Playing Medium
An Exploration on Matter
A group exhibition with: Gegee Ayurzana, Neil Fortune and Romina Koopman
Gallery van Fanny Freytag is pleased to present the group-exhibition ‘Playing Medium: An Exploration on Matter’ from April 17 to May 30.
Media shapes not only what we see, but the way we perceive. Every image, object, and surface is carried by a material form that guides our attention and understanding. In a world dominated by standardized media and predictable formats, it’s easy to overlook the physical and conceptual presence of matter itself.
Artists Gegee Ayurzana, Neil Fortune and Romina Koopman restructure normative use of material. Exploring the significance of matter, their works resist conventional use and invite viewers to reconsider how form mediates experience. Brought into dialogue, the works in this exhibition highlight how attention to materiality opens a space to question what we consume, and the ways in which we engage with the world around us.
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The artists brought together by Gallery van Fanny Freytag bend and reconfigure form to disrupt perception. In ‘Playing Medium’ conventional uses of medium are set aside, creating space for fresh ways of seeing, thinking, and feeling.
Gegee Ayurzana, Cold summer, 2025, circa 133x19 cm. Oil on canvas
Generous in materiality, Gegee Ayurzana (b. 1998, Mongolia) is both inward and intimate in her unruly and meandering brushwork. Working primarily with oil on cut canvas or wooden panels, her organic forms appear to push against the edges of themselves. Combining the intellectual with an emotional vernacular, Ayurzana discreetly references the nomadic drift and contingent narratives of her native Mongolia - physical landscapes, psychological experiences, and immaterial existence that tend to both personal and collective needs. Her works oscillate between resolution and irresolution, seeking something more mysterious and animistic.
In 2021, Ayurzana received a dual BA in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and Art History from Leiden University, the Netherlands. In 2023, she finished her two-year residency at the artist institution De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She was nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting (Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst) of the Netherlands in 2025. Ayurzana had her debut solo show in 2024 in Van Zijll Langhout/Contemporary in Amsterdam and her works have been shown at Project Native Informant, London, Unfair in Amsterdam and PuntWG in Amsterdam, amongst others.
Neil Fortune, Alles Komt Goed, 2021. Textile, polyester fiber, golden paint, acrylic markers, acrylic paint
77×71 cm
Neil Fortune (b. 1983, Guyana) creates hybrid projects that blur the lines between drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. Fortune combines diverse techniques and materials to develop a visual language that foregrounds materiality and texture. Central to his work is audience participation: visitors become part of his process, transforming passive observation into active engagement. Constructing environments that rethink these social conventions, Fortune reveals how art can mediate experience and perception by reshaping form to invite new perceptions and experiences.
Fortune studied painting at the Nola Hatterman Art Academy in Suriname and received his bachelor in fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2011. In recent years Fortune has been the subject of exhibitions at institutions such as M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp with the State of L3, TENT Rotterdam, The annual Summer Show at kunst Museum Den Haag (Netherlands), the Cobra Museum and the Amsterdam Museum.
Romina Koopman, Aquariums, 2026. CMYK silkscreen, multiple layers of polarising film in a metal frame with museum glass. 49.5x32 cm
Romina Koopman (b. 1996, The Netherlands) works across photography and installation to explore how images circulate in the digital age. A graduate of both Gerrit Rietveld and Sandberg, her practice treats photography as a shape-shifting medium, rejecting the flat, static image. Through silkscreen techniques, Koopman translates digital imagery into a tactile, layered medium. Physicalizing the photographic image, Koopman’s practice blurs digital and material processes, creating a dialogue between analogue matter and digital media through shifting forms. Her work invites viewers to reconsider the screen—not as a neutral window, but as a material surface to be reshaped and reimagined.
In 2024 Romina completed a masters at Sandberg Instituut. in 2022 she was part of the Best of Graduates of the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation after a bachelor at Rietveld Academy, she also won the Steenbergen Stipendium that year. Her work is included in the UMC collection, Nederlands Fotomuseum and several private collections.