AAGJE LINSSEN

“In my paintings I explore the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, the visible and invisible world.”

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).
Aagje Linssen has been exhibiting her work in The Netherlands and abroad. Among these occasions are exhibitions at Marres (Maastricht), Van Abbehuis (Eindhoven), Galerie Speckstraße (Hamburg, Germany) and RE: Rotterdam (Rotterdam). Her work is included in various private collections. In addition to her work as an artist, Linssen is co-founder of Grenswerk Residency in Tripkau (Germany).

VIEW ARTIST’S CV

Aagje Linssen’s paintings are a continuation of the abstract expressionism that emerged in New York in the 1950s and 1960s.  Her work refers to artists such as Cy Twombly, who developed a personal form of calligraphic painting as a kind of cryptologist.  The work of Aagje Linssen is related to such an intention, but Aagje Linssen has developed a personal painting idiom.

With Aagje Linssen you first look at paint and then at its reflection on your retina, at the mobility of space in the refracted light in the air and how it naturally becomes visible as virtually formless color and matter. When she takes a reflection on a water surface as a starting point for a painting, it is not an illusionistic representation of a precise observation, but an independent, painterly expression of the atmospheric experience she has undergone. She does not paint anything in nature, she does not even paint from nature, but of course makes a painting. – text by Alex de Vries

Exhibitions at Galerie Nasty Alice: Solo 2023 . Art The Hague 2024 .

VIEW ARTICLE MISTER MOTLEY

VIEW ARTICLE BRABANT CULTUREEL

Photo by Joep Eijkens
Tuin, 18 x 24 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2022, available
Bosnische Bossen, 70 x 50 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2022, available
Sana (rivier), 40 x 50 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2022, available
Tuingeest, 18 x 24 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2022, 🔴 non-available
Schemering, 183 x 243 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2022, available
Vallend water, 30 x 24 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2022, 🔴 non-available
Zonder titel, 50 x 70 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2022, available
Z.t., 90 x 130 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2024, available
Een lucht in januari, 18 x 24 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2024, available
Nazomer, 180 x 240 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2023, available
Stortbui, 160 x 200 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2024, available
Grasveld II, 50 x 70 cm, egg tempera on canvas, 2024, available