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Marenne Welten 1959
Woont in Middelburg. Werkt in Middelburg.
Vertegenwoordigd door:
tegenboschvanvreden
Marenne Welten is a multidisciplinary artist who paints, makes collages, and video-works that investigate memory, emotion, and associated meanings. They are the outcome of an immersive process in which the artist draws upon extensive research and her own ‘memory palace’. It is through the slight window of semblance that her imaginations emerge. Subconsciously and intuitively, she balances between the logical and illogical, taking from universal stories and finding interfaces with her own memories. It is a process of layering and unraveling; of gradual spontaneity. Without any expectation for a certain end-result she dismantles her mind’s image into pieces, allowing fragments to emerge from her mind to carve itself into the thick oil paint. She calls into being new meanings, new associations, new contexts for previously closed chapters: those of family tragedy, of physical spaces, of journeys travelled. It is a gentle (re-)awakening, a delicate kiss of life. Everyday scenes and sentiments are depicted with tenderness, melancholy, sometimes even echoing a sense of nostalgia.
Welten’s paintings challenge traditional ways of perception. Color, movement, depth, and scale almost literally slip away into the layers of dark and light oils. Wayfinding with streaks of vibrant and pastel color, the emphasis on letting her imagery appear from intuition becomes ever clearer. The objects, patterns, and spatial dimension almost seem to overtake any sense of demarcation around the subject. Proportionally her works eye askew: subjects bend their bodies to fit the frame and the furniture swings; as if we’ve caught them in a dance. She has a solid style brushstroke, yet it leaves room for a feeling of featheriness. Countering convention she makes the paint accommodate the canvas, instead of the canvas accommodating the paint.
Marenne Welten (1959, Valburg, NL) lives and works in Middelburg. She graduated from the School of Art & Design St Joost in Breda Her work has been shown in solo and group presentations in the Netherlands and abroad, including exhibitions at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2006), Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany, (2008), Kunstverein GFjK, Baden-Baden, Germany (2013), Museum De Pont, Tilburg (2013/14), Stedelijk Museum Breda (2021). Welten’s work is is part of public and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad.
Welten’s paintings challenge traditional ways of perception. Color, movement, depth, and scale almost literally slip away into the layers of dark and light oils. Wayfinding with streaks of vibrant and pastel color, the emphasis on letting her imagery appear from intuition becomes ever clearer. The objects, patterns, and spatial dimension almost seem to overtake any sense of demarcation around the subject. Proportionally her works eye askew: subjects bend their bodies to fit the frame and the furniture swings; as if we’ve caught them in a dance. She has a solid style brushstroke, yet it leaves room for a feeling of featheriness. Countering convention she makes the paint accommodate the canvas, instead of the canvas accommodating the paint.
Marenne Welten (1959, Valburg, NL) lives and works in Middelburg. She graduated from the School of Art & Design St Joost in Breda Her work has been shown in solo and group presentations in the Netherlands and abroad, including exhibitions at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2006), Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany, (2008), Kunstverein GFjK, Baden-Baden, Germany (2013), Museum De Pont, Tilburg (2013/14), Stedelijk Museum Breda (2021). Welten’s work is is part of public and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad.
