Momentum, Gallery Artrium, s’Hertogenbosch 
In between personalities/ Ik zal je helen
October, 2025

STYX exhibition at NUL ZES, Eindhoven
In between personalities 
July, 2025
Photo’s: Luuk van Raamsdonk

Solo expo at Bühne Breda
various framed colored pencil drawing 
November - January, 2024 - 2025

NOW SHOW St. Joost, Breda
I will heal you
June 2024
Photo’s Luuk van Raamsdonk

Zelfreflectie, 2026
colored pencil on paper
29,7 x 42 cm

Regel van drie, 2026
colored pencil on paper
29,7 x 42 cm

Wegdromen, 2025
colored pencil and pigment on paper
100 x 70 cm

En nu dan?, 2026
colored pencil on paper
42 x 29,7 cm

Opgevangen, 2022
colored pencil on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

Het zwarte gat, 2022
colored pencil on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

De dood in de ogen, 2024
colorpencil on paper
29,7 x 21 cm

Tussen twee persoonlijkheden in, 2024
colorpencil on paper
29,7 x 21 cm

Ik zweef als een zwaluw op drie kilometer hoog, 2023
colorpencil on paper
59,4 x 80 cm

Spiegeling, 2025
Colored pencil on paper
50 x 65 cm 

Nestbewakers, 2023
black colorpencil on paper
50 x 70 cm

Uit het oog verloren, 2024
colorpencil on paper
29,7 x 42cm

De kidz, 2024
colorpencil on paper
145 x 190 cm

Turbho 2016 3-takt, 2024
etch on paper
20 x 20 cm

Turbho 2016 2-takt, 2024
etch on paper
20 x 20 cm

Ik vlieg weg naar huis, 2024
etch on paper
40 x 50 cm

Het gordijn was eerst donkerblauw, 2023
colorpencil on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

Ik en de verdwenen rook, 2023
pencil on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

When I move some of my belongings go with me, 2022
colorpencil on paper
21 x 31 cm

Verstrengeld, 2022
colorpencil on paper
21 x 31 cm

Untitled, 2022
digital drawing

New chapter, 2022
digital drawing

Untitled, 2022
pencil on paper
21 x 31 cm

In my room, 2022
pencil on paper
21 x 31 cm

Nikita on my mind, 2022
pencil on paper
21 x 31 cm

Untitled, 2022
pencil on paper
21 x 31 cm

Untitled, 2022
pencil on paper
21 x 31 cm

Still untitled, 2022
pencil on paper
29,7 x 42 cm

I will heal you 

Prized the St. Joost Penning of 2024

How do you give meaning to your childhood when it’s erased for the most part and little to nothing remains? What can you hold onto? How can you bring repressed memories and long lost objects back to life? Most importantly, how do you reclaim authority over your belongings, your memories, your past?

In this installation Ista offers a glimpse inside of his rather turbulent youth. Where he spent his developmental years of early childhood in and out of foster care and the children’s home. While documenting his memories of this time, he explores the significance object such as toys can have. While most kids hold great value to their toys and belongings, growing up in foster care really puts them on a pedestal. Having to share your things with reckless little kids, being dragged around from place to place, often causing them to break or get lost. All this while being passed around between adults trying out parenthood, as if you are a toy yourself.

Joeri Ista (1999) is an artist based between Belgium and the Netherlands. Focused on drawings and ceramic sculptures

Ista’s work portrays intimate storytelling. The viewer is invited into a world full of uncertainty where processing trauma and manifestation is central. This is often bundled into surrealist pencil works, ceramic sculptures and written text. Which arise from collections of photos, thoughts and archive material that are bundled into a whole.

In addition to his autonomous work practice Ista is passionated about nineties house music which he discovered as an young kid when he was given multiple cd’s from the era. He now showcast this library by presenting himself as an (vinyl)-deejay. 


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