17/07/2026
Also forming part of the first phase of our Sweet Summer Weeks is the work of Laurien Renckens. Clean, often oblique lines and smooth surfaces characterize Laurien Renckens’ work. An effective combination of light colours and pastels with fluorescent colours. As a result, your attention is instantly drawn, on a subconscious level, towards these abstract canvasses and panels. Like aesthetic, visual sirens.
For Laurien Renckens, the last few years have been a journey. Her previous series, Telesma, captured her experience in making good luck talismans from recyclable material, inspired by her travels through Kenya. From the bold and bright colours, to the indomitable spirit of the Kenyan people, Laurien created a series of 99 unique small works on reused Nespresso cardboard packaging, painted and folded out to make colourful talismans.
For her latest series, Bird of Paradise, Laurien is returning to painting on canvas, but bringing to the canvas much of what she learned from her experiences in Kenya and with her Telesma series. Laurien naturally started developing more figures, but realised that these new creations deserve to be big. By first creating them out of paper and then rendering them on canvas layer by layer, Laurien has found a way to bring what she has learned over the last few years back to her original love, painting. Every line marks a gesture of renewal, while remaining rooted in what already is. Together they form rhythms and patterns that seem to move, to vibrate.
Laurien started seeing her new figures as “vreemde vogels”, a sort of tribute to the oddballs that make life so much more interesting, with Laurien expressing the uniqueness of people and the “colour” that they project into the world.
Be sure to catch Laurien Renckens’ work alongside work by Sanja Marušić and Frank Fischer, on show until August 2.
