ROYAL DESTINY | EDITION 57 | sold out
PICK UP: FRIDAY 26 APRIL &
SATURDAY 27 APRIL 2024
OPENING HOURS : 10-18 H
ACKERSDIJKSTRAAT 20, ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
LITHARGE VAN VEEN & MUS X HAGENS 2024
VAN VEEN & MUS X SASJA HAGENS
VIDEO INSTALLATION : LITHARGE
VIDEO: VAN VEEN&MUS
PHOTOGRAPHY: VAN VEEN & MUS
SOUND: SEMMUS.MUSIC
SCULPTURES: SASJA HAGENS
FIRST VIDEO PRESENTED OF THE NEW COLLAB VANVEEN&MUS X SASJAHAGENS
Hereby we’d like to present you the sneak preview of the video.
Litharge is the name for lead oxide, if heated with tin oxide you get this bright (poisonous) yellow. In the 17th century led tin yellow was used by famous painters like Rembrandt to resemble gold.We are happy to show you this new video in Rotterdam.
OPEN STUDIO
OPEN:SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY 10-18 H
OPEN: SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY 10-18 H
LOCATION: ackersdijkstraat20.nl / Rotterdam
DRYDOCK | 40 x 50 CM |ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION SAND ON CANVAS |2024 |
Dear fellow harbour friends,
My name is Sasja Hagens
I am honored to be asked for the second time to deliver the artworks for the ESPO AWARDS 2023
‘The Colours of ESPO’ .
The harbour is where my heart is. I have been painting the Harbours for over 25 years
The harbour is so much more than business, moving commodities and increasing profits.
Harbours are far more than that.
Harbour is about life
Ships are vessels for our desire
And we desire adventure.
And as we’re sailing away, looking for opportunities,
We might suffer loss ,
We might experience joy.
We learn.
A ship as a metaphor for vigour, desire and life.
I wish all contestants of the ESPO award 2023 competition good luck!
PART OF ROTTERDAM NOW PART OF AMSTERDAM
Jeroen ter Brugge, Conservator Maritime collections adds the book PART OF ROTTERDAM // SASJA HAGENS to the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum Library.
By Aad Hoogendoorn- NRC
Dit jaar is mijn atelier weer geopend tijdens het Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend https://www.grootrotterdamsatelierweekend.nl.
OPENINGTIJDEN: ZATERDAG 16 - ZONDAG 17 SEPTEMBER 2023
ADRES: ACKERSDIJKSTRAAT 20, ROTTERDAM 10.00-18.00 UUR
Check alvast beschikbaar werk
TUGS IN ACTION #9 | 30 x 40 CM | ALUMINIUM FRAMED | ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION ON CANVAS | SASJA HAGENS | 2023 | COMMISSIONED FOR DAMEN GORINCHEM, THE NETHERLANDS
DAMEN SHIPYARDS LOGO
A new series of paintings in commission for Damen Shipyards Gorinchem, The Netherlands.
TITLE: TUGS IN ACTION
SERIES OF 8
ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION ON CANVAS
summer 2023
NEFS DINNER WITH SPECIAL GUESTS :
ALEXANDRA VAN DONGEN, CURATOR MUSEUM BOIJMANS & IRENE JACOBS, CONSERVATOR ROTTERDAM MARITIME MUSEUM (FULL)-INVITATION ONLY-
Verhalenhuis Belvédère Rotterdam
Verhalenhuis Belvédère Rotterdam
WATERVALUES by Witteveen+Bos, The Dutch Compendium, adds Sasja Hagens to the team.
Water and culture: a process instead of a result oriented approach
Looking forward to our journey Arjan Conijn.
OUR FUTURE LANDSCAPE / commission for private collectors Rotterdam/ dyptich / 90 x 130 CM / Acrylicpaint emulsion sand on canvas /2023
Congratulations Maritiem Museum Rotterdam for adding this piece to your wonderfull collection. I know, no one in the world will be better in looking after, preserving and loving my work as well as you guys will do. So thank you, I 'm happy, honoured & proud.
RADIANT / 150 JAAR VOORUIT NIEUWE WATERWEG
40 x 50 CM
ACRYLICPAINT EMULSION SAND ON CANVAS
ALUMINIUM FRAMED
2022
150 JAAR VOORUIT NIEUWE WATERWEG 2022 BY SASJA HAGENS
ATELIER SASJA HAGENS BY GJ POS
WELCOME
OPEN STUDIO’S AT ACKERSDIJKSTRAAT 20 ROTTERDAM
24 & 25 SEPTEMBER 2022
1100-1700 H
PRESS RELEASE — This week PART OF ROTTERDAM, a retrospective on the work of the Rotterdam harbor painter Sasja Hagens, will be published. Her oeuvre is an ode to the city and port of Rotterdam and produces a colorful book in which the Maas forms the basis of almost every work. In which ships come and go, tankers are cleaned, while construction sites in the center are transformed into stately avenues. With the book Hagens provides insight into her perspective, process and working method.
