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photography: Debbie Saul
photography: Debbie Saul
photography: Debbie Saul

About my work

We live in times of constant transition, where traditional structures are demolished, making space for new forms and ideas. We live in ‘liquid times’, as Zygmunt Bauman so nicely puts it, ‘where the world changes so fast that there is no time for new traditions to arise’.

The spontaneous natural growth is so often substituted by technical and economic developments that designs and dominates our environment. But are these development also human development? We construct buildings in which we literally surpass ourselves. The mirroring glass of sky-scraping buildings avoids a change of engaging. With our heads in the clouds and one eye on the watch we make plans how to build bigger, reach higher and speed up, exploiting the environment and utilizing ourselves.  Following the tendency, in this speed, what valuable things do we surpass? Time is a factor. Delay seems a necessity in order to avoid growing pains.

This tendency of ‘growth’ and efficiency seems to contradicts our wish for contemplation, being in the moment, a delay. There is a wish to explore the potential of the unknown. To make a freefall, discover the unnamed, what’s beyond the pale. On the other hand, we intent to hold on to the conventional and the familiar – traditions, solid structures. Can they co-exist?

Via sculptures, installations, collages, I am exploring those tendencies/wishes, and reflect on what I experience as ‘forces’ pulling in opposite directions. I am not searching for balance, but rather report on the tension or disbalance I sense. Growing up in the countryside surely formed my perspective. 

My working-method and use of material support my ideas directly. The high ‘hand-made’ factor and a slow production process breaths a plea for delay. Sensible glass, textile and ceramics are combined with rough materials such as metal and concrete, of a more industrial character. Architectural shapes are often used as a metaphore. Structures and rules are created and broken, expectations created and twisted, works seem to burst, fall out of balance.

My work is a result of a visual analyses of this time. I hope to challenge the viewer in questioning his position in the ongoing changes that surround him. 

Marianne Lammersen
Haarlem
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Paltzbiennale – photo by Gerard Wielinga
Construction Tunnelvision
Paltzbiennale – photo by Gerard Wielinga
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Paltzbiennale – Photo by Gerard Wielinga
Construction Tunnelvision
Build-up Haarlemmerhout
Paltzbiennale – photo by Gerard Wielinga
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About my work
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Publications

2015 – Beyond the Pale

2013.1 Keramiek

BIO

Born in Nijland, 29-09-1984

Currently living and working in Haarlem (Nieuwe Vide)

 

Contact

Adress 
Generaal Cronjéstraat 6b, 2031 JH, Haarlem

Phone  
0031645775597

E-mail  
marianne_lammersen@hotmail.com

Website  
www.mariannelammersen.nl

 

Education

2007-2009  MFA: Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, Vrije Vormgeving

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Glas-afdeling

2002-2007  BFA: Aki, University of the Arts, Enschede / Sculpture department 

1996-2002  Gymnasium, Bogerman College, Sneek

 

Exhibitions 

Coming up:

4/2021  Solo Museum Rijswijk Museum Rijswijk NL

5/2021   ‘Constructing Worlds’ de Vishal, Haarlem NL

5/2021  ‘Veel wereld’ Galerie Enny Espace, Laag Keppel NL

6/2021  IJssel Biennial St. IJsselbiennale + Kunstenlab, Deventer NL

Past:

 

Solo exhibitions:

11/2020   ‘Walls of Safe and Sorry’ ABC  Centre for Architecture,  Haarlem NL

12/2020   ‘Zachte Landing’ mini solo at de Vishal, Kleine Zaal, Haarlem NL

9/2019   ‘Burned Out’ mini solo at De Aanschouw, Rotterdam NL

11/2018  ‘Ontworteling’ and ‘Living Ruins’ Gravenzaal Haarlem, tijdens Kunstlijn Haarlem NL

11/2017  ‘Ontworteling’ Foundation NieuweTwentseKunst, Almelo NL

10/2015  ‘Gebroken Wit’ Theatre de NEW Vorst, Tilburg NL

03/2013  ‘Balancing on trembling ground’ Gallery Judy Straten, Horst NL

12/2012  ‘Balancing on trembling ground’ Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen CH

