De Nieuwe Nachtegaal
Neda Mirhosseini, Kurt Ryslavy
26. – 29.03.2026
De Nieuwe Nachtegaal is the Huis van de Wijk (community house) of Charlois, a neighbourhood meeting place where residents come together for workshops, creative activities, and conversation over a cup of coffee. On the first floor, after passing through a long corridor, Het Zuid Manifest presented works by Neda Mirhosseini and Kurt Ryslavy.
Neda Mirhosseini presents a selection of drawings from her ongoing practice of documenting daily life, with a focus on friendship, memory, and shared moments. Working in colour pencil, Mirhosseini draws the remains left on tables after gatherings: empty wine glasses, cups, food, plates, and cutlery.
These objects become vessels for the stories of togetherness they hold. Portraits of loved ones and house plants appear alongside these still lifes, tangled together as they are in memory itself. The layered process of colour pencil, where marks are placed on top of one another to complement and complete the image, mirrors for the artist the way people and objects carry traces of each other.
In a room where tables are ordinarily used for working with clay and crafting, Kurt Ryslavy’s tablecloth works are placed directly on the workshop tables. Each tablecloth combines a colourful background with the reproduction of a decorative invoice, merging the language of commerce with the conventions of painting. In Ryslavy’s
practice, the tablecloth occupies an uncertain zone between functional object, sculptural installation, and image. His work consistently blurs the boundaries between art, trade, and domesticity, drawing on his parallel life as a painter, wine merchant, and spatial artist. Placed here, on tables that normally serve the practical and social life of the community house, the tablecloths do what they always do in Ryslavy’s work: they sit exactly where you would expect a tablecloth to be, yet quietly displace everything around them.
Artworks:
Neda Mirhosseini, Gin and Tonic, 2024
Neda Mirhosseini, Ziyod’s Garden, 2024
Neda Mirhosseini, Wine and Coffee and a Lemon, 2024
Neda Mirhosseini, Morning Coffee, 2024
Kurt Ryslavy, Asthetisch & Pflegeleicht, 1999, 6 parts
Neda Mirhosseini's works were presented in collaboration with O Gallery.
Gabriel Kuri's work was presented in collaboration with Galerie Mieke van Schaijk.
Neda Mirhosseini is an artist born in 1995, Tehran (IR). She received her BFA in painting from Tehran University of Art and has recently finished her residency at De Ateliers, Amsterdam. She currently lives and works in Amsterdam (NL). In her practice, Mirhosseini primarily works with installations of drawings, with a focus on themes of friendship, memory and shared moments.
Kurt Ryslavy is conceptual artist, poet and painter decending from Austria. He invented the “bourgeoise travesty” as an artistic expression. In his view this is one possible strategy to liberate art-production from submission to the globalized race for cultural fundings. He realizes non-fictional iuridic documents within different media. His image-findings/ creations combined with writings go beyond taboos of art, artmarket and society. His preferred media are text, video, installation, performance, sculpture, painting and specific (exhibition-)concepts.
Galerie Mieke van Schaijk hangs as a bespoke dress in the small yet sturdy Dutch
wardrobe in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Completely unique, and delicate in detail, it
is a piece that follows no generic pattern in favor of the risk to be something other. Not
simple/easy to hold, (and why should it?) the fabric is woven with an idiosyncratic thread, with an imaginative approach. Appliquéing artistic visions since 2012 and hemmed by the stitch of contemporary, the program cuts a shape proportioned meticulously through the ‘savoir-faire’ of balancing asymmetric creative practices, unafraid to be bejeweled, sheer, or figure-hugging [Text by Fiona Mackay].
O Gallery was founded in 2014 by Orkideh Daroodi and is situated in central Tehran in a three-story 1960's building transformed into two exhibition spaces and a private viewing room. Known as an incubator for young and emerging talent, O Gallery also presents leading established artists from Tehran and other cities in Iran to the primary market, locally and internationally. As part of its program, O Gallery has launched its own line of monographs, with four titles published to date.
Working closely with curators and leading intellectuals in the field, the gallery is committed to presenting distinguished exhibitions that reflect the culture and attitudes of its artists. O Gallery has also planned a series of pop-up exhibitions — temporary shows running from a day to a month, often held in nontraditional spaces like a storefront or artist's studio — featuring paintings, works on paper, sculptures and installations in different cities.