Antwerp, painter
anouk van offenwert


biography
Anouk Van Offenwert (°1997, Antwerp, BE) lives and works in Antwerp. She obtained a Master's degree in painting from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2021. In 2019, she studied at UCM (ES). In 2020, she participated in the workshop 'Drawing in practice', organized by the Philippe Vandenberg Foundation (BE). Anouk's paintings are created by a 'joie de peintre': pleasure in painting, and curiosity about how ink, self-made paint and drawing techniques interact. She is also inspired by the texture of finely woven bale cotton, powerful pigments, and nature. The artist thus marvels at how transformations, patterns, lines, and unexpected atmospheres occur in plants and in the air, and analyses and translates them into her painting practice. During the painting process, this mental world is confronted with (mostly) large, unprepared canvases. There is a great spontaneity in this making that can still be felt in the final result.
exhibitions
2023 - group show 'DOG DAYS' /THE PLATFORM, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 - group show 'Zoekstadion' with FAAR collective - Havenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 - solo show 'dear serendipity' /THE PLATFORM, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 - group show/ 4n20 Ruimte voor Kunst, Kortrijk, Belgium
2022 - group show/ ArtTelex, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 - The Platform .3 reorganising reality, /THE PLATFORM, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 - group show /Plein Magazijn, Borgerhout, Belgium
2021 - FAAR /FAAR, Deurne, Belgium
2021 - group show /Sint-Laurentiuskerk, Veltem, Belgium