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until 22.04. | #4628ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery currently shows the exhibition KOHLE by the artist Marike Schuurman.
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery presents KOHLE, a solo exhibition by Dutch artist and photographer Marike Schuurman as part of EMOP Berlin 2025. Under EMOP’s leitmotif What stands between us, Schuurman’s exhibition examines the profound social and environmental scars left by lignite mining in former East Germany.
Schuurman’s photographic practice navigates the tension between documentation and abstraction, capturing human-altered landscapes with a perceptive eye. Her images, rooted in specific locations, document both their transformations and their enigmatic, often overlooked qualities. Yet rather than functioning as straightforward records, her photographs invite a conceptual and sensory contemplation – what remains, what disappears, and how we perceive the traces of history imprinted on the land. With KOHLE, Schuurman brings her distinctive perspective to the legacy of erasure and resilience in the Lusatian landscape, creating a dialogue between past destruction and future uncertainty.
Marike Schuurman is an artist-photographer born 1964 in Groningen, The Netherlands. She studied photography at Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where she got her BFA in 1998, immediately followed by a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2003, she got a stipendium from the Dutch Fonds BKVB (Mondriaanfund) for a one-year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; in 2008 for a 6-months residency in Beijing, China and in 2009 for a residency in São Paulo, Brazil. Her work is exhibited a.o. in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, FOAM, Amsterdam, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland and KINDL, Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Her work is part of collections such as Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and KPN, The Hague, The Netherlands. Since 2003, she lives and works in Berlin and Amsterdam.
Opening: Sunday, 01 March 2025, from 4 to 8 pm
Exhibition dates: Monday, 02 March to Tuesday, 22 April 2025
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Image caption title: Marike Schuurman, Bergheider See 1, PH 3, 2022
Exhibition Marike Schuurman – Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