PART OF ROTTERDAM € 50,- order: sasjahagens@gmail.com
Photo by Marco de Swart (c)
Till September 2022 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen & Maritiem Museum Rotterdam are exhibiting Hagens: ‘Maritieme Meesterwerken’ / ‘Maritime Masterpieces’. Really excited to hang my work next to a.o. Willem de Kooning, Frank Stella & Claude Monet.
Read: Vigour, desire,life ‘Maritime Masterpieces’: the salty sea air of harbour life across six centuries
Photo by Marco de Swart (c)
With Simon Santschi (director EKA Trier), Volker Klassen (Geschäftsführer Hafen Trier) & Laas Koehler (Kurator)
From March 4 till April 17 2022 Kunsthalle Trier will show my painting Unbounded in exhibition ‘Heimathäfen’.
„Manchmal fragen mich die Leute, warum ich so viel Zeit damit verbracht habe, Häfen zu malen – ein so offensichtliches Thema. Aber ihre Größe und industrielle Qualität entzünden das Feuer in mir. “
Unbounded | Diptych | 140 x 340 cm | Acrylic paint and emulsion on canvas | Sasja Hagens (c)
Publication NRC written by Arjen Ribbens
“When she painted the Port of Rotterdam for the first time twenty-five years ago, artist Sasja Hagens received somewhat compassionate reactions. They would ask me: “Are you painting boats?” Naked ladies or floral still lifes, now that was just about acceptable. But boats... that was something old men would paint.”
“Hagens now prefers to enter the port as little as possible. “It’s in my head. I don’t want to be distracted by the harbor anymore. It sounds strange, but that harbor is on my hard drive, I want to paint it from my heart.””
Photo by Frank de Roo (c)
“She will not paint a ship in refined and recognizable features. “Repainting something as it is, that’s super boring,” says Sasja Hagens. Her work is colorful and just as tough and robust as the ‘giants of the sea’ themselves. The port of Rotterdam has been her lust and her life for 25 years.”
Our family often took vacations on our tiny sailboat. The wooden 7.10m Waarschip was called Waratje.
With two older brothers and a little sister, there was not much for me to do during our sailing trips. My brothers sailed the boat with my father. I was often bored and sat on the floor of the cabin. I often stared at the depth gauge. Making sure we didn’t get stuck on a sandbank. My father occasionally cut a course between the buoys.
We would always sail in Zeeland, Haringvliet, Hollands Diep, Veerse Meer. I still remember our outboard motor. 8 HP was stamped on it. I asked my father, ‘Dad, what does 8 HP mean?’. To which he replied, 8 Horsepower. As strong as eight horses. And in my imagination I saw eight harnessed jet-black horses pulling our little boat forward, and I thought, ‘8 horsepower, more than enough.’
One day my parents had set course for Breskens. For that we had to cross the Western Scheldt. We had never been there before. A busy shipping route runs right through the Western Scheldt, which connects openly to the North Sea.
We sailed up the Western Scheldt in Waratje: father, mother and 4 children. I remember the feel of the swell; I had never seen waves this high before. And the sails were lowered because sailing is forbidden in a shipping channel. We were lifted high on a wave, and I saw the propeller of our 8 HP outboard motor turning helplessly in the air and in the subsequent wave trough I saw the entire outboard motor disappear under water together with the stern. The engine stalled.
Now the six of us were adrift in perhaps the busiest shipping channel in Europe. The sails had to be raised again, and my father kept pulling the starter cord on our soaking-wet outboard. And then it happened, the shouted commands on board were deafening ....
Because here they came
one by one,
like a scene from Jurassic Park.
The absurdly large container ships passed right by us.
Slow and unapproachable.
So close,
I was enchanted.
For good.
Sasja Hagens - January 2021
CCL2020 #6, ARYLIC PAINT, BRASS, EMULSION, ACID DYE, SILK, SAND | 22 X 22 CM | SNOEK // HAGENS 2020 (C)
Since spring 2020 SNOEK // HAGENS have a new partner: MPV Gallery. Our new series Cloud Cuckoo Land is purchasable at the webshop and in the gallery in ‘s Hertogenbosch.
'In this new series I focus on the manmade landscape instead of industry itself. I paint a rapid changing world in which humans literally move mountains and rivers.
Equilibrium and perspective, the spontaneous opposed to the rational are important themes in my work. How we look at the world influences the way we treat it.'
For questions call Mark Peet at +31654694728 or send a WhatsApp message.
