10 STAND OUT ARTISTS AT ART ROTTERDAM 2024
- Geneviève Fatzer
- Jan 23, 2024
- 3 min read
As Art Rotterdam prepares to open its doors for its 25th edition this year, anticipation builds for a vibrant celebration of contemporary art and creativity. To ease your navigation through the fair, I’ve compiled a list of noteworthy artists for you to explore:
1.KASPAR DEJONG
In his work, Kaspar Dejong (1995) shows a fascination for the desire to make a mark. Every single being responds to one another and grows. From a background in graffiti, Dejong researches these markings and happenings in the modern urban landscape to create a harmonious composition. Found materials and natural elements are a reccurring theme in Dejong’s installations.
Website: https://kaspardejong.com/
Booth: DMW Gallery (Belgium)
2.RAFFAEL BADER
Leipzig based visual artist, Raffael Bader (1987) deals with his view of a world full of tensions in a technique which can be classified as intuitive abstraction. The artist writes: "I understand my painting as an open process, so I do not seek perfection, which would seem like the end of potential. Thus, I have realized that the possibility of imperfection leads me to an abstract way of working, where I can focus on the essentials and create works that invite the viewer to resonate with their own experience and inner state.”
Website: https://www.raffaelbader.de/
Booth: Enari Gallery (Netherlands)
3.MIA CHAPLIN
Mia Chaplin (1990) is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. Working in oil on canvas and paper as well as in bronze and plaster sculpture, her highly expressive works are characterised by their rich impasto surfaces and visible brushwork. Chaplin’s works are her impressions of the female experience in relation to sexuality, sensuality, intimacy and violence.
Website: https://www.miachaplin.com/
Booth: No Man’s Art Gallery (Netherlands)
4.KATRIN KORFMANN
Katrin Korfmann (1971, Berlin, Germany) has held residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2000), Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy (2001) and the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen (2014), China. Since the late 1990s, her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, art institutions and public spaces. Korfmann adopts a Birds Eye perspective within her work, lending one to shift back and forth between perceived knowledge and reality ie. the shadow vs the human form. This creates a wonderful sense of humour in the work, allowing the spectator to create their own narrative.
Website: https://www.katrinkorfmann.com
Booth: Bradwolff & Partners (Netherlands)
5. WILLY DE SAUTER
Willy de Sauter (1938) is a Belgian minimalist painter who adopts a reductive approach to painting. The artist belongs to a generation of Belgian Minimalist and conceptual artists which emerged from the post-war period and focused on creating radical change in modern art. His practice is informed by modern architecture, and he works across multiple mediums to explore line, colour, form.
Website: https://www.willydesauter.be
Booth: Ramakers Gallery (Netherlands)
6. JOHANNA BATH
Johanna Bath (1980) has exhibited her work in group and solo shows across Germany and abroad. She gained recognition from an international audience in 2017, thanks to Saatchi Arts classing her as "One to watch".The idea of time which encompasses memory, transience and the brevity of a moment drives the artists' need to paint. Bath reflects on these narratives in order to depict "a sense of time" on canvas.
Website:https://www.johannabath.de/
Booth: Enari Gallery (Netherlands)
7.YAMUNA FORZANI
Yamuna Forzani (1993) was born in England and currently lives and works in the Netherlands. Formani celebrates the ballroom culture in a multidisciplinary practice that combines fashion, photography, dance, installation, and social design through inclusive public events. Forzani portrays her powerful, inclusive, colourful message in immersive textile works.The artist's collection is designed not to exclude any individual but to be genderful, celebrating the multiplicity of roles and identities that we embody within social structures
Booth: Rademakers Gallery (Netherlands)
8. KAMILA SIPIKA
Kamila Sipika is a visual artist and researcher based in-between The Netherlands and Poland with a main focus on painting (specifically on raw cotton and linen). She often contrasts her colorful paintings with digital works, creating dynamic conversations. Her topics include ephemerality, seduction and manipulation of images, and the conversation between the impact of nature and technology.
Website: https://kamilasipika.com
Booth: Rademakers Gallery (Netherlands)
9. MARTIJN HESSELING
Martijn Hesseling's (1971) work is rooted in the tradition of painting however, his technique is what sets him apart. By using varnish treated newspaper or book sheets which he applies on transparent plexiglass plates it creates the impression of depth even on a bi-dimensional surface, just as several superposed layers of paint do. Thanks to the treatment with varnish, the paper sheets become translucent and generate, when placed on top of one another an almost relief like effect highlighting the legibility of the newspaper cuttings.
Website: https://www.martijnhesseling.nl
Booth: Rademakers Gallery (Netherlands)
10.RÓBERT BATYKÓ
Róbert Batykó (1981) is approaching a more tangible body of work at Art Rotterdam 2024, as the artist departs from the strong digital inspiration he is known for. Within these new collages we witness raw material, which includes food and pharmaceutical packaging, as well as details of videocassette and vinyl covers - highlighting the playful figurality in the painting cycle.
Website: https://www.robertbatyko.com/
Booth: ACB Gallery (Hungary)
Practical Information:
Date: 1 - 4 February, 2024 (Opening 31 Jan)
Location: Van Nelle Factory, 3044 BC Rotterdam
Time: 11:00 - 19:00
Ticket link: https://shop.eventix.io/
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