Sorry For The Damage

Marjolijn De Wit exhibition at Asya Geisberg Gallery

Marjolijn de Wit
“Sorry for the Damage”
October 27 – December 17, 2022

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 27, 6 – 8PM
The artist will be present.

Geisberg Gallery is pleased to present “Sorry for the Damage” by Marjolijn de Wit, an exhibition of oil paintings by the Netherlands-based artist. Exuberant and lush, the paintings are in a relatively small scale for the artist, whose oeuvre includes larger canvases and floor installations, as well as collage based works that are inspired by or incorporate ceramic pieces. In her third solo exhibition, De Wit hones in on the startling disconnect between the advertising and the editorial content of National Geographic magazines from the 1970’s and 80’s. Seen from the vantage point of our time, the articles and imagery that promote the wonders and diversity of the earth are negated by a lifestyle bent on our planet’s ruination. Extraction of gems, minerals, or fossil fuels, luxury underpinned by unseen carbon footprints; food delivered from every corner in every season at an environmental cost; these issues have grown more prominent today. Nonetheless, her paintings are not meant to hector. De Wit throws together isolated symbols seamlessly as she adamantly luxuriates in her medium. Her jewel-like paintings flutter their painterly eyelashes at us, coyly cooing into our psyches. Schematic compositions resist clear readings, as each opaque yet aesthetically jarring composition provokes the viewer to parse De Wit’s connections.

Future Fair May 4-7 New York

 

Asya Geisberg & New Discretions at Future Fair

 

Het kunstenaarsboek / The Artist’s book

Henriette Grahnert - Marioliin de Wit - Fundbüro, Henriette Grahnert - Marioliin de Wit - Fundbuero | THALER

https://www.kunstliefde.nl/tentoonstellingen/1579007587

No Ruins No Ghosts

No Ruins, No Ghosts – Marjolijn de Wit

from Saturday 7 March till Saturday 11 April, 2020

Gerhard Hofland is proud to present No Ruins, No Ghosts, the first solo exhibition of Dutch artist Marjolijn de Wit (1979, Bennekom, NL) with the gallery. Having exhibited primarily abroad in recent years, No Ruins, No Ghosts marks De Wit’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands since 2016.

The works of Marjolijn de Wit appear like vivid puzzles asking to be solved. Often composed from a random mixture of various elements of flora and fauna such as leaves, birds, or flower petals, De Wit disturbs their hierarchy by adding human made objects, abstract painterly shapes, and playing with size, scale and composition that resembles the technique of collage.

Throughout the rich canvasses, every object and element together resembles the act of a (future) archaeology, challenging the spectator to speculate on the relationship between all parts of the paintings. Unrelated objects appear as debris of a story that has yet to take place, even if it is only in the mind of the spectator entirely. They are the rubble of our society, in which nature is ever so often disrupted by the human urge to control it, and of which De Wit’s works provide a frame for the spectator to constantly find new narratives.

Distinctive to the practice of De Wit is her use of contemporary signifiers; photographs, records, or pieces that resemble (torn) drawings continuously refer to forms of human creation and the existence of culture as oppositional to the wilderness of nature. Also in her techniques and use of painterly materials De Wit finds balance between aptly directed structures and the freedom of painting. Deliberately anti-aesthetic at times, she often works in a wet-on-wet technique that gives her work a true painterly atmosphere and that echoes the joy she finds in the act of making. What remains, in the end, for the spectator, is the continuously tantalising question of what the narrative of your history will read like, and the challenge to keep solving the puzzle of everything De Wit presents us in her vibrant paintings.

 

(Text by: Menno Vuister)

No Ruins No Ghosts

March 7 – April 11 2020
Opening reception Saturday March 7, from 5 – 7 pm

Gerhard Hofland is proud to present No Ruins, No Ghosts, the first solo exhibition of Dutch artist Marjolijn de Wit (1979, Bennekom, NL) with the gallery.

The works of Marjolijn de Wit appear like vivid puzzles asking to be solved. Often composed from a random mixture of various elements of flora and fauna such as leaves, birds, or flower petals, De Wit disturbs their hierarchy by adding human made objects, abstract painterly shapes, and playing with size, scale and composition that resembles the technique of collage.

Throughout the rich canvasses, every object and element together resembles the act of a (future) archaeology, challenging the spectator to speculate on the relationship between all parts of the paintings. Unrelated objects appear as debris of a story that has yet to take place, even if it is only in the mind of the spectator entirely. They are the rubble of our society, in which nature is ever so often disrupted by the human urge to control it, and of which De Wit’s works provide a frame for the spectator to constantly find new narratives.

