We are pleased to invite you to the preview of the inaugural exhibition In the Fold at Working Title, a new contemporary art gallery located at Van Ostadestraat 43A, in Amsterdam.
You are warmly invited to the preview from 16:00 to 18:00, followed by the official opening from 18:00 to 21:00. If you are unable to attend on this date, the exhibition will be on view until Saturday, 8 November, and you are welcome to visit at a later time.
To mark the beginning of this new chapter, artist Dion Rosina has co-curated the exhibition, presenting his work alongside that of Nathan Joshua Bastien, Wendy Owusu and Matt Saunders. While their practices vary in style and even span different periods, the works are connected by the theme of sampling and fragmentation, both visual: through collage and assemblage, and conceptual: in their reflections on fractured identities and histories.
Dion Rosina (1991) is a Dutch Afro-Caribbean painter. His work often begins with collages made from a variety of images, which he manipulates and reassembles into his paintings, a working method heavily influenced by sampling which can be found in HipHop music.
Rosina is interested in how different themes, ideas, and visuals can influence one another through the act of assembling, like life itself, where everything is interconnected and constantly shaped through interaction.
Rosina began his practice in 2020. Since then, his work has been exhibited at institutions including Museum MORE, museum Rembrandthuis, Drents Museum, and Museum Catharijneconvent, as well as Documenta Fifteen in Kassel. His work is on view At Buro Stedelijk in the exhibition #52 TO BE DETERMINED were artistic interventions are explored in the semi-public space. The exhibition runs until 23 October.
Wendy Owusu (1994) work centres on identity, enabling her to conduct anthropological research to delve into her cultural heritage. She also examines the preservation of traditions and their modern adaptations. Her findings are shared with audiences through editions, videos, and installations, blending documentary imagery with photography. Additionally, she investigates themes of group and urban transition, utilizing textiles and clothing as narrative tools.
Owusu graduated with honours from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2021 and is currently a resident at Artagon Pantin (Paris). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2022 – 2023), Vancouver Art Gallery (2023), and CODA Museum (2023). She has collaborated with institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, and Fondation Cartier.
The working method of Nathan Joshua Bastien (1989) is similar to that of Rosina. By assembling different images he uses painting to generate new meanings, which are largely shaped by the viewer’s interpretation.
He finds inspiration in a multicultural identity, street and counterculture, as well as in the design and representation of the world of children and educational programs with socio-cultural integration emerging as an overarching motif.
Bastien graduated in 2023 at the LUCA School of Arts (Gent) with a masters in painting.
The work Hertha Thiele #1 made by Matt Saunders (1975) connects painting, photography and printmaking to the moving image and heavily referencing film and the history of cinema. The work shows the German actress Hertha Thiele, best known for her silent films of the early 1930s, whose painted portrait is cut out and mounted again onto a once-blank canvas.
Matt Saunders studied at Harvard, Cambridge and at Yale University, where he was trained as a painter. He has exhibited his work internationally at such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2020), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013). His work is in the collections of major institutions including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
In the Fold
Preview
02.10.2025
16:00 – 18:00
Dion Rosina, Nathan Joshua Bastien, Wendy Owusu and Matt Saunders
On view until Saturday 8 November 2025
Opening Hours
Thursday 12:00 – 18:00
Friday 12:00 – 18:00
Saturday 12:00 – 18:00
Working Title
Van Ostadestraat 43A, 1072SN Amsterdam