About Aimée Terburg

ABOUT

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"We see the world in three dimensions. The flat surface has two dimensions.
Each work, each autonomous element demands how to react to this encounter.
In every action the dynamic between material, my hands and eyes define a unity: what do they know. I construct, and reduce ... in time, until a simplicity that catches this."

Aimée Terburg - contextualist, a visual artist with a process-driven, reductive approach.
She constructs and reduces until a clear simplicity, highlighting the context of material and immaterial perception.

Murals, paintings, drawings and site-responsive installations

Terburg catches subtle shifts in perception to slow down and intensify the perceiving. Her research into the process of making, material, abstract art genres and (trans)cultural structures function as working tools, like brushes or pencils. The challenge of engaging in time-limited painting, or time-absorbing drawing techniques are questioned actions how to coincide the personal and general nature of things, thoughts, time and techniques.

The making centers around the dynamic of (de)validating inner and outer conditions, essentializing the experience of perception as her voice. Terburg creates abstract senses of place on paper, canvas, and walls. In recent years her focus is on site-responsive murals and installations that resonate with herself, the making process, and spatial surrounding or history / ourstory. Almost to be finished by the viewer.

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Aimée Terburg (1971) lives and works in Groningen (NL) and is represented by Murals Inc. (NL).

Terburg graduated Cum Laude at Art Academy Minerva (Groningen, NL) and exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally. She is from Dutch / Surinamese origin, born and raised in the Northern Netherlands. Trying to catch the essence of experiencing the regional landscape started her artistic research how we relate to space, plane and image.

Recent exhibitions include:
Solo show Murallarum II, Kunstprojecten Noorderstation - Northwest, Groningen, NL (2024); Hydrogrpahy, Visserhallen Ijmuiden, NL (2023); Bittersweet Heritage, Akerk, Groningen (2022); Solo show Murallarum, Kunstprojecten Noorderstation - Southeast, Groningen, NL (2021); Orbit - Poimena Gallery, Tasmania, AUS (2021); Murals Inc., Rotterdam, NL (2020); VfaKR, Oberhausen, DE (2020); Solo show Tending Shapes - Bending Colors, Gray Contemporary, Houston USA (2019); Big Circle - Exposition #2, Kyiv, UKR (2019); Five Walls, Melbourne, AUS (2019); Art The Hague (Art fair with MURALS Inc. 2018); Art Noord 2 (Art fair with De Kunstdames 2018); Gray Contemporary, Houston, USA (solo 2016); Gallery Hein Elferink, NL (solo 2016); Transmitter, New York City (US debut, 2015); Studio 1.1, London, UK (2015); Gallery Crelan, Brussels, BE (2015); ruimteCAESUUR, Middelburg, NL (solo 2015); Summer exhibition - Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2014); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK (2014).

Her art was nominated for the International Solo Award of the Spring Exhibition, Copenhagen, DK (2014); the biennial Nordwestkunst Price, DE (2013); the J.K. Egberts Award, NL (2007).
Terburg's work was selected for the 'Summer Exhibition Illustrated 2014' catalogue of the Royal Academy of Arts, London among 177 artists; and is included in art collections a.o. of the Coöperative bank Crelan (BE), Dutch Gasunion (NL), Foundation ‘FB Oranjewoud’ (NL) and private art collections worldwide.



Photo: © Reyer Boxem