Bodine Ester Abramov’s paintings will be on display from August 8 through September 27, 2026, at the Museum Café of the Zandvoort Museum.
Bodine Ester Abramov (1994) is a visual artist from Amsterdam. Over the past ten years, she has developed a multifaceted practice within the visual arts, working in media such as painting, sculpture, and tattoo art. Her work stems from a deeply personal exploration of identity, memory, and the relationship between body and mind.
In 2022, Abramov was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, a chronic neurological condition that can be accompanied by excruciating pain. Since then, her life has changed dramatically. The constant struggle with pain, medication, and moments of derealization has altered her perspective on the world and on her own body. What once felt familiar suddenly became uncertain.
This experience forms the basis of her current work. Abramov explores what happens when you have to say goodbye to the person you once were. Her paintings arise from a longing for something to hold on to: for places, memories, and images that offer a sense of security in a body and a reality that no longer feel self-evident.
In her work, she brings together vulnerability and strength. She seeks beauty in the uncomfortable and gives form to feelings that are difficult to put into words. Her paintings invite viewers to reflect on themes that touch everyone: loss, change, resilience, and the search for a new balance.
Following her previous exhibition at Zandvoorts Museum in 2025, where her works left a deep impression on visitors, Abramov has once again been invited to showcase her work at the Museum Café of Zandvoorts Museum. This new presentation offers visitors the opportunity to experience her paintings up close and to step into a personal visual world in which pain is not the end, but the beginning of a new way of seeing.
Abramov’s works demand time and attention. They show how art can become a way to come to terms with the intangible and how something new can emerge from a period of loss.