Stan Weessies is a Dutch artist based in Berlin. Weessies graduated in Fine Arts from the Maastricht Institute of Arts in the Netherlands in 2022. His practice encompasses painting, video, and performance, with a primary focus on painting. His work explores the enigmatic and compulsive search for an ideal image. At the same time, particularly through painting, he confronts the absurd and obscure aspects of striving for this ideal. Dirt, absurdity, intimacy, dominance and cynicism are other recurring themes in Weessies’ work, which he views as the result of actions both lacking clear reason and driven by naivety.

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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)

Solo/duo exhibitions
2022 Subterranean Homesick Alien - Pand, Heerlen (NL)
2022 SOTOR - MONO, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Guest artist together with visual artist Kai Tiedtke at Sexyland, Amsterdam (NL)

Group exhibitions

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