Eline Boerma (b.1999, Culemborg NL) holds a BA from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Utrecht (2022) and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London (2026). Villazan Gallery presents the artist’s first solo exhibition in 2026.

Boerma’s works appear to be in constant flux. Like wind, light, or water, the paintings resist stillness. The work reflects on nature and society, understanding both as interconnected systems driven by internal contradictions. Rather than illustrating these tensions directly, the works embody them materially. The works are structured through tensions between abstraction and reference, control and collapse, movement and suspension.

Grounded in material experimentation, each painting emerges through a cycle of fast, impulsive mark-making, followed by long periods of observation and reflection. Traces of landscape and figures emerge and dissolve within turbulent fields of colour and movement.

The abstract gesture is a relocating experience, moving between inner and outer worlds, between psychological states and collective unrest. The paintings record their own becoming, holding together multiple temporalities, speeds and states of matter.

Immersive in scale and visceral in surface, Boerma’s paintings invite a mode of looking that resists immediacy and consumption. Elements reveal themselves slowly, like forms emerging through fog at sea.

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EDUCATION

2026 MA Painting Royal College of Art, London

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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