Distinctive to the practice of De Wit is her use of contemporary signifiers; photographs, records, or pieces that resemble (torn) drawings continuously refer to forms of human creation and the existence of culture as oppositional to the wilderness of nature. Also in her techniques and use of painterly materials De Wit finds balance between aptly directed structures and the freedom of painting. Deliberately anti-aesthetic at times, she often works in a wet-on-wet technique that gives her work a true painterly atmosphere and that echoes the joy she finds in the act of making. What remains, in the end, for the spectator, is the continuously tantalising question of what the narrative of your history will read like, and the challenge to keep solving the puzzle of everything De Wit presents us in her vibrant paintings.

Marjolijn de Wit (1979, NL) lives and works in Utrecht. She graduated from the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost in Breda and from 2008 – 2009  she was a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her museum exhibitions include Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (CA), the De Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL) and the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (NL). She has had solo exhibitions at several galeries including Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan (IT) and Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York (US). In 2013 she earned the PULSE Prize, a jury-awarded grant.

 

(Tekst: Menno Vuister)

Art Rotterdam

artwork by Marjolijn de Wit

MIX Ceramic art & Beyond Jubileum 50 jaar EKWC

The legendary European Ceramic Work Center (EKWC) celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2019. A wide range of now renowned visual artists, architects, and designers from all over the world visit the center to realize concepts, ideas, and dreams in clay, relying on the experts and world-class facilities. Established in Heusden, moved in 1991 to Den Bosch and since 2015 based in Oisterwijk, the center is a bastion of, for and by artists. It is committed to the development of ceramics in the visual arts, design and architecture. It functions as a center of excellence and as an artist-in-residence. In addition Sundaymorning@ekwc is open to higher education, talent development, the public, and the business community.

Exhibition august 3-31 tue– sat 12-17H entrance: € 3
Arti et amicitiae Rokin 112, amsterdam
www.arti.nl
www.sundaymorning.ekwc.nl

Frans Franciscus
Kim Habers
Babs Haenen
Henri Jacobs
ipek kotan
Daniel Maalman
Suzanne posthumus
Koen Taselaar
Marjolijn de Wit
Henk Wolvers
Curator: Ranti Tjan

Press: New City Art, “EXPO 2018: How To Write About An Art Fair?”, by Alan PocaroOctober 2, 2018

”After all, most of this year’s best works can be found nestled within Exposure’s focused booths. Topping my list are Marjolijn De Wit’s funky paintings of objects arranged over photographs at Asya Geisberg Gallery (#447).”

marjolijn de wit

Marjolijn De Wit, “More Than Just Another,” 2018, Oil on canvas, 63 × 51 inches /Asya Geisberg Gallery.

KRIJT

Op 26 mei opent in kunsthal KAdE de tentoonstelling KRIJT. Het nostalgie oproepende teken- en schrijfmateriaal op een schoolbordenondergrond staat centraal in een groepstentoonstelling met werk van 17 Nederlandse kunstenaars en een aantal bijzondere internationale bruiklenen van onder meer Joseph Beuys en Rudolf Steiner. Het Amersfoortse Blauwdruk 033 richt de bovenzaal in, met Amersfoortse kunstenaars die reageren op het thema krijt. De tentoonstelling loopt t/m 19 augustus.

Deelnemende kunstenaars
Marijn Akkermans (NL, 1975) | Jitske Bakker (NL, 1982) | Joseph Beuys (DE, 1921 – 1986) | Nik Christensen (GB, 1973) | Marcel van Eeden (NL, 1965) | Hanneke Francken (NL, 1976) | Lenneke van der Goot (NL, 1979) | Susanna Inglada (ES, 1983) | Arno Kramer (NL, 1945) | Bart Lodewijks (NL, 1972) | Romy Muijrers (NL, 1990) | Juan Muñoz (ES, 1953 – 2001) | Marc Nagtzaam (NL, 1968) | Nemanja Nikolić (RS, 1987) | Thomas Raat (NL, 1979) | Roland Sohier (NL, 1950) | Rudolf Steiner (HR, 1861-1925) | Guy Vording (NL, 1985) | Witte Wartena (NL, 1976) | Marjolijn de Wit (NL, 1979) | Marthe Zink (NL, 1990)

Kunsthal KAdE
Bezoekadres
Eemplein 77
3812 EA Amersfoort
T 033 422 50 30

ZONA MACO

Asya Geisberg Gallery
With Matthew Craven and Marjolijn de Wit
February 7 – 11, 2018