Hadassah Emmerich (b.1974, Heerlen, Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. Her paintings, drawings and large wall installations are peopled with a luxuriant forest of tropical flowers and plants amongst which languid women are laid like treasure on a vegetal jewel box. Merging pop and psychedelic lexicon, Indonesian’s symbols on bill-board-scale paintings, Emmerich’s work display exotic fantasies to better question the validity of the images still embodying for many the ‘foreign’.

Her recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Mixed Blood Banana Shake’, Fritschy Cultuurprijs, Museum Het Domein, Sittard (NL), (2006); ‘Confessional Vapour Trails’, Buro Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, (2005); ‘With Love from Batik Babe’, GEM, museum of contemporary art, The Hague, (2005); ‘Ambitious Batik Babe’, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, NL, (2003). She also recently participated to ‘Gegen den Strich’, drawing show at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, (2007); ‘Cultural Confusion with Yesim Akdeniz Graf, Pavel Pepperstein and Hadassah Emmerich’, Elisabeth Kaufmann gallery, Zürich, (2007); ‘Toekenning 031’, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, (2006), ‘Globos Sonda/Trial Balloons’, Musac, León, (2006) and ‘Solitude’, Upstairs Berlin, Berlin, (2006). For excellent up-to-date information and images review Hadassahemmerich.com.

Hadassah Emmerich is represented by Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam.