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Berend Strik’s seventh solo exhibition with Galerie Fons Welters carries the somewhat cryptical title Redefining Realness. Strik could have also called his show ‘displaced in the artworld’, since that is the feeling that creeps up on him when he looks around.

It is too easy to say that that is why an artist likes to withdraw himself in his studio, a place to work and reflect. The artist studio is however a concept which has kept Strik busy for several years now. The relation between the creative space and the aesthetic views of well- and lesser-known artists form the subject of a series of …