No Man’s Art Gallery opens up both gallery locations during Amsterdam Art Week for the debut solo exhibition of The Hague born artist Afra Eisma (1993). The exhibition dandelions milk opens on Thursday May 30th and will run through the larger part of the Summer. In recent years, Afra Eisma achieved international recognition, with her immersive installations of textiles and ceramics travelling to institutions such as Dhaka Art Summit (BN), Kunstinstituut Melly (NL), the Kiran Nadar Museum (IN), Joan Miró Foundation (ES) and Wälnö Aaltonen Museum (FI). For her debut solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist transforms both spaces, and even takes over part of the gallery’s restaurant.
Two wall filling high tufted tapestries are shown in the entrance of the newly created space, as No Man’s Art Gallery built an entirely new space for the exhibition by sectioning off part of the restaurant that is run under the same roof. On the mezzanines, Eisma presents an immersive textile installation that invites for gathering and togetherness alluding to a cave and campfire-like setting. The KIOSK, NMAG’s second gallery location located at 300 metres from the first, shows a series of porcelain sculptures that the artist created during her ceramics residency in Arita, Japan, in dialogue with a third large scale tapestry that illustrates a blossoming love story. 'dandelions milk' counters today's polarisation by giving centre stage to intimacy, togetherness and dialogue.