Evi Vingerling (b. 1979, Gouda)
Evi Vingerling (b. 1979) is an artist engaged with rendering the conflicted history of art with her own embodied experience. Primarily working as a painter, Vingerling’s lush and sumptuous paintings seek to map a space for the creation of culturally located alphabet—an index of how to read an art history from and through her own worldview. Here, Evi’s lived traumas unfurl, in the abstract, as a distinct set of codified languages entirely her own. Marks at once redolent of something ancient as they are hyper-contemporary, effloresce. They are, as Vingerling attests, her “physical manifestation of love and nature; the experience of negotiating ideas and emotional response.” Her paintings are constructed by applying silica gouache in very thin layers creating a finely colored translucent surface – each painting comes alive differently contingent on its context.
“The lack of hierarchy between forms, ideas, and emotions made possible by the materiality of paint is what I love to swim around in. Like the sunlight through the kitchen window warming the back of my legs, like my daughter’s arms, and the breeze in the treetops, and ideas of existentialism become images imbued with “abstract emotion”. The ideas for my paintings take many years to be distilled but might unfold into life in the space of a single morning. There is always a coming together between form and a set of ideas and feelings that informs how I make my paintings.” Evi Vingerling
Evi Vingerling is an artist and Co-Founder of the trans-historical project space, April in Paris. Born in the Netherlands and brought up in Georgia, in the USA, Vingerling was educated at Georgia State University and the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, from which she received a BFA (1998) Vingerling enjoyed a period of residency at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam (2005-2006). She was accepted to the Wiels, Brussels Residency Program in 2011. Evi has exhibited regularly and has been a professor at several art academies in the Netherlands. Vingerling lived in New York in 2007- 2010 where she took part in several exhibitions and worked as the gallery manager for the Swiss Institute, a prominent art space in SoHo. She returned to the Netherlands and has remained there since, currently working in The Hague.
Her work has been presented in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Such as ‘Beating Around the Bush’ at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht and ‘Dwarsverbanden’ at Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven. She has worked as a professor at Art Academies such as Artez Arnhem, the Rietveld, Amsterdam, and de Royal Academie, the Hague. She has also carried out commissions for, among others, the Government Buildings Agency in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam, and Club Laila, Palma de Mallorca. Her work has won and been nominated for several prizes, winning the Royal Prize for Painting in 2012. Her work is held in the collections of the major Dutch museums and numerous prominent public, corporate, and private collections across Europe.