Opening: Friday, 4 September 2026, 18:00–20:30H
The artist will be present
Bildhalle warmly invites you to Echoes, a solo exhibition by Dutch artist Margaret Lansink.
"I have come to understand every chapter of life as an integral part of who I am today. Every experience and every choice becomes part of our unfolding story. The present holds the traces of everything that has come before. Through photography and mixed media, I seek to honour these traces and how they continue to shape our lives, inviting moments of stillness and reflection on transformation, fragility, and the passage of time."
Margaret Lansink
Bringing together works from several recent series, Echoes explores the delicate relationship between landscape, memory, and time. While rooted in photography, Lansink's practice extends into painting, collage, and sculpture, transforming images of nature into layered reflections on perception, impermanence, and our connection to the natural world.
Working with analogue and tactile processes, Lansink mounts photographs printed on delicate Japanese washi paper onto canvas and partially veils them with acrylic paint. Through layering, fragmentation, and painterly intervention, the works move between presence and disappearance, becoming poetic traces of memory and experience rather than representations of a specific place.
This sensibility extends into Lansink's sculptural works, where material, gesture, and process echo the continuous cycles of growth, erosion, and renewal found in nature. Created from a profound awareness of the fragility of our environment, Echoes invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and reflect on the delicate balance between permanence and change in the natural world.
Margaret Lansink lives and works in the Netherlands. Her work has been exhibited internationally at numerous museums, galleries, and leading photography fairs, including Paris Photo, Photo London, Art Rotterdam, and Unseen. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is the recipient of the Hariban Award (2019), the Best Dutch Book Design Award (2019), and the Fedrigoni Top Award (2025).
