Lisanne Hoogerwerf

WorksStatementCVVideoINTERVIEWWorksStatement My artworks depict real-unreal places: places that you can’t find in ordinary reality, but that are made with real materials like pieces of wood, sand, glue, and painted canvas. I create my art as a way to visualise inner and outer human landscapes. Working mainly from imagination, I want to lay hold on an…

Toon Berghahn

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Toon Berghahn: Illuminating the Familiar and the Unfamiliar Toon Berghahn, a distinguished Dutch painter born in 1970, has etched his name in the artworld. A graduate of Aki Enschede and Rietveld Akademie, both renowned institutions focusing on fine arts and design, Berghahn held his inaugural exhibition in 1998, marking the beginning of a prolific…

Andreas Senoner

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Andreas Senoner was born in 1982 in Bolzano, Italy. He lives and works in Firenze, Italy. ​ He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and the Facultad de Bellas Artes San Carlos in Valencia, Spain. He followed classes of Performance and Sound poetry from artist Bartolomé Ferrando. In 2006 he was granted…

Brooke DiDonato

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Brooke DiDonato (b. 1990) is a visual artist from Ohio now based in New York. After studying photojournalism, DiDonato began developing a body of personal work questioning the notion of realism induced by the photographic medium. Her images propose scenes of everyday life distorted by visual anomalies. Extreme landscapes and domestic spaces stand in…

Alexandra Roozen

WorksStatementCVCollectionsCollector’s boxWorksStatement Alexandra Roozen Alexandra Roozen’s work speaks of experiment, but is also deeply indebted to the tradition of drawing. The artist’s keen awareness of its history, combined with her well-honed technique, leads her to further explore drawing’s possibilities and boundaries. The method of Roozen’s work is based on repetitive structures. Small hand gestures such…

Mirjam Abraas

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Mirjam Abraas Binnen mijn werk ben ik al een lange periode bezig met een duidelijk afgebakend onderwerp in een specifieke techniek. Een onderwerp dat is gegroeid tot een vast gegeven en blijvend uitgangspunt in mijn werk. De liefde en interesse voor mijn onderwerp is in de jaren toegenomen waarbij ook de handeling van het…

Ulrike Heydenreich

WorksStatementCVVIDEOWorksStatement The themes of Heydenreich’s artwork explore human navigation and orientation, and the longing for the unknown and intangible. We humans travel around the world and it is part of our nature to be drawn to the most remote places. If this is not possible, we virtually experience these places. The geological surface of our…

Stefan à Wengen

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement The artist’s mission Christoph Lichtin   There’s something uncanny about Stefan à Wengen’s paintings. Analysing them, one is immediately confronted with depth-psychological questions. What is coming towards us out of its place of concealment? They are paintings that radiate a great intensity and aura. Georges Didi-Huberman sees auratic paintings of all kinds as uncanny,…

Julie van der Vaart

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Julie van der Vaart is a Belgium-based photographic artist and educator, who uses various experimental darkroom and printing techniques to create otherworldly interpretations of reality. From an early age she was fascinated by space and time, imagining the infinity of the universe or the pulling darkness of black holes. These obsessions resulted in an…

Suzanne Jongmans

WorksStatementCVCOLLECTIONSVIDEOPressWorksStatement Existential polarities such as love and loss, classical and contemporary, youth and maturity, transience and eternity also characterize the work of Dutch artist Suzanne Jongmans. Inspired by the paintings of old Dutch masters, Jongmans designs and sews elaborate costumes that could have been taken directly from these masterpieces—if they weren’t made of modern packaging…

Anke Roder

WorksStatementCVMediaWorksStatement Anke Roder ( Bayreuth 1964) is a Dutch based painter living in Zandeweer, north coast of the Netherlands. Her studio is surrounded by a big artist garden, composed like a living colour changing painting and combining form and structure of plants. These colours of nature are of great importance for her paintings. The blushing sky…

Bibi Smit

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Bibi Smit (1965) werkt al 25 jaar met glas. Ze volgde haar opleiding aan de West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, Engeland, waar ambacht hoog in het vaandel stond. In 1991 richtte ze een eigen atelier op in Schotland. Sinds 2007 heeft ze een eigen glasblazerij en slijperij in Loosdrecht. De…

Sandra Kruisbrink

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Sandra Kruisbrink Sandra Kruisbrink (1961) is a versatile artist who, with her delicately drawn landscapes, occupies a distinctive position in the Dutch art world. Her works on paper appear light and open, yet they are highly complex and the product of an extremely labour-intensive process. Kruisbrink uses not only pencils, but also brushes, distemper…

