Eveline van Duyl

Solo exhibition

The texture of Van Duyl's sculptures, sometimes humorous and sometimes elegant, with additions and embellishments, gives her work an attractive and unpretentious touch. Her work reveals itself in various ways, inviting us to look with an open mind.

The exhibition will be opened on Sunday, February 1, 2026, at 2:30 PM by Johan Luijmes, artistic director of Het Depot. The opening will take place at Villa Hinkeloord, Generaal Foulkesweg 64 in Wageningen.

What's on the Mind
A group of sculptures on display in the villa features large wooden eyes that stare back at us. The idea for these almost lifelike eyes arose during walks in the woods, where Eveline van Duyl observed the alert gaze of wary animals.
She created the eyes during the coronavirus pandemic, a time when people kept their distance from each other. "What's on the mind is expressed in a look." The wooden eyes were created with oil and pigment, and a great deal of patience. For Eveline van Duyl, creating the eyes also embodies the idea that your ancestors resonate within you; they keep looking at you. Thus, by creating the mouths of Nero and his mother, she reveals complicated family connections.

Suspend your judgment and look first
Van Duyl's work reveals itself in various ways, inviting us to look with an open mind. In a text for an exhibition of her work at Galerie Noord in Groningen, Van Duyl writes: “I don't want to explain. The work is its own. Don't make it ugly, don't diminish it. Let it be. Of course, I can add something, create a little dance, perhaps a song. A poem in stanzas. But those are different works, adding something. You can also view them separately. You think about them, about a work of art—that's inevitable. And you often immediately form a judgment, but that's such a shame. Suspend your judgment and look first. Perhaps something will be offered to you.”