José Heerkens

28 November 2025 - 1 February 2026

opening: Friday 28 November 17.00 hrs

Press Release – José Heerkens at Galerie VIVID

Galerie VIVID proudly presents the solo exhibition 'Paint to Walk'by the Dutch painter José Heerkens (b.1950), known for her refined minimalist language in which colour and line carry equal weight.

Heerkens paints primarily in oil on linen stretched over aluminium and wooden frames, and uses acrylic and watercolour for works on paper. Her practice is driven by a search for space, drawing on the traditions of minimal and concrete art. Through systematic principles combined with intuitive exploration, she investigates how colour, line, light and form create balance, concentration and intensity.

In her own words, each painting arises from “a balancing dialogue between a line and the movement of colour,” where lines shape space and colours gain form and energy. On her canvases, precisely tuned colours align with grids and rhythms, while areas of unpainted linen keep the work open and spatial—inviting the viewer’s eye to move through shifting hues, lines and subtle variations in paint.

Her work is included in museum and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad, and has been widely exhibited across Europe, the US, China and Australia.
In 2023 the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterloo organised a solo exhibition. It was accompanied by a catalogue designed by Irma Boom.