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Painting is how I think. It’s how I get a handhold on reality—not by copying what I see, but by compressing it into something more concentrated: a distilled version of lived experience.

I work with different brush sizes mixed together—broad, blunt marks alongside finer, more precise ones—so the surface can shift in tempo and tension. That push and pull lets the painting hold contradiction: clarity next to uncertainty, control next to drift.

For me, the significance of a painting doesn’t sit outside the human universe. It lives in the shared territory of experience—what we recognise in each other, even if we can’t quite name it. My work often keeps a thread to current events, but I’m not interested in making images that illustrate headlines. I’m drawn to how the present moment seeps into perception: as atmosphere, pressure, fragments, residues—felt rather than spelled out.

I love the idea that painted spaces can be found as much as they are made—sometimes deliberately built, sometimes almost stumbled upon—and that, somehow, they can still offer common ground between individuals. That possibility continues to pull me back to the canvas.

Exhibitions

“A Vanishing Point on a Continuum” Berry Sanders x Bram Hermens, August 25 – October 11, 2025 Salon Veneman.

” De grote stilte” Berry Sanders x Mike Dings at galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven (NL) – May 4 – June 9, 2024

“Stable Diffusion” solo show at Till Richter Museum, Buggenhagen (Germany), April 15  – August 31 2023.

Benefiet voor Brabant, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, December January 2021/2022

Salon Veneman, Eindhoven  November – January 2021/22

Academisch Genootschap Eindhoven, June – August 2019

Grenswerk, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, December 2016 – January 2017

Flipside, Eindhoven, November – December 2015

Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, October 2013

‘Spilliaert Ostend Blues Blues’, April- August 2012, Ostend (BE), galerie Theobald’s Boothuisje

5th anniversary Galerie Bart, 31 March-5 May 2012, Amsterdam (NL)

Zweigstelle Berlin (DE), 31 March-29 April 2012

Rotary Art Fair Eindhoven, 30, 31 March and 1 April 2012

Art Walk Eindhoven, galerie van de Water, December 2011

‘Preview Berlin’, presentatie galerie Bart, 8-11 sept. 2011

‘From different corners’, paperworks – artists from international galleries 2011. Düsseldorf, Vienna, Prague, Strassbourg.

Berry Sanders, Myra de Vries, Niels Helmink & René Kuipers, Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen,  March – May 2011

Berry Sanders, Galerie van de Water, Eindhoven, September 11 – October 27 2010

Oostende Cultuurstad van Vlaanderen 2010, “Licht aan de zee”, Galerie Theobald’s Boothuisje,

April-August 2010 Select Media Festival 8, Super Bad Ass Show, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (US)

Montanus5, Dicksmuide (B), November 2009

‘Tales from the Bubble’, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (US), November 2009

Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven, september-oktober 2009

Saekkers, Eindhoven, June 2009

Strijp X, Eindhoven, March 2009

‘Verstand van Smaak’, Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, February 2009

Grenswerk, Flipside, Eindhoven, November 2008

Salon XI NBKS, Breda, November 2008

Work period Tripkau (D), August 2008

Muzelinck, Oss, July 2008

NEP, The Living Room, Amsterdam, March 2008

NEP, Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven, November 2007

Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, April 2007

Around the world in 80 questions, global mobile exhibition October 2006

Galerie de Kunstkamer, Hoogeloon, October 2006

RotoSmeets GrafiServices Eindhoven, August 2006

Editfestival Strijp-S, Eindhoven June 2006

Bart Kunst in Huis – Nijmegen, May 2006

Hier 2 – Krabbedans/MU, Eindhoven, January 2006

Gelregaleries st. Eusebiuskerk, Arnhem, March 2005

Bart Kunst in Huis, Nijmegen, January 2005

Remy van Ulden, Geldrop, November 2004