Talenthub jump! is a talent development program for young visual artists and is made possible by the province of North Brabant. Eight renowned art institutions guide sixteen talents from Brabant for eighteen months. The artists are selected after an open call and receive coaching, budget and guidance. This fifth edition of Talenthub jump! will run until the end of 2026. Galerie Nasty Alice is participating for the fourth time. The art institutions are Museum Jan Cunen (Oss), Pennings Foundation (Eindhoven), Galerie Mieke van Schaijk (‘s-Hertogenbosch), De Cacaofabriek Expo (Helmond), Vincent van Gogh Huis (Zundert), PARK (Tilburg) and Galerie Nasty Alice (Eindhoven). During the current edition Galerie Nasty Alice works with: Len Creutzburg and Wouter van der Giessen.
TALENTHUB JUMP!
WOUTER VAN DER GIESSEN
Wouter van der Giessen (1995), born in Gorinchem, currently lives in Breda and works in Oosterhout. Van der Giessen graduated at the Graphic Lyceum in Rotterdam (2106) and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Breda (2020). Since then, his work has been shown in many places such as Melkweg Expo, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Expo Bart and Neue Galerie Landshut (Germany). In addition to his work as an artist, Wouter is project coordinator at Kunstpodium T in Tilburg. The ordinary things we surround ourselves with every day can be iconic to Wouter van der Giessen. Objects that anyone can own, but which at the same time can contain a personal story. Like the watering can in everyone’s garden. These objects serve as building blocks for his work. With his work, Van der Giessen casts a new glance at the familiar. With a repetitive way of working, he triest to explore these icons, clarify them and make connections. For instance, a string of ty-raps can become a cloud or two parasols a big toy spinning top. Wouter creates an image, something with a childlike appeal that you want to look at and that evokes memories. In this way, he works towards a moment where different interpretations are possible. He invites you to look at what you actually see, rather than what you think you see.
LEN CREUTZBURG
Len Creutzburg (1994), born in Breda, currently lives and works in Eindhoven. They studied at the Graphic Lyceum in Rotterdam (2015), the Academy of Fine and Performing Arts in Tilburg (2019), and the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland (2024). Their work has been shown in (inter)national project spaces and residencies, including Marres (Maastricht) and Pragovka Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic). Creutzburg works as an art handler at the depot of the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. They are also the co-founder of the Vrouw Muskens residency in Dongen. Working across sculpture and installation, they create mystical, tactile environments where body, movement, and machine merge into new hybrid forms. By exploring identity through the lens of the body, Creutzburg reflects on the continuous processes, both visible and hidden, that shape who we are. What unseen forces within our cultural codings determine how we think, feel, and act? How do upbringing, memories, and intergenerational traumas live on in the body -stored in tissue, muscle, DNA? Drawing from a personal family history marked by trauma, Creutzburg’s work asks how these inherited patterns might be reimagined. The work becomes a gesture toward healing, not by erasing the past, but by reconfiguring it through art, awareness, and imagination.