Hadassah Emmerich

ABOUT

Art Rug Projects has collaborated with Dutch artist Hadassah Emmerich on a commission for the National Museum of Contemporary in Athens (EMST), as part of the museum’s exhibitions cycle What If Women Ruled The World?. Three art rugs have been installed at the museum’s educational space, alongside the artist’s murals. The rugs are handmade, hand tufted, with wool and bamboo silk and the production took 4 months.

Hadassah Emmerich is a Dutch artist who lives and works in Brussels. She has become known for her exuberant paintings, collages and murals that intricately weave stylised representations of exotic fruit, body parts and vegetal elements into bold eroticised ornaments. Her work reflects an immersive and visceral exploration of the body and identity, navigating the realms of the sensory and the sensual while delving into the commodification of desire, the erotic and the exotic. Referring to the visual language of advertising and Pop art, she creates images that examine the aestheticisation of the female body. She depicts the paradox of simultaneous attraction and repulsion, intimacy and cool detachment, seduction and critique.

BIO

Hadassah Emmerich [b.1974, Heerlen, Netherlands] lives and works in Brussels.

She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, HISK Flanders and Goldsmiths College, London. Recent exhibitions include: Skin of the Shapeshifter, SUPRAINFINIT, Bucharest [2023]; Botanical Body Bliss, Galerie Ron Mandos Amsterdam [2023]; False Flat, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht [2022]; Abrasive Paradise, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, NL [2022]; Trailblazers, 150 years Royal Award for Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam [2021]; BXL Universel II: multipli.city, CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels [2021], BuahTangan, ISA Art Gallery, Jakarta [2020]; The Great Ephemeral Skin, De Garage, Mechelen [2019].

Her work is held in numerous public collections including the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, MuZee, Oostende, The Flemish Parliament and the Federal Government Collections, Brussels, Gemeentemuseum and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague and the Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands.