The practice of Bernice Nauta (b. 1991, Netherlands) consists of drawing and painting. Site-specific installations, objects, stories, audio works and films. Through- out the works parafictional characters appear which hover between paper, canvas and the human body: they are object and subject alike and live in between the visible and invisible, like the figure of the stunt double. In this liminal space Nauta’s protagonists are on a quest for identity and continuously in search of a form. The interplay between the surface and what lies underneath that surface, is a recurring method she employs. Next to her individual practice, she collaborates with a variety of people.
Bernice Nauta studied painting at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, 2013 and the MFA program F For Fact at Sandberg Institute, 2022. She attended the residency programmes at NIKI, Hannover, Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum (DE), Orbital Residency, Cantabria (ES) and the European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk (NL). Solo exhibitions include presentations at Poppositions 2018, Brussels; Elfaro de Cabo Mayor, Santander; Ondertussen, Stroom Den Haag; Cultuur Centrum Strombeek, Brussels and 1646 in THe Hague; and group exhibitions at De Apotheek, Amsterdam, Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam; José de la Fuente Gallery, Santander; Assembly Point, London; Squash Editions, Mexico City; 1646, The Hague, Quadro 21 Gallery in Cluj-Napoce and C5CNM in Beijing, m.simons Gallery, Amsterdam. Nauta is part of the artist-run gallery Billytown, The Hague, where her work was shown in numerous exhibitions.
