ASTRID LEIJSSEN . AAGJE LINSSEN .
11 JANUARY – 22 FEBRUARY 2026
11 JANUARY – 22 FEBRUARY 2026
WHAT HAS BEEN IS NOW
Two artists each transform the past into the present, creating a new poetic reality.
What has been is now, a duo exhibition by Astrid Leijssen and Aagje Linssen.
Astrid Leijssen (1967), born in Roermond, The Netherlands, currently lives and works in Eindhoven. Astrid graduated from the Nieuwe Akademie in Utrecht (2024). After graduating Leijssen exhibited her work at Salon Veneman (Eindhoven) and during Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven). Leijssen investigates the properties and possibilities of mainly industrial materials. By deforming, cutting, coloring, and reassembling them, she creates sculptures. Any break lines and damage remain visible, with soft colors undermining the severity of the material. The hardness and technical resistance of the material used is in constant dialogue with a visible softness and sometimes fragility. This gives the sculptures something physical and poetic, creating a new reality.
Aagje Linssen (1981), born in Paramaribo, Suriname, currently lives and works in Eindhoven. Linssen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts St. Joost in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (2008). She has been exhibiting her work in The Netherlands and abroad. Among these occasions are exhibitions at Marres (Maastricht) and Art The Hague. Although Linssen’s paintings refer to reality, she does not paint reality. She paints an experience, where the focus is on the use of paint. All her paintings refer to nature: plants, air, light, flowers, reflections. Aagje Linssen does not tell anything with her paintings, the paintings have something to tell her, and therefore also the viewer. She paints with a mixture of egg yolk and pigments in smudges and brushstrokes, which do not intend to create an illusion, but in their mutual capacity form a landscape of paint.
