Marijke van Warmerdam

Marijke van Warmerdam (1959, Nieuwer Amstel, The Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam and Karlsruhe. She makes short films, photographs, and sculptures that form an extraordinarily consistent body of work. Van Warmerdam portrays minute moments of life, manipulating them with simple, usually mechanical techniques, repetition, mirroring, shifts in focus, to create an abstraction, a timeless, nearly still moment.

Van Warmerdam studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1987–1990), followed by residencies at PS1, New York (1995–1997), the DAAD Stipendium, Berlin (1997–1998), and the KNIR Artist-in-Residence, Rome (2017). She has been Professor of Art at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe since 2004, and serves as Advisor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Awards include the Prix de Rome (1992) and the David Röellprijs voor de beeldende kunst, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (2004).

Recent solo exhibitions include The sun comes in, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen (2024); Per sempre, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2024); Then, now, and then, ZKM Karlsruhe (2022); Then, now, and then, Centraal Museum in Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, Bunnik (2022); Wind, Magasin III Jaffa, Tel Aviv (2020); Overlap, Galleri Riis, Oslo (2017); Time is ticking, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (2014); Nahebei in der Ferne, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2014); De perto à distância, Museu de Serralves, Porto (2012); and Dichtbij in de verte, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2011).

Group exhibitions include Interdependencies: Perspectives On Care And Resilience, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2023); History(ies) of Art, Museu de Serralves, Porto (2022); Blindenzimmer, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022); La Répétition, Centre Pompidou-Metz (2023); Vrijheid, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (2019); The Power of the Avant-Garde Now and Then, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (2016); Le mouvement des images, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2006); and Documenta X, Kassel (1997).

Her work is held in collections including the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Migros Museum, Zurich; and MUDAM, Luxembourg.