Stan Weessies

Stan Weessies is a Dutch visual artist based in Berlin. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Maastricht Institute of Arts in 2022. His painting practice explores the intersection of the eerie, the absurd, and the banal, often through dystopian and abstract landscapes.

A sense of instability and intensity shaped his early process. Working on large, unstretched pieces of fabric laid on the floor, he built up layers without a fixed composition. The approach was physical and intuitive, combining brushwork, stains, scraping, and unconventional materials. Painting became a direct, sometimes forceful act - balancing control and chance.

In recent years, his method has become more deliberate. He now focuses on building spatial tension within the work. The paintings function more as environments than images - surfaces that suggest depth, distance, and movement.

This development has been shaped through recent exhibitions in the Netherlands and Germany, leading to a slower, more focused way of working, with greater attention to how material, scale, and composition shape the viewer’s sense of space.

Selected paintings

Wane (2026), 40x30cm, acrylic and oil on canvas

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Tank (2025), 30X24cm, oil on canvas

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Ember (2025), 120x100cm, acrylic and oil on cotton

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Wane II (2026), 40x30cm, acrylic on canvas

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Poppy (2025), 70x50cm, acrylic and oil on cotton

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Peak (2025), 60x50cm, acrylic and oil on cotton

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Impetus (2025), 70x50cm, acrylic and oil on cotton

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Yellow Itch (2022),180x145cm, acrylic on cotton

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Untitled (2025), 120x140cm, acrylic and oil on cotton

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Havoc (2023), 100x100cm, acrylic paint on cotton

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Oil on paper (2025), 14.5x20.5cm, 2025

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Tank II (2025), 30X24cm, oil on canvas

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Flux (2025), 60x50cm, acrylic and oil on cotton

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Untitled (2024), 20x15cm, acrylic on cotton

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The Day I had Two Dogs and was One (2021), 80x60cm, acrylic paint, ink, charcoal on canvas

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Holt (2023), 50x50cm, acrylic paint on cotton

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When the Dogs died (2022), 50x70cm, acrylic and oil on wood

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The Night I had Two Dogs and was One (2021), 40x40cm, acrylic paint, candle wax, ink on canvas

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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)

Artist residencies

2025 CULTERIM Summer Residency, Gutshof Dahlewitz (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)

2025 Open Studios - CULTERIM, Dahlewitz (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

Stan Weessies

Selected paintings

© 2026 by Stan Weessies