The Daylight Sick, diez, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2026
Jochem Mestriner
Jochem Mestriner (born in 1998 in Maastricht, The Netherlands ), lives and works in Rotterdam. His practice centres on painting as a slow, accretive act, building surfaces over extended sessions through layered pigment, solvent, and gestural residue, materials as chemically volatile as they are visually seductive. The canvas becomes a site of quiet intoxication, where what draws the eye is also what unsettles it. At the core of his work is the figure of the Drosera, the sundew plant that lures, traps, and digests, a logic Mestriner extends to the painting itself: a desire machine that produces attraction and then consumes it. Rooted in the traditions of still life and sottobosco painting and informed by literature, philosophy, art history, botany, and entomology, his work moves between beauty and harm, the living and the preserved.
Portrait of an Epicyclist, 2026 Oil, oil stick, oil pastel & colour pencil on canvas 190 x 140 cm (74 3/4 x 55 1/8 in)
Cycle, Portal, Path, NEST, The Hague (Netherlands), 2023
C-14 Second Sleep, 2026 Oil, oil stick, oil pastel & colour pencil on canvas 140 x 170 cm (55 1/8 x 66 7/8 in)
Art Rotterdam 2024, diez, Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2024
The Garden of Earthly Delights, GRIMM, New York (USA), 2025
Cargoless, 2025, Oil, oil pastel, oil stick & colour pencil on canvas 40 x 50 cm (15 3/4 x 19 5/8 in)