Marjet Zwaans lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Pikin Slee (SR)
also active within two artist collectives:
Collectief Un Prati a Patu (CUPP) founded with Razia Barsatie www.instagram.com/cupp_collective
Collectief Totomboti Marjet Zwaans & Totomboti - Unfair Amsterdam
Artist Marjet Zwaans (Groningen, NL 1988) works with contagious enthusiasm in a variety of collaborations. Interdependencies are reflected in all her works. She translates regenerative systems and concepts from ecological economics into spatial installations, workshops and performances.
In correspondence with other artists, Zwaans moves in a pre-arranged, but not fixed, direction. In which they do not merge, but in which each can contribute from their own experience, expertise and from that arising viewpoint and thinking. Correspondence is central; it is about complementing, contributing, opposing and in this way mutually reinforcing.
RESIDENCIES
2019 - 2020 / Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
2024 / Esplanade, Singapore
2023 / Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen
2023 / Artist collective Totomboti, Pikin Slee, Suriname
2023 / Thami Mnyele Foundation Residency Award with CUPP, Amsterdam
2022 / Artist collective Totomboti, Pikin Slee, Suriname
2022 / Thami Mnyele Foundation Residency Award with CUPP, Amsterdam
2021 / AGALAB, Amsterdam
2019 / Waag | technology & society, Amsterdam
2023 / supported by Mondriaan Fund
2022 / Stichting Stokroos, special project fund for CUPP
2021 / supported by Mondriaan Fund
2021 / supported by AFK for a collaborative project with David Habets
2021 / Nomination Theodora Niemeijer Prize, as duo Razia Barsatie Marjet Zwaans
2019 / Stipend Prince Bernhard Culture Fund
2016-2017 / Stipend for emerging artists (WJT), Mondriaan Fund
EDUCATION
2014-2015 / Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Msc. Cultural Economics
2013 / Universidad de Chile Santiago, Exchange semester
2009-2013 / Academie Minerva Groningen, Bsc. Fine Art
2007-2011 / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Bsc. Economics and Business Economics
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2019 / Lichen liken, Hot House (by Kent Chan) within Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
2017 / plurality of right here right now, Membrane x Stellwerk @ documenta 14, Kassel, Germany
2017 / RELATIVELY DELINEATING to trace / to depict / to describe / to outline, Galerie David de Boer, Amsterdam
2015-2016 / Born of concentration, The talent room RAM foundation, Rotterdam
2013 / CUBO - NO TAN BLANCO, Galería Banco Negro, Santiago, Chile
Group (selection)
2023 / Silence #47: Call and Response for Talking Drum and Organ Tongue, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2023 / Decennial Dialogues, Academie Minerva Groningen
2023 / Correspondence for Choir [6.15], Villa Mondriaan en Klimop. Winterswijk
2023 / What are the words you do not have yet? Jajajaneeneenee; FramerFramed, Amsterdam
2023 / Listening session #1, with Edje Doekoe and Toya Saakie. Buro Stedelijk, Auditorium Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2023 / If forests talk, CAPC Museum Bordeaux
2022 / Correspondence for Choir: Open Rehearsal, Marres Maastricht
2022 / Unfair 22, Amsterdam
2022 / If Forests Talk, Singapore Art week
2020 / Unfair 20, Amsterdam
2020 / Open Studios, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
2020 / The Wall at the End of the Rainbow (curated by Natasha Marie Llorens) / Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
2019 / Far-off Nearby, Nieuw-Dakota, Amsterdam
2018 / Tembe fu libi, Moengo Triennial, Moengo, Suriname
2018 / Prospects and Concepts, ART Rotterdam
2015 / Meer dan een foto, de Vishal, Haarlem
2014 / Undo Space, duo show met Anne Kolbe, Galerie Het Langhuis, Zwolle
2013 / Art Olive Jong Talent 2013, Amsterdam
2013 / Inside Out - Outside In IV, Museum Belvédère, Heereveen
2012/ In Search of... (deel 3), Galerie Waalkens Finsterwolde