Marijke van Warmerdam (1959)
A drop of milk falling in a glass of water, cherry blossoms falling from the trees like snow or a hood dancing in the wind. Things and events that we may have seen, but which Marijke van Warmerdam gives a new radiance. In her lens, she captures powerful images that retain a playful quality, enticing us to look at them with new eyes. Van Warmerdam creates her photographs and film loops with an amazing sense of the beauty and mystery of the everyday. Reflection, doubling and enlargement of her subjects adds a tremendous clarity to the artist's images.
Now based in Amsterdam, Van Warmerdam formerly lived and worked in New York and Berlin. Her work has been exhibited extensively abroad: at the biennales in Sydney, Berlin and Venice, at Documenta X, and in Sonsbeek 2008.
The photograph Stand in (2007) was purchased in 2008. Recently six works by Van Warmerdam were added to the collection: five photographs and one object.
