In this exhibition, Sickhouse invites artist and designer Anne Horel as a player would dare another one. For the first time Sickhouse decided to focus on one artist to support her in the exploration of new practices. Looking for space outside of the screens and outside of the institutions, the french artist is taking on the challenge, exporting her works out of their digital home.

Navigating social media for better and for worse since decades, Anne Horel bathes in pop culture with humour, a sense of kitsch and lots of energy. Looking for the goddesses of our times, imagining the creatures of our virtual worlds, curious about every new tool, between weird and cool, like a fanartist, she remixes everything. Collages, video clips, wall paper, virtual worlds and installations, from scissors to A.I the work of Anne Horel takes many shapes.

Looking back into the artist archives and supporting the creation of her first spacial installation created with A.I, the exhibition 

, is an invitation to dive into and to pull out of. With a lot of trust the artist collaborated with the team of Sickhouse to create sets for her worlds, playing with the notions of fake, absurd, beauty, popularity, craft…

For one week Anne has also been exploring the city of Enschede, experimenting with new printing techniques in Saxion Fablab, doing her first steps in ceramic with Ilse Scholten and Puck Verras, selecting her favourite items at Studio Spitsbaard and testing the vegan restaurants of the city. The results of this discovery week are presented in the exhibition and will lead to more collaborations within the time of the exhibition.


Anne Horel : Ctrl IRL is open from 24-03 to the 24-06

, organised by Saxion. Some of her works are presented in 

’s exhibition and she will present her work with A.I on Thursday 30-03 in the Grote Kerk.

We will host a summer celebration and a Pizza cooking show as finissage of the show, between the 21st and 24th of June.

Sickhouse would like to thank artist Anne Horel, exhibition team Philipp Wiynck and Hans Runge, Birgit Albersen, Demi Leusenkamp, Herjo van triest, Djoeke Hurkesn and Daniil Bondarenko from Saxion Fablab, artists Ilse Scholten and Puck Verras, vintage store Studio Spitsbaard, Nailartist Andra from Manilab, printing company Tuccer reclame, Silkscreen company Groenewas, Willemijn Calis for her hospitality and Sickhouse team and volunteers to make this possible.

This exhibition is supported by the Gemeente Enschede.

Anne Horel : Ctrl IRL

For its third edition SONIC DIY*, a music program exploring the creation of sound outside of the regular music spectrum, comes back with a beautiful international program. 

MSHR is an art collective that builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their practice is a self-transforming entity with its outputs patched into its inputs, expressing its form through interactive installations, virtual environments and live improvisations. MSHR was established in 2011 in Portland, Oregon by 

. Their name is a modular acronym, designed to hold varied ideas over time.

Jasna Veličković is a composer and performer based in Amsterdam. She has written around 70 compositions using a variety of musical instruments ranging from solo instruments to compositions written for orchestra with live electronics. Since 2008 she became interested in various layers of interference between magnetic fields and music. This became her ongoing research whose aim is the creation of tools that facilitate playing on instruments or objects using the transformative acoustic possibilities of the electromagnetic field. This gradually led her to the invention of the new instrument, Velicon a tactile electroacoustic instrument made of magnets and coils.

Acheface is an electronic artist from The Netherlands whose only instrument is a Eurorack 

. His hard and distorted industrial beats have a lot of variation, but remain energetic and danceable. The melancholic melodies are inspired by 80s synthpop and 90s black metal.

The overwhelming complexity of the modular synthesizer produces unexpected musical outcomes, which are hard to attribute entirely to the human or the machine alone.

Logue is a startup that creates a customisable MIDI controller to enhance the digital music production experience. Their innovative controller provides the satisfaction of playing a real instrument while leveraging the power of digital tools. Thanks to their proprietary software, Logue's controller works seamlessly with every instrument on the software, allowing for unlimited creativity and experimentation.

Featuring intuitive screens on the hardware, it is easy to track every knob's function and make adjustments on the fly. Logue's MIDI controller is designed to elevate creativity and make the music production process a breeze.

This Enschede-based startup is currently gearing up for their Kickstarter launch next week! Attend the showcase event to witness firsthand the impressive capabilities of the device and experience it yourself. Get ready to elevate your music game with Logue's custom-made MIDI controller!

This program is created with the help of Jack Noise

Doors open at 19.30, performances start at 20.00

20:00 : Jasna Velickovic, live + demo (cinema)

*SONIC DIY is a concept created by Ole Nieling and Patrick Jonkman

16-03 sonic DIY

SONIC DIY

 is a 2018 psychological horror film directed, written and co-edited by Gaspar Noé, Featuring an ensemble cast of 24 actors, led by Sofia Boutella, the plot is set in 1996 and follows a French dance troupe holding a days-long rehearsal in an abandoned school; the final night of rehearsing is a success, but the group's celebratory after-party takes a dark turn when the communal bowl of sangria is spiked with LSD, sending each of the dancers into agitated, confused and psychotic states.

The screening will be introduced by Frank Schonewille, from the film program team. 

Doors open at 19.00, Film starts at 21.00

We are introducing the new cocktail of the month, based on Sangria. One free cocktail for everyone in the cinema :)

Cinema Obscura Climax