HARMKE
ANTONISSEN
visual artist
All facets of love.
My work captures all facets of love. Daily-life-love and wild-sensuality-love. It catches the dark and the light. The joy and the sadness. Fulfillment, and the longing for it.
I use different techniques and mixed media: aquarel, ink, acryllics, chalk, pencils, oil bars and lino stamps. I create while I'm at home or traveling abroad.
Artist statement
The dance of intimacy. Uncensored.
Intimacy is a dance between energies. Sometimes subtle and slow - a caress, a look in the eyes, hands touching. Other times wild, passionate, joyful, sexy. Or it can feel as a tender and warm dance alone.
My work not only captures the facets of intimacy, but above all takes you to these intimate places. Uncensored.
The search for intimacy leads us through the field of attraction and repulsion. Of togetherness and being alone. It’s about finding that sweet spot, where lives meet.
The materials I use in my artworks do the same thing. Ink merges with water and bister. Oil bars set a boundary, and have a repellent effect on the ink. It’s the mixed media on paper that eventually create the dance of intimacy.
Exhibitions
2023 l'Amour de Moroc,
Vrijdagmarkt, Antwerp
2022 l'Art du Désir
Vrijdagmarkt, Antwerp
2020 Illustrations Érotiques
Conscience 20, Antwerp
2019 Touch
Mr. Hulot, Antwerp
2018 Group exhibition
Galerie Wulder, Sint-Niklaas
Publications
2021 Vaginaplezier
Author: Ann Cuyvers
Illustrations: Harmke Antonissen
2020 Samen zin
Author: Ann Cuyvers
Illustrations: Harmke Antonissen
2020 De poort
Author: Soseki Natsume
Illustrations: Harmke Antonissen
2020 Het naakte leven
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Illustrations: Harmke Antonissen
2018 Twaalf Orgasmes
Author: Ann Cuyvers
Illustrations: Harmke Antonissen
2020 Knack, illustrations for several articles
Education
Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, 2000 - 2003
Master of Arts, Fashion and Textile Design
Sint Lucas Antwerpen, 1996 - 2000
Master of Arts, Illustration Design