Showing elements of experiences in wind, water and waves, the light installations and paintings of Eline Boerma (b. 1999, the Netherlands) are an adventure to dive into. The quickness and impermanence of light in her light installations are like the temporality of moments that come and go, which are also captured in her paintings. Moments when the sunlight reflects on water, or when the wind blows ripples on its surface, are most inspiring to her. Boerma tries to grasp the countless sensory experiences that are short-lived and quickly forgotten in her work, blown up to big proportions in outbursts of expressive lines and colors.

Standing before Boerma’s paintings is an overwhelming experience, the images invite you to immerse yourself in the work. Boerma gives her paintings titles that came from the music she listened to while making them. Creating rhythmic patterns with her energetic brush strokes, she wants the viewer to experience her paintings like you experience music. Let the bright blue lines and soft yellow clouds wash over you like the continuous waves of the sea, bathe yourself completely in the illusion of space.

–Milou Terpstra, 2022

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EDUCATION‍

2022 BA Fine Art, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Utrecht (NL)

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EXHIBITIONS‍

2026 Solo show at VILLAZAN gallery, Madrid (ES)

2026 Degree show Royal College of Art, London (UK)

2026 States of becoming, group show, Kers Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2025 The limits of language, group show, Le Mont Art Space, Taiwan (TWN)

2025 Duo show at Yellow Gallery, Leiden (NL)

2025 Art Rotterdam fair with Kers Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)

2025 Rond de hut van Mondriaan, museum Singer Laren, Laren (NL)

2024 Pop-up during Art Basel Paris with Kers Gallery, Paris (FR)

2024 Kers gallery solo in Project Space, Amsterdam (NL)

2024 Strokes and texture: navigating through the abstract, Duo show, Villazan gallery, Madrid (ES)

2024 Art Rotterdam with Josilda da Conceicao gallery, Rotterdam (NL)

2023 Explorations, Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden (NL)

2023 Somewhere we have never travelled, Josilda da Conceicao gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2023 My Space, group show, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg (NL)

2022 In Motion, Enari Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2022 Big Art, with Enari Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2022 Art Utrecht, Utrecht (NL)

2022 SBK Sprouts Young Talents, Amsterdam (NL)

2022 Fresh Cacao, de Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)

2022 Best of Graduates, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)

2022 Exposure, HKU, Utrecht (NL)

2022 Tribute Collective, Club Atelier, Amsterdam (NL)

2022 Licht & Donker, de Havenloods, Utrecht (NL)

2021-2022 Stroom, Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden (NL)

2021 Hit the Curb, HKU feesten, Utrecht, (NL)

2020 Skidmark, de Vegtvliet, Breukelen, (NL)

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PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS

2024 Nominated for the Dutch Royal prize for painting

2024 Supported by Mondriaan Fonds starters stipend

2022 Winner of the Dooyewaard Stipend

2022 Nominated for the Buning Brongers prize

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

2025 Guest lecture at Norwich University of the Arts MA students

2025 Guest lecture at HKU to BA Fine Art students

2021-2022 Artist initiative Artides

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