In the In-between Space

Eva van Manen on music, love, and gentle activism

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Illustratie: Brian Elstak
Thu, Feb 12 - 8:00 p.m. | Koepelzaal | €10 / €7.50

In this program, musician, producer, and poet Eva van Manen, together with Rory Ronde, offers a unique glimpse behind the scenes of her brand-new EP. In the album, Eva explores the desire for different forms of togetherness: friendly, romantic, and social. And all this in a world that is becoming increasingly fragmented.

As a genre-transcending creator, Eva weaves pop, electronica, and spoken word into a sound that balances between protest and vulnerability. She seeks out the tension between politics and love, between word and sound, between humans and nature. She does this together with Rory Ronde, a subtle guitarist (known from Wouter Hamel's band and New Cool Collective).  

During this program, we will talk to Eva, listen to (as yet unpublished) music, and delve deeper into her lyrics. What do these lyrics say about us, about the times we live in, and the current political climate? In Samen in de Tussenruimte (Together in the In-between Space), Eva invites you to get close to the creative process and discover how art can perhaps bring us closer together.  

Eva van Manen previously collaborated with Theater Utrecht on the performance Confrontaties, for which she composed the music in collaboration with Vernon Chatlein and Yariv Vroom.  

Based in Rotterdam, Eva van Manen is a songwriter, artist, and music producer who weaves pop, electronica, and spoken word into a genre-transcending sound that balances protest and vulnerability.

Eva van Manen's third album Tussenruimte (April 2026) is about the longing for different forms of togetherness: friendly togetherness, romantic togetherness, and social togetherness in a fragmented world. This bringing together is already intrinsically rooted in Eva's instincts as an artist: merging forms and disciplines—as a producer, singer-songwriter, and poet. It is precisely the space in between that has characterized Eva's work so far: between politics and love, between word and sound, between protest and vulnerability, humanity and nature. On Tussenruimte, Eva embraces many different influences in both style and lyrics: the quiet, inner world and the rhythmic outside world.

The illustration on the cover – created by Brian Elstak – shows Eva dressed in her space suit, surrounded by sunlight and oxygen. A telling image of someone breaking free from distorted images. Within this apparent contradiction, Tussenruimte operates in a fragile but powerful field of tension, between setting boundaries and longing for intimacy. This forms the core of the album – and the search for a shared space.

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