Joris Kuipers (born 1977) is a Dutch artist based in Rotterdam. Bachelor at Arnhem Academy, in 2003, he completed a master’s study at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. In recent years, the only legacy of traditional painting in Kuipers’work is colour, often applied in bright hues and rich abundance. With his working methods he rather follows the trail of Jackson Pollock and other expressionists. Kuipers’worlds of colour are constructed out of myriads of dots and stains of pure pigments, merging into colourful clouds when observed from some distance. 

From the first colorful impressions, Kuipers’ work unfolds into ever finer detail. The unique, vibrant surface of every individual element arrests the attention, makes you marvel at the subtle contrasts that accentuate the countless different hues in a bold but harmonious palette. Gold, fluorescent orange and burnt sienna, or infinite shades of pink, yellow, purple, orange and red. Within each work, the separate cut-out shapes are part of an ingenious spatial composition suggesting movement in every direction.

Face to face with an installation or wall relief by Joris Kuipers you are about to enter a different dimension. One where the chaotic, random events of life have been captured and carefully rearranged to create an animated, lyrical object of beauty. Hand-drawn, laser-cut slices of imagination are assembled into jubilant abstract visions that effortlessly expand into the surrounding space. Constellations reminiscent of billowing clouds, minerals and flowers in bloom testify to the vitality of nature and our own capacity for joy.