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).

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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. Aagje Linssen’s work is in line with this intention, but she has developed her own personal painting style.

With Aagje Linssen, you first look at the paint and then at its reflection on your retina, at the movement of space in the refracted light in the air and how this becomes naturally visible as virtually formless color and matter. When she takes a reflection on a water surface as the 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. Linssen does not paint anything in nature, she does not even paint from nature, but of course Aagje does make a painting. – text by Alex de Vries

Exhibitions at Galerie Nasty Alice: What has been is now 2025 . Art The Hague 2024 . Solo 2023 .