Stan Weessies
Stan Weessies (NL) is a Berlin-based visual artist who graduated from the Maastricht Institute of Arts in 2022. His painting practice explores the construction of environments that exist between physical and psychological space. He creates layered compositions that suggest depth, movement, and a sense of tension rather than fixed representation. Through an intuitive process of building and disrupting space, his paintings remain open, shifting, and resistant to a single interpretation.
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His work is driven by an interest in shifting space and continuous transformation. Instead of depicting specific locations, Weessies builds environments that feel both familiar and uncertain, where space is constantly changing and movement seems to continue beneath the surface. His compositions often depict landscapes without fully becoming them, allowing atmosphere, rhythm, and spatial ambiguity to take precedence over recognisable forms.
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His paintings sit somewhere between landscape, memory, and imagination, where spatial suggestion, instability, and change become central.
Selected paintings
Complete portfolio (PDF) available upon request via stanweessies@gmail.com.
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B. 1996 in Dronten, The Netherlands
Currently based in Berlin, Germany
Education
2019-2022 BA Fine Arts, Maastricht Institute of Arts (NL)
2021 Minor and artist residency Kunst & Humanistiek (Art & Humanistic Studies), monastery complex HX, Hoogcruts (NL)
2015-2018 BA Interior Architecture and Furniture Design, Royal Academy of Art The Hague (NL)
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Artist residencies
2025 CULTERIM Summer Residency, Gutshof Dahlewitz (DE)
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Upcoming exhibitions
2026 Culterim Studios Show #5 - Cank, Berlin (DE)
2026 Gyre (solo show) - Culterim gallery space, Ostbahnhof, Berlin (DE)
Solo/duo exhibitions
2022 Subterranean Homesick Alien - Pand, Heerlen (NL)
2022 SOTOR - MONO, Rotterdam (NL)
Group exhibitions
2025 Culterim Residency show #7 - Cank, Berlin (DE)
2023 The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. - Artland Kasteel Strijthagen, Landgraaf (NL)
2022 VIVEMENT - Sexyland, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen (NL)
2022 Hot Mess - Transport Artspace, Maastricht (NL)
2022 The Hungry Don’t Play (graduation show) - Institute of Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2020 Sound Sitings - Odapark, Venray (NL)
2017 The(n) Hague and Now, I Spy With My Little Eye - the Mesday Collection, The Hague (NL)
Performances
2022 Make a Toy-Like, duo performance with Kai Tiedtke as part of the group exhibition Hot Mess - Transport Artspace, Maastricht (NL)
2022 The Dirty and the Darling, duo performance with Kai Tiedtke - Microgolf festival, Maastricht (NL)
2020 Solo performance at Sounds Sitings 4 - Odapark, Venray (NL)
Screenings
2022 The Hungry Don’t Play - Maastricht (NL)
2022 SOTOR - MONO, Rotterdam (NL)
Awards
2022 Nominated for Buning Brongers Prize