Eelke Renschke Bekkenutte

Eelke Renschke Bekkenutte Female dutch artist (30y), focused on abstract painting and mixed media, based in Lisbon for two years. She is inspired by the intangible multitude of stimuli that we receive through our senses. The stream of daily life things that flow into each other and rush through each other. This she manifests in abstract expressive paintings that attempt to capture this movement of input. Where every stroke, shape or color is ‘something’.

‘Movement in the collection of collected raindrops. He wants to drink her milk. Decent people who secretly long for more wildness. Come, take off that diaper and become independent. Destroy the blue light and let the sun shine on your pale vampire skin. The life jacket is only needed when we almost drown. The head stays above and kisses a stranger. A baby's spit on her freshly washed blouse. My shoe is lost, how do you lose one shoe? Socks often disappear. Strange houses in an unknown country. There is war and there and there and there. Who has the power? Can I do something? Maybe you will hit me with one of your arrows. Freedom will emerge from its own shadow. Telephones take up the void with crooked shapes. The space from which all creativity arises. One's mind, independent and ...

EDUCATION
2011 - 2015 AKV | St Joost Breda,Bachelor Photography, graduated in July 2015

GRANTS
2019 - 2020 - Stipendium for Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fund (NL)

RESIDENCIES
2020 - De Fabriek - Eindhoven NL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 - Art Room Mina - Solo residency show - Amsterdam
2017 - Savage Lily - Solo-exhibition - Rotterdam NL
2014 - Electron - Solo-project / exhibition - Breda NL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 - New Sludge - Rotterdam NL
2020 - Art Room Mina - Group exhibition - Amsterdam NL
2019 - WolfART_Projectspace - Group-exhibition
‘Nearly every thought leads to nothing - Rotterdam
2019 - Glub Gusto - Event/group-exhibition - Rotterdam
2017 - WORM - Group-exhibition - Rotterdam NL
2016 - Hoboken - Group-exhibition - Rotterdam NL
2016 - KC kunstcafee - Duo-exhibition - Schiedam NL
2016 - Hoboken - Group-exhibition - Rotterdam NL

PARTICIPATION EVENTS
2020 - KeileCafe - Performance art piece - Rotterdam NL
2017 - Minifest - Live painting - Rotterdam NL
2017 - Keilecafe - Live painting - Rotterdam NL
2017 - Mono - Wallpainting - Rotterdam NL

PUBLICATIONS
2021 Mondriaan Fund
https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/pcprofiel/eelke-renschke-bekkenu tte/
2020 New Sludge
newsludge.nl/visitor-center
2020 De Fabriek Eindhoven
www.defabriekeindhoven.com
2019 Mondriaan Fund
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