Artist
Paints the Maashaven between three and five in the morning, from the cab of a grain crane.
Ines Varga in her studio on the Katendrecht, 02:40. AI-generated demo image.
Born
b. 1987, Pécs
Based
Lives and works in Rotterdam
Practice
Painting, drawing
At After Hours
Low Light Index · R1–R3 · 2026–27
Ines Varga trained as a scene painter at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, where she spent six years making skies that were only ever seen under stage light. She moved to Rotterdam in 2014 and has worked nights at the Maashaven grain silo since 2019.
Her paintings are made in two places: on shift, in graphite on scraps of linen taped to the crane window, and in the studio, where the drawings are scaled up in oil and rubbed back until only the lit things remain. Low Light Index, at After Hours in 2026, is her first institutional exhibition.
Selected exhibitions
2026 Low Light Index, After Hours, Rotterdam (solo) · 2024 Night Painters, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp · 2022 Shift, Ludwig Museum project room, Budapest · 2021 Graduate show, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
Key work
One work, one label.
The work we would walk you to first. Ask the desk about availability; the red dot means it has already found a home.
Key work
Ines Varga
Vigil (Maashaven, 03:12), 2026
Oil and graphite on unprimed linen
210 × 160 cm
Private collection, Antwerp
At After Hours
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