Jesse Blaauw

I consider myself to be a mixed-me-dia artist, mainly working with sculpture, painting and installation, occupying a studio-based practice in Rotterdam. My work reveals an absurdity that takes place in a luid reality; Bodily shapes, cubistic structures and many limbs are depicted in compositions that contain much tension and are ultimately a balance, trying to embrace their paradox. I am inviting you to consider your being space. You will catch me doing the same.
I find inspiration in relating the body as an incentive to existential and metaphysical philosophy. My work questions what happens between the mental and the physical, observing how complex thought lourishes in an open-mind that keeps looking for questions.

‘Creating transcendent spaces to embrace more paradox’, is a description of the practice that I believe I am moving towards.

My process regards my capacity to create emotionally engaged; more body and more chaos find place in my being. This is what I mean by embracing paradox.

To consider art as ‘autonomous objects’ allocates their capacity to affect the viewer through their presence or aura. I also think that art intends to challengehow we perceive our being, offering us agency for (self-)transcendence. T...

BA Fine Art, WILLEM DE KOONING Academy

2022 - Pantomime, Ijzerblok
2022 - Mash Mesh, Boijmans Hillevliet
2021- Coincidence, Studio 151
2021 - Under Construction, Maritime District (public exhibition)
2021 - Movement and the static, Foundation B.A.D, Rotterdam
2021 - First, Hillevliet, Rotterdam
2021 - Ondergrond, Basement Putsebocht, Rotterdam
2020 - Dear shapes in space, UBIK
2020 - At night, Roodkapje
2020 - Caravan, Art Caravan at Machinist, Rotterdam
2019 - Beings, REDFLOORGALLERY, Rotterdam
2019 - Observations, Cinerama, Rotterdam