About us
H O R D E N & S C H I M M E L are intuitive creators. Their work emerges organically. Vulnerability lies at the heart of their work — both in terms of theme and in the creative process. This open approach reflects their working method, in which the process is at least as important as the result. Their visual language is rooted in the cycle of life. The figures they create are recognisable. They embody memory, transience and hope.
Parchment plays a central role in this: a material that is both fragile and resilient. The copper wires form, as it were, an aura around the figures — a connection to the world around them. Accents of gold leaf highlight details. Horden & Schimmel combine a classical visual language with unexpected materials and techniques. Their fragile sculptures invite introspection and resonate with the era in which they are created — as whispering witnesses to what passes and yet remains.
Our work can be found
2026 | France Salon des Beaux Arts 18–22 September | The Netherlands Bergen NH Kunst10Daagse 16–25 October | The Netherlands De Boterhal, Hoorn ‘Spiegels’ 9 October–1 November | The Netherlands Amsterdam WG-kunst Art Allies ‘All We Can Eat’ 6, 7 and 8 November |
2026 | Bergen KCB-Kranenburgh ‘Untitled’ and ‘Maaiveld’ | L-A-B De Boterhal | Alkmaar Art Lending Scheme ‘Ode to Water’ | Schoorl Galerie Klein Zwitserland | Major Art Calendar |
2025 | France | Salon des Beaux Arts 3–7 December Amsterdam (Re)Discoveries.
2025 (re)Discoveries 16 t/m 19 oktober Amsterdam
2025 | Museum Kranenburgh- KCB -Horizonten
2025 | France Paris Salon des Beaux Arts
2024 | France Paris Salon des Beaux Arts | The Netherlands Bergen NH Kunst10Daagse | Hoorn S.O.S -Sporen van Schoonheid I - Art Allies | Bergen KCB- Kranenburgh ‘Women in the Arts abstract’ | Den Helder ‘ The eye of the needle’ Kunsthal 45. | Alkmaar Kunstuitleen ‘Ode to the Light’ tm 15-09 | Bergen Kranenburgh Museum Follow Up | Hoorn L_A_B 12 | New York One Martina Gallery/Where Ar(T) you?
2023 | Florence It Mondo/ All of Us- Palazzo Ximènes-Panciatichi | The Netherlands; Bergen Kranenburgh Museum | Oldeberkoop -Open Stal | Hoorn Boterhal | Amsterdam museumkwartier- Art Allies | Elburg -Vestingval | Exodus- online www.exodus.nu |
2022 | Venice Giudecca Italy Recordum | The Netherlands; Bergen Kranenburgh Museum | Alkmaar Hortus | Amsterdam KunstRai |
2021 | The Hague, Art The Hague | Bergen NH Gallery Schlessart Silent Movement |
2020 | Hoorn De Boterhal Silent Movement |
2019 | Bergen Museum Kranenburgh | The Hague Art The Hague |
Gerda Schimmel (gerdaschimmel.nl) and Annelies Horden (Instagram:hordenannelies) also work as independent artists.