Supertalent Carlijn Kingma graduated from TU Delft in 2016 and her work has been a great success since her debut at Gallery Untitled. In November 2017, Kingma debuted at Gallery Untitled with her first solo exhibition. In 2018, her original drawings were shown in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, among others, and the museum purchased one of her originals. In 2019 she completed a collaboration with Joep van Lieshout, and in addition to her drawing work, she teaches at TU Delft.
In narrative utopian worlds – expressed in ink and dip pens, Kingma seeks the relationship between political, economic and scientific constructs of society and our fears, desires and ideals. Thanks to her background in architecture, architectural elements and metaphors form the language with which she constructs and expresses her worlds. The utopian contemporary drawings are reminiscent of the detailing in Pieter Bruegel's Tower of Babel and contain Hieronymus Bosch-like symbolism.
In the fall of 2020 she released the nowadays sold out 'The Fabric of Humankind', made in collaboration with Rutger Bregman & de Correspondent. At the same time, her solo exhibition opened in Rijskmuseum Twente and there was various media attention, including NRC newspaper, de Volkskrant and televisionprograms such as De Vooravond and Opium.
This solo exhibition in Gallery Untitled runs simultaneously with Kingma's solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum The Hague. We present no less than four new works, including The Waterworks of Money, in which she examines and questions our financial system together with Thomas Bollen and Martijn van der Linden from Follow the Money. Several works will also be exhibited at the 'Dutch Pavillion' at the Venice Architecture Biennale (May - November 2023).