About the work of Marianne Lammersen
If, like Marianne Lammersen (Nijland, 1984), you grow up in the countryside with feeling of deep contentment, the city always remains a stranger to you. As a result, she sees the discrepancies, the structured chaos and seeming coherence more sharply than a city-dweller born and bred. She uses these observations in her work to make visual analyses of our times. Lammersen builds collages, objects and installation, that represent the imbalance and exponential growth of the cultivated world. She uses the human urge to build as a metaphor for the still prevalent idea of progress and addiction to the (economic) growth model. In her work, the artist interrogates this vision and suggests alternatives by letting the natural and organic confront the rhythm and regularity of fabricated (building) materials.
These ideas are reflected in her use of materials. Seemingly incompatible materials, such as blown glass and concrete, ceramics and paper are combined. Her artisanal choice of materials, and the time-consuming production process it entails, fulfils a wish to cherish the process of slowing down, to step out of the daily rat race. That slowing down seems a necessity to examine things, to get a grip on them, and at the same time a counterweight for the excessive speed from which we seem unable to escape.
Lammersen idealises neither city nor countryside, she moves between these poles by constructing works that balance between harmony and chaos, between attracting and rejecting. From a non-activist attitude, but out of curiosity and surprise and sometimes also scepticism, she doubts the speed with which changes take place. Don’t we want to go too fast, and at what cost?
By Diana Wind, (former) curator Museum Rijswijk
Haarlem
Publications
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
Solo exhibitions
2023 Paved Paradise Installation Stadskunstkamer, Haarlem NL
2022 Transities Castellvm Aqvae, Bloemendaal NL
2022 Grounded Desire Museum Rijswijk NL
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
2025 Oblique Strategies De Vishal, Haarlem NL
2025 LandLab Flevoland Robert Morris’ Observatory Lelystad NL
2025 Door het vuur Kunsthal45, Den Helder NL
2024 Beeldenroute Zeist NL
2024 Grensloos Kunst Verkennen Art bycicle route, De Wijk NL
2023 Nu en (N)ooit Koppelkerk, Bredevoort NL
2023 Future sTREEts Commissioned by Province of North-Holland and part of Sculpture route Haarlem NL
2023 Visa Versa II Grote Bavo, Haarlem NL
2022 Untold – Unfold De Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem NL
2022 De ruimte rondom stilte en duisternis De Vishal, Haarlem NL
2022 Faszination Papier Gustav Lübcke Museum, Hamm D
2021 Dwaalwegen De Vishal, Haarlem NL
2021 On-Bepaald Provinciehuis Paviljoen Welgelegen, Haarlem NL
2021 Sporen van architectuur GalleryEnny Espace, Laag-Keppel NL
2021 IJssel Biënnale St.IJssel Biënnale + Kunstenlab, Deventer NL
2021 Soms Veel Wereld Gallery Enny Espace, Laag Keppel NL
2021 Paper work Gallery Schless Art, Bergen NL
2021 Constructing Worlds De Vishal, Haarlem NL
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
