RUBIA

RUBIA 

Rubia is the plant that gives red and pink through its highly pigmented roots. It sets the ground for an exhibition where we explore the feminine as force. Pink, long underestimated, is present here, moving between roots and becoming. 

As artists, we met during a previous exhibition and kept circling back to the same thing. This colour, and everything it carries. RUBIA grew from that. A shared urge to take it seriously, to work through it, in four different ways. 

Colina van Bemmel works from a beyond-human perspective, where connection to larger rhythms of life unfolds through symbolism and material transformation. Cycles, intuition, and interconnectedness shape the work from within. 

Lena Vigeveno, coming from a background in costume making, keeps returning to red. Through textiles, she explores the tension between intensity and softness. 

Sophia de Vliet paints with sharp colour and contrast, creating a visual awareness that both alienates from reality, and that echoes signals from the natural world. Her work starts from a female perspective, where femininity holds strength, pride, and transformation. 

Ragheni Ghogli is an abstract painter. She explores the interplay of color, light and acrylic techniques. Her work is about awareness with themes such as culture, sustainability and femininity. 

This exhibition is about taking up space. About not shrinking or adapting. About what it means to be a woman and an artist, and letting that be visible, fully.