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• Personal Trainer

  Curator text · Thom Oosterhof · 2026-08-01

  "When we work on ourselves, whose work are we doing?"

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• Kunst in de sportschool: eendaagse expositie 'Personal Trainer' in Tito's Gym

  InToNijmegen · 2026-08-15

  "Artist, psychologist and personal trainer Johnny Buivenga presents Personal Trainer: a series of paintings on performance pressure, body ideals and the influence of social norms on how we look at ourselves."

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• I became more Johnny

  Louare — House of Louare · 2026-06-05

  "An in-depth profile for House of Louare: leaving psychology and corporate life for the studio, self-portraits as research, the Personal Trainer series, and the mantra 'all the beginning is ugly'. "I became more Johnny" — that's the most important answer."

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