Show Your Hope

Show Your Hope is an art project that serves as a communication project between the participating artists, the audience, and you

Interview Martin Voorbij

Show Your Hope introduction film in Istria

Show Your Hope in Banja Luka

Mr Martin travels around the world giving blank canvasses to artists and asking them to visualize their idea of Hope. When the painting is finished, Martin collects the Story behind it order to share it during one of the mobile exhibitions, or at his home in the Inkijkmuseum in Eindhoven. Over 1000 stories have been collected since 2003.

This website serves as the digital archive for the Show Your Hope project and as a tool to keep you up to date of its current whereabouts.
The old website, with all of the historical information of this project, can be found here

Between 2003 and 2020 we have collected almost 1000 paintings from artists all over the world. They all made a painting about Hope, the universal and positive emotion.
After all these years we had a great program in 2020 with school activities and a final Balkan program. However, 2020 is a strange year and most of the program was cancelled. Support for art project are mainly used for new activities and/or for young artists. We we are neither after 18 years of Show Your Hope.

Also future projects are uncertain, which has made us decide to freeze the program. We will see if serious proposals come up in order to show the complete collection.
Meanwhile we ended the program with some small presentations in Netherlands and a extended program in Slovenia. However, we arrived 2 days before lockdown and recorded a large number of stories in 6 video sessions.

You can find the first recording on the right here, view the rest on the YouTube channel of Sripburger, our long term and fantastic partner in Slovenia.

Over 1000 paintings showing Hope have been collected since 2003

Medina

by Naserdine El Assaly

Des Nomes Qui Nous Quittent

by Hejer Ridene

Rencontrer

by Awatef Ridene

Here are three of them, randomly selected.
Clicking on them will take you to the Gallery where you can explore them and the rest of the paintings.

We have traveled to 45+ countries, sharing the stories of Hope with thousands of people Click on the map to navigate through the Artists Paintings Exhibitions of Show Your Hope

We have traveled to 45+ countries, sharing the stories of Hope with thousands of people

Click on the map to navigate through the

Artists

Paintings

Exhibitions

of Show Your Hope