Jeltje Schuurmans (1996) graduated from the Utrecht School of the Arts (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) and completed her Master’s degree at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2023. Her multidisciplinary work focuses on the psychological processes of the brain and how they manifest in the body. Through installations, sculptural objects and video, she treats the body as a landscape, shaped across (and within) generations, by collective memories and subconscious structures. Her work is layered — a metaphor for both our skin and psyche — and highlights the structures that shape our lives and society, both physically and psychologically. Schuurmans often uses unconventional tools and techniques and frequently balances between playfulness and alienation, for instance when she creates synthetic skins.
Her work has previously been exhibited in a group show at ECC Italy during the Venice Biennale and at Het HEM in Zaandam.
–Flor Linckens, Gallery Viewer