Yuri Veerman
With a group of ten people, artist Yuri Veerman organized a political drawing workshop at the Van Eesteren Museum. During the workshops, we started making drawings in a relaxed atmosphere. The drawings were created by simple assignments with our fundamental rights as a starting point: draw your own home, draw your own religion, draw your own body and more. The individual drawings thus formed a portrait of the (political) individual, while the whole was a reflection of our collective rights.
Did you have to be a good artist? No, everyone was very welcome! The only requirement was to tell us which party you were going to vote for during the November 2023 elections, and even if you deliberately did not vote, you could participate. At the end of the workshop, there were more than 100 drawings and we were able to see the differences and similarities between the drawings. With these drawings, Veerman designed a series of political posters. The posters were distributed in Amsterdam in the run-up to the elections in November 2023.
About Yuri Veerman
Yuri Veerman is an artist and designer, working in Amsterdam. In his work, he deals with political and social issues from a visual and poetic perspective. His work has appeared on the streets of Amsterdam several times in recent years: his posters against the housing crisis and Amsterdam's “sale” got an iconic status. The posters I don't like monoculture and Bernhard van Oranje, the Prince with 349 houses, have been exhibited in various museums.
