MORPHOSE
Exhibition growing pains
the makers
Have you visited the Groeipijn exhibition and do you want to read the stories behind the artworks? Are you planning to visit but would like to look up the menu first? Or are you unable to visit, but curious about the young creatives and their perspectives on the theme of Groeipijn (Growing Pains)?
Here, you can discover the stories of the artists behind the works on display at Sectie-C during Dutch Design Week 2026.
artists, designers and makers
The Wolf - Sitting Duck - Raw - Just keep dancing
I have Growth FOMO. Everyone around me is growing up, buying houses, having weddings and having children. Because of my autism and obsessive compulsive disorder, I feel as if I’m always 10 steps behind and falling further and further behind. I process experiences and memories in my meditative creative process. This way I create my own soft, colorful worlds that functions as a diary.
Amber Aarts
CUCUBIRD:nest
Finding a home is a challenge for everybody, but for Cucu, the situation is truly urgent. A scammer tricks the Cucubird into losing all of her cherished possessions and ends up in a house that can barely be called a home.
Inspired by "the growing pains of expats," Alexandra addresses relatable issues that expats face on a daily basis. Housing, crises, language barriers, and work culture: these themes form the foundation of CUCUBIRD. The project depicts a world that offers awareness and comfort, while opening up a dialogue about the problems surrounding us.
Alexandra Georgieva
Gentrification Exposed
As an urban design student, I wish to make built environments more livable. However, I’ve noticed that this often leads to gentrification. It frustrates me that especially creative pioneers don’t get the credit and right to remain after putting in a lot of effort to make a forgotten and decaying part of the city buzzing with life again.
This pattern of displacement for both creative pioneers (sometimes called “bait hipsters”) and people that endure low living standards has been used as an economic profit scheme and racist urban planning in the past and even still in the present. I therefore wanted to investigate and overlay the spatial differences of Sectie-C, where creative pioneers roam free, and Strijp-S, far into the process of gentrification, to see their differences and to symbolically expose the slow process of gentrification often reaching over a decade.
Evan Broeren
Trans Rage Machine is a gender dysphoria diagnostic process dressed up as self-critiqueing arcade game. It seeks to address the failures of the transgender healthcare system and the frustration of gatekeeping and waiting lists in combination with the transgender experience as a whole.
Authority figures masquerading as saviors “protecting us from ourselves”, impose arbitrary requirements on our experiences and put up hoops for us to jump through before we can get on with our lives. Stripped of our autonomy, we must play according to the rules of the game if we hope to get anywhere with our medical transition. Play the game, if you dare.
Trans Rage Machine
Ilya Tokareva
the gears just keep turning
it’s going too fast
and yet I’m the one rotating them
oddly enough, it hurts
it’s always going too fast
I can only catch up at night
when I’m in my corner
that’s why I turned in this text at 3 AM
this text will not tell you what I’m trying to tell you
you will only read that what you have yet to tell yourself
In the corner
Kalina Jojgova
Just a weird experience that’s unfolding in my bathroom.
How do I escape mine/this bathroom?
Quinn FKA Koen Out
Het Brein en de Machine
An interactive sculpture that shows how it feels like to have a busy brain. One person stands underneath while another turns the handle, creating “waves”. These waves are like a sea storm surrounding you. It can be calming and be seen as a place to find peace, but it can also be disturbing because someone else controls the movement.
The work started with an old coffee grinder, inspired by its turning mechanism and wooden box.
Odette Latenstein Van Voorst
waar stenen mijn ruimte dragen
I stand in a space. A cosmos full of walls, windows, and roofs. Do I end where they begin, or do I merge with them? I search for my works in the far crevices of my thoughts and in the corners of a large hall. And now in Eindhoven,
I search for space where there is no place. In the speed of the city, I am left behind as a maker without having begun. Yet I am here.
I show a wall that is normally used as a boundary for spaces. Now it is an organism. The peripersonal space shifts material. The boundary is bounded by a skin that does not clearly know where it belongs. The latex skins, too, cling to the physical space around us, yearning for the liberation of being allowed to exist. They will live and die here. I am here, I am the space, I must move along with it.
Quinty van Seccelen
Stoic Grace
At the heart of my work is a search for meaning. I often wonder what it means to live well amid so many ideas of what life can be. In Eindhoven, a city shaped by innovation and development, there is always another step, another future to grow into. I recognise that impulse too: reaching a goal rarely feels like an ending; it shifts the horizon further ahead. For me, the growing pain lies in realising that this search may never end.
My sculptural paintings are a response to that restlessness. The women I depict do not know the answers. Yet they meet the world with poise, openness and patience even as the ground beneath them keeps shifting. They give form to the realisation that the search does not need to lead outward, but back toward myself. Hard as it may be, perhaps I am both the question and the answer.
Tereze Liba Tiesniece
The Land
What shared emotional experiences does the constant influx and outflow of people bring to Eindhoven? The fear of leaving, finally living in a city where you know almost everyone in one or two social links, or being always ready to let people leave, yet still investing in your community. Yuky K explores this recurring temporality in her video work "The Land" through patterns and spoken poetry.
Yuky K