Pebbles – reflecting to navigate | Stephan Balkenhol, melanie bonajo, Kirsten Geisler, Gluklya, Inge Meijer, Marie-claire Messouma Manlanbien, Ana Mendieta, Ulf Puder, Miguel Angel Rios, Pipilotti Rist, Andrei Roiter, Stéphanie Saadé, Anne Wenzel & Edwin Zwakman

Looking back at the many artistic gems exhibited in the 35 years since AKINCI was founded, there are several paths to explore. Different paths have led us to different destinations. Iconic works demonstrate the gallery’s focus on the experimental nature of the moving image, display the powerful character of textile and show a new approach to photography. In this exhibition, we draw on the gallery’s private collection, works recently presented at institutional exhibitions, as well as pieces that have gone unnoticed despite their importance. The exhibition reflects on some paths to see where they have taken us and what lies ahead.

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Rah Naqvi | when a name is laid to rest: archives of future present past

We are proud to present Rah Naqvi’s (they/them) first solo exhibition at AKINCI. Originally from Mumbai, India, Naqvi now lives and works in Amsterdam after finishing their residency at De Ateliers in 2021. As a multidisciplinary artist their work engages in narratives themed around religious and societal polarisation through mediums like paper, textile, sound & video – centring art as their tool for activism.

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Around Video | Art Fair

We proudly present the video work Rolling Mountains Dream by

Lungiswa Gqunta.

Hotel Moxy, Brussels

Amsterdam Art Week Brunch

Dive into the exhibition Sleep in Witness by Lungiswa Gqunta. During an intimate brunch from 11:00 until 13:00 we’ll provide an opportunity to experience the exhibition together with the artist, and to reflect and connect with each other.

Please send an email to rsvp@akinci.nl for reservations.

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 Lungiswa Gqunta | Sleep in Witness

Amsterdam Art Week, 31 May – 4 June 2023

The title refers to the intangible world of dreams as a space of learning where extraordinary, overlooked and discredited places of knowledge are illuminated. The exhibition which will festively open during Amsterdam Art Week, includes works out of two  installations, Zinodaka, 2022 and Ntabamanzi, 2022, along with the video work Rolling Mountains Dream, 2021.

Gqunta examines the enclosures imposed upon African knowledge systems and sees this deprival as a symptom of colonial history and conquest. She positions dreams as a response to this curtailment and a space from which new languages, wisdoms and information for living emerge.

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Finissage rooted

We’re happy to invite you to the finissage of the group show rooted, in which we present work by Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien, Odonchimeg Davaadorj, Nona Inescu & Clarinde Wesselink.

For this special occasion, there will be a performance by Wesselink with musician Koen Nutters. Together we’ll celebrate and enjoy the last hours of the exhibition with conversations, food, drinks and friends.

Time:
Saturday 20 May 2023, 5 -7 pm
The performance will start at 5 pm

Art Brussels | Brussels Expo

Solo presentation with melanie bonajo

At Art Brussels, AKINCI shows a solo presentation by melanie bonajo (they/them/theirs) with a focus on the video installation When the body says Yes (2022). The presentation in the Discovery Booth gives an insight into the totality of this project about touch and intimacy that was shown at the Venice Biennale. They present a selection of stills from the film in which the artist collaborated with a group of gender queer people. The viewer is invited to experience tactility and comfort by taking a seat on the special seats created in collaboration with scenographer Théo Demans. Through the presentation at Art Brussels bonajo will carry the message further and create a moment of reflection about what it means to give consent to the senses.

rooted

Marie-claire Messouma Manlanbien

Odonchimeg Davaadorj

Nona Inescu

Clarinde Wesselink

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Art Rotterdam 

Main Section

Andrei Roiter

Molly Palmer

Ruby Swinney

Stephan Balkenhol

Lungiswa Gqunta

Anne Wenzel

Zbigniew Rogalski

Projections

Lungiswa Gqunta

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Take Your Time

Cevdet Erek

Molly Palmer

Stéphanie Saadé

Andrei Roiter

Zbigniew Rogalski

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Let’s celebrate the exhibition Floating World by Ruby Swinney and toast with glühwine on an inspiring New Year!

Join us between 5-7 pm.

