Jonathan Touchy

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I got into an obsession with phallus-shaped objects the last few months and forgot to share this phallus-work shown at DDW25 for the ‘ALL YOU CAN EAT’ show, curated by dearest Femke Hoppenbrouwer, Nils Axen, and Fedora Boonaert. It’s something with pacifiers and obesitas, stone carvings and systems that are meant to support but maybe do a bit too much. Anyway. 🪧

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ALL YOU CAN EAT

An Exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2025.

Featuring 38 artists, 4 courses, hundreds of visitors and 250 trays, this collective buffet questions: “Where does unlimited end?”

Are you familiar with our concept? ALL YOU CAN EAT playfully parodies the all-you-can-eat-mentality that extends far beyond restaurant doors; addressing themes such as overconsumption and waste, individualism and conformism, tradition and optimization. We fill up our plates to make sure we don’t miss a thing. We want a spoon of that perfect body, a serving of that big promotion and some sprinklings of love on top. But with every extra portion, the plate becomes more monotonous… And also, what is that parsley leaf hiding?

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Tonight is the finissage of “round about or inside”, we close our show @_billytown with a film program from 18.30 till 23.00! Last chance to see the show and my work (in progress)! 🪩🌏🏀

Screening Schedule:

‘about some facts and fictions’ from 18:30 @jonathantouchy - The F for Fact Symposium - 12’51 @pedrogossler - Bad Dog - 4’53 @deepsandwich - Zapping through Facts from TV (2020) - 4’26 @vitasoulwilmering - The Failed Holiday: episode 10 (2021) - 17’10 @anna.alla - still here - 02’49 @bernicenauta - The Plantriarchy - 17’45

‘repetitions’ from 19:45 @eckhardtjanis - in the end, it all comes out (2024) - 17’35 @fur_qat - The Ball and the Polo Stick, or the Book of Ecstasy (2023) - 23’33 @eloisealliguie - The Apple Pie (2023) - 7’18 @rominakoopman - Mother of all Screens - 17’51

‘costumes’ from 21:00 @korsii - Carnaval. A prologue (2025) - 1’20 @barbara.visser - Medium Girl (1996) - 5’ @sashakulak - Mara (2022) - 61’

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A few weeks ago, I closed my solo exhibition ‘Jungle TV’ in the former Atlantik Wall bunker at Het Dooorp. Here are some pictures! The show brought together three works that have been in the making for quite a while — it started with a film project in 2015, and continued last year with a new series of sculptures and assemblages. 🛡️

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Some details of ‘5475 Grams’, recently on view @hedengalerie. This project looks at the pull of habits and cravings, using weedbags, glass, images, and metal. 🌿

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Worried authentic boy at your door. 🚪 Oslo was amazing, Norway was amazing. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity—given by @praksisoslo—to come here for a month, experience this country, participate in this residency, and meet all this lovely people. 🗑️ 🍌 🐕

These are some shots of an ongoing project about Doge and its loss of authorship during the Open Studios at Praksis last week. 🌞

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Over the past few weeks, we - Jonathan Hielkema and Sean Charlton White of Touchy Studios - have been quietly documenting the NATO summit. From Noordwijk to The Hague to Schiphol, from the rumoured hotel to the inner zones of the event; we followed the build-up, the spectacle, and the silences around it.

We were inside. We were outside. We listened, we spoke, we observed, and we were observed. 🥸

This post brings together a few fragments - voices, spaces, and events. Before we decide what this work will become, we wanted to share a glimpse of it with you.

Meanwhile, the 5% has been agreed upon. Which means: more money for weapons, and the slow, steady preparation for a war we’re told we don’t want.

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I’m happy to share w/ u that I received the Artist Start grant from the Mondriaan Fund—just in the nick of time! This will provide support for my practice in the coming year. 😈⁣ ⁣ Thank you @onedaylola_ for your help and patience !!

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Some time ago, I had promised to share with you the text about my l̷o̷v̷e̷ for surfing. So here goes! See images in large on my website's blog. ⁣㋛ ⁣ Thanks again to the poopies of @acidsurfing! ⇨

Link to buy: https://acid-magazine.com/product/acid-magazine-no5-2/

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@user_nijhoff made a website for my students project ♥️ design by @jaspernaus ♥️ ⁣

Lobster Lobby 🦞 Lobster Lobby

The Lobster Lobby is responsible for critique from within sweet waters. The Lobster Lobby, a spin-off of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hag

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Our dear Téa has left The Hague for Berlin. As such, our family is growing considerably there, but we are looking for a new member in The Hague. ⁣💛💚 ⁣ Is this something for you? Or do you know someone? Send us an email: [email protected]⁣ ⁣ Looking for a new buddy January/February 2024. 🤟

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For the past few months, every Wednesday at Touchy Studios, a group of ca. twenty students has consistently worked on a new project dealing with the invasive American crayfish. This will now be celebrated! The group of students, called Lobster Lobby (@lobbifest), have organised a screening and party in collaboration with Touchy. This Saturday is the day! Tickets in bio.

9:30 pm-5:00 am 🦞 Binckhorstlaan 36 🦞 EARLY 7,5€ LATE 14€ 🦞

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Some pictures of this sum! 🦋

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In a recent rendezvous, virtuoso and dear friend, Philip Vermeulen, asked me to document his work within the walls of W139—and it was a treat! More info on the actual exhibition below.

In this solo exhibition by Philip Vermeulen you will get to know his newly developed ‘hyper-sculptures’, which shatter and mechanically scatter white light into thousands pieces of color. The roar of colors, the pinching sound and the wind of the fast spinning machines give you an intense physical experience. Within a meta-composition the works are in constant dialogue with each other, submerging you in the dynamics between human and machine.

Philip Vermeulen’s work has been featured at V2_, and this solo exhibition is curated by V2_’s Florian Weigl. It’s open daily from 10 September – 3 October 2021 at W139, Amsterdam

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Dourane '23 🌞

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For my friends @acidsurfing, I wrote a piece about my hatred for surfing. I was rather pleasantly surprised to be featured on this. After all, I don't have long hair and golden brown skin; indeed, I am white as milk, bald as Larry David, abs more of a "one-pack”, not tattooed and I don't own a Volkswagen camper.

Today is the release of the magazine in Paris, so I will share the actual result soon. As for these glimpses before you, consider them as teasing whispers, tantalising hints that remain veiled within the secret chambers of the magazine's pages. Go buy it! 💸

Many kisses to @quentin_coul, @baptisteleprovost, @thomasleprovost, who have worked so hard on realising this for the past year and a half!

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What an amazing fifth edition of Sand Nudes: the final odyssey! Organised by dear @acentko and with help from the likes of @carmenrocaigual & @sandipan_ . And many more!⁣ 💘 ⁣ With the big outlier and loser-winners, the Power Rangers from above Grey Space with their movie: Pasta is good! 🍝👌

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For our dear friends of Sand Nudes we made a short video regarding tamagotchi astrology and millennial self-occupation. Would you like to see it live tonight? Send us a message. Otherwise, we will share it here and on our website tomorrow.⁣ 🍯 ⁣ Kisses 🌴éa, 🏑onathan, 〽️anus, 🌶️ulia, 👢ance, and 🏦andipan.