Natascha Waeyen
I was born in 1971 in Roermond and grew up in Buggenum. In 1988, I started at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht and studied monumental design and graduated as a visual artist. I then studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, for a year and obtained a postgraduate diploma in drawing & painting. Since then, I have lived and worked in Maastricht.
In 2024, I joined Het Werkgebouw. We are a makers collective based in the former Opel garage on the river Meuse. I see myself as a draughtsman, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. In 2023, I also joined the Dutch Circle of Drawers.
At the art academy in Maastricht in 1993, I swapped all the usual drawing materials for wire to add more dimensions to my drawings. The structure of iron wire, often aviary wire, continues to fascinate me. This does not mean that I no longer draw on paper at all. Drawing on paper, I explore the possibilities towards what it could become three-dimensionally or as a soldered drawing. I explore. With pen (and ink), unsuspected independent drawings thus emerge.
My work can be seen throughout the Netherlands and sometimes abroad at exhibitions, in galleries, at art events and museums and in public spaces on roundabouts and in nature.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
2025
Bemelen, Plateau of Margraten, 30 & 31 August, PlateauKunst 19th edition, an initiative by Wanda Reiff. Maastricht, 13 June official opening Broedplaats Het werkgebouw and on 14 June open day with the collective. Ede, 8 to 23 March 2025, group exhibition Symphony No. 3 with the Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars in Huis Kernhem.
2024
Leende & Sterksel, 29 September to 27 October 2024. Kunstsmullen. Amsterdam, 5 September to 6 October 2024, NDSM FUSE with NKvT GEN-T, mini-residencies and group exhibition at NDSM FUSE with the Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars. Bemelen, Plateau of Margraten, 24 & 25 August, plateauKunst 18th edition, an initiative of Wanda Reiff. Margraten, 12 June to 27 August, exhibition at the hillside library Margraten. Marrum, 11 May to 17 May week residency at Het Lage Noorden in Friesland. Maastricht. 1 December 2023 to 31 January 2024, Galerie PontArte – WINTERSALON, group exhibition.
2023
Maastricht, 20 to 22 October, Galerie Pontarte – OVER VLOED | OVERVLOED, group exhibition and a large installation during Maastricht Gallery Weekend in the basement with a link to the flooding of the gallery on 12 September 2023 Amsterdam, 29 September – 1 October, BIGART in the former Bijlmerbajes, made possible by Art gallery O-68 The Hague, 31 May to 25 June, group exhibition of the Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars (NKvT) at the Haagse Kunstkring. Lage Vuursche, 5 June to 10 June, participation land-art at theatre festival Vuurol. Bemelen, Plateau van Margraten: 8 – 10 April book presentation ´space by waeyen,2023´ and exhibition at Wanda Reiff’s, opened with the homely words of Govert Derix.
2022
Heeze, 15 – 30 October, cultural event Kunstsmullen, installations on Kapellerput estate and exhibition at De Kliuw gallery, among others. Heythuysen, 14 October – 28 October, Beijlshof Landart Manifestation. Bemelen, Plateau van Margraten, 27 & 28 August, plateauKunst 16th edition, an initiative of Wanda Reiff. Velp, 17 July – 14 August, Art gallery O-68, group exhibition ‘A something in a Summer’s Day’. Eijsden, 13 July launch second series Kunst-O-Maat municipality of Eijsden-Margraten. Aalsmeer, 4 June – 14 August, Flower Art Museum, group exhibition ‘the Floral Album’, an initiative of Corry Zwart. Velp, 8 May – 5 June, Art gallery O-68, duo exhibition with Maureen Bachaus ‘Liminal zones’. Maastricht, 24 February – 13 March, Galerie Pontarte, group exhibition ‘About Me – About You’.
