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until 06.01. | #4527ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery show from Friday, 29. November 2024 (Vernissage: 28.11.) the exhibition TODAY IS NOT POSSIBLE of the artist Marike Schuurman.
Today is not possible consists of a selection of photographic and film works from the last 25 years. Marike Schuurman (*1964) uses the medium of photography to investigate the ambiguity of human-made spaces and landscapes. Starting point of Schuurman’s work are stories or situations that she observes and deal with absurd human attempts to change or influence the world around them. The artist uses a specific photographic technique for each theme, as well as reflecting on and illuminating the medium of photography and the associated production processes in her work.
Marike Schuurman is an artist-photographer born 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.
Vernissage: Thursday, 28 November, 18 – 21h
Exhibition dates: Friday, 29 November 2024 – Monday, 06 January 2025
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Image above: Marike Schuurman, TODAY IS NOT POSSIBLE, Vexer Verlag 2024
Exhibition Marike Schuurman – Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