06/2012  ‘Wie zaait, zal oogsten’  Kunstenlab, Deventer NL

02/2010  ‘Speelplaats?’  Gallery de Meerse, Hoofddorp NL

01/2009  ‘Dynamic Stills’ Exhibtion space Moira, Utrecht NL

 

Group exhibitions

6/2020  Papier Biennial Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk NL

6/2020  Sculpture garden Landgoed Anningahof Landgoed Anningahof Zwolle NL

3/2020  Stations of the Cross Art route city centre of Deventer NL

11/2019  ‘En Nu?’ Gallery Bakenes, Haarlem NL

6/2019  ‘SPACE’ Pop-Up gallery Artvark, Haarlem NL

7/2019  Rolling Snowball 12 Djupivogur IS

9/2019  ‘Burned Out’ De Aanschouw, Rotterdam NL

5/2019  Sculpture garden Landgoed Anningahof Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle NL

4/2019  ‘Beeldengalerij Haarlem’ Dreef, Haarlem NL

11/2018  ‘Het atelier’ Exhibition space De Vishal, Haarlem NL

4/2018  Sculpture garden Landgoed Anningahof Landgoed Anningahof Zwolle NL

4/2018  PaltzArt Biennial Estate De Paltz, Soest NL

6/2018  Art bicycle route Okkenbroek in collaboration with Kunstenlab Deventer NL

10/2018  ‘Atlantis ‘ Huis als Museum, Amersfoort NL

1/2018  ‘Daily Traces’ Amstelpassage Amsterdam NL

12/2017   WeLikeArt Secret Postcards WeLikeArt pop-up, Westergasfabriek A’dam NL

11/2017  Kunstlijn Haarlem Frisk aan het Spaarne, Haarlem NL

8/2017  Tekenkabinet Lustrum-edition Museum Waterland, Purmerend NL

4/2017  Nasty Women Amsterdam Gallery Josilda da Conceicao, Amsterdam NL

8/2016  Tekenkabinet –‘In de woonkamer’ Kalkmarkt 8, Amsterdam NL

6/2016  ‘In Quarantaine’ Kunsteiland Rotterdam NL

4/2016  ‘Ruimtelijk vlak’ De Boterhal, Hoorn NL

3/2016  Tekenkabinet Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam NL

12/2015  ‘Size Matters’, WeLikeArt Exhibition space TETEM, Enschede NL

10/2015  Beyond the Pale (duo + Finesse Architecture) Exhibition space  Fontrodona, Amsterdam NL

06/2015  ‘Veldwerk’, 25 year Diepenheim Kunstvereniging Diepenheim

05/2015  ‘Kleinbeeld #3’ Museum Waterland, Purmerend NL

05/2015  Kunst, aan gene zijde van de natuur Sculpturegarden Land en Beeld, Asperen NL

04/2015  The Library of the Future Library Deventer NL

11/2014  ‘In Stock’ Gallery Judy Straten, Horst NL

11/2014  Multi-Solo ‘Onrust’ by Edwin Jacobs, Tetem, Enschede NL

11/2014  ’CEAC – 15 Years Anniversary’ Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen CH

07/2014  ‘Rolling Snowball #5’ Djúpivogur IS

05/2014  ‘Kunst is een onuitputtelijke weelde van de

natuur’ Sculpture garden Land en Beeld, AsperenNL

05/2014  Landgoed Anningahof Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle NL

03/2014  ‘Het landschap en de romantische verleiding’ Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim NL

2013-2014  ‘Balancing on trembling ground’ Kasteel het Nijenhuis, 

Museum de Fundatie, ZwolleNL

09/2013  Van Bommel Van Dam Preis, Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie,

Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, LudwigshafenD

09/2013  ‘Wonen in Utopia’ / ‘Living in Utopia’ LUMC Galerie, Leiden NL

10/2013  ´Glasrijk´ Tubbergen NL

06/2013  Volkenkundig Museum / Etnographic Museum Leiden NL

06/2013  ‘Het Negende Wereldwonder’ Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden, Leiden NL