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Marenne Welten
1959, Valburg, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Middelburg, NL
Education
1978 - 1983 St. Joost, School of Art & Design, Breda, NL
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Until Someone Finds You, Harkawik Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2023 Deep Pillow, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
2022 Mirrors, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
Double Take, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2021 House of Men, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda, NL
2018 Play Yesterday, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2015 niets anders, Spaceburo, Antwerp, BE
201 4 It is not all right, De Pont Museum of Contemprary Art, Tilburg
2013 No Man's Land, Kunstverein GfjK, Baden-Baden, DE
2009 Zeugnis II, Marie Tak van Poortvliet Museum, Domburg, NL
2008 Zeugnis, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, DE
2006 Expidition Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, DE
2001 Marenne Wlten, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 A Hand Not Seen, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL (DUO with Paul Kooiker)
Kinky-Malen im Saft, Reinickendorf Museum Berlin G, Berlin, DE (curated by Zuzanna Skiba)
Nieuwe Aanwinsten, Stedelijke Museum Breda, Breda, NL
Limburg Biennale 2024, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL
2023 Daydreaming pressed against a Fence, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
The Art of Belonging, Galerie LUMC, Leiden, NL
Als de dood, Museum Belvedere, Heereveen, NL
2022 Quitessence, Albade Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
Kansas, Salon 8, Hamburg, DE
Nada New York, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
Anonymous Was a Woman, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, CA
2021 Vanwege Vincent, Stedelijke Museum Breda, Breda, NL
2020 Van Gogh naar Nu-aanwinsten, Vincent van Goghhuis, Zundert, NL
Try this at home, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Ogenschijnlijk Nabij, Center for Visual Art, Design and Architecture, Middelburg, NL
Seven x Seven, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Dongen Revisited, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda, NL
Suze Robertson & Marenne Welten, Vincent van Goghhuis, Zundert, NL
Paper Works, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
The Figure in the Carpet, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2016 On Empathy, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, US
Nieuwe Aanwinsten 2014-2015, Gallery LUMC, Leiden, NL
2014 Dream On, Cultuurwerf, Vlissingen, NL
.lovejoy unit-1, Spaceburo, Antwerpen, BE
2008 Nein Tanz Ja, Galerie Krammig & Pepper, Berlin, DE
2007 Das Exponierte Tier, Kunstverein KISS, Untergronigen, DE
2003 Funf Kunstler, funf Raume, Kunsthalle Barmen/Von der Heid Museum, Wuppertal, DE
Marenne Welten
1959, Valburg, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Middelburg, NL
Education
1978 - 1983 St. Joost, School of Art & Design, Breda, NL
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Until Someone Finds You, Harkawik Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2023 Deep Pillow, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
2022 Mirrors, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
Double Take, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2021 House of Men, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda, NL
2018 Play Yesterday, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2015 niets anders, Spaceburo, Antwerp, BE
201 4 It is not all right, De Pont Museum of Contemprary Art, Tilburg
2013 No Man's Land, Kunstverein GfjK, Baden-Baden, DE
2009 Zeugnis II, Marie Tak van Poortvliet Museum, Domburg, NL
2008 Zeugnis, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, DE
2006 Expidition Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, DE
2001 Marenne Wlten, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 A Hand Not Seen, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL (DUO with Paul Kooiker)
Kinky-Malen im Saft, Reinickendorf Museum Berlin G, Berlin, DE (curated by Zuzanna Skiba)
Nieuwe Aanwinsten, Stedelijke Museum Breda, Breda, NL
Limburg Biennale 2024, Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL
2023 Daydreaming pressed against a Fence, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
The Art of Belonging, Galerie LUMC, Leiden, NL
Als de dood, Museum Belvedere, Heereveen, NL
2022 Quitessence, Albade Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
Kansas, Salon 8, Hamburg, DE
Nada New York, Harkawik Gallery, New York, US
Anonymous Was a Woman, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, CA
2021 Vanwege Vincent, Stedelijke Museum Breda, Breda, NL
2020 Van Gogh naar Nu-aanwinsten, Vincent van Goghhuis, Zundert, NL
Try this at home, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Ogenschijnlijk Nabij, Center for Visual Art, Design and Architecture, Middelburg, NL
Seven x Seven, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Dongen Revisited, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda, NL
Suze Robertson & Marenne Welten, Vincent van Goghhuis, Zundert, NL
Paper Works, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
The Figure in the Carpet, Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam, NL
2016 On Empathy, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York, US
Nieuwe Aanwinsten 2014-2015, Gallery LUMC, Leiden, NL
2014 Dream On, Cultuurwerf, Vlissingen, NL
.lovejoy unit-1, Spaceburo, Antwerpen, BE
2008 Nein Tanz Ja, Galerie Krammig & Pepper, Berlin, DE
2007 Das Exponierte Tier, Kunstverein KISS, Untergronigen, DE
2003 Funf Kunstler, funf Raume, Kunsthalle Barmen/Von der Heid Museum, Wuppertal, DE
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