Artist Statement
My work explores memory, heritage, inner experience and transformation through abstraction, geometry, texture and light.
I am interested in what remains — within us, across time, and across generations. Through layers of color, transparency, matter and structured forms, I explore the spaces between fragility and strength, movement and stillness, rupture and reconstruction.
Some of my work emerges from inner landscapes and emotional memory; other pieces reconnect with North African cultural memory through jewellery, symbols and inherited forms. Rather than reproducing these references, I transform them through abstraction, scale, color and light, allowing them to exist in a new visual space.
Across my practice, light is a constant presence. Sometimes immediate, sometimes almost hidden beneath layers of color and matter, it becomes a thread between memory, transformation and continuity.
My paintings do not seek to illustrate fixed stories. They create spaces in which memory, emotion and inherited forms can shift, disappear and re-emerge.
Light remains. Always.
About Meriem Kuipers
Meriem Kuipers is an Algerian-born, Geneva-based contemporary artist.
Her relationship with art began early in Algeria, where drawing and painting became a natural form of expression. At the age of twelve, she spent a year studying at the Beaux-Arts and took part in large-scale mural projects at school, experiences that established an early connection with color, composition and visual storytelling.
After moving to Switzerland, she continued developing her artistic practice alongside her professional life. From the mid-2000s, she pursued long-term training in drawing and painting in Geneva, working first extensively with pastel and later with oil. She also studied with different artists and spent time painting in Florence, continuing to explore observation, color and composition.
Over the years, her work gradually moved from figurative painting toward abstraction. After many years working primarily in oil, she turned to acrylic, mixed media and airbrush, drawn to their possibilities for layering, transparency, texture and light.
Today, her practice unfolds across four interconnected bodies of work.
Roots reconnects her contemporary practice with North African cultural memory, transforming jewellery, symbols and inherited forms through abstraction, scale and light.
Geometric Harmonies explores the relationship between structure and emotion through lines, arcs, balance and layered color.
Inner Movements focuses on shifting emotional and interior landscapes, where fluid forms evoke movement, stillness and transformation.
Energy & Matter foregrounds gesture, texture and physical presence, allowing matter itself to become part of the visual language.
Although each series develops its own vocabulary, they are connected by the same search: how memory transforms, how different forms of experience remain within us, and how light can emerge through layers, matter and time.