Bobbi Essers

Bobbi Essers’ paintings evoke a sense of intimacy and emotional connection, offering privileged glimpses into fleeting moments shared within her friend group. By focusing on portraying those closest to her, Essers captures an experience uniquely personal and yet broadly universal – the enchantment of friendship.
Starting from personal photographs, her works emanate a distinct luminosity; Essers deliberately selects raw photographs as source material, capturing her subjects in honest, unguarded moments. Her goal is not to attain the perfect likeness, but rather to create a harmonious blend of the subjects’ true essence and the way in which she perceives them. For the viewer, the familiarity of these portrayals contains a hint of voyeurism: Essers transports her viewers through time and space, immersing them in a vivid tapestry of nostalgia.

Browse works by Bobbi Essers

What was ours still will be

no one to tell us no

Break of day

All the-flowers will bloom

Bobbi Essers (2000) is a visual artist currently based in Groningen. She graduated from HKU in 2022 with a BA in Fine Arts. Her works have been exhibited both in the Netherlands and abroad, at Art Rotterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum MORE, Melkweg expo, Gallery Unit in London and Marian Cramer Projects in Los Angeles among others.
In 2022, she won the Buning Brongers Prize for painting and the Ron Mandos Young Blood Public Choice Award in the Best of Graduates 2022 exhibition. A year later, she won the Royal Award for Modern Painting and was named FD Talent of 2023.

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