Text about artist:

Sarice Brudet (*1982, Gießen) is a Dutch artist with roots in Holland, Indonesia and Surinam. Her art reflects her cross-continental upbringing across Germany, Asia, Europe and the US. Her diverse background shapes a visual language centered on dignity, empathy and the emotional layers of human coexistence. Working primarily in abstraction which she sees as an act of resistance and a starting point to create streams of thoughts for reimagination. Brudet explores balance through layered textures, fluid compositions and subtle colour shifts that encourage openness and introspection. Alongside these works, she also creates semi realistic figurative pieces that add to her engagement with a philosophical and cultural subject matter. 

Sarice Brudet is the founder and curator of the exhibition concept THE SPACE //. The objective is to create besides the exhibitions a space for thought, art mediation, foster dialogs and interdisciplinary connections. The subject matter deals with cultural complexities in a global context, humanity as a practice, coexistence, diversity, identity, social structures, postcolonial engagement, the new sublime, relational aesthetics and the relation between the human – technology – nature –  biodiversity and the cosmos.

About the Artwork:

At the auction the artist presents one of her works of the “Poetic Gesture” series. The “Poetic Gesture” and “Context of Time” series consider how time, balance and empathy influence both personal and collective identity. With the choice of material like raw materials like linen, hemp, jute and cotton, she investigates and symbolizes the tension between humans, nature and constructed systems, whose only constant is change. Her compositions act as visual mediations – quiet spaces where complexity, memory and movement meet in pursuit of belonging and transformation. The compositions are based on a folding technique, first developed as a sketch on paper, transitioned into a folding of the raw material, then documented photographically and finally translated into a painting. In a metaphorical sense, her work is concerned with gaining insight and making the invisible visible.

In both her abstract and figurative work, Sarice Brudet explores themes of coexistence, cultural complexity, fragmentation and regeneration. Her practice is a space for questioning and reimagining, where new narratives are shaped beyond traditional frameworks. Rather than forcing unity, she allows diverse elements to coexist in dialogue, dynamic, layered and evolving.

Her informal abstractions speak in a language of untamed gestures, where intuition leads and structure gives way to fluidity. These works resist rigidity, creating space for the unexpected and unknown. Through movement, texture and open form; Brudet evokes rhythm, energy and a sense of becoming. Her compositions feel like memories, possibilities or quiet invitations to reflect and shift perspective.

For Brudet, abstraction is not an escape but an offering, a space where belonging is not defined by sameness but by resonance. Her work invites us to dwell in uncertainty, to feel and to listen to what is yet to emerge.

As artistic sources of inspiration the artist often mentions among others the works of Anna-Eva Bergmann, Hans Hartung, Karl Otto Götz, Mark Bradford, Peter Paul Rubens, Gottfried Helnwein and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. For her artistic research she often quotes and incorporates among others the works and writings of Édouard Glissant, Nicolas Bourriaud, Chus Martinez, Hegel, Gaston Bachelard and Gilles Deleuze.