The relation
between art and female beauty, art and pornography, female models and models
of art, all have been a constant theme for Marlene Dumas. Her work recalls the
painterly gestures of Expressionism, whilst combining the critical distance
of Conceptual art with the pleasures of eroticism. Some of her images are
derived from Polaroids of friends and lovers, others from glossy magazines
and porno pictures. Through her delicately painted oil-on-canvas or ink-and-watercolour
works on the female form, as well as, portraits of children and erotic scenes,
she comments on the state of painting today.
A solo show of Marlene Dumas' work is touring Japan, it can be seen this autumn at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Kagawa. Her work has been widely exhibited
and her paintings are in many important collections including, Tate Gallery, London, De Pont Foundation, Netherlands, Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Art institute of Chicago amongst others.
Dumas' work can also currently be seen in two group exhibitions The Painting Of Modern Life at London's Hayward Gallery and Seduced at The Barbican Art Gallery.
Still available, the first publication from Frith Street Books
Please click on the News section of the site to read about forthcoming exhibitions and projects.
MARLENE DUMAS : The Second Coming
Published to celebrate the occasion of Dumas' exhibition of the same title at Frith Street Gallery in late 2004.
The Second Coming book
BIOGRAPHY
1953
Born Capetown, South Africa
1972-1975
B.A. Skone Kunsten, University of Cape Town
1976-1978
Atelier '63, Harleem, The Netherlands
1979-1980
Psychological Institute, University of Amsterdam
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 2005-06 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999/2000
1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1995 1993 1994 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1980 1979 SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 2006 2005 2004-05 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984-1985
1984 1983 1982 1980 1978 1977 AWARDS
Tapestry by Marlene Dumas made for the opening of the Constitutional Court in Den Bosch, Pretoria ©
2007 Frith Street Gallery
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Taidehalli Helsinki Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
The Second Coming, Frith Street Gallery, London
Con vista al celestiale, together with Marijke van Warmerdam, Montevergini - Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
Termite Art Vs. White Elephant, Fundacio ICO, Madrid
* Wet Dreams, Stadtische Galerie Ravensburg, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Arken, Denmark
FOCUS, Art Insitute, Chicago
Suspect, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Massa Venice
Name No Name, New Museum, New York
Name No Names, De Pont, Tilburg
Zeno X, Antwerp, September 2002
Name No Names, Centre de Georges Pompidou, Paris
Figuration, Museion, Bozen
Strippinggirls, met Anton Corbijn, Theatermuseum Amsterdam, 15.4 - 3.7, SMAK,
Gent
Touring Exhibition, Muhka, Antwerp; Camden Arts Centre, London;
Henie Onstad Artcenter, Hovikodden, Oslo
M D-light, Frith Street Gallery, London
Miss World, Galerie Paul Andriesse
Fantasma, Fundacao Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Damenwahl (with Andries Bota), Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
Young Boys - Part II, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Marlene Dumas Wolkenkieker, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg
Models NGBK/Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin Tate Gallery, London
Pin Up, Stedelijk Museum "het Toreke", Tienen
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Raum aktueller Kunst, Vienna
Models, Kunstverein, Salzburg
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Chlorosis, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne
The Dutch Pavilion, The Venice Biennial
Give 'em what they Want, Zeno X, Antwerp
Land of Milk and Honey, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg; Bonner Kunstverein, am
August-Macke- Platz, Bonn
Marlene Dumas, ICA, Philadelphia
Lanormalita dell'Arte, La Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, Milan
Marlene Dumas, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Marlene Dumas, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Not From Here, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Ask me no Questions and I'll tell you no Lies, Galerie Isabella Kacprzak,
Cologne
Insight, Axe-Neo-7, Hull Quebec
Strips, In Situ/Ardi Poels, Maastricht
Miss Interpreted, StedelijkVan Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
The Origin of the Species, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Ausser Reichweite von Kindern, Galerie Stampa, Basel
Presentation of a commission for the Psychiatric Centre Het Hooghuys, Etten-Leur
Couples, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam
The Origin of the Species, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich
