Beppe Kessler (1952, Amsterdam) is a visual artist, contemporary jewellery maker and painter who currently lives and works in the Netherlands. Kessler graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1979, with a degree in textile art and industrial textile design. Whether it is wood, stone, paint, or linen, Kessler stretches her material to their limits, constantly breaking and re-making to create something new, while also inventing her own techniques. Her paintings are subtle but they possess a silent power. For Kessler, the carrier of the paint, the canvas, is equally as important as the paint itself. All her work – paintings, objects and jewellery – is inextricably linked and informs each other.

Beppe Kessler’s work is included in the collections of international museums such as the Schmuck Museum in Pforzheim, Germany, Röhsska Museet in Göteborg, Sweden, Cooper-Hewitt in New York, US and Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, USA. Nationally, her work has been collected by and presented in various renowned Dutch museums such as the Rijksmuseum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, the Textielmuseum in Tilburg and Museum Arnhem. Kessler has twice received the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize for her work in jewellery, in 1997 and 2009.