ROXANNE WILM
I’m Roxanne Wilm (1993) a French-Dutch theatre designer and photographer, raised in the Netherlands and living and working in Amsterdam for a decade. After graduating as a theatre designer from the University of the Arts in 2016, I decided to delve deeper into photography and graduated from the Photography Academy in 2019.
My work is conceptual and experimental, focusing on staged settings. continually evolves through the use of both digital and analog techniques.
I’m passionate about collaborating with sustainable brands, aligning my creative vision with a commitment to environmental consciousness and ethical practices.
About my vision & work
As a child, I often visited museums with my grandmother. I remember my small hand in hers, looking together at a painting of a naked woman with a fig leaf. That childlike confusion became the beginning of a lifelong search - a fascination with seeing and reinventing the body: as landscape, as form, as mystery.
My French-Dutch background nourishes the duality in my work: order and chaos, visibility and invisibility, closeness and distance. There is always a side that can be seen, and one that remains hidden.
Introduced early to the paintings of Frida Kahlo by my mother, her death when I was eighteen gave Kahlo’s work deeper meaning showing me how pain and beauty can coexist. Later, as a theatre designer, I found new depth in that visual language, especially while working on Broken Wings, (later Frida for NO&B) a dance performance about her life.
My work is a way to say what words cannot: a search for self-expression, self-acceptance, and moments of stillness within inner turmoil. I use my own body because it gives me complete autonomy. The body becomes landscape, sculpture, and texture a place where recognition and estrangement intertwine.
My photography is an intimate stage where I disappear and reappear in silence. Perhaps you recognise something of your own inner landscape within it.
She Take
Alongside my solo practice, I am founder of the female artist collective She Take. Within this collective, we create space for female perspectives in photography. We question existing narratives and search for a new language. She Take functions as a platform for collaboration, connection, and solidarity. Both within the arts and beyond.
NOW 2025
- Exhibition Poelboerderij Wormer 2 October - 9 December 2025
Opening Hours: 11.00 - 16.00
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- [Re]Discoveries photo used as flyer | October ‘25
- Noord Hollands Dagblad - front page | October 8 ‘25
- Art Cage Budapest | July ‘25
- Numéro Magazine | November ‘24
- Raandoom Magazine | July ‘24
- Pf Photography Magazine | August ‘24
- Photo31.nl | August ‘24
- Mass Magazine | February ‘24
- Think Big-Shop Small - Gestalten Book | June ‘23
- Interview with Dataton | June ‘19
- Interview with Theatre Art Life | june ‘19
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
- ART FAIR [re]Discoveries Amsterdam 17-19 October 2025 Staal-Kade
- Group Exhibition The Creative Lab Amsterdam - The Hallen Amsterdam from 17 April - 24 April 2025
- Solo Exhibition Kleine Gallery Amsterdam | April 10 - May 10 2025, Vliegtuigstraat 11, Amsterdam
- Solo Exhibition Mina Gallery | 02 - 30 August 2024, Weteringschans 69, Amsterdam
- Group Exhibition She-Take Collective | June 2024
- Group Exhibition She-Take Collective | November 2023
