June 25 - July 8, '24. Exhibition "Kroonjuwelen", Museum Krona, Uden.

Stefanie's collage work 'Behind Bars', work created in the jungle of Jerora, Indonesia, can be seen at this s.MaaK-exhibition. It shows the Crown Jewels of the Kalimantan rainforest, hidden behind a wall of bars. ("Behind Bars.)

This work is a composition of 15 watercolor miniatures, created by Stefanie's collaboration with ...

10 to 26 November 2023

Exhibition of works by 21 s.MaaK artists. In May, they exhibited work with the theme 'Krona als Hoofdzaak' in Museum Krona-Uden. Now in Velp, these works are supplemented with work inspired by the patron saint of the exhibition church: Vincentius

May 13th - June 4th 2023

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, Museum Krona organizes a themed exhibition 
under the title "Krona als hoofdzaak". The artists of sMAAK will show works inspired by this thema for nine days.

The opening of the jubilee exhibition of Museum Krona will take place on Saturday May 13th '23.
The exhibition lasts until Sunday May 21th '23. The artworks of the s.MaaK artists can be seen from 16 May to 29 May.

May 13th - June 4th 2023

Stefanie van den Elzen.
Mixed Media Artist

"Art is a means of retrieving that which exists in secrecy from the dark and respectfully putting it in the light and giving it a voice."

Title: "Crone"
130 x 55 x 10cm. |
Wood, jute, cotton and henna pigment.

Crone depicts the horrors of witch persecutions as a matrix for what is still going on in our world today. With this work, I want to lift those who suffered and those who suffer from 'the Crown on the wrong Heads' from the shadows and give them a respectful place in the light.

My works often depict 'giving the right to exist to those who were and are not seen and unheard in the distant and less distant past, but also today. It concerns both; individuals and larger groups or even entire population groups that have been and are being silenced by large rulers such as the government and the church and by smaller rulers with a high position or high esteem.

The horrors of the witch hunts, in which ecclesiastical and other rulers jointly drew up and used their own rules in order to find justification to get rid of 'people who did not conform to the parties in power', under the heading 'in the interest of society, for the safety of all of us'.

Similar 'witch hunts' still take place in today's society; In a new time, in a new coat but actually with the same theme.

13 and 14 May 2023

On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May from 11:00 to 16:00 you can visit the exhibition "New Energy". Work by regional artists.

Location: 
@PAULUS (formerly the Pauluskerk)
Oude Litherweg 2
5346 RT Oss

+31 (0)6 51 290422

September 17th and 18th 2022

The eighth edition of the Slinger Aterlier and Art route,
for the first time under the municipality Maashorst.

June 2022 

March to July 2020
Kunstation Uden.

Exhibition of artists from the municipalities Landerd and Uden in the context of the merger of those two. Unveiling artwork 'Formation' Sunday, July 5. Information: info@kunstationuden.nl

Stefanie continues her search for the pure, real and authentic in people with the merger of the municipalities of Landerd and Uden. She hopes that in this merger, the similarities and contrasts of the 6 different villages may be visible and remain. A new unity that retains the individuality of each one. Because therein lies the beauty. The ísness.

June 16 through July 16, 2017.
Kunstation Uden.

In addition to her job as a coordinator in Special Education, Stefanie studied at the ArtEZ, University of the Arts in Arnhem. During her graduation year, she is looking into the origins of psychiatric labels that are placed on people and the reasonableness of this. Because if there is such a thing as 'abnormal', there also must be a norm for 'normal'. But what is normal? Who is normal? And who determines that? Stefanie translates her resistance against the excesses of sticking labels on people into visual work.

October 11 through November 4, 2016
Cultuurhuis Lindenberg, Nijmegen.

Stefanie wins, as a result of her graduation work at the University of Arts, a solo exhibition at Cultuurhuis Lindenberg in Nijmegen.

"Stick labels on a can of beans.", says Stefanie van den Elzen, great admirer of addviations in man. She went in search of the origin of psychiatric labels that are stuck on people and the reasonableness of that.

July 2016

Four years with lots of new knowledge, skills and inspiration.
I have learned that I can play again.

My new title: Educator in Fine Arts and Design.
This new title starts with a journey with son Willem into the pure, real, true... The mountain gorillas in Uganda. Source of ísness. (See page 'travelling')

September to November 2015
Project Museum School Jan Cunen in Oss.

Students of VMBO Het Hooghuis can apply for several museum apprenticeships within Museum Jan Cunen. They will receive art workshops from several exhibiting artists, where they may eventually exhibit in the museum together with the relevant artist.

April 17, 2015
Media Culture Prize, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

On April 17, 2015, the seventh presentation of The Media Culture Prize took place at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.