Room For Cindy Bakker eng

Rotterdam artist Cindy Bakker created completely new work for her solo exhibition in iCOON.

She was inspired by the surrounding landscape: the sea, the beach and the dunes, in contrast with the hard concrete of the bunker itself. With her exhibition, Cindy wants to offer not only a visual experience, but also a journey through personal memories in relation to the environment.
Each work is an invitation to look beyond the surface, to discover your own memories and associations in what seem to us familiar forms.

Siobhan Burger will introduce the exhibition. Burger is director of Social Impact and Sustainability at VORM and one of the founders of Arttenders. Siobhan is also called her 'discoverer' by Cindy Bakker and together they developed The Splash.

Cindy Bakker (1989) obtained her Master Fine Arts in 2018. She has had solo exhibitions in TAC, Eindhoven (Copy Paste, 2019), the Kunsthal, Rotterdam (Play, 2021) and Willem Twee, 's Hertogenbosch (Cheese, 2024). She has also designed various works of art in public spaces such as The Splash (with Arttenders, Annie M.G. Schmidtplein, Rotterdam, 2021) and De Bal (with Kunstmest, Amstelveen, 2022). She also regularly collaborates with brands and organisations such as MOOOl Carpets, BOL.com and the Boijmans van Beuningen museum.

Cindy draws her inspiration from our everyday environment; particularly large areas of colour and primary shapes. She translates these impressions into sculptures or paintings that are often part of larger installations. She experiments with various materials such as steel, foam, acrylic, rubber and wood. Personal memories are often the starting point. Her art thus moves on the intersection of recognition and alienation. By abstracting shapes and colours, she investigates how the meaning and associations of everyday objects are constantly shifting.

A WALL OF BLUE from CINDY BAKKER runs from June 21 to August 10.