Mirjam Vreeswijk
미르얌 브레이스뷔크
b. 1997 -
CV
EDUCATION
2018 Frank Mohr Institute Master of Fine Art, Painting
2014 - 2018 HKU Bachelor of Fine Art
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023
Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam
2022
Art Rotterdam, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Rotterdam, NL
2021
Seductive Arrangements, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam
Rijnstate kunstcollectie, Arnhem
A Four Season Occasion, Utrecht
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
2023
Life Potantial, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Sow & Tailor Gallery, Hong Kong
2022
Painter's Painters, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam
Exhibition Young Collectors Circle, Amsterdam, NL
Amsterdam Art Week Exhibition, Capital C, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam
FOULPLAY/SOGGYBUN, Kunstliefde, Utrecht
2021
ART AWAY, Groningen
2020
SGABELLO COLLECTION; In Search Of The Miraculous, Amsterdam
2019
ART NOORD, Museum Belvédère, Leeuwarden
MATERIAL WORLD Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation - Show off, Rotterdam
Kunst aan de Dijk Prijs, KunstRai, Amsterdam
2018
Groupshow Young Talent - KERSGALLERY, Amsterdam
SBK Sprouts Young Talent 2018, Amsterdam
Best of Graduates - Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Exposure HKU Beeldende Kunst - Pastoe Fabriek, Utrecht
ART FAIRS
Arts Libris 2021 (18 - 20 June 2021)
Arts Libris 2020 ( 23 - 26 July 2020) (Online edition)
ART & BREAKFAST #3, Málaga (9 - 11 June 2017)
AWARDS
2022
Kunstliefde Award, Winner
2020
Talent van het jaar 2020, Winner
2018
Buning Brongers Prize, Nomination
Kunst aan de dijk prijs, Nomination
Best of Graduates Ron Mandos Public Prize, Winner
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
KPMG
FUNDS
2022 Mondriaan Start
Biography
Mirjam Vreeswijk's (Gorinchem, 1997) paintings explore the convergence of divergent realities produced in a space between mirror and mask, between revealing and hiding the subject. In doing so, she seeks to draw attention to the different layers of consciousness rippling through the painting’s surface and its subject. Narrative and continuity become illusory in this hybrid space, as each work contains new perspectives that combine opposites and defy easy coherency.
The work originates from collages of objects or images that appeal to her in one way or another. For example, shiny ribbons, designer shoes and pictures from books on decorative works from the 70s. From this archive of materials, she intuitively builds compositions, first in models, then on canvas. Step by step, Mirjam looks at what the image needs in order to eventually arrive at the perfect composition and perfect structures of paint.
This intuitive or subconscious approach gives the paintings a surrealistic feel that touches on elements of product photography, still life and landscape painting. In her latest series the fairy-tale world makes its entrance. This can be seen in ritual objects and in the approach to landscapes that some of the paintings provide a glimpse of.
