Line Arngaard
with Linda van Deursen, Ronja Andersen & Rosita Kær
PIECING PAGES: ON WORKING IN FRAGMENTS

Talks at 17:30

book presentation, exhibition
18 Jun 2026, 17:00–20:00
next week

Join us for a presentation of the newly published Piecing Pages: On working in fragments. A publication initiated, edited and designed by graphic designer Line Arngaard.

<em>Piecing Together A Social History</em> by Hanka van der Voet
Piecing Together A Social History by Hanka van der Voet

Piecing Pages is a (visual) reader which collects the work of fifteen artists, writers and designers across twelve contributions by:

Asefeh Tayebani
Hanka van der Voet
Jess Bailey and Sharbreon Plummer
Joke Robaard
Linda van Deursen
Lucy R. Lippard
Melissa Meyer and Miriam Schapiro
Rietlanden Women’s Office
Ronja Andersen
Rosita Kær
Susu Lee
Youngeun Sohn

Each contribution offers insights into a practice or research project that in some way embodies the notion of working in fragments. Together, these contributions unravel how a traditional women’s craft technique – assembling scraps – continues to influence and inform the fragmented working methods of designers, artists and writers today.

<em>The Imprint of News: A visual history of the women wearing the news</em> by Linda van Deursen
The Imprint of News: A visual history of the women wearing the news by Linda van Deursen
<em>“Cutters”, “Splinters”, “Patchers”, “Joiners” by</em> Ronja Andersen
“Cutters”, “Splinters”, “Patchers”, “Joiners” by Ronja Andersen

At 17:30 Line Arngaard will introduce the project and graphic designers Linda van Deursen and Ronja Andersen will give a talk about their contributions as well as presenting a slide show and a video work.

Artist Rosita Kær will exhibit her textile work Rags.

<em>Forecast, Aftergrass</em> by Joke Robaard
Forecast, Aftergrass by Joke Robaard

Part of Arngaard’s methodology for making the book, is a series of textile pieces which she refers to as a sort of quilt. A flower motif is reproduced in separate layers and colours, printed simultaneously with the development of editorial themes and the contributions of the book.

Archive material, reference books and the quilt will be on display at stanza.

What would it mean to borrow the separate stages og artistic composition seen in patchwork and quilting and use them in a graphic design process, or in the process of making a film or another kind of artwork?

—Line Arngaard, ‘On working in fragments and making this book,’ in PIECING PAGES: On working in fragments, 2026, p. 12.

Femmage: a word invented by us to include all of the above activities as they were practiced by women using traditional women’s techniques to achieve their art – sewing, piecing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing, cooking and the like – activities also engaged in by men but assigned in history to women.

—Melissa Meyer and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Waste Not Want Not: An inquiry into what women saved and assembled,’ in PIECING PAGES: On working in fragments, 1978, p. 25.

Piecing Pages: On working in fragments will be for sale at stanza for an extra special price of 180 DKK + there will be drinks!

Line Arngaard

is an independent Amsterdam-based graphic designer working at the intersection of artistic research, editing and publishing. She focuses on the development of projects involving graphic design, fashion and textile, taking a conceptual approach to graphic design and reflecting deeply on fashion and textile as experiential rather than representational mediums. She regularly works for the graphic designer Linda van Deursen and fashion brand Extreme Cashmere, and occasionally teaches at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She holds a BA from Kolding School of Design (DK) and a BA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL).

Linda van Deursen

is a graphic designer who works and lives in Amsterdam. Together with Armand Mevis she founded Mevis & van Deursen in 1987. They have worked for cultural clients, producing new identities for various cultural institutions, such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and MCA Chicago, as well as for Venice Architecture Biennale 10 and documenta 14, and have designed numerous books for artists, architects and designers. Van Deursen served as head of the Graphic Design Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and senior critic at Yale School of Art, New Haven. She also teaches at the Royal Academy in The Hague.

Ronja Andersen

is currently part of the research program at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where she also teaches. Here she is examining the cutting techniques, editing ideologies, and approaches to collaboration practiced by a selected group of film editors. Since studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Werkplaats Typografie, she has been living in Amsterdam working as an independent graphic designer.

Rosita Kær

makes work which oscillates between sculpture, text, archival research, and textile, with a special interest in language, memory, and craft traditions. A long-term collaboration with her grandmother Karen-Hanne Stærmose Nielsen, who was a weaver and textile researcher, has been crucial in shaping her practice and has made textiles and textile practices salient subjects in her work. Rosita Kær lives and works in Copenhagen, and graduated with an MFA from Malmö Art Academy in 2023 and holds a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

Acknowledgements

  • Piecing Pages: On working in fragments
  • Edited and designed by Line Arngaard
  • Format: 200 x 260 mm
    Binding: Softcover with flaps
    Pages: 248 (full colour)
    Regular sales price: 28 EUR / 210 DKK
  • Contributions by Asefeh Tayebani, Hanka van der Voet, Jess Bailey and Sharbreon Plummer, Joke Robaard, Linda van Deursen, Lucy R. Lippard, Melissa Meyer and Miriam Schapiro, Rietlanden Women’s Office, Ronja Andersen, Rosita Kær, Susu Lee, Youngeun Sohn
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