What is your specialty, what makes your work unique? Or place your artist's statement.

From childhood memories and everyday occurrences, Boukje Kemper produces a recognizable visual language, consistently built from various patterns. Whether referring to the checkered surfaces of the cloths she often uses both in themselves and as painted surfaces, or to the recurring visual elements such as ice cream cones, cherries, and flowers that appear often from work to work, altogether these patterns shape a strong visual identity reminiscent of the artist. 
As she explores and follows her own urges, desires, and instincts, Kemper is not shy of attempting new and unorthodox ways of creating paintings. Approaching them as collages or patchwork at times, or giving them literal depth by laser-cutting elements out of them at others, her works challenge the very fabric of painting. At the same time, however, the recurring elements of textile handiwork, such as sewing and embroidery, give her work a more intimate touch, revealing some of the memories that lay at the base of Kemper’s paintings. 

- Menno Vuister

What are your ambitions? What do you want to be in five years?

I want to start an all-women art collective.

What is the most important thing you have learned during your studies?

Paintings should hang at the eyesight of 150 cm.

List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.

Group Expositions
January 2020 - It’s My Turn - Kunstuitleen, Utrecht - curated by Vincent van Velsen
May 2019 - Vodka Soup - The First Time Always Hurts - LOU, Utrecht

Nominated for the exhibition Lef