Inke Bemelmans
Isn't it all about playfully discovering our (social) identity
Biography
Belgian contemporary artist, mainly autodidact in painting, digital drawing and graphic design.
Her background in software engineering brought her to digital drawing using Adobe Illustrator. Between 2005 and 2015 she created illustrations with graphic pen. These vector drawings are cheerful, original and poetic, with a cartoonish touch.
Since 2016 Inke paints on canvas, using acrylic. Her paintings give meaning to her way of coping with life: question your position, leave your perspective and allow another perspective. She incorporates elements from comic strips, graphic design, pop art and surrealism.
Her art is art without perspective, or from a different perspective, with bright colors in flat shapes, semi-figurative, with clear lines. You often find a central figure from which every other element starts, which can be a stylized tree, a cartoonish foot or a symbolic arrow. Everything is connected, and once connected, everything behaves the same way. Inke likes to put you on a different track, emphasizing topics like loving trees, gender identity, cultural markers, social identity and self reflection.
At the same time she maintains a collection of paintings in a completely different, impressionistic style with nocturnal views of the city. In this collection "because the night", she allows the melancholy.
On her website inkebemelmans.be you can find a collection of her paintings, digital illustrations and poems.
Influences
Wassily Kandinsky, Pierre Alechinsky, Patti Smith, Hergé (The Adventures of Tintin)
Education
1995-1998 Applied information and computer science Leuven, Groep T, Belgium
1976-1981 Advanced linguistics and literature K.U.Leuven, Belgium
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2024 Charging station Wellen, Belgium
2018 A pink floyd between rolling stones Wellen, Belgium
Collective Expositions
2024 Kunstkijkers Bilzen, Belgium
2023 Galeria Uxval Gochez Barcelona, Spain
2023 Kunstkijkers Bilzen, Belgium
2017 Kunsttour Maastricht, Netherlands