Dieke Venema - paper, scissors

About this activity.

Dieke Venema (1990, Barneveld) creates sculptures and spatial installations in an intuitive manner. In her work she is concerned with the 'how' and the mentality of the making process, in which aspects such as skin, shape and material play a major role.

If her sculptures were characters, they could be described as subdued, hesitant and modest. Venema makes her sculptures from crude materials and gives them an amorphous shape that only vaguely resembles something recognizable. Her images are therefore never definite, but fluid in meaning. Venema's source of inspiration initially provides guidance, but loses meaning during the working period.

In the solo exhibition paper, scissors in Afslag BLV, she shows, in addition to new and older work, the tufted wall works that she created in 2022 in collaboration with Het Textiellab, a knowledge and development place for innovative textile projects in Tilburg. These works are shown in combination with drawings and wall sculptures.

Venema studied at ArtEZ in Zwolle and De Ateliers in Amsterdam. She received a Young Talent work contribution from the Mondriaan Fund and the follow-up contribution: a work contribution for proven talent. Venema currently lives and works in Valkenswaard.

Museum Belvédère.

Location.

Afslag BLV
Minckelersstraat 11
8442 CE Heerenveen
www.museumbelvedere.nl/nl/