Stan Weessies is a Dutch painter based in Berlin whose work explores the eerie and obscure in imagined places and spaces. His early paintings were aggressive and instinctive — created on unstretched fabric through a chaotic mix of brushwork, stains, scraping, and unconventional materials, often resembling a physical struggle. Fascinated by the radical openness of the “holy fool” and their longing for the divine, his recent work has become more deliberate, constructing psychological spaces that feel strange, intimate, and unsettled — yet evoke a longing to inhabit them.
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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
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