come see Baby Dutch and the rest of Machine Wound next week during our new opening hours. Friday and Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00, or by appointment.

Come by this weekend to see Wound Machine, a solo show by Frans van Hoek. Opening hours are Friday 17:00-21:00 Saturday 14:00-18:00 @franslucent Frans van Hoek Dark Nature Single-channel video, 2.14min 2026

Come by this Easter weekend to see Wound Machine, a solo show by Frans van Hoek. The exhibition brings together 12 new works departing from a series of six felt-tip drawings he made at the age of five, showing a child seemingly grappling with the violence of the world: terrorism, 9/11, crime, Christ’s crucifixion, and colonial oppression. The works are paired with Jean Cocteau’s La Machine Infernale (1932), in which a protagonist struggles to escape the harsh will of the world, only to perfectly fulfil the dark prophecy laid out to him by the Gods. Through this double departure, the exhibition explores the strange interplay between innocence and violence through personal, political, and ecological lenses. The endless cycle of wounding and being wounded, unfolding across the millennia. Playfully asking whether it is us or the world that is evil. Whether it is us or the world that is the Wound Machine. [I] Frans van Hoek, Kids Frans Neons (WTC), acrylic LED neon sign, 2026. [II] Frans van Hoek, World Trytsenter, graphite and watercolour on paper, 2001. @franslucent