About:
Incorporating materiality as a field of existential discoveries. Marjolijn Rijks explores the notions of fluidity and impermanence. Her approach is playful and reactive, focussed on the visual affects of abstract forms and colours.
Incorporating materiality as a field of existential discoveries. Marjolijn Rijks explores the notions of fluidity and impermanence. Her approach is playful and reactive, focussed on the visual affects of abstract forms and colours.
Art Education:
2019-2021 MA Fine Art & Design - Painting, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen
2017-2018 MA Artistic Research, University of Amsterdam
2011-2016 BA Fine Art & Design - Expanded Painting, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, DOGtime, Amsterdam
Exhibitions:
2022 'Sprouts II”, Arti & Amicitea, Amsterdam
2021’SBK Sprouts young talents 2021’, Loods 6, KNSM Laan, Amsterdam
2021’Swerve’ Graduation show Frank Mohr Institute, the Sugar factory, Groningen
2020 ‘Uncertain measures’, Lokalen, Lichtenvoorde
_ ‘REPresent, NP3, Groningen
2019 ‘Artistic Research Amsterdam’ Colorelefant, Valencia
_ ‘WHY SO SERIOUS?’, Windowshow, Amsterdam
_ 'Simulacrum x love', exhibition and launch, UVA, Amsterdam
2018 'Open studios', B46, Arnhem
_ 'Encountering', De Punt, Artistic Research, Amsterdam
2017 'Momentum/full', ThisArtfair, Amsterdam
_ ‘Tutti et Fruttato’, Bcademie, Rotterdam
_ ‘Art Capital’, plaatsmakerij, Amsterdam
_ ’Dufius Tedious’, Paleis van Mieris, Amsterdam
_ ‘Bcademie’,TENT, Rotterdam
_ 'What?', De Aanschouw, Rotterdam
2016 'This Artfair', Bcademie, Amsterdam
_ 'Exhibition #1'BANK, Amsterdam
_ 'Fragments of Horizon', Fontrodona Art space & De KunstTerminal, Amsterdam
_ 'Ondersteboven", Fontrodona Art space, Amsterdam
_ 'A Handful of mountains', Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2015 'SI.SI.SPEX', TNT, DOGtime In Situ Exhibition, Amsterdam
_ ‘What we have lost’ solo show, The Bookstore Space, Amsterdam click here for the texts on 'What we have lost'
2014 ‘Bring Surface’, Malonioij art space, Vilnius, Lithuania
2013 ‘Open studios’, ZK/U, Berlin
_ ‘Bliksemeditie’, Kulter, Amsterdam
_ ‘Closed’, Kulter, Amsterdam
_ ‘Veronique Bourgoin: Vrai ou faux? Act I & Act II’, Fotomuseum, Rotterdam,
_ ‘DIY/LIGHT’, presentation dogtime, Amsterdam
2012 ‘Touch’ Debby Thijs & Marjolijn Rijks, 44 gallery, Brugge, Belgium
_ 'Unlocked' 40 jaar ABKA, De Loketten, Vlaams parlement, Brussels
2011 ‘True or False?’, Ventilazione gallery, Vienna, Austria
_ ‘Achter de boom/L'arbre derrière’ graduation show/Photography, Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten van Anderlecht, Belgium
_ ‘True or False?’ Raum linksrechts/KunstLeben Projektraum, Hamburg, Germany
_ ‘ISSP Reference Point’ Goethe institut, Riga, Latvia
2010 ‘Parcours des artistes’ St Gilles, Brussels
Publications:
2019 'Love' Simulacrum magazine for art and culture, Amsterdam
2012 'Unlocked' 40 jaar Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Anderlecht
2013 'Vrai ou Faux?' Bibliothèque scientifique de la fabrique des illusions
2016 'Lost Painters' click here to read the article
Masterclasses:
2016-2017 BCAdemie, Rotterdam
2015 'The art of writing and theory', Jennifer Allen,
Summer Academy of Fine art, Salzburg, Austria
2010 ‘True or False’, Véronique Bourgoin, ISSP, Ludza, Latvia
Grants/Residencies/Curations
2022 Shortlisted for the ‘Buning Brongers’ Price
2021 Kunstpunt Groningen, ‘lucht' grant
2020 M.C. De Visser foundation, study grant
2020 Resident artist at AIR Lokalen, Lichtenvoorde
2019 Resident artist at filmstationen in Værløse, Danemark
2013 Resident artist at ZK/U, Berlin, Germany
2017-2018 Curator for BANK space for art and artists, Amsterdam