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From September 18 until April 5 2021, The National Maritime Museum and The Dutch National Portrait Gallery show 'Angels of the Sea, a touching portrait exhibition by Stephan Vanfleteren. Stephan Vanfleteren (Belgium, 1969) is one of the most famous portrait photographers in the Low Countries. Angels of the Sea, created in 2016, consists of a series of poignant portraits of young people from the maritime school Royal Work IBIS in Bredene, Belgium. Vanfleteren was charmed by the children who grew up in a protected environment in their traditional sailor suits. He photographed the 108 students of boarding school IBIS: the angels of the sea. A selection of these can be seen in the exhibition in The National Maritime Museum. 'Every child is entitled to a visible horizon, even when it storms at sea.' Stephan Vanfleteren about the angels of the sea.    Sean, Koninklijk Werk IBIS, Bredene, België, 2016 © Stephan Vanfleteren   Noah, Koninklijk Werk IBIS, Bredene, Belgium, 2016 © S...

Since 2012, the international collective Temps Zero – led by photographer and curator Stéphane Charpentier and sound artist Alyssa Moxley – has been bringing together a new generation of international experimental visual and sound artists. The group travels across European cities in ever-changing line-ups, with poetic exhibitions, improvised concerts and workshop presentations. © Gabrielle Duplantier This collectively supported art project is like a close-knit family of outsiders, looking for their place in an unruly world. The participants find each other in their existential drive for freedom and the intensely creative impulses that result from it. Together they fuse photography, video, sound art and music into penetrating sensory experiences. From January 16 to April 12, 2020, Temps Zero settles in Groningen and presents an interactive installation in the Noorderlicht studio. In the halls, images are combined with multi-track sound that responds via sensors to the movements of...