SIGN (NL) is a lively and experimental art project space for contemporary interdisciplinary art at an international level. SIGN offers young artists a platform for further profiling, development and intensification of their artistry. In addition, new work is initiated in special contexts and necessary reflection is given. There are presentations in SIGN, at other locations and in public space, with a variety of circumstances, perspectives and disciplines. SIGN is funded by the city of Groningen NL and by Mondriaan Foundation See for our activities: https://sign2.nl/ https://www.instagram.com/sign.projectspace SIGN, Winschoterkade 10, 9711 EA Groningen, The Netherlands.

Koos Buster Stroucken (1991, Amsterdam NL) : ''My work portrays the search for a certain “doltish perfection” or something trivial that could also be celebrated. When I have an idea, I start sketching as a first step into the process. I also like to see them as potential finished works, fully established within the sketch phase. The innocence and messiness of a quick sketch has elements I like to see returned in a final piece”. Ceramics associate with preciousness, wealth, antique, vulnerability. Stroucken refers f.i. to ‘Delfts Blue’, traditional ceramics, which stands also for rich Dutch history, and questionable ‘Golden age’. By using ceramics in this way his work shows a friction: a combination of celebration, frustrations and anger. Like a comment on all kind of issues of modern society, depending on personal (dis)likes.