Ruby Swinney | Floating World

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Andrei Roiter | Now Part II

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We proudly present the video work TouchMETell by melanie bonajo
melanie bonajo will be presented in the general exhibiton

Hotel Moxy, Lille, France

UNSEEN
Westergas fabriek, Amsterdam

Solo booth with melanie bonajo

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Singing with the Wolves

melanie bonajo
Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen icw Smári Róbertsson
Charlotte Schleiffert

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Art Rotterdam
Van Nelle Fabriek, NL

Main Section
Ruby Swinney
melanie bonajo
Andrei Roiter
Charlotte Schleiffert
Inge Meijer
Jaap van den Ende

Projections
Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen

Molly Palmer | Password

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Terra Incognita

Stephan Balkenhol

Lungiswa Gqunta

Sarah Naqvi

Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen

Miguel Angel Rios

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Miguel Angel Rios | deterritorialization

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Art Cologne

Melanie Bonajo

Andrei Roiter

Anne Wenzel

Ruby Swinney

Gluklya

Stephan Balkenhol

Roger Cremers | Sleeping Windows

& Juul Hondius | To Unveil a Star

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Unseen
Westergasfabriek Amsterdam

Lungiswa Gqunta
Melanie Bonajo
Inge Meijer
Edwin Zwakman

Inge Meijer

Nothing is Something to be Seen

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Art Rotterdam 2021
Van Nelle fabriek

Sarah Naqvi
Jaap van den Ende
Anne Wenzel
Ruby Swinney
Andrei Roiter
Lungiswa Gqunta

Anne Wenzel & Moyna Flannigan

Shifting Realities

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Amsterdam Art Weekend

17 – 27 June, 2021

Book Launch Anne Wenzel – The Bacon Project

Saturday 26 June, 2 – 4 pm

Ruby Swinney

The Distance Between Us

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Ulf Puder 

FLOATING SCENES

Edwin Zwakman

At Night I See the Future

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In Addition to Everything Real

Molly Palmer

Inge Meijer

Thomas Huber

Ruby Swinney

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Amsterdam Art Galllery Weekend

25 November – 29 November, 2020

Benefit Auction for a member of the staff of the Saint Georges Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon

On August 4, 2020, Beirut was subject to a devastating explosion which destroyed a large part of the city and beyond.

In the context of the exhibition by Stéphanie Saadé (1983, Lebanon), Sleeping Under the Shadow of an Unknown Tree, the artist and AKINCI felt the urgency to reflect on this tragic event, which still greatly affects the city and its inhabitants. Together with Stéphanie Saadé we held a special Benefit Auction of which all proceeds went to a heroic member of the medical team of the Saint Georges Hospital of Beirut, as an act of gratitude.

Stéphanie Saadé 

Sleeping Under the Shadow of an Unknown Tree

solo exhibition

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Unseen at the gallery

One weekend of contemporary photography in 25 Amsterdam based galleries, presenting a program of undiscovered photography talent and unseen works by well known photographers. Over 20 galleries from Amsterdam initiated a weekend of photography. Supported by Unseen this is a physical answer to digital fairs, all galleries can be visited on the spot throughout the city.

Jaap van den Ende

een rationele benadering / a rational approach

solo exhibition

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Hunger

Cevdet Erek

Sarah Naqvi

Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya)

Melanie Bonajo

Clarinde Wesselink

A group show on Hunger, in times of separation and anxiety. Hunger for life, love, human contact, touch, freedom.

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Andrei Roiter

solo exhibition

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Art Rotterdam

Melanie Bonajo

Andrei Roiter

Stéphanie Saadé

Anne Wenzel

Charlotte Schleiffert

Projections: Melanie Bonajo, TouchMETell

(Photo: Michel Claus)

Theo Jansen

solo exhibition

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Review in het Parool.

The galleries of the Lijnbaansgracht cordially invite you to our first Christmas market (kerstmarkt). A day filled with holiday music, warm drinks and of course a range of unique gifts for the festive season. From artist editions and books to small works of contemporary artists, especially selected for this day.

Join us at Flatland Gallery, Lumen Travo Gallery, Galerie AKINCI and ALBADA JELGERSMA!

design flyer: Laura Korvinus

Amsterdam Art Weekend

Heroines Now

Melanie Bonajo
Anne Wenzel
Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya)
Sarah Naqvi
Lungiswa Gqunta

Conversation moderated by Mirjam Westen.

