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 transparent 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 This art fair, Kromhouthal, Amsterdam, Group show 26.08.2021/29.08.2021
2021 Pop-up show, Kunsthub Bink, Elburg, Group show 23.06.21/07.08.21
past
2021 Salon ijl, Galerie Noord, Groningen, Group show
2021 ALL INN , Het HEM, Zaandam, Group show
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
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