Meet Our Guest Artists
Roof Art Gallery is excited to present the work of Jooeun HAN and Geke Schalkwijk at the Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam 2024 and Brussels 2025.
We are delighted to highlight these two exceptional artists. Explore their distinctive styles and get a glimpse of their innovative art below. Discover their unique approaches and be inspired by their creativity.
While our primary focus here is on these talented guest artists, we are also pleased to feature the latest works from our resident artists, Suus Kooijman, Nicolette Bénard, and Carry Doorn. You can view their impressive creations on their individual pages on this website.
Discover Jooeun HAN’s Art at the Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam 2024
Experience Geke Schalkwijk’s Work at the Affordable Art Fair, Brussels 2025
Han Jooeun
The Warmth of Blue
Jooeun Han is a Korean ceramist who finds solace in creating pottery when worried, focusing on making thin, light pieces to maintain concentration. He paints densely on white ceramic surfaces, which serve as his canvas. This process leads him to a calm state. Jooeun Han unconsciously expresses Korean culture and memories, inspired by ordinary objects and scenery from a small alley in Northern Europe. He works with white porcelain. The objects shown in this exhibition are made using slip-casting techniques. After the initial firing, he hand-paints detailed images on the ceramic surfaces and fires them again at 1260 degrees. His work invites viewers to experience the serene beauty and cultural depth embedded in each piece.
Geke Schalkwijk
The Absurdity of the Ordinary
Geke Schalkwijk is an artist inspired by everyday life and behavior in the modern Western world. He is fascinated by the malleability of contemporary existence and aims to reveal the absurdity of our seemingly normal lives.
Geke achieves this by working with everyday objects, archetypes, and symbols from our time, which he alters, distorts, or places in new contexts. Through these transformations, he explores the norms and values attributed to these objects and symbols over the years. By changing them, Geke offers a critical and refreshing perspective on modern life.
His work invites us to reflect on the influence of our habits and the malleability of our culture.