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Heroines Now

Melanie Bonajo
Anne Wenzel
Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya)
Sarah Naqvi
Lungiswa Gqunta

With ‘Heroines Now’, AKINCI launched the second edition of a thematic exhibition. The first show was in 2005 and involved ‘Heroines’, innovative women artists of the 60ies and 70ies as Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann and Valie Export. In 2019, more then ever, a feminine approach to the world’s needs and visionary concepts are relevant. ‘Heroines Now’ reveals how vivid and urgent topics seen from the point of view of women artists from different continents and countries are, with new insight, different visual tools, with humour and seriousness.

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Unseen

Melanie Bonajo
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Inge Meijer
Edwin Zwakman

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Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen

All, or Nothing At All

solo exhibition

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What can a Dot Become?

Curated by Stéphanie Saadé

Charbel-joseph H.Boutros

Ismaïl Bahri

Sirine Fattouh

Stéphanie Saadé

Lei Saito

Vincent Verhoef

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Art Cologne

Vernissage Wednesday 10 April, 2019 (16 – 20h)

Presenting

Stéphanie Saadé
Edwin Zwakman
Anne Wenzel
Gluklya
Stephan Balkenhol
Andrei Roiter

Lubricated Language

Ali Kazma
Anne Wenzel
Mire Lee
Petra Morenzi
Miguel Angel Rios

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Art Rotterdam

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Inge Meijer
Andrei Roiter
Stéphanie Saadé
Anne Wenzel

Projections: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Now / Forever (curated by Hester Alberdingk Thijm & Tom Postma): Anne Wenzel

(photo: Renato Ghiazza)

Winterreise

Ali Kazma
Edwin Zwakman
Andrei Roiter
Axel Hütte
Cevdet Erek

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Art Düsseldorf

Stephan Balkenhol
Moyna Flannigan
Stéphanie Saadé
Andrei Roiter

Presented works.

Let’s Talk About Nature

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Inge Meijer
Melanie Bonajo
Ruby Swinney

Amsterdam Art Weekend
22 – 25 November, 2018

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Artist talk moderated by Nat Muller

Anne Wenzel

I can’t believe I still have to protest this shit

solo exhibition

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Stephan Balkenhol

solo exhibition

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Art Cologne

Axel Hütte
Albrecht Schnider
Melanie Bonajo
Anne Wenzel
Edwin Zwakman
Stephan Balkenhol
Thomas Huber
Leylâ Gediz
Andrei Roiter

Inge Meijer

Companion

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Charlotte Schleiffert

Around the World in 6000 Days

solo exhibition

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Art Rotterdam

Projections:
Ali Kazma

Main section:
Anne Wenzel
Leylâ Gediz
Melanie Bonajo
Ali Kazma
Moyna Flannigan
Charlotte Schleiffert

Behind the Carnival

A solo exhibition by Gluklya

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Amsterdam Art Weekend

Parabéns – a solo show by Leylâ Gediz

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Where the f*ck is my sock

Gluklya
Ali Kazma
Stéphanie Saadé
Massinissa Selmani
Edwin Zwakman
Kirsten Geisler
Moyna Flannigan

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EXPO Chicago

Stephan Balkenhol
Melanie Bonajo
Cevdet Erek
Albrecht Schnider
Andrei Roiter

here and now / hier en nu

Thomas Huber

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Massinissa Selmani

Albrecht Schnider

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LOOP Barcelona

Presenting: Melanie Bonajo

Art Cologne

Stephan Balkenhol
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Jaap van den Ende
Axel Hütte
Ali Kazma
Andrei Roiter
Zbigniew Rogalski
Anne Wenzel

Made in Roiterdam

Andrei Roiter

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Transformations

Grösch & Metzger
Basir Mahmood
Stéphanie Saadé
Melanie Bonajo
Broersen & Lukács

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Art Rotterdam
Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, NL

Safe

Ali Kazma

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The Leaf Once Pilgrim

Stéphanie Saadé

curated by Chiara Ianaselli

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Artissima
Oval, Torino, IT

Present Future
curated by Hichram Khalidi

Presenting: Gluklya

Contemporary Istanbul
Istanbul Congress Centre, Istanbul, TR

Presenting: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Like it was in the beginning / a rational approach // een rationele benadering

Jaap van den Ende

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Counterpoint

curated by Roger Cremers

Roger Cremers

Mark Aerial Waller

Runa Islam

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Volta 12, Basel

Gluklya
Albrecht Schnider
Stephan Balkenhol
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

LOOP Fair Barcelona

Presenting:
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Establishing Eden