The Question of Human Pink, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Nightmares, Galerie Wanda Reiff, Maastricht
Mother Explains Life to Her Son, Kunstcentrum Marktzeventien,
Enschede Waiting (for meaning), Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Galerie Paul Andriesse,
Amsterdam
Ecco Pier Paolo Pasolini (presentation portfolio), Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
The Private versus the Public, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Fear of Babies (presentation portfolio), De Expeditie, Amsterdam
The Eyes of the Night Creatures, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Ons Land Lickt Lager Dan De Zee, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
The Artist as a Young Girl, Galerie Flatland, Utrecht
Unsatisfied Desire, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Marlene Dumas, Galerie Lambelet, Basel
Marlene Dumas, Galerie Annemarie de Kruyff, Paris
Seduced, Barbican, London
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London
The Present: The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Resonance, Frith Street Gallery, London
Essential Painting, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Katz Chair, The Cooper Union School of Art
Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy
Nederland I, Museum Gouda, Netherlands
51st Venice Biennale, The Experience of Art, Italian Pavilion
Identita & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy
Some Painting, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London
Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Gallery, London
Nederland Niet Nederland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Non Toccare La Donna Bianca, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torin
(In Search of) The Perfect Lover, Hauser and Wirth, London
L'AAAir du Temps, Das Migro Museum, Zurich
The Nude in Art of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, Arken, Denmark
FOCUS, Art Insitute, Chicago
The Beauty of Intimacy, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Germany
Schwarz/Weiss, Muscarnok, Budapest
Hofvijver in Poezie en Beeld, Den Haag
Moffat, Kruger, Dumas, Monika Sprueth Galerie, Cologne
Royal Academy, London, curated by Gary Hume
Refuge, Henie Onstad Center, Oslo
Summer Show, RA London, Frith Street Gallery
Extreme Existence, Pratt Institute, New York
The Nude in Art of the 20th Century, Kunsthalle Emden
The Galleries, Royal Academy, London
Loud and Clear, StedelijkBureau Amsterdam, DVD project with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Erik Kessell
Stop Press : beautiful productions, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Le Sommeil ou quand la raison s'absente, Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne,
23.10-30.01 (cat.)
Physical Evidence, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Marlene Dumas, Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte, Pisa
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Spaced Out, Californian College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Trouble Spot, Muhka, Antwerp
Pathologiae, Museion, Bolzano
0 TO 60 IN 10 YEARS, Frith Street Gallery, London
Micro / Macro, University of Texas, Austin
Presumes Innocents, Capc, Bordeaux
Regarding Beauty, Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn
desde el cuerpo: alegorias de lo femenino, Museo bellas Artes, Cara Wounds:
between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Szenenwechsel, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
8 People from Europe, Inaugural exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Hungry Ghosts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Ideal und Wirklichkeit, Rupertinum, Salzburg
Kaapse Lading, Oudtshorn, South Africa
De Bruiloftsreportage, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht
Palazzo Grassi, Biennial, Venice
De Versameling, Muhka, Antwerp
Floating Images of Women in Art History, Tochigi prefectoral Museum of Fine
Arts, Utsunomiya
Ver na Vermeer, De Beyerd, Breda
Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990's, Hirschorn Museum, Washington
Take Two, Centraal Museum Utrecht
ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Africus, Johannesburg Biennale
Identita et Alterita, La Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Grassi
Der Eeuw van Mondriaan, Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout, Den Haag
Hedendaags Zuid-Afrika, 12 artists from South Africa, Museum't Coopmanshus,
Franeker
Carnegie International 1995, Carnegie, Pittsburgh
The Particularity of Being Human, Malmsč Konsthall, Malmo and Castello di Rivoli,
Turin
Marlene Dumas, Mike Kelley, Christopher Wool (Drawings), Galerie Samia Souma,
Paris
Art des Pays Bas au XXeme Siecle, Du Concept a L'Image, Musee D'Art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris
Ik + de Ander, Dignity for All, Reflections on Humanity, Beurs van Berlage
Galerie Luce Monacchese, Rome
