Book launch Sander Coers

Foam welcomes you to the presentation of 

For two-and-a-half years, Blok photographed pregnant people in various European countries at different stages of pregnancy. The images in the publication are combined with stories, anecdotes, and observations she wrote while working at a Dutch abortion clinic, alongside her own reflections around the complexities of motherhood and intimacy.

Host of the evening is curator Jilke Golbach, who is working together with Verena Blok on her solo exhibition at Foam in March 2026. Writer, artist and curator Mirthe Berentsen will moderate the talk with Verena Blok.

Doors wil open at 18.00 hrs and the talk starts around 18.30 hrs.

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Love Shit

Book launch Verena Blok

Where Colours Breathe, June 21, 2024 from the series Heavenly Bodies by Temiloluwa Johnson. Courtesy of the artist

On Our Radar: Temiloluwa Johnson

Augusta Curiel, The arrival by ship of indentured labourers from former British India and the former Dutch East Indies in Paramaribo, 1928. Courtesy of Wereldmuseum TM-60005762

Augusta Curiel, Loading bacoven (bananas) onto a boat in the transport trench at the Waterland plantation, ca. 1915. Courtesy of Koninklijke Verzamelingen FA-0353-30

Augusta Curiel, Portrait of a Javanese woman with a child in a slendang, ca. 1920. Courtesy of Wereldmuseum TM-60006336

Augusta Curiel, Grandma on her bicycle, Paramaribo, 1912-1914 © Private collection

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Jilke Golbach

Book launch Verena Blok - Love Shit

Where Colours Breathe by Temiloluwa Johnson

Augusta Curiel – Yere Mi Sten: Foam celebrates 50 years of Srefidensi

Foam Magazine #67 The Test of Time

Augusta Curiel - Yere Mi Sten