Kunsthuis Yellow Art organizes a professionally framed and ambitious, artistic studio for people with a psychological vulnerability. The participants are the driving force behind our collective workshop. It is a place for encounters and artistic cross-pollinations. We organize activities that give participants the opportunity to gain inspiration and translate this into a personal visual language, with regard to their own living environment. In addition, we support participants in showing, distributing and publishing their own work.

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The seed of Yellow Art was planted in 2001 with the exhibition Y.E.L.L.O.W., where curator Jan Hoet brought together insider and outsider art in his parental home (his father was a doctor at OPZ Geel). In the context of that exhibition, there was a first collaboration between guest artists and clients of OPZ. At the end of 2004, the organisation was given a permanent location and Kunsthuis Yellow Art was founded.

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Currently, a group of thirty participants is given space and time to experiment and develop their own artistic oeuvre. Kunsthuis Yellow Art works completely outside the therapeutic context. There is the opportunity to paint, draw, make ceramics and graphics. In addition, there is regular collaboration with renowned artists from home and abroad. This mutual interaction is both artistically and socially broadening. The use of the terms insider and outsider art is also questioned here.

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IMAGE Jennifer Lohrmann