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08/09/2025

Fantastic to see and hear Hennadyi Beziazynyi (who we support as Galatea) at the Rapunzel Festival in the Ham tower in Vleuten. On this video Hennadyi (piano) plays with Pieter Streefkerk (violin), Matthijs van der Kolk (cello) and they accompany Anne Broers (singer).
What a beautiful and welcoming festival. Great performers, well known or not yer well known and a very relaxed atmosphere. Incredible and almost too beautiful to witness.
Thank you (Bas Kennis) for this initiative and all you efforts to achieve this.
We are already looking forward to Rapunzel 2026.
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02/09/2025

Rapunzel festival in the Ham tower in Vleuten
5, 6 and 7 of September
After a totally sold out festival in 2025, this year the festival is back on the fairytale like grounds of and the beautiful medieval Ham Tower in Vleuten.
The program is a mixture of pop, jazz, classical music, opera and cabaret. And again the ‘necessary’ spectacle: acrobats, knight fights.
In short: a must-see, must-hear and must-experience event
More information at www.rapunzelfestival.nl
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28/06/2025

Public favourite of the Galatea Art Prize exhibition.
Harrison Omoyater !!!

Harrison (Nigeria)was ‘born wearing the helmet’; with the placenta on his head, in other words. This is considered a bad omen in Oza, Nigeria. For his own safety, his fath
er sent him away at the age of nineteen. After his arrival in the Netherlands, he was in such a bad way that he had to be admitted to an institution.
Art helped him recover, gave his life meaning. He spent ten hours a day on it, producing thousands of artworks, handpainted toothpicks and saté sticks. He found the process meditative. While making his art, he processed his trauma, and came to understand that it is possible to make something of your life.
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28/06/2025

Winner of the Galatea Art Prize 2025
Daria Khozhai (Ukraine)
Congratulations Daria !!!!

The expert jury praised her installation for its powerful artistic concept and the poignant way in which oppression is depicted.

On show in the Dordrecht museum Daria her work: ‘If Walls Could Talk’
Daria: “Every house in the Soviet Union had a Sovetskaya Stenka, a ‘Soviet wall’: a cabinet full of porcelain, glittering crystal and works of propaganda that no one ever read, reflecting the Soviet ideology of communism, censorship and complete state control. What lurked behind those gleaming cabinet doors?”
The Soviet wall from her parental home opens to show the grim reality. The regime, which insinuated itself into every home, left behind nothing but ruined lives, shattered dreams, pain and sorrow. And worms appear in the wooden walls.
The award-winning work, together with the art of the four other nominees, will be on display at the Dordrechts Museum until 5 October.
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26/06/2025

21 June on Radio 1, during Nieuwsweekend:
The Dordrechts Museum is currently hosting an exhibition featuring artists with a refugee background. These five artists have been nominated for the Galatea Art Prize, which will be awarded to one of them next week.
Charles Badoué from Ivory Coast is one of the nominated artists. He is here together with Jaap Versteegh, founder of the Galatea Foundation and initiator of the Galatea Art Prize.
https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/nieuwsweekend/019791bf-5a3f-72b7-a835-2d0a9e927b4a/2025-06-21-gevlucht-uit-ivoorkust-en-nu-genomineerd-in-dordrechts-museum

26/06/2025

21 June on Radio 1, during Nieuwsweekend:
The Dordrechts Museum is currently hosting an exhibition featuring artists with a refugee background. These five artists have been nominated for the Galatea Art Prize, which will be awarded to one of them next week.
Charles Badoué from Ivory Coast is one of the nominated artists. He is here together with Jaap Versteegh, founder of the Galatea Foundation and initiator of the Galatea Art Prize.
https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/nieuwsweekend/019791bf-5a3f-72b7-a835-2d0a9e927b4a/2025-06-21-gevlucht-uit-ivoorkust-en-nu-genomineerd-in-dordrechts-museum

Dordrechts Museum

21/06/2025

Meet Harrison Omayatar. One of the artists of the Galatea Kunstprijs tentoonstelling in het Dordrechts Museum

