Tanja Ritterbex

The work of Tanja Ritterbex (1958, Netherlands) is about Tanja Ritterbex herself. It reflects her love of bright colors, especially pink, and all kinds of decorative objects. It is about how she looks and what she experiences as a girl, a woman, a mother, and an artist; about what she eats, and other everyday activities. Her body of work is autobiographical, seen through a pink lens.

By using this pink lens, Ritterbex transforms daily life into something completely archetypically feminine, while also reinterpreting classical archetypes from visual art from a female perspective. Ritterbex primarily makes paintings, which sometimes continue in the form of drawings, sculptures, videos, and performances.