Dionne Lausberg

Dionne Lausberg (1989, The Netherlands) is a Brussels based visual artist and curator. She received her Bachelor of Design from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). In 2015 she moved to New York City, where she studied painting under James Little, Liv Mette Larsen and Larry Poons. She was an active member of the NYC Crit Club. And has curated numerous exhibitions for 5-50 Gallery (Queens, NY), most recently in a collaboration with Ralf Kokke at Tinimini Room in Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

In her artistic practice Lausberg explores the boundaries of abstraction and realism. She zooms in on seemingly insignificant everyday objects, wrinkled sheets, rolls of paper, and most recently plant-life and botanics, transforming them into surreal landscape-like paintings. Constructing otherworldly scenes that invite the viewer to temporarily escape and hide from the ugly parts of our real world and society, while at the same time honing in on the details that add beauty to that same world. The painted backgrounds in the exhibition act like a far-away views in which the works live. Alcoves become small ‘caves’ that hold the paintings, creating moments of shelter within the space.