Toasted at Quartair

Toasted is raw, fresh, and full of energy, straight from the factory floor. Art, fashion, and music merge into a sensory experience. With installations and performance by both emerging and established talents.

Opening 26 September 2025, during Hoogtij #82, from 19:00 to 23:00
Opening hours: Saturday-Sunday, from 13:00 to 17:00
Finissage 11 October 2025, during MusemNacht Den Haag, with performances and DJ set, from 19:00 to 1:00

Participating artists / kunstenaars:

Marlies Adriaanse, Lau Breukhoven-KROES, Blanka de Bruyne, Marc Claeijs, Oliver Doe, June Gibbs, Mekhlla Harrison, Dana laMonda, Astrid Nobel, Jessy Rahman, Zeger Reyers, Mike Rijnierse, Pietertje van Splunter, Mariska Streefland, Thom Vink.

June Gibbs will be adapting ‘her work ‘More or Less’ into an installation at Quartair.
June Gibbs investigates the norms and perceptions that confine us. By giving room for recognition, humor, and reflection, she tries to navigate a world full of contradictions: “I intend to provoke a tension that triggers reflection and wonder. Either by subtle gestures, or straight forward moves, I playfully explore the abstract and the recognizable to expose the forces that shape our expectations and opinions.” For Toasted, her work ‘More or Less’ will take the form of an installation presenting parts of the 2025 graduation project.

Oliver Doe’s drawings stem from an interest in the asterisk within queer language use. This typographical symbol often appears as a marker of ‘something more’ or ‘something else’ beyond the language that we can see. This can be used as a mode of queering, particularly within gendered expressions (eg. Queer*, Man*, Woman*), but appears most notably with the use of “Trans*”, implying a set of meanings beyond the simplicity of this foundational word.

As we expand the categories, these layers begin to overlap and their meanings expand into something new, something queer, something that defies concrete, universal meaning. “My research has been focused on linguistic abstraction as a performative mode that can (de)construct the possibilities of queer identities, communicating beyond language as we expect it. This work focuses particularly on paralanguages – movement, colour, gesture, tone – on ways in which they are abstracted through time and context to defy understanding and entangle their meanings as they overlap with the verbal.”