Wim Claessen

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Wim Claessen Wie op het eerste gezicht kijkt naar het werk van Wim Claessen, ziet landschappen die een eigen sfeer kennen en die bijna ongekend zijn door het bijzondere licht- en kleurgebruik. De werken kunnen daardoor bevreemdend aandoen, maar ook zit die bevreemding in de verstildheid van het geheel. Het heeft iets mystieks dat…

Warffemius

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Piet Warffemius   Warffemius is able to put down with a few sober and strong lines a form that settles on your retina. The combinations and repetitions of form he chooses, are both as simple as effective. The best way to describe the beauty that reveals itself is timid, introvert and subtle layered. And…

Danielle van Broekhoven

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement During walks at home and abroad, Danielle constantly gets ideas that could be painted. She photographs or stores them in her memory. Once in the studio, the photos evoke images. Without making studies or sketches prior to the work, she starts an intuitive painting process. “I put the photos that I took aside, and…

Bas Meeuws

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement ‘the sweet Spring in wintertime’ Photographic Floral Still Lifes by Bas Meeuws   Bas Meeuws is a young and passionate photographer. Since 2010, he has dedicated himself to rejuvenating the traditional and very Dutch genre of flower still life painting through the modern medium of digital photography. With his works, Meeuws intends to add…

Yves Beaumont

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Yves Beaumont is probably the most poetic and muted Belgian landscape artist. He understands, studies and admires the great masters but over time has developed his own ‘pictura logica’: a logic that senses the character of the canvas surface and the texture of the paint, that touches and works the paint itself and offers…

Matijs van de Kerkhof

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Matijs van de Kerkhof   Recognition or figuration is an important starting point for his visual art. He paints or draws situations from his immediate surroundings, often based on existing photos. Then he uses his imagination to translate these images in paint or felt tip pen. The atmosphere in which he places his figures…

Margot de Jager

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Het suizen van een zachte stilte De schilderijen van Margot de Jager zijn fantasierijke, imaginaire landschappen: plekken die alleen bestaan in de verbeelding van de kunstenaar. Zij refereert daarin bewust niet aan bestaande plekken, omdat het niet gaat om een afbeelding van het landschap, maar om een evocatie daarvan. Soms betreft het een landschappelijke scene; in…

Yvonne Mostard

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Ze zou graag willen weten hoe die lust te verwoorden deze verstrijkende tijd   tegen zich aan te houden, gezicht tegen gezicht, lichaam tegen lichaam, dicht   tegen elkaar. Ze zegt dat ze praat over die tijd tussen de dingen, tussen de   mensen, die welke andere mensen weggooien, die van geen belang voor…

Pascal Mestrom (guest)

WorksSTATEMENTCVVIDEOWorksSTATEMENT Inventions by Pascal Mestrom are three-dimensional sculptures, always recognizable by the signature style of Pascal. At the same time, each and every Invention is unique because of its own story. That story is created by the many different pieces and materials that are brought together in the Inventions. Elements from different styles, different centuries…

Tonnie & Gradje (guest)

WorksThe great Tonnie & Gradje AI-showAaron van ErpRob LoomanWorksThe great Tonnie & Gradje AI-show Starting October 27, Galerie Wilms will present THE GREAT TONNIE AND GRADJE AI exhibition, a unique exhibition focusing on the creative collaboration between painters Aaron van Erp and Rob Looman. In addition to their own painting careers, van Erp and Looman…

Michiel Kluiters (guest)

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Michiel Kluiters (1971, Amsterdam) makes monumental, painterly photographs of empty spaces that you can step right into. The work is on the plane between sculpture, photography and painting. They are images of improvised architectural scale models that he builds in his studio and then photographs in razor-sharp detail. The combination of light and shadow,…

Katrin Bremermann (guest)

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement German artist Katrin Bremermann (b. 1965) combines primary abstraction with spontaneous expression to create two-dimensional paintings with a three-dimensional quality as well as three-dimensional steel sculptures. Working in the tradition of shaped canvases pioneered by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland, Bremermann’s work explores the connection between reality and the illusion of…

Riki Mijling (guest)

WorksStatementCVWorksStatement Dutch sculptor Riki Mijling (1954, Nijmegen, the Netherlands) works in a rich tradition of non-objective, post-minimalist sculpture. The twentieth century art genealogy shows a forceful line of abstract-geometry, with pioneers such as Kasimir Malevitjs, Vladimir Tatlin, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. Developments in art since the mid-1960s show how artists expanded on this…