Wobby Club Night is back to celebrate the release of Wobby #43 – Great Escape, co-curated by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva. On Thursday, 2 July, escape with us to De Nachtzuster in Tilburg as we transform it into our own little drawing sanctuary for the night. Expect absurd or experimental drawing activities, music, performances and unexpected interactions we will create together.

During this year's edition of Illustratie Biënnale, we will be presenting all 42 editions of our Wobby magazine. Visitors will have the unique opportunity to discover the complete Wobby-archive from upclose, looking back at eleven years of unconventional, quirky visual art. On Sunday, there will be a live edition of the Potloodcast, where Wobby’s artistic director Marjolein Schalk will be the guest together with festival image maker Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva and social illustrator Nastia Cistakova.

At the initiative of Wobby, three artists did a residency at Landpark Assisië, a residential facility for people with intellectual disabilities. During Festival Nabij on 9 & 10 May, these artists will be exhibiting the works they created as a result of their residency. Artist Katrein Breukers was inspired by archival objects such as candle holders and chalices previously used in the church on the grounds of Landpark Assisië. During the festival, visitors can join Katrein’s clay candle holder workshop, which will come together in a temporary altar.

Visual artist Nina van de Ven led a series of workshops for participants of the daytime activities of De Sam at Landpark Assisië in Biezenmortel, where participants collaboratively created imaginative drawings using the cadavre exquis technique. The process resulted in humorous and unexpected fantasy creatures, which later inspired Nina’s new works. These works will be presented during Festival Nabij on May 9 & 10 at Landpark Assisië, Biezenmortel.

Wobby is joining various art fairs this spring! We’re excited to announce we will be participating in Playgrounds Eindhoven, Libros Muntantes Madrid and Book Fair De Fabriek Eindhoven. During these fairs Wobby will be selling our signature risoprinted products alongside various editions of the Wobby magazine. For a lot of items a special discount is applied so definitely stop by and come take a look!

Save the date! We are happy to announce the 6th edition of Wobby Wonderland on Saturday, March 21. For the first time, our cosy fair is leaving Tilburg, as part of the literary festival OPZICH at PLT Theater in Heerlen. Wobby Wonderland is a DIY publishing & printed matter fair, where independent publishers, artists and collectives sell their publications, zines, art prints and other printed matter.

Wobby #42 ends this year with the theme ‘Lore Galore’, about folklore. This edition is co-curated with Mari Campistron. “Folklore is more than tales passed down through generations; it’s a repository of history, customs, and beliefs”, she explains. “In this issue, we asked the selected artists to reflect on the way these tales and traditions are still relevant and how they adapt to our current society. What do artists want to say about traditions and myths?”

Wobby #42 - Lore Galore, co-curated by Mari Campistron (FR), is an issue about myths, folklore, rites, and personal tales, often rooted in the contributors’ homelands and childhood environments. Many of them were eager to share more about the tales that inspired their work, including some sketches.

The seventh edition of the residency ‘To Riso or Not’ at Make Eindhoven, in the lead-up to Dutch Design Week, has finished a while back. Five young illustrators and artists spent two weeks working in the graphic workshop of Make, exploring techniques such as dry needle, silkscreen printing, risograph printing and monotype. To gain insights into the artists’ experiences, Wobby spoke with some of them a few weeks after the residency.