Andries Botha, Marlene Dumas, Sandra Kriel, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Centre d'Art
Contemporain, Geneva
Marlene Dumas, Juan Munoz, Thomas Schütte, Frith Street Gallery, London
4 x 1 im Albertinum with Gunther Fruhtrunk, Louise Lawler, Marcel Odenbach,
Gemaldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Cocido Y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
The 21st Century, Kunsthalle Basel
Der Zerbrochene Spiegel, Positionen zur Malerei, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna and
Cahn, Dumas, Hentricks, Zimmerman, Verein kunsthalle St Gallen
Gegenbilder, Lambertkirche, Munster
Deichtorhalle, Vienna and Hamburg
Uberleben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Bildnisse Figuren, Stampa, Basel
Drawn in the Nineties, New York
documenta IX, Kassel
Ars Pro Domo, Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Kolner Privatbesitz, Museum Ludwig
Cologne
De Opening, De Pont Stichting
Brain / internal affairs, Gorichem, Beatrixzielkenhuis
The Interrupted Life, The New Museum, New York
Forbidden Games, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Individu, Duiding, verboden verbindingen + twijfelachtige verbanden KMSK/ICC,
Antwerpen
Gluck Auf , Zeche Rheinpreussen, Schacht V. Moers
Selfportraits, Galerie Tania Rumpff, Haarlem
Inconsolable, An Exhibition about Painting, Louver Gallery, New York
Bevrijdingen, Het Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
6 Dutch Artists The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Bildersteit, Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der kunst siet 1960 Rheinhallen
der Kolnermesse Koln in samenwerking met Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Hommage aan Pasolini, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem
Prospect '89 Eine Ausstellung Aktueller Kunst Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
am Main
Bluebeard Stills, Shaffy Theater, Amsterdam
Nightfire, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam
Rosemarie Trockel: arbeiten 1988; Marlene Dumas; arbeiten 1986/88, Galerie
Stampa, Basel
Art From Europe, Tate Gallery, London
Holland's Landscape, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam
Century Art, Amsterdam
6 Plasticiens contemporains des Pays-Bas, Musee d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq
Innovation and Tradition . Dutch Art of the Eighties Badischer Kunstverien,
Karlsruhe; Stadtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen; Central Museum, Utrecht
The Meaning of Drawing, Drawings by ten Dutch artists, Rijksdienst Beeldende
Kunst, Den Haag
Het Avondmaal, Grote of Jacobijnenkerk, Leeuwarden Wat Amsterdam betreft (As
far as Amsterdam goes), Sedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Holanda 18A Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Centro de Arte communication, Buenos
Aires; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Vindsulor. Painting Sculpture and Video in Holland, Konsthallen Goteborg 1985
Cover/Dubbelganger, Aorta, Amsterdam
Vijftien kunstenaars, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Kunst tegen apartheid De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam
Original d'Amsterdam, Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Holland, Centre
Cultural de la Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona
Rene Daniels, Marlene Dumas, Henk Visch, Barbara Jandrig Galerie, Krefeld
Private Symbol: Social Metaphor (5th Biennial of Sydney), Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney 1984 im toten Winkel, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Hamburg;
Goteborgs Konstmuseum
Paravents, Schloss Lorsfeld, Kerpen
Rainer Fetting, Marlene Dumas, Rene Daniels, Walter Dahn, Galerie Helen van
der Meij, Amsterdam
Amsterdam 1983 in Berline, Berlin 1983 in Amsterdam, 14 Niederlaische Kunstler
zeigen eigene Werke, 14 Deutsche Kunstler zeigen eigene Werke, Kunstambt Kreuzberg,
Berlin; Aorta, Amsterdam
Fourteen Artists from The Netherlands, a selection from Albert Waalkens, Museum
Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Restrisiko, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Amsterdam-Reykjavik, on both sides of the meridian, The Living Art Museum,
Reykjavik Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
Zeichnung Heute, 2. Inernationale Jugendbiennale + Meister der Zeichnung,
Ruckblick, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg
Junge Kunst aus den Niederlanden, Form und Expression, Art 13'82, Sonderschau
Kunstmesse, Basel;
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
The
Critic Sees, a choice from Paul Groot, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
Atelier 15 (10 young artists), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Marlene Dumas, Elisabeth de Vaal, Edelambachtshuis, Gouda
The Coutts Award, The Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation, Monte Carlo
David Roell Prijs, Prins Bernard Fonds, Amsterdam
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