Rezi van Lankveld

Rezi van Lankveld (1973, Almelo, Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam. Van Lankveld is known for her small-scale paintings, often begun on the floor, in which thin paint is allowed to flow, bend and metamorphose across the canvas. Forms arise intuitively, suggesting still lifes, landscapes, fragments, only to dissolve and re-emerge through long, attentive processes of reworking. Light and density coexist with roughness and spontaneity; looping brushstrokes, elastic curves and chromatic slips evoke muscular tension and release. Beneath this apparent freedom lies a high degree of compositional control: a choreography of forms carefully constructed through duration, in which intuition and structure remain inseparable. The image is never fixed, it hovers in a state of becoming.

Van Lankveld studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (1993–1997) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (1997–1999). She received the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 2001.

Solo exhibitions include Premonitions, Petzel Gallery, New York (2025); Imprint, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2023); Soft Sun, Petzel Gallery, New York (2022); Flitsen, Office Baroque, Brussels (2020); Drifting Constants, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); Drifting Constants, Reset Home, Borgloon (2019); Solutions, The Approach, London (2018); Rezi van Lankveld, Petzel Gallery, New York (2017); Si Tu Sors, Je Sors, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2015); Brrxop, Spatiu Intact, Cluj-Napoca (2014); Solo presentation, FIAC, Paris (2014); Rezi van Lankveld, The Approach, London (2013); Rezi van Lankveld, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2010); and Rezi van Lankveld, The Approach, London (2010).

Group exhibitions include Wo Mann Sich Trifft, Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten (2023); WE PAINT!, Palais des Etudes des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2022); Blindenzimmer, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022); Dancing with Octopuses, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2021); Realta Ordinarie, Palazzo de' Toschi, Bologna (2020); 'Inevitable Figuration': A Scene of Painting Today, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2013); Back to Black, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2008); and Accidental Painting, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York (2007).

Her work is held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Dordrechts Museum; The Rabobank Art Collection; The Art Collection of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London and New York.