HET PEPERKOEKHUIS

This gingerbread house is a downscaled version of the Willem de Kooning Academy. An academy named after an artist that only briefly studied there. The work questions the role of ‘a feminine style’ in art history (if there even is one) and the gender-bias of more domestic art methods, such as quilting and baking.

Almost all dutch art academies or courses are exclusively named after male artists. With this work I wanted to start the conversation about a possible name change.