Emma Pluijgers

Emma Pluijgers is a painter who graduated from AKI ArtEZ in 2023, she is nominated for the KITT Youngblood Award.

Her work is about her daily life and experience as a woman, about the rising popularity of hard drugs and taboos surrounding sex and kinks. Shocking topics are painted in a bright, naive and flat palette, which helps to approach the subjects with a playful mindset. Both ironic and earnest at the same time the work doesn't judge but rather invites us to an open dialogue.