Art Island 2026: Stand 32

During the fifth edition of Art Island, BorzoGallery presents two artists: Michaël de Kok (Hilvarenbeek, 1958) and Henk Visch (Eindhoven, 1950) in a joint presentation entitled I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

From Michaël de Kok we are showing previously unseen paintings from the series 'Rose Garden'. His paintings have their origins in the rose garden behind his house. The atmosphere of a languid summer evening — the light, the warmth, the abundance of colour — is filtered through his mind and stripped of all narrative, until what remains is pure painting: deep, warm layers of pink, red and green, applied in many transparent layers of oil paint.

From Henk Visch we are showing two works, including the sculpture Anna, from 1997. Visch is one of the most distinctive sculptors in the Netherlands — winner of the Wilhelmina Ring and a participant in the Venice Biennale and Documenta IX. His sculptures occupy the intersection of recognition and enigma: stylised human figures that seem to hesitate, to balance, to exist on the threshold between movement and stillness.