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.
Photo by Lisa Diederik (c)
Our studio building will open her doors on February 6-9th, every day from 09.00 - 11.00 am. Mark in your calender.
Come and get your morning coffee, I look forward to your presence.
Address: Ackersdijkstraat 20 (- studio 002)
Updates can be found on our Instagram-page.
SNOEK // HAGENS are ready for new collaborations. We would love to help you with our custom-made interior designs.
Send an e-mail to brainstorm (no strings attached): info@snoek-hagens.nl
Interference - Sublime on Steroids no. 5 | 100 x 100 cm | Acrylic paint, hand dyed silk, metal leaf, sand and emulsion on panel (CNC milled) | 2019 | Snoek & Hagens
Good news! A brand new website for SNOEK // HAGENS. Feel free to take a look.
Photo by Julie de Bellaing (c)
After the Espo Award show in Brussels, Painting no. 4/8 from the series Colours of ESPO departed to the UK!
In November we celebrated the release of our new series Interference / Sublime on Steroids. Thanks all for coming!
S N O E K & H A G E N S will have a show in Paris in September 2019.
Working on a brand new series now…
In collaboration with Galerie Montmartre
