About – Jeroen Teerlinck
Jeroen Teerlinck

artist statement

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Jeroen Teerlinck (b. 1990) is a self-taught artist working with sculptural panels and installations. His practice explores grief, rupture, and the longing for closeness, not as abstractions, but as what breaks where language fails: physical, raw, inescapable.

He works with wax, natural resin, salvaged textiles, pigment, and gauze. These materials do not depict; they embody scars and memory. Torn, layered, stitched, wounded: the surfaces absorb more than image. They breathe. They endure. They are.

Each work embodies what cannot be said. Emerging slowly, over weeks or months, they carry an unavoidable presence. Not meant to be looked at, but felt.

Outside academic frameworks, Teerlinck has shaped a visual language rooted in lived experience: precise, raw, unafraid. His work does not seek approval. What remains is silence. Unflinching.

In a time where speed, spectacle, and surface set the tone, his work refuses the reassurance of closure or comfort. As grief loses its rituals and wounds are forced to heal too quickly, he opens a space where loss can remain collective, visible, and unresolved. His work confronts what this time struggles most to bear: love persisting through absence, memory that refuses to fade, and fractures that remain when looking away is no longer possible.

Jeroen Teerlinck lives and works in Amsterdam. His debut solo exhibition opens in October in a former chapel.