Art Bar SEXYLAND with Bonne Reijn

Art Bar SEXYLAND is back! On April 22, we are hosting the 30th edition with Bonne Reijn at Cafe ‘t Mandje.

Art Bar SEXYLAND is a café you go to on Wednesdays when you are stuck for ideas, to talk about art or show your work to a renowned artist or curator from the field who acts as your bartender for the evening. It gives emerging or established artists the chance to ask these artists questions in a safe environment without sitting in a Q&A-style setting, because the person is simply standing behind the bar. The motto is bad bartenders, great ideas, so the awkwardness is partly shared by all of us. From Jo-Lene Ong, Rein Wolfs, Rineke Dijkstra, Farida Sedoc, Renzo Martens, Zippora Elders, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kenneth Aidoo, to Iriée Zamblé and Raquel van Haver, every edition features a seasoned artist or curator serving you terribly poorly poured beers but incredibly good ideas.

Bonne is a curator, fashion designer, and cultural entrepreneur, as well as the initiator of the Warmoes Biennial. His practice does not originate from the studio, but from the street, specifically the Warmoesstraat and its immediate surroundings, where he grew up and works. Rein’s work is closely connected to the question of how a neighborhood can redefine itself. Driven by a strong commitment to the Warmoesstraat, an area often reduced to tourism and clichés, he uses art as a means to present a multi-voiced and layered image.

In this context, the Warmoes Biennial functions as a collective attempt to shift the dominant narrative and activate new forms of community. Through art, the biennale infiltrates the neighborhood; shops, snack bars, churches, and nightlife spots are temporarily transformed into exhibition spaces. Here, art does not appear as a destination, but as an intervention in everyday life.

His role moves between curator, designer, and initiator: he creates not objects, but circumstances. In this context, art becomes a social process, a temporary infrastructure in which encounter, friction, and imagination converge.