Kyra Nijskens (Meerssen, 1997) | Lives and works in Rotterdam
Kyra Nijskens’ vivid work wavers between a devotion for painterly processes and a conceptual analysis of painting. Investigating the interplay between traditional techniques and the uncontrolled image-making-machine of our era; the digital, she started to reconsider the painting as a transparent screen. By layering individual sheets of film acetate – allowing for infinite new combinations – she researches the changeability and temporality of an image, while destabilizing the paintings permanence and stability.
In a dazzling mixture of techniques, seductive colours, appropriated imagery and stereo-typically feminine coded elements, Nijskens gracefully battles old age systems, integrating and subverting modernist vocabulary to persistently evoke a live energy into her works, celebrating the playing nature of mankind.
EDUCATION
2020-2022 MA Fine Art, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
2016-2020 BA Fine Art, HKU, Utrecht (with honours)
2015-2016 Fine art and Design in Education, HKU, Utrecht
EXHIBITIONS
upcoming
2021 'ALL INN '- Het HEM, Zaandam - 04.03.21/07.03.21
Group show
past
2020 '20/20 DAYBREAK' - Young Art Weekend, Ruis, Nijmegen
Group show with 20/20 art collective
2020 'Limburg Biënnale'- Marres, Maastricht
Group show
2020 'Kunstroute' - Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden
Group show
2020 'Graduation Show' - HKU, Utrecht
Group show
2020 'Depot 20/20 '- AG, Utrecht
Group show with 20/20 art collective
2019 ‘Fragments of a Grocerylist’ - Tuub, Utrecht
Duo show with Bas Oussoren & Kyra Nijskens
2019 'DOG DAYS ' - De Nijverheid, Utrecht
Group show
2018 'HOMO LUDENS'- AK24, Utrecht
Solo show
2017 'Zeitgeist' – AK24, Utrecht
Solo show
PRIZES/NOMINATIONS
2020 Nominated for the Buning Brongers Prize
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Ongoing Member of 20/20 art collective
2019 ‘Zo binnen, zo buiten’ workshop creator and supervisor, Centraal Museum