Krista Wamsteker NL, b. 1983
Overview
Krista Wamsteker paints memories shaped by domestic life: the intimacy of home, its tensions, and its quiet disturbances. Her work unfolds in living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, and around the dining table. Within these familiar spaces, small worlds open up into multiple emotional universes: awkward, fragile, and unmistakably human.
Her paintings tell stories of love — wild, foolish, obsessive, manic. Love as tenderness and as toxicity. Furniture becomes charged with feeling: objects observe, accuse, and remember. A chair can be angry, a table pitiless, a bookshelf overflowing with meaning. What seems still is never truly at rest.
Wamsteker works with oil paint on paper, using clear forms, meticulous compositions, and an idiosyncratic use of colour. Her brushstrokes are distinctive, shapes remain open or fray at the edges. Through stencils and collage she creates hard contours, while slow looking reveals details of books, newspapers, scissors, images, and glimpses of the outside world.
Krista Wamsteker graduated as a filmmaker from St. Joost Academy in Breda in 2005, and as a painter from the Wackers Academy in Amsterdam in 2025. She won the Gallery Mokum Award 2025 with her work Behind the Bookcase.
Her paintings tell stories of love — wild, foolish, obsessive, manic. Love as tenderness and as toxicity. Furniture becomes charged with feeling: objects observe, accuse, and remember. A chair can be angry, a table pitiless, a bookshelf overflowing with meaning. What seems still is never truly at rest.
Wamsteker works with oil paint on paper, using clear forms, meticulous compositions, and an idiosyncratic use of colour. Her brushstrokes are distinctive, shapes remain open or fray at the edges. Through stencils and collage she creates hard contours, while slow looking reveals details of books, newspapers, scissors, images, and glimpses of the outside world.
Krista Wamsteker graduated as a filmmaker from St. Joost Academy in Breda in 2005, and as a painter from the Wackers Academy in Amsterdam in 2025. She won the Gallery Mokum Award 2025 with her work Behind the Bookcase.
Works
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Krista WamstekerTussen de kast en het gordijn, 2024oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel42 cm x 30 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerZittend blauwe jas en diepe ruimte, 2024oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel42 cm x 30 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerBlauwe jas in huiskamer, 2025oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel21 cm x 30 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerHand slaat bed, 2025oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel42 cm x 30 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerHet stukslaan van de stofzuiger, 2025oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel50 cm x 65 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerHij denkt uitzitten, hij voelt ..., 2025oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel74 cm x 70 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerRoom divider, 2025oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel50 cm x 65 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerStofzuiger composities, 2025oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel42 cm x 30 cmView more details -
Krista WamstekerWaar de dinosauriers leven, 2025oil on paper
Attached to removable wooden panel56 cm x 76 xmView more details
Exhibitions
