Mother’s Shoes
A solo exhibition by Lily Lanfermeijer
Boundangle.II, 2025, CMYK screenprint on card, 35.2 cm x 25 cm, edition of 5.
Gallery van Fanny Freytag is excited to announce a collaborative exhibition with Lily Lanfermeijer from December 6 until December 21 with a festive opening on December 7, 15:00-18:00.
Stepping into the exhibition Mother’s Shoes means entering a slower rhythm. The space is shaped around attention, tactility, and the small rituals that guide how we relate to our surroundings. Surfaces shift under your feet; light changes the atmosphere, textures invite a different kind of looking.
The works bring together clay, print, and spatial gestures to explore how thinking can become physical. Ideas are not presented as conclusions but as materials; malleable, repeated, reconsidered. Ceramic Thinking Hats inspired by Edward de Bono’s framework appear throughout the space, reimagined in clay.
Over the course of two weeks, the presentation unfolds as an ongoing process rather than a fixed display. Conversations, performances, and encounters reactivate the space, leaving traces that are as temporary and intertwined as footprints in sand. Visitors are invited into a setting where thought, movement, and atmosphere merge. An environment that encourages slowing down, paying attention, and thinking together.
With events and contributions by Davy Wouda, Lia Mansour-Khoury, Bronwen Jones, Sara Pezzolesi, Emma van den Berg, Ariel Collier, Alexandra Duvekot and Julia Dahee Hong.
Programme details below
Pictures by Fabian Landewee
Corkhat, 2025, ceramics, 30 cm x 31 cm x 12 cm.
Opening on December 7th from 15:00-18:00
Exhibition opening times:
The exhibition is open from Thursday to Sun from 13:00-16:00 until December 21.
Public Programme
To join the events of the public programme, Lily kindly asks that you reserve a spot in advance due to limited capacity. To reserve a spot please click here.
Monday December 8
10:30–13:00 A Breakfast for Lily (soft ground) — by Lia Mansour-Khoury
Saturday December 13
11.00-13.30 The art of mending — with Bronwen Jones
18:00-20:00 Interfering — by Sara Pezzolesi
Monday December 15
11:00 - 13:00 When Wør(l)d Smell Back — by Sara Pezzolesi
Friday December 19
18:00-20:00 Loveobss a live-editing performance — with Emma van den Berg
Saturday December 20
11:00–13:00 La mère choir — with Alexandra Duvekot, all ages
16:00 Crash Blossoms: reading performance — led by Julia Dahee Hong
Sunday December 21
14:00–16:00 Online - Unlearning Alienation: What Does Community Mean in Practice, Unironically, a performance lecture and collaborative art making experiment. — by Ariel Collier
To join the events of the public programme, Lily kindly asks that you reserve a spot in advance due to limited capacity. To reserve a spot please click here.
InthisplaceI II, 2025, toyoboprint on Hänemuhlerpaper, 28,5 cm x 39,5 cm, edition of 10.
ABOUT LILY LANFERMEIJER
Thinking about the representation of space within a sculptural context Lily Lanfermeijer often works with materials and techniques that are fairly robust themselves (wood, glass, plaster and metal crafted by hand, machine or mold) and she likes to lighten their severity by introducing other shapes that evoke a different kind of recognition.
The sculptures Lanfermeijer makes are often objects that depict social interaction between people. Recurring sources of inspiration for example are articles that bring individuals together, such as the table; craft exchange; the banner or toys.
Often one work supports, carries or encapsulates another. Ultimately, her work is about storytelling through objects. Mostly this takes the form of sculptural installations that experiment with different materials based on thoughts about the body, the interior and architectural ideas.
Her work has been shown in the Netherlands (Rotterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven, Amsterdam), Germany, Belgium, France, Scotland and Slovenia. Billy Town Den Haag (2019), Fotopub, Novo Mesto, Slovenie (2018), Worm Rotterdam (2016), De Fabriek Eindhoven (2016), Object Rotterdam (2014), EESAB, Lorient, France (2014), The Old Ambulance Depot Edinburgh (2014), De Witte Moor Gent (2012), De Oude Kerk Amsterdam (2012), Joods Historisch Museum (2012).