Bo Emmens
drawing - environment - artistic research - process
As a romantic landscape surveyor-painter and performative researcher-storymaker, Bo Emmens (2001, NL) travels around the Netherlands to report on the insubstantial manifestations of the contemporary Dutch culture-nature dialectic.
Searching for and relating to places with unclear or complex identities, Bo dives into local feelings of place by drawing subversively traditional land- and cityscapes from carelessly chosen perspectives (oil pastel, pencil, markers on paper). This he combines with writing, acting and the organizing of absurd writing and drawing workshops, in which Bo questions the way we understand and relate to insignificant or prestigeless landscapes.
Bo Emmens graduated cum laude in Art & Research (BA) from St. Joost, Breda, in 2023. He lives and works in Rotterdam.