06/2013  ‘Talent en traditie’, BiL, by Feico Hoekstra Leiden NL

06/2013  Van Bommel Van Dam Prijs Van Bommel Van Dam Museum, Venlo NL

05/2013  ‘Botsing en ontlading’, Keramiek Biennale Exhibition space Cadmium NL

04/2013  ‘Vindplaatsen en voortgangsberichten’ Drawing Centre Diepenheim NL

11/2012  ‘Rolling Snowball’ Redtory Art + Design Factory, GuangZhou CH

09/2012  ‘Nature’ Gallery Judy Straten, Horst NL

08/2012  ’12 Plaatsbepalingen’ by Anky de Vreeze Grote Kerk Veere NL

06/2012  ´10+’, BiL, by. Feico Hoekstra Leiden NL

06/2012  Art bicycle route Okkenbroek in collaboration with Kunstenlab Deventer NL

05/2012  ‘Of untamed spirit’ Sculpture garden Land en Beeld, Asperen NL

03/2012  ‘Transition-1’ (duo show with Xandra Bremers) MILK, Creatief Initiatief, Amsterdam NL

10/2011  ‘From the Heart’ Bergkerk Deventer NL

09/2011  ´Glasrijk´ Tubbergen NL

05/2011  ´The undiscovered country and art’ Land en Beeld, Asperen NL

05/2011  Buitenbeeld Beeldenroute Schiedam Noord NL

04/2011  ‘De stad 3d’ Museum Hilversum NL

01/2011  Glas expositie Congres Centrum, Zlin CZ

11/2010  ‘Human Nature’ Platform bART, Den Bosch NL

10/2010  ‘Bio=Kunst’ Museum Waterland, Purmerend NL

10/2010  ‘Glinstering, glittering’ Akkuh, Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, Hengelo NL

05/2010  ‘The young, the beautiful and the really annoying’  Ernsting Mus., Coesfelt-Lette D 

05/2010  ‘Reflecting Nature’ Sculpture garden Land en Beeld, Asperen NL

02/2010  ‘U bevindt zich hier’ Cultural Centre Het Paleis, Groningen NL

11/2009  ‘Jeunes talents Européens’ Conseil Général du Département, Strasbourg FR

11/2009  ST-Art, Artfair Strasbourg FR

11/2009  ‘Domesticated Wilderness’ Platform 21, Amsterdam NL 

08/2009  ‘DMY Berlin Special’ Bauhaus Archiv / Mus. für Gestaltung, Berlijn, D

06/2009  ‘Domestic Making’ HeinzMinki, Berlijn, D

05/2009  ‘Carpe Hortem, Carpe Artem’ Sculpture garden Land en Beeld, Asperen NL

03/2009  ‘Glas/s’ Gemeentemuseum Den Haag NL

11/2008  ‘Views’ Museum Waterland, Purmerend NL

04/2008  Galerie Bas  Gallery Bas, Sneek NL

03/2008  ‘Unicaliteiten: 1-3’ Art Centre Hengelo NL

03/2008  ‘Surreal’ Platform bART, Den Bosch NL

09/2007  ArtOlive Jong Talent ‘07 Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam NL

08/2007  Kelder-Kunst Art route city centre of Deventer NL

07/2007  Eindexamenexpositie Artschool Aki, Enschede NL

 

Nominations / Awards

11/2020  Winner Audience Award Paper Biennial Rijswijk, NL

06/2013  Nomination Van Bommel Van Dam Award 2013

07/2012  Winner Audience Award, Beelden in Leiden

06/2012  Winner Frans de Wit-Award, Jury award Beelden in Leiden, for young Dutch sculptors. 

09/2009  Nomination Stanislav Libensky Award, Praag, CZ

06/2009  Winnerr  DMY-Award, Berlijn, D (with MA Sandberg Institute, department Applied Art) 

06/2007  Nomination ArtOlive Young Talent Award 2007

06/2007  Nomination Outstanding Student Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture, New Jersey, USA

 

Funds

2016  Stichting Stokroos, Utrecht

2012  Stichting Stokroos, Utrecht 

2012  NL-Consulate, Guangzhou, China

 

Publications

11/2020  In conversation with Gabriel Verheggen – ABC Haarlem, Youtube.com

11/2020  ‘GO | NO GO #271: Thuis is nooit een onbeschreven blad’; by Puck Gerkeme – De Kunstmeisjes, www.kunstmeisjes.com

