Paul Dikker | Nergensland

Paul Dikker presents recent paintings, drawings, and aquatecs at the ArtSpace. In 2018, the Finnish cultural anthropologist Paavali Virtanen described his work as peripheral sententialism: “Paul Dikker’s paintings are pure sentences, as pure as the crystal-clear water of our Finnish lakes—riittävä Nilakka, of all places!”

In 2023, Dikker literally moved to the periphery, where he regularly retreats to his studio in the French countryside to create his work. Previously, he worked for many years in Norway (2006–2012) and Portugal (1997–2000). He has exhibited his work in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Norway.

With his clear, adventurous non-figurative paintings and drawings, he creates a multifaceted, surprising, and open universe that resists obvious, everyday interpretations and one-dimensional readings. His work is a loving ode to the beauty and mystery of life in all its quiet incomprehensibility, and thus “a self-evident expression of a peripheral state of mind,” according to Virtanen.

His work is held in collections of museums, institutions, companies, and private collectors both in the Netherlands and abroad.

Midissage: 11 May from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Suzanne Henning, chair of the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK), will say a few words.

For more information, see www.pauldikker.nl

Image: Nergensland, 165 x 115 cm, 2025/26, acrylverf op linnen