Thanks to the things. An ode to the people behind Museum Cobra

Museum Cobra invited employees from all departments to submit a self-made work as a short tribute to what moves, drives, or guides them.

The result is a diverse exhibition of photographs, paintings, fashion, and installations. You see recognizable images from the immediate surroundings: a street, the edge of a forest, a walk, light that belongs to a particular season. In addition to nature, there is room for the everyday and the personal: for what you cherish, where you come from, and what motivates you every day. At the same time, critical references also resonate: questions about power, freedom, exclusion, or responsibility. Some odes are tender and small, others sharp and outspoken.

The exhibition pays tribute to all the people who work day in, day out for Museum Cobra: from café staff to education officers, from construction crew members to public relations staff. It takes you on a journey through different perspectives and ways of looking at things: attentive and engaged, sometimes critical, often loving.

Read and notice how images and language reinforce or contradict each other. Perhaps you will recognize something of yourself. Or perhaps you will discover something new.

Welcome. Take your time. And ask yourself: to whom, or to what, would you pay tribute?

Participating artists: Aline Boersen, Desmond Boonstra, Scott Bronfman, Aida Carvalho, Edu Lars de Jonge, Aybala Dolu, Jos Driessen, Ashish Gaigole, Marleen Gerlagh, Camryn Gooswit, Folkert Haanstra, Mie Iwasaki-van Aarle, Hetty J. Kuiper, Magnus Monfeldt, Christiane Naegele, Ju Pereira, Suzanne Pieper, Dorine Prins, Janna Prins, Silvia Pristasova, Eric Robertson, Mannon Nanette Roosendaal, Lana Savo, Aart-Jan Schakenbos, Ivo Schouten, Fraser Stewart, Naomi Stuifbergen, Joost Udinga, Kristien van der Kuil, Tania van Diemen, waanja, Jean I. Venema, Emma Weijers, Judith Witteman, Marijke Zondag