6/2020  Catalog ‘Home/Thuis’ – PapierBiennial Museum Rijswijk ; by Diana Wind

5/2020  Article on my work, by Ronald Ruseler, Magazine Palet

4/2020  Interview 37PK.nl, by Ralph de Jongh + Janneke Hopman

12/2019  ‘Samensmelting van tegenstellingen’, by Ruud Vermeer + Lizan van Dijk, Pandora #6, Dec.2019

7/2019  Catalog  ‘Rolling Snowball #12’, catalogue of exhibition Djupivogur, Iceland

5/2019  ‘Beeldengallerij Haarlem 2019-2020’ – book of exhibition, Stichting Hildebrandmonument

5/2018  Catalog Landgoed Anningahof

5/2018  ‘Als we loslaten ontstaat er zoveel moois’, article by Marjolein Blauw, HRLM Stadsglossy

5/2018  ‘Kijken kunstenaars anders?’, newspaper article by Marit Versteeg, Gooi en Eemlander, 16-5-2018

11/2018  ‘Kunstlijn 2018 : Mooi maar veel’, newspaper article by Nuel Gieles, Haarlems Dagblad, 5-11-2018

12/2018  ‘Vertraging in de tijd koesteren’, newspaper article by Leontien van Engelen, HD 20-12-2018

8/2017   Tekenkabinet – Jubileum catalog

03/2016  ‘De gevoelswaarde van materiaal’, article by Julien Staartjes, kM-Magazine, spring 2016

03/2016  Catalog ‘Drawing Front’

05/2015  Magazine ‘Origine’, ‘Kunstenaar in het atelier’, photographic reportage by Hans de Bruijn

09/2015  Catalog ‘Veldwerk’, publication of 25 years of Kunstvereniging Diepenheim

07/2014  ‘Rolling Snowball #5’, catalog of exhibition in Djupivogur, Ijsland

05/2014   Catalog ‘De kunst is een onuitputtelijke weelde van de natuur’, Land en Beeld, Asperen

03/2014  Publication Kunstvereniging Diepenheim Spring exhibition

09/2013  Catalog ‘Glasrijk Tubbergen 2013’

06/2013  Catalog ‘Van Bommel Van Dam Prijs’, text about my work by Arno Kramer

06/2013  ‘Botsing en ontlading in Kadmium’, by Piet Augustijn, in: Keramiek, volume 39, number 2-2013, pp.20 

06/2013  Catalog ‘Beelden in Leiden – Talent en traditie’, Foundation Beelden in Leiden, by Feico Hoekstra 

06/2013  ‘De traditie van vernieuwing’, in: Leven!, volume 8, number 31, pp. 68

04/2013  ‘Balancing on trembling ground bij Judy Straten’, online article by Nanne Op’t Ende, https://www.facebook.com/nanne.optende/notes

07/2012  ‘Publieksprijs voor Parasiet’, newspaper article in Leidsch Dagblad, 10-7-2012

12/2012  ‘World under construction’, by Candy Wu, newspaper article, Xiamen Common Talk Weekly, 20-12-2012 

11/2012  Catalogue ‘Rolling Snowball #3’, catalogue of exhibition Djupivogur, Iceland

10/2012  ‘Beeld en Poezie in Watou en Veere’, by Judith van Beukering in Beelden, volume15, number 59

09/2012  ‘In het allerdaagse ligt de schoonheid besloten’, by Nico Out,  PZC, review on exhibition Grote Kerk Veere.

08/2012  ’Hoe verhoudt de mens zicht tot zijn zelf gecreeerde leefomgeving?’, by Piet Augustijn, in Keramiek, volume 38, number 4-2012

05/2012  ‘Marianne Lammersen’, by Piet Augustijn, in Fjoezzz, volume 8, number 2-2012

06/2012  ‘Elf beelden onder de Leidse bomen’, by Theo de With, Newspaper article, Leidsch Dagblad, 2-6-2012

06/2012  ‘Beelden in Leiden’, in Leven !, volume7, nr.27, pp.14

06/2012  ‘Marianne Lammersen wint Frans de Wit prijs’, www.volnieuws.nl, 1-6-2012

06/2012  Feico Hoekstra, in : catalogus ‘Beelden in Leiden – 10+’, stichting BiL, Leiden

