Agnès Bompy

I was born in the early sixties and spent my youth in Bordeaux, France. I have been working as a visual artist since 1986. I'm actually living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
My practice unfolds through long-term series developed over more than four decades. My work is rooted in sustained artistic research, drawing from symbolic systems, natural cycles, history, and material processes. Each series functions as a field of investigation, shaped by time, repetition, and transformation.
Central to my work is the search for balance between research and beauty. Rather than treating aesthetics as a result, I approache beauty as a necessary stabilising force — one that allows complexity, vulnerability, and thought to remain visually present. Painting becomes both inquiry and contemplation.
My work carries a quiet spiritual dimension, grounded not in narrative or belief, but in attention: to rhythm, material, and the relationship between structure and intuition. Through this balance, my paintings invite slow looking and sustained engagement.

Academy of Fine Arts Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands (1981-86).

Since the beginning of my career, I had more than 60 solo and group exhibitions in different galleries, museums, and cultural places in the Netherlands, in France, Belgium and Poland.
Private and public collectors of different countries have bought my work over the years, some of which is now in France, in England, in the Netherlands, in Germany and in Poland.
My paintings appear and are discussed in more than thirty publications, including "L'art français contemporain aux Pays-Bas"(Muriel Lucie Clément)