Karin van Ommeren

Karin van Ommeren is a Dutch sculptor. She received her education in Brussels at the Higher Institute Sint-Lukas. Today, she lives and works in both the Netherlands and Italy.

In 1993, she received her first award for a sculpture for the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. Since then, she has worked in various locations around the world, and her work can be found in Asia, Latin America, Canada, and Australia. In 2013, she was honoured with the Liu Kaiqu Excellent Award in China.

Her sculptures reference geometric forms, but through their treatment they acquire a poetic quality—an interplay of elegance and raw beauty shaped in a material that speaks of eternity, of origins, and of ourselves.

“Creating a sculpture is a search for a form I sense, but cannot yet see.
A journey to the essential. It is always the stone that leads me.
Slowly the sculpture reveals itself and claims its space.
Then, space begins to exist—around it and within it—and it becomes so present,
as if it had always been there, in that endless movement of becoming and vanishing.”