About Greet Weitenberg
Greet Weitenberg is in an ongoing search to her ultimate world. She is researching different worlds through different mediums: drawing, photography, collages etc.
Her current and ongoing project, Welcome to My Happy World, began during the COVID-19 pandemic as a response to growing polarization and a yearning for joy, softness, and connection. Weitenberg turned to yarn—a familiar material in her practice—and allowed it to take center stage. Embracing its warmth and tactile nature, she created playful textile works in cheerful colors and organic forms. Nature, her garden, flowers, and both visible and invisible layers of the natural world inspire this body of work.
The series includes large-scale soft sculptures in the form of masks—expressive, oversized faces that hover between joy and absurdity. One mask features bulging eyes, another an exaggerated tongue, and a third with threads pouring from its brow like tears or hair. These works explore the emotional range of the human experience, offering a playful yet poignant counterpoint to a fractured world. The masks invite the viewer to reconnect with the inner child, to approach the world with curiosity, openness, and humor.
“Welcome to My Happy World” is a personal and artistic response to the increasingly harsh and polarised world we live in. It is a space where softness, vulnerability, and color offer resistance against rigidity and division. Weitenberg creates an environment in which the viewer is invited to slow down and rediscover a sense of wonder. Through vibrant textiles, she gives form to an alternative reality—one that values joy, fluidity, and emotional depth.
In pieces such as Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, she reflects on the relentless rhythm of the modern “rat race.” Using twisted rope in the tradition of passementerie, she evokes fluidity and softness—colors entwined in a cyclical dance. In this evolving world of yarn and color, textiles are more than material: they become storytellers, inviting reflection and offering moments of comfort and introspection.
The Welcome to My Happy World series includes small, joyful works—My Little Happy Friends—alongside larger installations like My Happy Brainwave, The Dance, The Island of Hope and her masks. It also encompasses delicate drawings, such as imaginative depictions of underwater micro-organisms living in her “Happy World.”
This world is ever-growing. And with each new creation, the question lingers: has she finally found her ultimate world?
In previous series, like Abandoned, she explores the increasing commodification of our environment. Through photography and collage, she evokes the emptiness of forgotten places—homes, warehouses, landscapes—while subtly revealing the echoes of the life that once filled them.
In Viewscape, Weitenberg creates newly imagined landscapes in collage, photography, and site-specific installations, shown in galleries across the Netherlands and Germany.
Her drawing series The Extended Family addresses the rise of individualism in contemporary society. In response, she invents new family members—fragile, tender portraits that quietly reclaim connection and kinship. These works embody her strength: a fearless yet delicate approach to urgent themes, always grounded in intimacy and vulnerability where you might least expect it.
