EBA Quartair Exchange: A (T)winning Affair!

In 1992, when recent art graduates from Ottawa U. set up shop at the Enriched Bread Factory, another group of young artists, fresh from the Royal Art Academy in Ottawa’s twin city of The Hague, was looking for studio spaces as well. Serendipitously, they found an abandoned bread factory and moved in. Twenty years later, the factory’s studios and gallery space are still thriving:

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Petra Halkes was born in The Hague and still visits the city about once a year. Ever since she learned about Quartair’s history, she dreamt about bringing the twins, EBA and Quartair, so mysteriously separated at birth, together for a reunion. Last September, Halkes and her husband, René Price, had a convivial conversation with Quartair’s Board members Jessy Rahman and Pietertje van Splunter, and they all felt that an artists’ exchange between the two bread factories would be a great project.
EBA artists enthusiastically agreed to the plan, and have struck a committee that will work with Petra and René, to make it happen. In the summer of 2013 (exact dates to be determined) the EBA will host eleven artists from The Hague, The Netherlands, for a period of up to two weeks. During this time, the guests will be preparing an exhibition for the EBA gallery spaces.

During the same summer, a group of EBA artists will travel to The Hague to set up an exhibition at the Quartair Gallery space. This exhibition will be curated by Petra, who will select artists from the EBA group.

Watch this space for updates on this project!