Beppe Kessler is an artist who works in painting and sculpture in addition to jewelry. An internationally renowned artist. Her main work topic is the abstraction. And she is a specialist in the research and the use of materials.

Beppe Kessler, born in 1952, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, textile department, 1979. Over the past forty years, she has exhibited in galleries and museums across the world, with recent solo exhibitions in venues such as the TextielMuseum (Dutch Textile Museum, 2003, Tilburg), Jewelers Werk Gallery (2010 & 2015, Washington), Museum für Angewandte Kunst (2011, Frankfurt), Atta Gallery (2014, Bangkok), Reverso Gallery ( 2017, Lisbon), Rob Koudijs Gallery (2017, Amsterdam) and Platina (2018, Stockholm). In 1997 and 2009, she was awarded the prestigious Herbert Hoffman Prize. Her work is part of several museum collections, including that of the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), TextielMuseum (Tilburg),  Museum Arnhem (Arnhem), CODA Museum (Apeldoorn), Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Montreal), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and Cooper-Hewitt (New York).

Beppe on her work:
Painting and making small things are, to me, very closely interrelated practices: the jewellery emerges from the autonomous work. But it also works the other way around: autonomous work is influenced by small things. Although separated in the final form, in thought they belong together, have sprouted from the same soil. In my work I speak through materials: I am a material girl. To me, it is mostly a mentality and a way of working with and looking at things. It is a challenge to push materials to the limits of the possible, almost to the point of life and death. This results in something new. I am fascinated by the journey as well as the outcome. The materials I use for my compositions are often plain and of no value. It can be anything: frays, thread, slate, pieces of textile, pieces of wood; in short: that which remains. Yet they carry a wealth of meanings. They are often connected to personal memories, but in my work, I am looking for a more universal kind of poetry. My themes usually emerge from the invisible, non-substantial: wind, time, warmth, nothing. What is time, what is nothing? Questions I try to answer in the shape of a painting, a drawing, a brooch.