ABOUT
Niels Roest’s creative efforts begin by capturing mundane subjects that evoke the awareness that time is passing. These still life details are modest disruptions of everyday scenario’s that reveal the unconscious ways we conduct our lives. By doing so, Niels considers the relationship between history on an existential level and the capturing qualities of photography.
He uses his accumulated archive of images as a starting point to explore ways to interfere with the apparent transparency of photography as a medium, emphasising its status as a means for visual representation. By working with various analogue and digital techniques he is giving form to a visual vocabulary characterised by various degrees of abstraction.
EXHIBITIONS
11/2024: NockNock Art Fair 2024, De Gashouder, Amsterdam.
12/2023: Sacred / Mud, De Kruisruimte, Eindhoven.
09/2023: Under Soft Construction, De Fabriek, Eindhoven.
07/2023: Kunstcamping de Chloorie, KunstpodiumT, Tilburg.
05/2023: The big art & tiny golf disco exhibition, Stadsgalerij, Breda.
05/2022: Kringverjaardag, Insitu3 Expo Space – Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp.
03/2022: World Receiver, Omstand – Space For Contemporary Art, Arnhem.
09/2021: Fresh Cacao, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond.
09/2021: Etalage.art, Dordrecht.
07/2021: Kersvers, Pictura, Dordrecht.
07/2021: Still/ in motion, Art & Research department, AKV St.Joost, Breda.
07/2021: 2.70m, Dordrecht.
RESIDENCIES
11/2023: The Interdisciplinary Makerdays, De Kruisruimte, Eindhoven.
10/2023: De Kruisruimte, Eindhoven.
04/2023: Stadsgalerij, Breda.
02/2022: Omstand – Space For Contemporary Art, Arnhem.
03/2021: De Fabriek, Eindhoven.
TALENT PROGRAMS
2023-2023: Inversie 2023, Inversie Talenthub, Noord-Brabant.
2021-2022: Apprentice-Master Project, KunstpodiumT, Tilburg.
EDUCATION
2017-2021: BA Fine Art, AKV St. Joost, Breda.
2019-2020: Erasmus Exchange, Drawing & Printmaking, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent.
2014-2017: Graphic Design, Grafisch Lyceum, Rotterdam.
2009-2014: Kunst Examenklas, Havo, Develstein College, Zwijndrecht.