Eggs, 2019
oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm

Long Reader, 2019
oil on canvas
28 x 31 cm

Reader, 2019
oil on canvas
34 x 25 cm

Untitled, 2019
oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm

Messages, 2017
oil on canvas
140 x 160 cm

Clouds of Rain, Clouds of Snow, 2017
oil on canvas
125 x 145 cm

A Day Without a Day, 2016
oil on canvas
140 x 165 cm

Untitled, 2016
oil on canvas
32 x 26 cm

Cold Feet, 2015
oil on canvas
35 x 30 cm

RijksakademieOPEN 2011
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

RijksakademieOPEN 2011
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

RijksakademieOPEN 2011
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

RijksakademieOPEN 2011
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, installation view

Untitled, 2011
oil on canvas
50 x 35 cm

Untitled, 2011
oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm

Plane, 2011
oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm

Untitled, 2011
oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm

Xenos, 2011
oil on canvas
22 x 20.5 cm

Local Measurements, 2009
acrylic and oil on canvas
145 x 180 cm

Untitled, 2009
acrylic and oil on canvas
180 x 150 cm

biography

Sanne Rous’s work consists of paintings and drawings. Her views on painting are based on the realization that painting enters into a continuous interaction with other media – including installations, photography, video and performance – and is thus part of a world of images that extends far beyond the boundaries of the painted canvas. Her (painterly) thinking is all about observing and activating the gaze. Painting offers opportunities in this age of digital manipulation: it can be disobedient, even subversive, because – after being endlessly declared dead – it has sung away from the ballast of traditional expectations that it holds on to. Rous gratefully makes use of this freedom. The works of Rous have various starting points. They come from observations and memories as well as from stories and photos. What connects the works is not so much a narrative aspect, rather they share a world in which the sensory experience of looking (a looking that is also feeling) is central. Rous: “The works are painted musings about the images that I see around me. They are often images that cannot be interpreted directly. They can go in different directions, depending on the circumstances. Often a work starts with something that I see, a fleeting moment that gets stuck. I try to be open in it. Everything can be a potential subject. While painting, I scan an image. Usually I first make small paintings in which I am just trying and searching. I am fascinated by the speed and casualty in which images can arise while painting on a small size: the painting becomes an expanding mental space where the possibilities of the image are tested.”                                                                                                                                          

Sanne Rous was born in 1984 in Apeldoorn (NL). She followed an exchange program at the Art Institute in San Francisco (US) in 2005. In 2006 she completed her Bachelor’s degree at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (NL). In 2008 she obtained her Masters degree at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen (NL). In 2012 and 2013 she was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (NL). Her work was shown in group exhibitions at The Cassini Cruise, Maastricht (NL); Kunstruimte De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (NL); The Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht (NL); Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (NL); Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL); Natuurmuseum, Groningen (NL). Her work is represented in private and public collections at home and abroad.

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gallery exhibitions
July 22 - August 22, 2020
Group
March 4 - April 1, 2017
Solo
May 2 - June 22, 2013
Group
April 14 - May 12, 2012
Group
February 26 - April 2, 2011
Solo
September 4 - October 23, 2010
Group
November 7 - December 19, 2009
Group