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
  • Bloom
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    Bloom, 2020
    Arquival pigment ink. Signed and numbered. COA included
    150 x 100 cm
  • DIASPORA - Adam
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DIASPORA - Adam, 2017
    Archival Pigment Print
    120 x 80 cm
  • DIASPORA - Esther
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DIASPORA - Esther, 2017
    Archival Pigment Print
    120 x 80 cm
  • DIASPORA - Ninho
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DIASPORA - Ninho, 2017
    Archival Pigment Print
    120 x 80 cm
  • DIASPORA - Shana
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DIASPORA - Shana, 2017
    Archival Pigment Print
    120 x 80 cm
  • DIASPORA - Yesni
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    DIASPORA - Yesni, 2017
    Archival Pigment Print
    120 x 80 cm
  • For Sarah - The African Princess - Crowned
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    For Sarah - The African Princess - Crowned, Special 2022 Edition / Produced in 2015
    Archival pigment print
    120 x 90 cm
  • FOR SARAH - THE AFRICAN PRINCESS - DUAL IDENTITY
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    FOR SARAH - THE AFRICAN PRINCESS - DUAL IDENTITY, 2015/2016
    Archival Pigment Print
    120 x 90 cm
  • FOR SARAH - THE AFRICAN PRINCESS - GAZE
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    FOR SARAH - THE AFRICAN PRINCESS - GAZE, 2015/2016
    Archival pigment print
    Signed and numbered, COA included
    AP
    120 x 90 cm
  • FOR SARAH - THE AFRICAN PRINCESS - ROYALTY
    Dagmar Van Weeghel
    FOR SARAH - THE AFRICAN PRINCESS - ROYALTY, 2015/2016
    Archival pigment print
    120 x 90 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
  • Women in Antiquity I
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    Women in Antiquity I, 2020
    Archival Pigment Print, Custom Framed, mounted on 3mm dibond
    120 x 90 cm
  • Women in Antiquity III
    DAGMAR VAN WEEGHEL
    Women in Antiquity III, 2020
    Archival Pigment Print, Custom Framed, mounted on 3mm dibond
    120 × 90 cm
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