Miscellany Garden

GRIMM is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Dutch artist Saskia Noor van Imhoff. A new installation that questions what makes certain things last, while others decay and are forgotten. This will mark the artist’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery and the first one at the new Amsterdam location on Leidsegracht 38-40.

Saskia Noor van Imhoff’s oeuvre examines systems, hierarchical structures, and ideas about collecting. While addressing the underlying dynamics that lead to decisions about what we keep for the future, and what we decide to dispose of, she questions the idea of a collection as a knowledge system that selects, differentiates, and classifies. She works with institutional depots, personal selections or unintentional ‘organic collections’ found outdoors in public spaces, wastelands and landscapes, where nature and culture are closely entangled. These structures are approached using a variety of media such as sculpture, photography and architecture, which merge into a whole in her installations.

Recently Van Imhoff worked on a historic rural farmland in the Dutch countryside, from which she derives the idea of a plot as a repository of knowledge, an expression of its past and a resource for understanding ourselves today. Components from this and other landscapes are cultivated, processed and put together in her work, related to ‘grafting’, a botanical technique to propagate and renew plants, referencing progress and transformation. By rethinking, re-contextualising and reclaiming mechanisms of collections, new perspectives develop in order to rethink their use, value, and legacy.