Gwendolyn Kassenaar
Award winning visual artist Gwendolyn Kassenaar (b.1973 Amsterdam) works across painting, drawing and performance.
Gwendolyn creates live improvised art on stage with musicians and dancers, aided by her synaesthesia. She performed at renowned venues such as Cafe Oto, Hundred Years Gallery and SOAS University and collaborates with highly regarded musicians including Orphy Robinson MBE, Maggie Nicols, Beibei Wang and Hyelim Kim.
She live painted public mural ‘Dance to Ecstacy’ in London (2021) and conceived innovative performance ‘A Trajectory to Unsuffocation’ for the Bloomsbury Festival (2022).
Her work is exhibited widely, owned throughout Europe and featured in iconic magazine the Wire and on Soho Radio. In 2024 she won the prestigious Serpentine Gallery Support Structures award.
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