Bernice Nauta (The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam, developing a multidisciplinary practice that spans drawing, painting, film, installation, objects, and storytelling. Central to her work is the instability of identity, often her own, which she examines through strategies of doubling, mirroring, and self-appropriation.

Her practice consistently engages with themes of reflection and transformation. Nauta draws on subjects such as stunt doubles, the myth of Echo and Narcissus, and acts of repetition to probe questions of authorship and originality. By reusing and reissuing her own works, she creates situations where identity becomes layered and unstable, inviting viewers to reconsider the boundaries between self and other, original and copy.

A defining example of this approach was her 2019 solo exhibition HELLO ECHO at 1646 in The Hague. For this project, Nauta created a literal double exhibition: each work was duplicated, as was the façade of the building itself, generating a visual echo that challenged notions of authenticity and authorship.

Nauta completed her BA at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK), The Hague in 2013, and later graduated from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2022. Her recent exhibitions include The Plantriarchy with GC Heemskerk at Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (2023), and Het Plantriarchaat at Marres Museum, Maastricht (2023).

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