On November 26th, 2022, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam opened the exhibition Spiritual Urgency, which featured several cutting edge, cross-disciplinary creators, from Nick Verstand, Jennifer Tee, and Memo Akten to Marlou Fernanda, Tim Wes, Shertise Solano, and Asma Elbadawi. The selection also included artistic productions of labels such as Daily Paper, in collaboration with the artist Alexandre Nitzsche. These artworks were presented alongside those of kindred spirits from art history, such as Herman de Vries, Wassily Kandinsky, Jacoba van Heemskerck, and Charley Toorop. The exhibition led visitors through the stages of a spiritual journey on the basis of four themes: Contemporary Priests, Healing and Origins, Liberation and Manifestation, and Nature and Holism. Although each artist drew upon different personal, cultural, or religious influences, the exhibition was not about these differences. Rather, it was about the urgency of spirituality that united them. The exhibition was conceived in response to the increasingly visible exploration and embrace of spirituality by a younger generation of artists.

“Artists are skilled at expressing and visualising the invisible and the intangible through their creativity. These works of art demonstrate just how relevant – even necessary – spirituality is.” – Eliza Bordeaux, curator of Spiritual Urgency.