Studio Giftig✳

Meet Studio Giftig.

Studio Giftig consists of the Netherlands-based artist duo Niels van Swaemen (1982 Eindhoven, the Netherlands) and Kaspar van Leek (1983 Philipsburg, St. Maarten). Both have been active in street art for some time as individuals. In 2007 they come into contact with each other. The duo developed a common style of painting, with which they became known through their highly detailed realistic murals. In addition to the quality of the paintings, the characteristic own visual language of Studio Giftig has the characteristic element that all images are autonomously designed. Recognizable by the process in which they work is the way in which they translate their own personal concepts by photographing the objects or models themselves to create total autonomy within their visual language as a starting point for their paintings.

After their first solo exhibition in 2016, they started to focus more and more on their autonomous work, in which surreal elements have played an increasingly important role. By placing everyday situations in a surrealistic perspective within their work, they use the visual imagination of the viewer to create a suggestive representation. The themes of their paintings depend on their own insights and context or location of the work. At present, Studio Giftig perform their autonomous work both for themselves and for galleries and prominent clients and won the "Street Art Cities" award for "Best mural worldwide 2022".