Geeske Bijker

One of the most important starting points for the work by Geeske Bijker (1971, the Netherlands) is the flat surface in various aspects: in the meanings of the painted surface and the everyday iconography, and in the ambiguity of the spatial and flat effect of a work. Here, the tension between line, colour, surface and shape is significant. The paintings are a bright, composition of spheres, cubes, stripes and lines. The interplay of the shapes, colours and patterns, and the positioning of the ‘flat’ work in the space play an increasingly important role in her working process. Geeske Bijker’s work is an interaction of colors, lines and planes. She plays with people’s aesthetic expectations, their longing for symmetry and perceptibility to the senses in order to disorganize them in a subtle way. Provocative pink and light blue, neat frames along the walls could be interpreted as an ironic comment on modernist tradition.