Artworks

Nina Vandeweghe (1988°) currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated from KASK, Ghent in 2012. Working in an expressive and illustrative style, she usually constructs her compositions with fictional, plastic cartoon-ish characters. Her work, often very colourful, gains depth and complexity from the sequences of layer upon layer from which the images emerge. In doing so, she often reuses forms, fragments and colours from previous works. This creates a vocabulary that is spontaneous and playful, but also acts as a memory of the creative process. Throughout her works, you'll find references to kitsch, comics and pop culture.

Nina Vandeweghe's work is autofictional based. She blends details of her personal life in her work to examine the complexity of topics like sexism, mental health, the patriarchy, love, feminism, emotions, capitalism, politics… Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines personal intimacy vs the public realm. She works with the political argument of the second-wave feminism of the 1960's, 'The personal is political' as the underlying philosophy for her art practice.