Visual Artist
- Born
- 1990, Amsterdam
- Based
- Amsterdam, NL
- Education
- Rijksakademie, 2018–2019
- Medium
- Painting, Sculpture
My work investigates the relationship between time, material, and surface — how physical processes leave traces, and how those traces constitute meaning. I work primarily in oil and cold wax medium on linen, and increasingly in ceramic and cast sculpture.
I am interested in the difference between making a mark and making a gesture — between an act that adds to a surface and one that changes its character. My studio practice is built around slowness: paintings take months; ceramic series take seasons. The work earns its own time.
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2024
Amsterdam
Sediment — New Works
Galerie Licht
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2023
Rotterdam
Surface / Time
Kunsthuis Rotterdam
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2023
Brussels
Form and Void
Gallery Capsule
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2022
Amsterdam
Warmth Studies (Group Show)
De Appel
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2021
Amsterdam
Material Evidence
Stedelijk Museum Bureau
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2020
Utrecht
Encaustic Dialogues
Galerie Keulemans
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2019
Amsterdam
New Graduates (Group Show)
Rijksakademie Open Studios
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- ING Art Collection, Amsterdam
- Private collection, Brussels
- Private collection, London
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
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“De Graff's surfaces hold time the way glaciers hold climate history — in compressed, irreversible strata.”
NRC Handelsblad October 2024 -
“A rigorous painter who has found her voice in the space between accumulation and erasure.”
Metropolis M September 2023 -
“The ceramic work introduces a new dimension — literally — to a practice that was already formally assured.”
Artforum March 2023