Mella Jaarsma | Roy Villevoye

Kunsthal KAdE will show a double-solo from May 2025: Mella Jaarsma: Trouble Skirts and Roy Villevoye: Imaginable Lives. Both artists have a more than 30-year body of work and are connected to the Indonesian archipelago in various ways. Jaarsma has lived and worked there for forty years, exploring cultural diversity and identity through themes such as the body and its covering and the role of food (consumption and production). Villevoye has travelled frequently to the Asmat in Papua since the early 1990s, has developed a very personal connection with the community there and reflects on those encounters and experiences in his work. Both artists create dialogues between different cultures and challenge the viewer to look critically at how “the other” is defined and perceived. Publications with the same title will accompany this exhibition.

The exhibition is part of a series of “double solos” that Kunsthal KAdE has curated since 2011.