MADART Table Talk

Maaike Rabbinge, Loutje Hoekstra and Sandra Keja Planken, with Justin Karijoredjo

Maaike Rabbinge studied psychology in Utrecht and political science in Amsterdam, became a circular designer, and now runs the collective ECHO. Loutje Hoekstra never went to an academy and taught herself everything she knows. Sandra Keja Planken spent a career as an interior architect before she began making autonomous work.

Three makers who arrived here by three different routes, and not one of them the route the system recognises. Dutch funds date a career from a first presentation inside the established circuit. Galleries want a signature they can place. Both measure a path that none of these three walked — and neither has anything to do with the quality of the work.

That is what MADART Foundation exists for, and it is easier to hear it from them than from us. They sit down at Ignore’s table and talk about how they got here, and about what they made for GROUND. Justin Karijoredjo leads the conversation.

Forty-five minutes, standing room. 30 places.