Nazif Lopulissa

Nazif Lopulissa (Tiel, 1991) graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam in 2016. With his roots in graffiti, he combines personal narratives of “migration” with an organic formal vocabulary that fuses different painterly traditions.  

Exploring his “in-between” state, Lopulissa creates freedom within this space, where he can explore how he can embody this liminal feeling. He employs techniques and materials drawn from autobiographical contexts, as well as from abstract visual languages to communicate across cultural borders. Pushing the boundaries of painting, he hides and reveals his (family) history and erases and creates different futures. By using bleach, he gives glimpses of what was and what can be. He hereby aims to capture movement.