*1991 in Heerlen. Lives and works in Maastricht, NL. Sanne Vaassen completed her Bachelor‘s degree at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2013 and was an artist in resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in 2014/2015. She received the Emerging Artist Grant in 2015 and the Established Artist Grant from the Mondriaan Fund in 2019. She was nominated for the Sybren Hellinga Prize in 2016, the Parkstad Limburg Prize in 2016 and the OPEN Prize in 2020, organised by De Balie and Amsterdam‘s 4 en 5 mei comité. Her work has been exhibited in Maastricht, Eindhoven, Tilburg, Dubai, New York and London, among others.
Discipline
fine arts
Sanne Vaassen is fascinated by the unstoppable and continuously flowing transition of her surroundings: not just the transient matter within nature (changing of seasons, the hydrological cycle or symbiosis between fungus and trees), but also the changes within our culture, how for example rules and laws are adapted, how traditions and customs gain new meanings or how language evolves. Often she analyses and deconstructs such developments and questions their symbolism.
Year of participation
2021
During my stay at Neuss I will research the influence of globalisation on the transport network of food and how this relates to borders and the effect that it has on the nationalistic sentiment within a country. I will examine what influence the food industry has on social structures, political strategies and what affect it has on our relationship with nature.
Discipline
fine arts
Sanne Vaassen is fascinated by the unstoppable and continuously flowing transition of her surroundings: not just the transient matter within nature (changing of seasons, the hydrological cycle or symbiosis between fungus and trees), but also the changes within our culture, how for example rules and laws are adapted, how traditions and customs gain new meanings or how language evolves. Often she analyses and deconstructs such developments and questions their symbolism.