Ode to Amsterdamse Vrouwen | Crazy about Ladies

Teenage Room, 2024. This work by artist and writer Jan Hoek (1984) and fashion designer Duran Lantink (1988) is an ode to the women of Amsterdam who dare to be outspoken. Hoek and Lantink have routinely collaborated for about ten years. Portraying people who must fight for acceptance is a recurring theme in their work.  

 For instance, they photographed queer and trans persons, homeless sex workers who make their own clothes, a former heroin addict who dreams of a career as a supermodel, Jan’s mother, and individuals on the neurodiverse spectrum. What all these people have in common is that they do not hold themselves to existing rules. In fact, they are the ones, according to Hoek and Lantink, who make the city. For this exhibition, the duo created several new works, like the ones portraying feminist “power bimbo” Nelly, whose role model is Pamela Anderson, and singer and crip (a shortening of “cripple”) activist Mira Thompson.