Through my work, I turn something repulsive into something useful, something bearable, or sometimes even beautiful. I do this by exaggerating the ugliness: in philosophy this is called sublimation. Illness, filth, uselessness, decay, confusion, tention – the things that frighten me– I seek them out within myself, in other living beings, on the streets, bring them to the surface, mold them into a new being, give them consciousness – often, notably, in animal form. My sources of inspiration include cadavers, babies, (dead) ungulated animals, chickens, reptiles and hospitals.

With a background in existential philosophy and psychoanalysis I find it fascinating to make the suppressed become visible and bring dead things to life. Sometimes it takes months or even years before a work finds its final form. This process of buidling and destroying, working in circles, sometimes suddenly ends when the work is "finished", and for one moment gives remedy.

Materials

my materials are mostly intertwined with an interest in decay. Malleable, spit out, sticky materials, mud, pulp from old newspapers or toilet paper, animal excrements, mud, that which is already present and has some history, combined with metal, textiles, resin, glue, paint and pieces of old furniture.

Exhibitions & Projects

• 2025 Dutch Design Week. Exhibition of my collection “Cherries” from 2022 and 2023

• 2025 Woest en Bijster: 7 kunstenaars tonen ander werk. Exhibition of three ungulated sculptures: calf, sheep and goat.

• 2025 Kunsthuis Waterland “No Waste” group exhibition with Pim Palsgraaf,Ben Oldenhof, Sander Stada, Elma Oosterhoff, Katrin Cassel, Reinder van der Woude, Maddy Rentenaar. Exhibition of 4 sculptures made of trash material

• 2025 Woest & Bijster. Art festival at de Veluwe. 12 meter long metal lizzard sculpture

• 2025 Kruidenhof te Eibergen (july & august) exhibition of 7 sculptures

• 2024 (September-february): Group exhibition - two sheep sculptures at Broedplaats de Hoop (with Anton Shirkin, Johannes Hogenbrink, Fabien Gruau)

• 2024: "Ex Creme" solo exhibition as result of Artist In Residency at the ammunition bunker / battery at Sloterweg (GinDs: Genie in de Stelling) in Hoofddorp

• 2024: Opsmuk Amsterdam: publication of drawings and sculptural work (badinkel.nl)

• 2023: De Hoopening - Broedplaats de Hoop - exhibition with a completely white space containing my sculptures and a silent disco

• 2023: Vitra Turkiye - Istanbul UniCera 2022 - four-day exhibition of large red female sculpture

• 2022-present: Tiftix Istanbul: exhibition of several sculptures (marshmallow chair + large red female figure)

• 2022: Tiftix Amsterdam: exhibition of several sculptures in the showroom

• 2022: Ruigoord Amsterdam: 'We are not allowed to go in church', exhibition during October Moon Festival

• 2021: Philosophy Festival Drift: exhibition of various sculptures and paintings throughout the public spaces of the festival (with Marie de Vreede and Nick Ouwehand)

• 2021: Plan B project space - summer exhibition 'State of Decay' with Marie de Vreede & Nick Ouwehand

• 2021: Filmtheater Kriterion - lockdown exhibition 'State of Decay' Three-month moving exhibition throughout the empty building. Filling the empty cinema with masks made of papier-mâché pulp from unread film magazines. With Marie de Vreede & Nick Ouwehand

• 2021: Rietveld Academy: lockdown exhibition with Marie de Vreede in academy cafeteria

• 2020: Kriterion Amsterdam group exhibition

• 2020: Publication in Filosofie & Praktijk "A Contemporary Conversation" with Tim van Heuven

• 2018-2020: Poster design for Kriterion Amsterdam