Oct 16, 2014

The artist’s process and her choice of themes is explained in more detail in a discussion between Marlene Dumas and the organizer of the exhibition, Leontine Coelewij. Members of the public will also have the unique opportunity to ask their own questions about Marlene Dumas’ exhibition: The Image as Burden.

Price
Entrance fee to the museum (free with annual museum card) + € 2.50
Location
Stedelijk Museum, Teijin Auditorium
Time
Oct 16, 2014, 5.30 pm until 7.30 pm
Main language
Dutch
Admission
Reservations: It is necessary to make a reservation. Make a reservation here.

The Stedelijk Museum is extremely pleased to invite you to an evening with artist Marlene Dumas. During this stedelijk│forum program Marlene Dumas will have a discussion with Stedelijk curator Leontine Coelewij and will explain the most important themes of the exhibition Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden. Following a short introduction to the artist’s oeuvre, Dumas and Coelewij will discuss a personal selection of subjects, including the use of existing media images, references to themes in art history such as death, love, and longing, psychological subjects such as mourning, social issues such as the female image, and the current political situation. There will also be an opportunity for visitors to ask questions.

More information about the speakers:

Leontine Coelewij is a curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and is the curator of the exhibition Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, in collaboration with Tate Modern and Fondation Beyeler, Basel. Coelewij was the founder of the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (1993 to 1998), where she put on exhibitions with artists such as Inez van Lamsweerde and Rineke Dijkstra. Together with Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen, she organized Wild Walls (1995) and From the Corner of the Eye (1996) in the Stedelijk. She has organized various group exhibitions in the Stedelijk Museum CS, including Time and Again (2004, with Paulina Ołowska, Wilhelm Sasnal, Roman Ondak, and Deimantas Narkevicius), Mapping the Studio (2006), and Mapping the City (2007), as well as solo presentations with Tobias Rehberger and Florian Pumhösl. Since the reopening of the Stedelijk Museum in 2012, Coelewij has been co-responsible for presenting the collection of post-1960 art in the monumental museum building. Since the reopening, Coelewij has also worked on the large retrospective exhibition of artist Aernout Mik, Communitas (2013), and the presentation Paulina Olowska: Au Bonheur des Dames (2013-2014). Coelewij received her master’s degree in the history of art and archeology at the University of Amsterdam.

Marlene Dumas is one of today’s most important and influential painters. At the moment, her work can be seen in the Stedelijk Museum in the large retrospective exhibition Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden. In her paintings and drawings she provides new possibilities to the meaning that painting can still have in an age dominated by visual culture. Her intense, emotionally charged paintings and drawings often refer to themes in art history and current political issues. Marlene Dumas was born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa and came to the Netherlands in the 1970s to study at Ateliers ’63 in Haarlem. After completing her studies, she settled in Amsterdam, where she still lives and works.