10/06/2025

Bogdan Seredyak (1988), is one of the five nominees of the Galatea Art Prize 2025
How can Ukraine preserve its identity now that so many buildings there have been destroyed?
This is what concerns Bogdan. He happened to be in Rotterdam when war broke out in Ukraine. Rotterdam was once bombed, too, though this is not apparent from its current architecture. It appears to be a new city.
Will this also happen when Ukraine is rebuilt, or is it possible to do things differently?
Seredyak explores the idea of rebuilding but preserving what is left. In this way, the collective memory and architectural identity is preserved. By building upon ruins, he creates “scars” that recall the violence that once occurred, to ensure that the same mistakes are not made again in the future.
Photo’s Bram Vreugdenhil
Photo 1: Bogdan
Photo 2: Impressions for rebuilding on destroyed buildings
Photo 3: an example for the Residential building in Kyiv
Photo 4: Bogdan and Wilma Sütö, curator of the Dordrecht museum
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28/05/2025

Daria Khozhai (1994) is one of the five nominees of the Galatea Art Prize 2025

‘If Walls Could Talk’
Daria: “Every house in the Soviet Union had a Sovetskaya Stenka, a ‘Soviet wall’: a cabinet full of porcelain, glittering crystal and works of propaganda that no one ever read, reflecting the Soviet ideology of communism, censorship and complete state control. What lurked behind those gleaming cabinet doors?”
Ukrainian artist Daria focuses in her work on memories and trauma associated with physical spaces. Having been passed on from generation to generation, the Soviet wall from her parental home opens to show the grim reality. The regime, which insinuated itself into every home, left behind nothing but ruined lives, shattered dreams, pain and sorrow. Even worms appear in the wooden walls.
Photo’s Bram Vreugdenhil
Photo 1: Daria
Photo 2: Puppet house
Photo 3: worm in and on the walls
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18/05/2025

Shamseddin Moradi (1975) is one of the five nominees of the Galatea Art Prize 2025

Even on the edge of the abyss life is still worthwhile *
* Misquoted from Fyodor Dostoevsky

What if your right to speak freely were taken away from you? If the government decided that words like ‘freedom’, ‘love’, ‘woman’ could no longer be used? Shamseddin believes you have to cry out, especially if you are an artist.
He does so by combining traditional Iranian calligraphy with contemporary art and graphic design. Nature is an important source of inspiration in Shamseddin’s work, particularly the oak trees in the place of his birth. Among their roots, his subtle protest against censorship and the oppression of women in Iran comes through.

Photo 1: Shamseddin in front if his paintings
Photo 2: ‘Bomen praten’
Photo 3: Shamseddin in discussion with Jeroen van de Beek of the Dordrecht museum
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06/05/2025

Harrison Omoyater (1994) nominee of the Galatea Art Prize 2025, in the Dordrecht Museum.

The Meaning of Life
Harrison was ‘born wearing the helmet’; with the placenta on his head, in other words. This is considered a bad omen in Oza, Nigeria. For his own safety, his fath
er sent him away at the age of nineteen. After his arrival in the Netherlands, he was in such a bad way that he had to be admitted to an institution.
Art helped him recover, gave his life meaning. He spent ten hours a day on it, producing thousands of artworks, handpainted toothpicks and saté sticks. He found the process meditative. While making his art, he processed his trauma, and came to understand that it is possible to make something of your life.
Photo 1: Harrison in front of his paintings
Photo 2: Untitled, collage of toothpicks Photo 3 Hartison in conversation with the Femke Hameetman (director of the Dordrecht museum) and Mikkel Hofstee, board Galatea Foundation
Photo’s by and .van.veen
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29/04/2025

Charles Badoue (1987) nominee of the Galatea Art Prize 2025, in the Dordrecht Museum

Grief alongside Hope
Charles is a member of the Guere community who live in western Côte d’Ivoire. Fleeing his hometown of Duékoué following terrible atrocities, he eventually ended up in Groningen. There, he processes the violence he witnessed in the country of his birth in his work, juxtaposing vibrant colours and dark themes. Pain alongside joy, grief alongside hope.
This layered quality lies not only in his choice of subject, but also in his use of materials. Using thick, expressive layers of paint – which he often scratches away – Charles pays tribute to the culture he was forced to leave behind.

Photo 1: Charles in front of his paintings
Photo 2: Gospel of your damned deeds, 2024, oil on canvas
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