Mella Jaarsma

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Dutch | 1960

Mella Jaarsma is a Dutch Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1960. Their work is currently being shown at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort. Numerous key galleries and museums such as MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow have featured Mella Jaarsma's work in the past.Mella Jaarsma's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 450 USD to 3,225 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 3,225 USD for Costume, sold at Christie's Hong Kong in 2009. Mella Jaarsma has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtLyst in December 2024.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Costume

By Mella Jaarsma

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鈥楽quare Body - ½ Body鈥� ,2009

By Mella Jaarsma

鈥楽quare Body 鈥� 陆 Body鈥� (2009) - Mella Jaarsma

鈥楽quare Body 鈥� ½ Body鈥� (2009)

By Mella Jaarsma

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Recent Auction Results

Landscape Dress Up ,2012

By Mella Jaarsma

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Singaporean Shelter ,2003

By Mella Jaarsma

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Square Body - ½ Body

By Mella Jaarsma

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Current Exhibitions

Mella Jaarsma: Trouble Skirts

Kunsthal KAdE

Amersfoort | Netherlands

May 24,2025 - Aug 31,2025

Past Exhibitions

Food in Art

MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow

Krakow | Poland

Apr 12,2024 - Mar 16,2025

Mella Jaarsma: South South

ROH Projects

Jakarta | Indonesia

Feb 23,2021 - Mar 07,2021

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Articles

ArtLyst 02/12/2024

The December Art Diary takes us to Washington DC, New York, London and Bangkok.

Art Asia Pacific 20/11/2024

Returning to Singapore from January 17鈥�19, 2025, the third edition of ART SG, presented by Founding and Lead Partner UBS, will bring together 106 exhibitors from 30 countries.

Ocula 11/09/2024

Ocula editors share their Frieze Seoul highlights, among them two outstanding booths, the best film, and the best backroom finds.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Jaarsma鈥檚 constructions of war, work, and ruling class costume relics operate in a way that facilitates the study of power by positing new social and ethnic associations which challenge traditional ones... 鈥�
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Baik Art, Los Angeles

鈥� ..Jaarsma鈥檚 art illuminates the slippage between the accumulated fates that confine both the colonizer and those that have been assimilated or de-colonized... 鈥�
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Baik Art, Los Angeles

鈥� ..Jaarsma鈥檚 emotively charged costumes map out internal fields of memory where the ambiguities of feeling, significant, unimportant, or empty, are recorded as moments in time... 鈥�
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Baik Art, Los Angeles