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News – Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas awarded The Rolf Schock Prize in The Visual Arts

Marlene Dumas is being awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in the Visual Arts for “her unique ability to depict human vulnerability and greatness, in painted works that do not shrink from showing adversity. With empathy and critical discernment, she brings issues of race, ethnocentrism, gender and sexuality to the fore”.

The Rolf Schock Prizes are triennial and are awarded in the fields of logic and philosophy, mathematics, the visual arts and musical arts. The prizes are awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and The Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
MARLENE DUMAS

Tronies: Marlene Dumas and the Old Masters
Haus der kunst, Munich, Germany
29 October 2010 - 6 February 2011

This exhibition presents a selection of Marlene Dumas’ paintings and drawings - amongst them some new and previously unshown works - in dialogue with significant works of the Dutch Old Masters.
MARLENE DUMAS: AGAINST THE WALL

Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2 July - 10 October 2010

The works in this exhibition have evolved primarily from media imagery and newspaper clippings documenting Israel and Palestine. However, Dumas’ representations acknowledge universal themes of instability, isolation, and the lack of communication, while moreover addressing the medium of painting and referencing the artist’s struggle with the boundaries of her chosen medium.
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Publication: revised and expanded edition
Published by Phaidon Press October 2009

One of the most comprehensive publications on Dumas’ practice featuring work from the start of the artist’s career until today - now greatly revised and expanded.

Survey by Dominic van den Boogerd, Interview by Barbara Bloom, Focus by Mariuccia
Casadio, Artist’s Writings by Marlene Dumas, Update by Ilaria Bonacossa
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA
27 March – 21 June 2009
Exhibition travelling from MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
and MoMA, New York, USA

This exhibition, the first of its scale to be mounted in the United States, includes approximately 65 paintings and 25 drawings, providing a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking and fascinating artists working today.

Opening in June 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the exhibition, curated by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, is traveling to MoMA before coming to The Menil Collection. Franklin Sirmans, Menil curator of modern and contemporary art, working with Connie Butler, will select a condensed body of work spanning the years from 1980 to the present for presentation.
MARLENE DUMAS: MEASURING YOUR OWN GRAVE

MoMA, New York, USA
14 December 2008 - 16 February 2009
Exhibition travelling from MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

This exhibition is the first of its scale to be mounted in the United States and includes approximately seventy paintings and thirty-five drawings, providing a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking and fascinating artists working today. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
MARLENE DUMAS: Measuring Your Own Grave

MOCA, LA
22 June - 22 Sept 2008
Exhibition travelling to MoMA, NYC (14 December 2008 - 16 February 2009)

This mid-career survey of the work of the acclaimed painter Marlene Dumas, the first of its scale to be mounted in the United States, is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition will include approximately 60 paintings and 35 drawings, including several large series of works on paper, and will provide a comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking and fascinating artists working today.
MARLENE DUMAS: INTIMATE RELATIONS

Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (Travelling from Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa)
6 February - 29 March 2008

Curated by the artist herself and Emma Bedford from South Africa, this exhibition and its related publication are conceived as a homecoming, giving audiences in Dumas’ native land in-depth insights into her extraordinary oeuvre through a broad selection of work, ranging from early conceptual pieces to very recent paintings and drawings dealing with contemporary global issues.