Working on my dramatic entrance

by Luca Tichelman
May 2 – May 30, 2026


Please join us for the opening on Saturday, May 2, from 4–7 pm.

How can we compose a limitless self-archive? This question is posed by Luca Tichelman’s MY ALL ∙ A LOW BUDGET SPECTACLE two-part installation, whose first part: a hologram miniature guide, was presented as part of our group exhibition Be Mov(i)e. To linger around the topics of perception, participation, and experimentation of collective seeing a bit further, Tichelman takes over our gallery space, bringing the life-sized versions of the archived pieces as well. Together, the two-fold artwork invites us to reflect on the (im)materiality of reality and remembrance as playful sources of identity.  

The title of the exhibition derives from one of the displayed objects or ‘archived documents’: the brief answer to the artists’ letters. Besides this framed fragment of love letters, a large blob-like friend named Freddy, and a stuffed, dead yellow bird, make up Tichelman’s archive of self. Like a both digital and analogue puppet show, her hologram version guides us through these stories and memories. Subsequently, these fragments are further explored by our walk through the non-linear, life-sized materializations of her life.

“Let's get started with these two figures right behind me. These are made out of cotton, linen, and silver thread. The sculpture is inspired by a memory of the summer of 2005 (...)”– shares the mini-me artist at the beginning of the guide about a floating, embracing textile couple, titled The intimacy my parents share, even when apart.

Tracing the sculptures’ narratives, the visitors activate the constructed “self”: our discovery becomes part of this performative manifestation of and play with identity formations. Sharing a glance into one’s past, a mutual moment of remembering

Luca Tichelman (1995, NL) primarily focuses on video, alongside photography and sculptures. Through her work, she explores the means of identifying a self. Looking at the different ways of articulating who we are and how many versions we can be, depending on the circumstances. The combination of theatre and film is an essential element of her work, creating pieces that explore the fundamental human desire to belong, focusing on the importance of play and the way in which reality and fantasy can blend together.

Graduated in Performance from the Toneelacademie Maastricht, studied Film at KASK in Ghent, holds a Master’s in Lens-Based Media from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Recent exhibitions included: Das Leben am Haverkam in the Hague (2025), Museum of Goa in India (2024), International Performance Art Giswil in Switzerland (2023), Marres in Maastricht (2023, 2021). 

WHAT HAVE WE FORGOTTEN? (2025) Replica Venus of Milo with fountain, transport crate

Visit the show and drink from the leaking wound.

PART OF MY ALL • A LOW BUDGET SPECTACLE VIDEO INSTALLATION

“When I was 17 I had this repetitive dream.
I would stand in a wide, open square. A low voice called out: “WHAT HAVE WE FORGOTON? WHAT HAVE WE FORGOTON?
I never saw where the voice came from.
In the middle of the square stood the Venus of Milo.
As I walked towards her, I noticed a leaking wound on her belly.
I drank from it, as one does in dreams.
It gave me a strange power.
In fact, it filled me with luck.
Then the voice would appear again “WHAT HAVE WE FORGOTTEN?"
And I would wake up.
This image stayed with me.
Venus…..leaking…”