STAN WEESSIES
Stan Weessies (NL) is a Berlin-based painter 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.
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.
His paintings sit somewhere between landscape, memory, and imagination, where spatial suggestion, instability, and change become central.
Stan Weessies, 2026. Photo: Jacki T. S
SELECTED PAINTINGS
Ember
2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Gyre
2026
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Impetus
2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
70 x 50 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Leach
2026
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 50 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Poppy
2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
70 x 50 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Tank
2025
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Sinking, Burning
2026
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 120 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Shot
2026
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 30 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
Wane
2026
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 50 cm
© Stan Weessies
Photo: Jacki T. S
BIOGRAPHY
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 EXHIBITIONS
2026 Gyre - Culterim Gallery, Ostbahnhof, Berlin (DE)
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Subterranean Homesick Alien - Pand, Heerlen (NL)
2022 SOTOR - MONO, Rotterdam (NL)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Culterim Studios Show #5 - Cank, Berlin (DE)
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 by Kai Tiedtke & Stan Weessies - Transport Artspace, Maastricht (NL)
2022 The Dirty and the Darling by Kai Tiedtke & Stan Weessies - Microgolf festival, Maastricht (NL)
2020 Solo performance at Sounds Sitings 4 - Odapark, Venray (NL)
SCREENINGS
2022 The Dirty and the Darling (film) by Kai Tiedtke & Stan Weessies - The Hungry Don’t Play, Maastricht (NL)
2022 The Dirty and the Darling (film) by Kai Tiedtke & Stan Weessies - SOTOR - MONO, Rotterdam (NL)
AWARDS
2022 Nominated for Buning Brongers Prize