Mariken Wessels 1963

Woont in Amsterdam. Werkt in Amsterdam.

Vertegenwoordigd door:

The Ravestijn Gallery

Mariken Wessels (Vlaardingen, 1963) studied acting at the Amsterdam Theatre School. After a decade-long career in acting, she studied visual art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, after which she established an independent artist’s practice. Her work comprises artist’s books, photography and film works, as well as installations and sculptures. Since 2017 Wessels has been working on a large-scale project inspired by a sequence from the Human and Animal Locomotion studies by Eadward Muybridge. This new work encompasses sculpture, photography, film, and (artist’s) books related to the themes of corporality, movement, and weight(lessness). In 2018 she worked as artist-in-residence at the European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC) in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands.

Taking Off. Henry my Neighbor, her most recent artist’s book, was published in 2015 with Art Paper Editions to international acclaim. The book was awarded an honorary appreciation at the Leipzig Book Fair (Best Book Design from all over the World, 2016), won the Author Book Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2016) and has been included in the selection for Best Book Designs from the Netherlands and Flanders (2015). This artist’s book constitutes the third part of an open trilogy exploring the self-image in amateur photography on the borderline of the public and the private. The other parts are Elisabeth—I want to eat (self-published, 2008) and Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off (Alauda Publications, 2010).

Taking Off was exhibited in various spatial arrangements at the Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam (2016), as a solo show at Fotomuseum Antwerp (2016), as part of Photo Oxford (2017), and within the context of the trilogy, as part of a large solo show, at the The Hague Museum of Photography (2017).

Wessels’ works and artist’s books have been collected by museums, libraries and private collectors worldwide, among them the Centre Pompidou (Paris), ICP and MoMA (New York), Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Fotomuseum Antwerp (Belgium), and the Verbeke Foundation (Belgium).

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Fruits of Labor: Een dubbelinterview met Mariken Wessels en Ruth van Beek

Ze mocht er gerust over nadenken, maar toen ze de vraag kreeg, wist Mariken Wessels meteen met wie ze de stand op Art Rotterdam wilde delen: Ruth van Beek. Iemand die net als zijzelf met archiefmaterialen werkt. Dat de verwantschappen gaan verder dan dat, is vanaf dit weekend te zien bij The Ravestijn Gallery waar de nieuwe sculpturen van Wessels een dialoog aangaan met de collages van Van Beek.

Wouter van den Eijkel met dank aan Taco Hidde Bakker

Een dag met Mariken Wessels

Ergens aan de Amsterdamse grachten in een voormalige drukkerij werkt kunstenares Mariken Wessels aan nieuwe verhalen, geheel naar eigen ontwerp.

Ish Doney

Online Gallery Visit bij The Ravestijn Gallery met Young Collectors Circle

Young Collectors Circle start in samenwerking met GalleryViewer een nieuwe online video-rubriek: Online Gallery Visits. Omdat we momenteel geen gallery tours kunnen organiseren, brengen we elke vrijdag een andere Nederlandse galerie bij je thuis!

Young Collectors Circle

Arising from the Ground – Mariken Wessels

Op Art Rotterdam presenteert The Ravestijn Gallery Arising from the Ground, het nieuwe project van Mariken Wessels bestaande uit fotoreeksen en keramische sculpturen. We spraken haar over haar nieuwe serie en de onvermoede schoonheid van het obese lichaam.

Wouter van den Eijkel

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Fruits of Labor

Ruth van Beek, Mariken Wessels

11 mar - 22 apr 2023, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam 2023

Ruth van Beek, Mariken Wessels

9 feb - 12 feb 2023, Rotterdam, Nederland

One of a Kind

Scheltens & Abbenes, Patrick Waterhouse, Tereza Zelenkova, Thomas Kuijpers, Anja Niemi, Nico Krijno, Bownik, Philippe Braquenier, Ruth van Beek, Eva Stenram, Jan Rosseel, Darren Harvey-Regan, Mariken Wessels, Robin de Puy, Theis Wendt, Michael Bailey-Gates, Koen Hauser, KYoung, Martina Sauter, Michel Lamoller, Vincent Fournier, Blommers & Schumm, Inez & Vinoodh, Cortis & Sonderegger, The Ravestijn Gallery, Mark Nettenbreijers

3 aug - 22 oct 2022, Amsterdam, Nederland

The Salon Show

Patrick Waterhouse, Tereza Zelenkova, Cortis & Sonderegger, Koen Hauser, Nico Krijno, Anja Niemi, Vincent Fournier, Bownik, Philippe Braquenier, Ruth van Beek, Alinka Echeverría, Scheltens & Abbenes, Christopher Anderson, Eva Stenram, Inez & Vinoodh, Mariken Wessels, Robin de Puy, Jan Rosseel, Michael Etzensperger, Darren Harvey-Regan

13 jun - 29 aug 2020, Amsterdam, Nederland

Nude - Arising From the Ground

Mariken Wessels

13 mar - 25 apr 2020, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam 2019

Mariken Wessels

6 feb - 10 feb 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

In museumcollectie van:

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Fotomuseum Den Haag

Fotomuseum Antwerpen

In bedrijfscollectie van:

UMC Utrecht

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b.1963 Born in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands. Works in Amsterdam.

Education BA Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2004-2008, graduated
Actors Studio, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York City, 1996-1997
‘t Colofon Amsterdam, 1995-1996, masterclass scenario writing
NOB, Camera/Acting course, 1990-1991
MA Acting, Theatre School, Amsterdam, 1985-1989, graduated

Solo Exhibitions / Two-Person Exhibitions:

2023 Fruits of Labor with Ruth van Beek, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2020 Nude - Arising From The Ground, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 The Ravestijn Gallery, Art Rotterdam (NL)
2017 I’M OK - YOU’RE OK, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague (NL)
2016 Taking Off. Henry My Neighbor, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp (B)
2011 Kominek Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2010 De Zwarte Ruyter, Rotterdam (NL)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2022 One of a Kind, The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2020 Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden (NL)
2019 Kunstverein Hildesheim (DE)
2017 Photo Oxford 2017, Oxford (UK)
Fotoboekenprijs, FotoFestival Naarden 2017, Naarden (NL)
2016 Visual Leader, LeadAwards, Haus der Fotografie Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE)
De Obscure Kamer, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
QUICKSCAN NL#2, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (NL)
Feminine Masculine, Photo50, London Art Fair, London (UK)
SIZE MATTERS, TETEM, Enschede (NL)
2015 FOTOGRAFIA Festival Internazionale di Roma, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (IT)
De Fotokopie, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (F)
The Edition Show, RIOT, Ghent (B)
Veldwerk jubilee, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim (NL)
Sequence 1, Academie Minerva & Groninger Museum, Groningen (NL)
2014 START BUYING ART, We Like Art, Amsterdam (NL)
I am not doing anything until I feel the need, OBA, Amsterdam, (NL)
DOGtime, TNT Building, Amsterdam (NL)
BE CALM, CBK, Amsterdam (NL)
Art Rotterdam 2014, We Like Art, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam (NL)

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