HAPPINESS IS EASY

JEROEN DUIJF . MANITA KIEFT .
1 MARCH – 12 APRIL 2026

Galerie Nasty Alice brings together two artists who capture everyday life in their work.

Happiness is Easy, a duo exhibition by Jeroen Duijf and Manita Kieft.

For Kieft, everyday objects and the rituals we perform with them are as personal as a diary. Whether it’s a shirt, a plant or television set, images of everyday items recur repeatedly in her work. The objects and installations can be seen as memories that refer to actions and situations. Based on the idea that ceramics can inherently be a record of time, Kieft’s more recent work takes an activist turn. TV stills and her own photography are linked to shapes and glazes through the use of various ceramic printing techniques, thus capturing them as visual reports based on her own reflections on them.

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What Jeroen Duijf experiences outside his studio, he converts into images in his studio. His work is actually somekind of one big comic book, says Duijf. The world depicted by Jeroen Duijf in his work features skulls, strange birds, polluting factories, a black cat and tattooed people dressed in tracksuits. In his most recent work, Duijf is fascinated by subcultures such as punk and hardcore. In this series, he seeks a balance between creating figurative and abstract work.