Every week, Art to Collect by ArtDependence brings together an exceptional curation of works that reflect the pulse of contemporary art today, offering collectors, new and seasoned alike, a window into some of the most compelling creative practices around the world.
Every week, Art to Collect by ArtDependence brings together an exceptional curation of works that reflect the pulse of contemporary art today, offering collectors, new and seasoned alike, a window into some of the most compelling creative practices around the world. Here’s what you need to see this week:
Cécile van Hanja's work is influenced by the vibrant palette of Vincent van Gogh and the meditative stillness of Mark Rothko. She believes art creates a delicate thread to the immaterial world of beauty — a space where silence, emotion, and spirit can resonate.
Architecturally, her paintings draw from the principles of modernist design: simplicity, clarity, and spaciousness. Less is more. She is particularly inspired by the early 20th-century movements of Bauhaus and De Stijl — their language of order amidst chaos reflects a fundamental need within me. Painting is, for Hanja, an act of bringing structure to the overwhelming nature of contemporary life.
Cécile van Hanja, "Palm Reflections," 2023
For Geert Lemmers, composing artworks is almost a philosophical question in transferring his thoughts in a sort of metaphor representations. These developments help him to transfer his thoughts into strong and compassing images.
Geert Lemmers is “Visual Art Master" of the Accademia Italia in Arte nel Mondo Association Cultural" in Lecce Italy and received the Fransisco Award, in Barcelona during the second art biennale.
Geert Lemmers, "Interior with Chicken," 2025
Niki Hare is a self taught artist working with many mediums but likes paint the best.
Painting is just a language that she is more comfortable with, it has an honesty, it is what it is.
Niki's work is very unprocessed, direct: "I don't see as I paint , just look at it sometime later, then start again or leave it alone until another time. I work with layers, building them up and scraping back, finding stuff I had forgotten about, the painting starts to get interesting, to develop its own past. The word paintings write themselves with no restraint, if I'm not sure I keep writing over, but ultimately the words, however buried, have been said."
Niki Hare, "Worse," 2025
Mukah Ispahani's work is an exploration of presence, memory, and connection, how people and places imprint themselves on us. Using biro, he builds each piece slowly, layering fine lines to evoke depth, silence, and time.
Mukah is drawn to how repetition and stillness can reveal both personal and universal truths. Through this process, he seeks to create images that feel lived-in and reflective, where the act of drawing becomes a form of remembering, listening, and holding space.
Mukah Ispahani, "Seeds of Time," 2024
