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  • Liefde zit in nog kleinere hoekjes dan ongeluk

    Liefde zit in nog kleinere hoekjes dan ongeluk (je moet er wat voor over hebben) (2025) is the second issue of mini poëzie bundels by Maurits Boskamp and Nik van der Meulen. This mini poetry collection is a collaborative project by artist Nik and poet Maurits,…

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  • (Un-)Naming expo

    Unnaming expo – New Earth Minor (Social Practice). I exhibited two pieces at this show. Both about the trans health care system. Juxtaposed Parallels (2025) showed parallel stories in the same frames. By physically looking through a different lens, red and cyan foil glasses, you…

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  • CIC Groothandelsgebouw

    For this exhibition at CIC located at Groot Handels Gebouw in Rotterdam I built two installations. The combination of text, image and decoration tells a story. These prints are made up of scenes from the short graphic novel ‘Writing down good reasons to freeze to…

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  • Garage Cafe #2.4

    At Garage Cafe #2.4 Rosa and I gave an artist talk presenting our webcomic. We introduced our project and handed out two postcards to all the people who attended. One postcard was for them to keep, a souvenir from Switzerland, with a QR-code. The other…

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  • Veerwilddragers

    Veerwilddragers, mijn bed in de binnenstad (2024) is part one of the Mini Poëzie Bundels by Maurits Boskamp en Nik van der Meulen. Veerwilddragers is a collaborative mini zine created by artist Nik and poet Maurits, merging visual art and poetry to capture the essence…

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  • Keep building your house, Mrs. Winchester

    Keep building your house, Mrs. Winchester (2024) tells the story of Sarah Winchester. Legend has it that she went mad with grief after the death of her husband and child. Sarah consulted a medium who warned her of vengeful spirits seeking retribution for the lives…

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  • Schande magazine

    Door schade en schande wordt men wijs (2024), is a contribution to volume 7 of SCHANDE magazine. This is a humorous comic about the social implications of art school and being an artist. ‘SCHANDE makes the elusive tall trees accessible without morals and without ethical…

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  • Oh, to feel at home

    Oh, To Feel at Home (2024) is an 8-page zine. It’s printed on 100gr green label paper, with three different colours of soy-based ink. The booklet is an A6 zine, folded from an A3 piece of paper—15×10.5 cm.The zine has mostly illustrations and some text.…

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  • Writing down good reasons to freeze to death

    Writing down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook (2023), 36 pages, A5. (first edition) Self-published. This project served as an exploration of common themes in my artistic practice. escapism, isolation, solitude and melancholy are important in my work. These themes have…

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