Rossel Chaslie
2025
We are happy to announce the new Thami Mnyele Foundation award winner Rossel Chaslie, who will stay in our residency until mid June!
Rossel Chaslie is an artist and illustrator who, as an autodidact, has developed a drawing style that is both contemporary and expressionist in nature when viewed through an art historical lens. This allows him to appeal to a broad audience in one go, from young to old(er). He has been selected as a city artist for Amsterdam in 2024. His drawings exist on paper, as "still" images, or digitally, as "moving" animations. His subjects are socially relevant and align with his interests: those of a young bicultural man navigating his path—both as a creator and an individual—within a polarized Dutch society grappling with its colonial past.