Jos Derckx (born 1986) is an illustrator and artist from Utrecht. His work is colorful, socially critical, and full of humor and surrealism. He seeks beauty in clean images that encourage introspection. Jos has drawn for Tirade, Vrij Nederland, and Medisch Contact, among others, and lives with his family in Utrecht.

Sioe Jeng Tsao (she/they), also known as SEEYOUSIOE, is a queer multidisciplinary artist with roots in the Netherlands, China, and West Papua. Based in Rotterdam, she creates vibrant work that blends digital illustration and painting to explore identity, migration, queer joy, and social justice.

Her art invites connection and reflection — bold in color, soft in intention. In 2025, she published her illustrated memoir Mijn Tijd in de Zon and opened her first solo exhibition De Liefde die Blijft at CODA Museum.

Through decolonial storytelling, workshops, and community projects, Sioe Jeng uses art as both a protest and a healing force

Danny Rumbl is an illustrator and artist from Rotterdam The Netherlands where he’s working from his home studio on illustrations, large scale murals and wooden sculptures. His inspiration springs from his love of cartoons and illustrations from the ’60’s and 70’s, nature, food and modern popculture.

With all of this tossed into the pot, it cooks up to many dynamic cartoon-esque, animal-like characters that have a funky human flavor. Art to him means freedom to express who we are, it’s a language everyone can speak

Having been painting on the street since 2006, graffiti and visual artist Sicovecas captures this very public art experience in his style. Sicovecas’ work is primarily about “interaction”. His name, a play on “As I See (Sic)”, reflects how he as artist interacts with the environment around him – be it the social or the physical. Sicovecas chooses his spots carefully for the feel of the location, the shifts in light, the quirks and the activities of the people around it, and his art responds to this.

His work is not only public in the location being a public space, but it is a social act – in painting on someone’s wall, or in someone’s neighborhood, Sic’s pieces involve trust and building relationships with those he encounters.

SellFable, by Rotterdam artist Daniël van Nes, is an interdisciplinary art universe merging post-digital elements with human expression. Inspired by mysterious atmosphere of film noir movies, SellFable presents a ‘Machine Noir Art Universe’, inhabited by automated beings in search of a human soul, documented by ‘The Archivist’.

Van Nes’ work, influenced by technology, science fiction, and human behavior, features a unique blend of illuminated engravings, drawings, installations, and animations, forming a dramatic, otherworldly environment.

As ‘The Archivist’, he navigates you through landscapes where the boundaries between digitality and humanity blur, encouraging introspection in a society hurtling towards the future. Each piece invites you to confront shifting notions of self and existence, immersing you in a narrative that is both haunting and thought-provoking.

SellFable has been exhibited globally in venues like Tetem (Enschede), Urban Nation (Berlin), STRAAT Museum (Amsterdam), and the Street Art Museum (St. Petersburg), among others.

Florian Magnus Maier (born 1973) studied flamenco guitar with Paco Peña and classical composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatory. His musical style is characterized by a relentless exploration of various genres in classical music, world music, rock and metal, and disciplines such as dance, film, and poetry.

Since graduating with honors in 2001, he has written for leading Dutch and international musicians, ensembles, and orchestras, and his music is performed worldwide. As a composer, he has won two grants and the Paul Jacobs Award at Tanglewood, Massachusetts, the incentive prize from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, and nominations for the Gaudeamus Prize, the UNESCO International Composers’ Rostrum, and Musica Nova.

As a performer, he has performed with the Asko | Schönberg ensemble and the Netherlands Radio Orchestras, among others, and remains active in his metal band Alkaloid. As an arranger, Maier has worked with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Devin Townsend, Triptykon and Paradise Lost, among others.

Artists Bruno Ferro, Xavier da Silva, and Gwen Stok have been collaborating under the name Trompette de la Mort since 2014. Their art has a macabre yet playful quality, as if you were the guest of honor among cannibals, trying to remember proper table manners. They specialize in ink drawings (both small and large) as well as paintings.

Gwen Stok

Gwen Stok is an independent illustrator, comic artist, and visual artist (image maker). Among other works, she created the graphic novel The Healing of the Cricket, based on a story by…

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Gwen Stok

Gwen Stok is an independent illustrator, comic artist, and visual artist (image maker). Among other works, she created the graphic novel The Healing of the Cricket, based on a story by Toon Tellegen. In 2021, she served as the city illustrator of Rotterdam, a role that concluded with an exhibition at the Kunsthal.

Cross Comix Festival 2026

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Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva

Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva (1977) was born in Lissabon, from a Capeverdian mother and an Angolese father, and grew up in Rotterdam. He is a bass player, composer and…

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Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva

Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva (1977) was born in Lissabon, from a Capeverdian mother and an Angolese father, and grew up in Rotterdam. He is a bass player, composer and visual artist.

Cross Comix Festival 2026

Open Studio Rotterdam Centraal Musical book launch: Ibrahim INEKE

Myrthe van de Weetering is always searching for authenticity. She plays violin, but in her own way. She writes songs, but in her own style. And she loves to explore the boundaries between folly and music.

In 2019, Myrthe van de Weetering and her band released their debut record Dégoût, a combination of jazz & film noir photography, marking the beginning of a promising musical journey. Their success led to invitations to perform at renowned music festivals such as So What’s Next, Injazz and North Sea Jazz as well as on the radio and on the television show Vrije Geluiden.

The follow-up record, Ghazal, combines music & poetry with a message. The music is a blend of jazz, pop, and hip-hop, woven together by the distinctive sound of the band. The warm and airy sound of the melody section, with its melancholy violin, the intriguing modular piano that adds an organic layer of electronics to the spectrum, the subtle bright sound of the bass, and the delicate drums.

Philipp Ernsting is a Rotterdam-based drummer and percussionist renowned for his dynamic and versatile percussion skills, his involvement in the improvised music underground scene, and his frequent participation in modern dance projects.

Besides collaborations with Gonçalo Almeida, William Parker, Jason Köhnen and others, Ernsting is also 1/3 of the Rotterdam jazzcore band Albatre, soon to release its fourth studio album supported by a European tour.