FIFTY - FIFTY- Integraatioprosessini hollantilaisesta suomalaiseksi

Krijgsman Willem

Willem Krijgsman (born in 1953, Delft-Holland) is a professional Visual Artist and Interior Architect. Since 1981 he has been living in Finland. He has studied at the College of Art (Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam. After his studies, in 1981, he moved to Finland and has worked as an interior architect and free time artist, since 1997 as a professional visual artist. Krijgsman has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions, besides he has been a curator for art exhibitions. His arts contain e.g. paper collages, assemblages, junk art, drawings, colour pencil paintings and clay sculpture. Willem Krijgsman is especially known for his figurative, symbolistic, intertextual colour pencil paintings, but also for his figurative clay sculptures. Now, as a senior visual artist, he has started to look back on his artistic career and wants to show and explain his art works in wider perspective, or as he says: in book-formed exhibitions.
Willem Krijgsman has published (BoD in 2023) his first book in Finnish. In the art book “Fifty-Fifty” he is telling about his integration process into the Finnish society. The book is illustrated by his intertextual colour pencil paintings, collages, using e.g. paintings from the Golden Age of Finnish Art.
Willem Krijgsman’s info: https://kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en (Artist Register – Artists’ Association of Finland)