03/2012  Catalog ‘Of untamed Spirit’, Land en Beeld, Asperen

10/2011  ‘Expositie in Bergkerk is ‘Positieve gekte’ by Chantal Dute, De Stentor, 4-10-2011

09/2011  Catalog ‘Glasrijk Tubbergen 2011’

05/2011  Catalog ‘The undiscovered country and art’, Land en Beeld, Asperen

04/2011  Make A Forest, ‘De Stad 3D’, via Museum Hilversum, www.makeaforest.org

07/2010  Galeries.nl, Kunst van de dag (art of the day) 30 juli 2010

03/2010  Catalog ‘Reflecting Nature’, Land en Beeld, Asperen

11/2009  Catalog ST-Art, Artfair Strasbourg, FR.

09/2009  Catalog ‘Stanislav Libensky Award’, Prague, CZ

09/2009  ‘DomestiCity’, abstract of my thesis, Verenigde Sandbergen #62 – New Urban Myths

05/2009  ‘Lekker  Origineel’, Broadcast Avro, Ned.3,  30 mei 2009

03/2009  Catalog ‘Carpe Artem – Carpe Hortum’, Land en Beeld, Asperen

03/2009  Catalog ‘Glas/s’, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

11/2008  Verenigde Sandbergen #60, Magazine Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam

05/2008  ‘Trots///Pride’,  Magazine Sandberg Instituut – Applied Art, Amsterdam

03/2008 Catalog ‘Surreal’, platform bART, Den Bosch

08/2007  ‘Ondergrondse schatten’, newspaper article  in Deventer Post, 8-8-2007

06/2007   Catalog AKI Graduation show 

 

Lectures

04/2016  Lecture about the meaning of drawing in my work: Sundayafternoon Salon, De Boterhal, Hoorn

04/2014  Lecture ‘de Aki…en toen ?’, Aki, Enschede

01/2014  Lecture about my work at ‘Stormhoek’, Art Collective Das Spectrum, Utrecht

11/2013  ‘Glas tussen de beeldhouwmaterialen’, for ‘Vrienden voor Modern Glas’, Leerdam

07/2013  ‘Trillende gronden’, during Beelden in Leiden, Centre.for Architecture, Leiden

4/2013 02/2103  Balancing on trembling ground, Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam, or ganised by‘Home-Work’

03/2013  Pecha Kucha presentatone at ‘Catch’, Havenkwartier Deventer

11/2012  ‘Rooting in trembling ground’, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Art and Design department

11/2012  ‘Rooting in trembling ground’, Art College Xiamen University

06/2012  ‘Worstelend wortelen’, during Beelden in Leiden, Leiden

2010  Lecture about my work related to the city, BNO, Verkadefabriek, Den Bosch

2008  Lecture about my work, Xiamen University Art College, CHN

2008  ‘Beeldhouwen, en wat daarna kwam’, AkI, Enschede

 

Artist in Residence / A.I.R.

04/2014  Ballington Art Foundation, Ballycastle, IE

09-12/2012  Chinese European Art Centre (CEAC), Xiamen, CHN

09-12/2011  European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC), ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL

 

Other Workexperiences / Acitivities

2014 – now Teacher at Artschool Aki Artez, Enschede, Sculpture department + propedeuse 

2019 – now Boardmember Artist Collective De Vishal, Haarlem

2017  Guestteaching Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Glass-department

2017  Guestteaching Chinese Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, Department Art and Public Space

2014  Teacher portfoliocourse at Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam

2014  Guestteacher + external examinator Aki Artez, Enschede, Sculpture department

2013-2015  Assisting Anne Wenzel

2012-2014  Assisting Marien Schouten

2009-2017  Glassblowing assistant

2010  Curator assistant  ‘The young, the beautiful and the really annoying’, Coesfeld-Lette, D

2009  Curator assistant ‘Domesticated Wilderness’, Platform 21, Amsterdam

2009  Organizing Glass-symposium ‘Scratching the surface – matters of perception’, Amsterdam

2009  Curator assistant  exhibition ‘Glas/s’,  Gemeentemuseum The Hague

2008-2009  Assisting Liset van der Scheer, at Studio van der Scheer, Amsterdam