BIO

Born in 1979 in Friesland, The Netherlands, Anke Jongejan is a contemporary artist currently based in Soest (NL).

Her (wall) sculptures are created out of discarded textiles, foam, building materials, and other remnants of consumer culture. The deconstructed materials seem hastily assembled, with visible seams, resembling a form of collage. Exuding haste and temporariness, and at the same time dedication and homeliness, her work deftly balances between sweetness, desperation and visual overload.

Jongejan’s work aims for intimacy with the schizophrenic experience of living in mass consumption culture, while simultaneously looking at a world on fire. Her art is characterized by the rough, ‘seamfull’ assembly of found materials: crude stitching, forced intertwining, and hastily taped parts make the viewer a witness to an almost desperate attempt to piece together a new world out of cultural debris. Her wall sculptures series, combining vintage textiles with lurid LED tubes, is an example of how she edges sweetness toward violence and overkill.

Anke Jongejan studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Antwerp and Utrecht University of the Arts. She has exhibited multiple times at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, participated in Tussenland in Amsterdam, and Kunstkavel in Amersfoort. Her practice has recently been featured in Suboart magazine (#36) and Circular Textile Stories SE3 (#5).