About Paloma Varga Weisz

Paloma Varga Weisz creates art that balances between tradition and transformation. Her art exudes a timeless craftsmanship but at the same time is charged with a subtle irony and a sharp eye for identity, memory and vulnerability. She combines historical references with a surrealistic visual language.

ARTZUID 2025 shows Rug People, the sculpture that stands on the old Harbour Station in Folkestone, England. The sculpture shows intertwined heads, wrapped in blankets and cardboard, which evokes a sense of displacement and vulnerability. The former Harbour Station, once the departure point for soldiers to the battlefields of the First World War and later the terminus of the Orient Express until 2008, served as a source of inspiration for this work. Varga Weisz also drew on her personal background: her father had to flee Nazi-occupied Paris as a Jewish refugee during the Second World War. Rug People therefore functions as a silent homage to him and emphasises themes such as migration, loss and the fragility of human stories.