Emmie Liebregts & Fenna Koot
Visual Art

Cooperation scholarship：
in collaboration with the Vincent Van GoghHuis in Zundert, Netherlands.
Funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan.

Emmie Liebregts is a Dutch artist, she graduated (2020) from St.Joost School of Art & Design in Breda in the Fine Arts department. Her work has been exhibited at various venues, including Galerie Bart, Kromhouthal, Westergas and Art Rotterdam. In 2021 she was nominated for the Jan Naaijkens Prize and in 2023 she received the Mondriaan Start stipend. Liebregts' work stems from experiences around personal space, safety and discomfort. Through her, often sculptural or performative, works she searches for ways to share these experiences.

Fenna Koot is a Dutch artist, she graduated (2020) from St. Joost school of Art & design in Breda in the Fine Arts department. With her graduation project she won the Van Gogh AiR prize. Her work has been exhibited to various venues including Anderlecht ARTtour Brussels, Club Solo Breda, ART The Hague and Kunstpodium-T. In 2021 she was nominated for the Jan Naaijkens Prize and in 2024 she received the Mondrian Start Stipend. By incorporating building techniques and construction methods into her installations and playing with concepts such as ‘building' and ‘inhabiting’, she explores the relationship between humans and the inhabited space. 

The artists are interested in how the local written and unwritten rules of manners, traditions, religion and myths are embedded in the living space of Kyoto. Koot is fascinated by how architectural spaces affect social structures. Liebregts focuses more on the physical and what goes on internally. The common interest is in exploring mental and physical living space and how they intertwine. Characteristic of their artistic research method is ‘doing’. Doing consists of getting to know, observing and interacting. They will be working toward a narrative form in which video observations mix with sculptures, creating a poetic world of experience.