UNCERTAIN MEASURES, Lokalen ruimte voor creatief ondernemen, Lichtenvoorde 2020
For the residency period at Lokalen Lichtenvoorde I have created an ecosystem where thoughts about the notion of uncertainty and the process of painting where intertwined. It's about finding a way in the middle and accepting what is within reach.

images by Rick Mellink

RE:Present #2,we care a lot, Groningen 2020
The concept for RE:Present #2 is taken from the idea of curating, and what it means to ‘curate’. The word curator comes from the Latin word curare, which translates as ‘to take care’. The meaning has changed from Ancient Rome to now – particularly in the second half of the 20th century the contemporary art curator arose, who, one could say, functioned more as a catalyst and exhibition maker than as a caretaker of a museum collection. Fascinated by the notion of ‘taking care’, this exhibition is created around this concept.
Caring for yourself, for someone, for something or for the world at large:
to take care compels us to connect. While caring refers to a feeling of concern for interest, or to the act of attending to someone or something, it gives us responsibility and a sense of humanity. Accordingly, these connections and humanity you will find in the artworks presented in RE:Present #2 – We care a lot. (It's a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it.). As George Orwell once said: ‘For you can only create if you can care.’
Curators: Belinda Hak & Gisanne Hendriks

WHY SO SERIOUS? Windowshow, Amsterdam 2019

​A joint painting by Charlotte Neel Ritto and Marjolijn Rijks.
Charlotte and Marjolijn share a common interest in spiritual practices and in painting. Specifically for the windowshow_ they investigated the notion of open vision and transparency both in their joint creative process as in the form of the painting itself. They explored a space where commonality would emerge.
A space where their ‘pictorial' identities would be challenged and intertwined.

Simulacrum x Love, Amsterdam 2019

The exhibition Simulacrum x Love consists of modest artworks that express a great passion and curiosity for art and its power and hope to (re)think a world through an emotive lens. The works brought together are presented at the department of Book Science and Art History at the University of Amsterdam / Universiteit van Amsterdam and are for the purpose of celebrating the importance and shared strength between students, artists, professors, writers, and their commitment to creative endeavor. A marriage that has often been assigned to a chaotic rally of multiple subjective defeats and triumphs that serve to analyse and express a rich variety of imaginations and interpretations.
Curators: Hanna Steenbergen-Cockerton & Sara-Lot vam Uum
Momentum/Full, This Artfair, Amsterdam,2017

​'Momentum/full' is a process in transparency. It questions the origin of the work itself as well as its direct influences and resonances. The work unfolds physically in a performance that aimed towards an urgency of looking.
'In the real', during ThisArtfair, the performance developed  in 3 stages from Wednesday the 27th of December till Friday the 29th of December.
On Wednesday acrylic paint has been poured on the floor of the Keurzaal/Beurs van Berlage (Amsterdam). Between Wednesday and Saturday the paint transformed in consistency. On Saturday the paint has been cleaned until no trace was left.
'In the virtual', the process of Momentum/full has been made visible through an online research catalogue which you can access by clicking on this link

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Tent, Bcademie, Rotterdam, 2017

Exhibition by seventeen young Bcademie artists at TENT.
Established by artists Alex Jacobs and Daan den Houter, who believe that a contemporary artist is also a cultural entrepreneur. The Bcademie offers young artists insights into the business aspects of the art profession and proven talent together in an informal atmosphere.
De Aanschouw, Rotterdam, 2017



​'De Aanschouw' sticks as a parasite to a public place; café De Schouw, Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam. Since 2001 every Thursday evening around 9.00 pm a change takes place, in which artists in turn exhibit one work. From various creative disciplines they give substance to the meaning that the display window has for them. The fact that this public space is adjacent to a public place is more than a nice extra. After all; an important element was, is and remains the act of gathering.

'Upside - down', Fontrodona Artspace, Amsterdam, 2016

​Between imaginary numbers infinite variables of materials and colors are connecting. A view in continuous motion within a timeframe.
What is placed in the correct context gives light.
With the context something gets a value and correlates What is visible, is the tip of the iceberg.
A continuous installation was exhibited in Fontrodona art space The artists Lieselotte Fontrodona and Marjolijn Rijks developed the space into an algorithm of reflections and potential paradoxes.
For this installation, they went looking for that what is below the horizon of the iceberg, namely: reflections, values, numbers, proportions.
'Fragments of Horizon', De KunstTerminal, Amsterdam, 2016



​‘Fragments of horizon’ is a filmed performance of 40 minutes and forms the final piece of the exhibition 'Upside Down'.
Fragile colored plaster molds of balloons were placed in a tricycle and transported through the streets of Amsterdam from the exhibition in Fontrodona Artspace to the exhibition space De KunstTerminal. During the transport the molds broke, this transformation was filmed by a camera that was placed in the tricycle and beamed live at De KunstTerminal.

'A Handful of Mountains', Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2016

I make pictures and sculptures in accordance to the things I see, what I perceive in my direct visual surroundings and in the studio. This can be derived from a postcard to a movie scene, to spilled paint on the ground. 
I find a visual excitement in what I see and want to convey in the productions of forms, materials and images a sensation of immediacy and joy.
​A perceptual chaos of balanced visual impulses and a palpable directness of making.
- Marjolijn Rijks -

Solo show 'What we have lost' Bookstore space, Amsterdam 2015

​'There is a constant wind in the rooms downstairs, everything disappears. 
Disturbances, the white haired lady feeding the cats will be forgotten. The dust, the new, always newer, always better, will still be forgotten. 
Red, black, blue and acid green. There is no me, but stories that dislocate. Future is forgotten, past registered. There is no country here.' 
​- Marjolijn Rijks -

Malonioji 6  group show “Bring surface” Vilnius, 2015

​​BRINGSURFACE is an exhibition which discusses different social, political, everyday, unknown or material surroundings. Their research and expansion, which was induced by the vast geography of the participating artists living in Lithuania, The Netherlands, Sweden, Austria. Presented artworks are constructed of narratives of capturing and rethinking those surroundings and are in search of intersections of creative perspectives in a common space.
BRINGSURFACE is a conversation of the participating artists about an image and its nature, its limits, exceeds of limits, limitation and openness. Questions about the meaning of an image in different surroundings and a possibility to create a personal field of interpretations based on different perspectives are raised. The viewer is invited to search for individual layers of perception in the presented images.
Curators: Justina Nekrašaitė, Vaida Stepanovaitė.
Partner of the exhibition Arts management platform ARTHESIS.