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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, a
cryllics, chalk, pencils, oil bars and lino stamps. I create while I'm at home or traveling abroad. 

Harmke Antonissen.jpg
Harmke Antonissen.jpg

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
I
llustrations: 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 a
nd Textile Design


Sint Lucas Antwerpen, 1996 - 2000
Master of Arts, Illustration Design

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