Dagmar Van Weeghel The Netherlands, b. 1974

Overview
Dagmar van Weeghel's practice unfolds at the intersection of photography and the archive, where images become vessels of memory, silence, and repetition. Moving between past and present, she traces the historical frameworks that have shaped the long and entangled relationship between Africa and Europe, revealing how these structures continue to echo within contemporary life.

 

Grounded in a background in Film and Photography from the University of the Arts Amsterdam, her work is informed by lived experiences in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and South Africa. These geographies shape her sensitivity to African and diasporic narratives, situating her practice within questions of belonging, displacement, and inherited histories.

 

Through research-led processes, she engages with archival photographs, documents, and image-making as acts of re-reading. By reactivating fragments of the archive, her work challenges dominant historical narratives and uses storytelling to expose how colonial legacies persist within visual memory, shaping the present as much as the past.

Works
  • BINQUI IN BLOOM - WHAT A THOUSAND PETALS HOLD
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    BINQUI IN BLOOM - WHAT A THOUSAND PETALS HOLD, 2022
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    43,5 x 60 cm
  • DEDE IN BLOOM
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DEDE IN BLOOM, 2026
    Platinum Palladium Print
    20 x 25 cm
  • DEDE IN BLOOM - A BOUQUET FOR ENDURANCE
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DEDE IN BLOOM - A BOUQUET FOR ENDURANCE, 2022
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    121,5 x 120 cm
  • DEDE IN BLOOM - THE ACT OF REMEMBRANCE
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DEDE IN BLOOM - THE ACT OF REMEMBRANCE, 2022
    PhotoRag Print, Hand-tinted with Flower Pigments & Watercolors, with white border
    40 x 60 cm
  • EMMA & ANDREA IN BLOOM - THE BOTANY OF MEMORY I
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    EMMA & ANDREA IN BLOOM - THE BOTANY OF MEMORY I, 2023
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    60 x 46 cm
  • EMMA IN BLOOM - ACANTHUS FOR THE UNNAMED
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    EMMA IN BLOOM - ACANTHUS FOR THE UNNAMED, 2022
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    41,5 x 60 cm
  • EMMA IN BLOOM - From my Marigold Garden
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    EMMA IN BLOOM - From my Marigold Garden, 2023
    Archival Pigment Print on Rag paper, hand-painted with flower pigments and watercolor
    30 x 45,2 cm
  • FATOU IN BLOOM - Unfolding Towards the Light
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    FATOU IN BLOOM - Unfolding Towards the Light, 2025
    Platinum Palladium Print
    107,7 x 78 cm
  • FATOU IN BLOOM - UNFOLDING TOWARD THE LIGHT (In Her Spirit Edition)
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    FATOU IN BLOOM - UNFOLDING TOWARD THE LIGHT (In Her Spirit Edition), 2022
    PhotoRag Print, Handpainted with African Marigold, Coreopsis, Dahlia Chamomile, Walnut, Madder & Watercolor
    66 x 96 cm
  • From the Ancient Well
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    From the Ancient Well, 2020
    Archival Pigment Print, Custom Framed mounted on 3mm dibond
    60 x 45 cm
  • IMMACULATE IN BLOOM - HERE IN MY GARDEN
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    IMMACULATE IN BLOOM - HERE IN MY GARDEN, 2022
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    82,5 x 120 cm
  • LYS IN BLOOM
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    LYS IN BLOOM, 2026
    Platinum Palladium Print
    20 x 25 cm
  • LYS IN BLOOM - LET’S SPEAK IN FLOWERS
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    LYS IN BLOOM - LET’S SPEAK IN FLOWERS, 2023
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    121,5 x 120 cm
  • LYS IN BLOOM - Presence Through Petals
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    LYS IN BLOOM - Presence Through Petals, 2023
    Archival Pigment Print on Rag paper, hand-painted with flower pigments and watercolor
    33,5 x 50,1 cm
  • MONICA IN BLOOM - A YELLOW ROSE
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    MONICA IN BLOOM - A YELLOW ROSE, 2022
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    43,5 x 60 cm
  • NORA IN BLOOM - BENEATH THE HAZEL TREE
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    NORA IN BLOOM - BENEATH THE HAZEL TREE, 2022
    PhotoRag Print, Hand-painted with African Marigolds , Coreopsis, Red roses, Indigo, Walnut, and Dahlias
    33 x 49 cm
  • PENDA IN BLOOM - DO NOT REFUSE ME
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    PENDA IN BLOOM - DO NOT REFUSE ME, 2022
    PhotoRag Archival Pigment Print with white border
    110,5 x 160 cm
  • PENDA IN BLOOM - Do Not Refuse Me
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    PENDA IN BLOOM - Do Not Refuse Me, 2025
    Platinum Palladium Print
    78,7 x 56 cm
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