Marinus van Hall — The Flowering Spirit

Oil paintings

KYAS ART SALON is delighted to present The Flowering Spirit, a solo exhibition by Marinus van Hall (b. 1992, Amsterdam). This long-awaited presentation marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in several years and reveals a new body of oil paintings inspired by his enduring relationship with Japan.

For the past seven years, van Hall has travelled regularly to Japan, immersing himself in its culture, philosophy, and spiritual traditions. In The Flowering Spirit—a title drawn from Zeami’s Fūshikaden (“The Transmission of the Flower”)—he reflects on the ephemeral nature of beauty and the quiet power of introspection.

The exhibition brings together a series of portraits that merge the refined sensibility of Dutch classical painting with the poetics of Japanese aesthetics. Each painting portrays a woman with her eyes gently closed, adorned in what appears to be traditional attire yet touched by elements of fantasy. These figures seem to inhabit a realm between history and imagination—a meditative space where time slows and silence becomes eloquent.