Collaborations | Jan Giliam, visual artist, Amsterdam

Praia do Osso da Baleia

Day I: What happens when six minds collide at the edge of the Atlantic? A performance of automatic creation, botanical intervention and collective friction. Praia do Osso da Baleia, Portugal, May 2026.

Brodja-Miseri in Buracas do Casmilo

Day II: What happens when the collective engine stalls? A limestone cave, an absurd wait for a word that doesn't exist, and an artwork launched into the abyss. Buracas do Casmilo, Portugal, May 2026.

Portraits turned into tourist maps

A surrealist game with Rik Lina and Ody Saban, made with Nano Banana, winter 2025 to spring 2026.

After the Concert at the Bimhuis

Straight from a Marc Ribot concert to the pastels, still buzzing. Fourteen drawings made that same night with Miguel de Carvalho, Rik Lina and David Coulter, the Bimhuis, 24 April.

The Beetle Was There First

Tai Chi Second…

The Cabo Mondego Section at Studio Wittenburg

Found imagery, acrylic, pastel and coloured pencil, four hands at once. Eight collages made with Miguel de Carvalho, Rik Lina and David Coulter, Studio Wittenburg, 18 April 2026.

Collaborative work with Susana Wald

Three Collective Automatic Paintings made in San Andrés Huayápam, Mexico on 18 February 2026

The Printer Dragon

with Rik Lina

Opening Performance: Na mirada dos espellos

Thirteen painters on one museum balcony, two canvases growing at once. Opening performance for Na mirada dos espellos, Fundación Eugenio Granell, Santiago de Compostela, 10 July 2025.

The Vila Nova de Gaia Challenge

Eight artists, one challenge, the Vila Nova de Gaia waterfront, 2025. With Miguel de Carvalho, Manuela Marques, Gilles van Arkel, Vita Thiesbrummel, Rik Lina, David Coulter, Bruno Barnabé and Isidro Martíns.

When Software Sees (But Cameras Don't)

with and by iPhones, 2025

The Cabo Murtinheira Challenge

with Cristina Vouga, Alexandre Magno and Rik Lina, 2024

CAPA Welcomes Beatriz Hausner

Canadian poet Beatriz Hausner joins Rik Lina and me in the studio, words and images crossing. Filmed and edited by me, Amsterdam, September 2024.

CAPA Welcomes Allan Graubard

American poet Allan Graubard steps into the Spanderswoud forest with Rik Lina and me, music by Gilles van Arkel. Filmed and edited by me, near Hilversum, 14 May 2024.

Voodoo Rhythm, Shared Drawing

Rik Lina and I draw on the same sheet at the same time, constantly crossing and interrupting each other's lines.

City of Desire

Caribbean corals and shells meet charcoal on paper. The entrance to the City of Desire sits near the rocks and tide pools of Cabo Mondego, Rik Lina and I its gatekeepers. Amsterdam, 8 July 2022.

The Cabo Mondego Section

Six artists, two countries, one shared hand: Miguel de Carvalho, Rik Lina and the rest of the collective.

From CAPA to Cabo Mondego: A Final Performance and a New Beginning in Surrealist Collaboration

A rooftop in Santiago de Compostela, one last painting, and a name that changes. CAPA's ninth and final performance becomes the first as the Cabo Mondego Section, 15 June 2022. Christian Dotremont's words still hold: "We are working together, we shall go on working together."

With Rik Lina

CAPA (Collective Automatic Painting Amsterdam) 2018-21

Yes to Life, No to Lithium – Seia (P), 2019

Paint against the mine. In the Parque Natural da Estrela, Rik Lina and I joined Luiz Morgadinho and the Cabo Mondego Section to protest proposed lithium mining, Seia, Portugal, June 2019.