KATIE VAN SCHERPENBERG

Scherpenberg’s artistic production, which began nearly fifty years ago, is rooted in her investigations around painting and its structural and symbolic elements. The artist has experimented extensively with different interventions on diverse surfaces, exploring natural pigments, developing her own tempera, triggering chemical reactions, and examining the oxidation processes of various materials.

Through her questioning of painting as a medium, Scherpenberg arrived at landscape as a subject, extending her use of colour beyond the canvas to intervene in physical spaces—sand, water, grass, trees. By documenting these interventions, which she refers to as landscape paintings, the artist—formerly known primarily as a painter—positions herself as a performer, highlighting the role of the body in painting. The exhibition’s title, therefore, seeks to emphasise the corporeality in her work, which challenges both the plasticity of materials and the physical presence of the artist herself.