Amsterdam Art Fair
Museumplein, Amsterdam

Charlotte Schleiffert
Melanie Bonajo
Andrei Roiter
Juul Hondius

Relics of the Real

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

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Art Cologne

Stephan Balkenhol
Gluklya
Andrei Roiter
Stéphanie Saadé
Anne Wenzel
Edwin Zwakman

New positions
Melanie Bonajo

Displacement

Hrair Sarkissian

Andrei Roiter

Basim Magdy

Miguel Angel Rios

Meriç Algün Ringborg

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Art Rotterdam

Gluklya
Stéphanie Saadé
Ulf Puder
Charlotte Schleiffert
Albrecht Schnider

Projections:
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Beyond Context

Anne Wenzel

Charlotte Schleiffert

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Garden of Vigilant Clothes

Gluklya

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Transversus

Ulf Puder

Attachment space:

White heart beating

Moyna Flannigan

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Night Soil – Economy of Love

Melanie Bonajo

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Articles in De Groene Amsterdammer en Het Parool

VOLTA 11, Basel

Cevdet Erek
Esther Tielemans

New Sculptures

Stephan Balkenhol

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Article Beelden Magazine (Dutch)

LOOP Fair Barcelona

Juul Hondius

Amsterdam Art Fair
Citroën garage

Janis Avotins
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Gluklya
Esther Tielemans

Turn up the silence

Esther Tielemans

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Art Cologne

Cevdet Erek
Axel Hütte
Zbigniew Rogalski
Andrei Roiter
Charlotte Schleiffert
Anne Wenzel

New Positions:
Stéphanie Saadé

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

Jānis Avotiņš & Adrián Melis

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ARCO Madrid

Cevdet Erek
Andrei Roiter
Anne Wenzel
Edwin Zwakman

Art Rotterdam

Hamza Halloubi
Moyna Flannigan
Albrecht Schnider
Anne Wenzel

Scarification 

Zbigniew Rogalski

Apparitions à Soco Chico

Hamza Halloubi

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Faça

Cevdet Erek

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Plugin at Contemporary Istanbul

Juul Hondius

Thank You

Andrei Roiter

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An overview of the exhibition

Article in Het Parool (Dutch)

Art International Istanbul

Andrei Roiter
Stéphanie Saadé

Amsterdam Drawing

Roger Cremers
Gluklya
Charlotte Schleiffert
Albrecht Schnider

Passages

Sophie Calle

Hamza Halloubi

Stéphanie Saadé

Imogen Stidworthy

Tour through the exhibition

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Volta 10, Basel

Melanie Bonajo
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Glulya

Charlotte Schleiffert

Beyond the lines 

Albrecht Schnider

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When I think about time…

Roger Cremers

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Art Cologne

Jananne Al-Ani
Thomas Huber
Andrei Roiter
Esther Tielemans
Anne Wenzel
Edwin Zwakman
Miguel Angel Rios

Reality is not a place

Edwin Zwakman

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Art Rotterdam

Natur(e)scape

Jananne Al-Ani

Melanie Bonajo

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

Andrei Roiter

Charlotte Schleiffert

Esther Tielemans

Anne Wenzel

Edwin Zwakman

Miguel Angel Rios

Memory Material

Jananne Al-Ani &
Stéphanie Saadé

Curated by Nat Muller

The Sun that Never Set

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács

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Damaged Goods

Anne Wenzel

Attachment Space: Esmé Valk

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Deniz Buga & Miguel Angel Rios

Attachment Space: Miguel Angel Rios

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Brilliant Punitive Raids

Juul Hondius

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Click here for an interview with Juul Hondius by Christel Vesters.

Hall

Thomas Huber

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Review in Trouw

Moyna Flannigan – The Body Stretches to the Edge
Attachment space: Zbigniew Rogalski – Eye Tracking

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Sacha

Imogen Stidworthy
Attachment Space: Andrei Roiter

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Time & Again

Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács
Cevdet Erek
Esther Tielemans
Imogen Stidworthy

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Celebrating the importance of being playful

Esther Tielemans

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Gluklya

Wings of Migrants

solo exhibition

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Float

Ronald Versloot

Studio visit

Andrei Roiter

curated by Paul Kooiker

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Review by Jan Pieter Ekker

Charlotte Schleiffert
Attachment Space: Kirsten Geisler, Maya Brush

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