About me

Marja van Putten is a Dutch visual artist, living in Amsterdam and working in Oude Niedorp (NH).

She is a contemporary critical painter, who connects paintings with other media: textiles, c-prints and objects.
Her figurative canvases show a mix of images and materials with art-historical references, from different cultures and personal associations. Her latest works are abstract with textiles in the lead, wich are public with the titel femmeBRUT. (femmebrut.nl)

She organizes art projects, publishes her own Magazine ‘MARI/JA’, runs a web design and graphic design company, Arttrust. She is the initiator and board member of the DKB Foundation, the Digital Art Management Foundation, which is committed to the digital preservation of the oeuvres of deceased artists.

She was an assistant for 20 years for the sculptures of Armando, who passed away in 2018, including huge bronze sculptures.
Nederlands

Marja van Putten is een Nederlandse beeldend kunstenaar, woonachtig in Amsterdam en werkzaam in Oude Niedorp (NH).
Ze is een hedendaagse kritische schilder, die schilderijen verbindt met andere media: textiel, c-prints en objecten.
Haar figuratieve doeken tonen een mix van beelden en materialen met kunsthistorische referenties, uit verschillende culturen en persoonlijke associaties. Haar laatste werken zijn abstract met textiel in de hoofdrol.

Ze organiseert kunstprojecten, geeft haar eigen Magazine ‘MARI/JA’ uit, heeft een bedrijf in webdesign en grafisch ontwerp, Arttrust. Zij is initiatiefnemer en bestuurslid van de Stichting DKB, Stichting Digitaal KunstBeheer, die zich inzet voor de digitale bewaring van oeuvres van overleden kunstenaars.

Ze was 20 jaar assistent voor de sculpturen van Armando, die is overleden in 2018, waaronder enorme bronzen sculpturen.
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education
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, 1985-1990
N.L.O. high school teacher education , drawing and handycraft, Delft, 1976-1981
Extra year N.L.O. project education, 1982
Gymnasium A, Rotterdam

political activities
squatting, feminist movement 1982-1985
editing and design Feminist weekly, Vrouwenweekblad
Scholengroep Vrouwenbeweging

exhibitions & projects
2023
Kunsthuis Waterland, Purmerend, duo exhibition with Wim Vonk

2022
-Solo Bagagehal, Loods 6, Amsterdam, femmeBRUT
-Performance Human Tissue at Bouwput, organisation Mariko Hori
-Patterns of work, NoArtFashion
-VEGRO-FRIESE-DECKEN, Gallery Art Factory Flox, Kirchau (D)
-Luku / Omzien naar, Amstelkerk, Stadsarchief ivm Suriname weken
-Lezing Culturele toe-eigening, expositie Luku, i.s.m. Wim Vonk en Isidoor Wens
-IJ KunstCollectief, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
-SET#COMMONGROUND, Kunsthal 45, installatie ‘kunstversnipperaar’
-Kunst 10-daagse Bergen, Artists aan Zee VI
-Arti et amicitiae, Leden expositie
-What art can do, Amsterdam, salon expositie

2021
– NOARTFASHION, duo exhibition met Wim Vonk in new artspace in Limburg
– Curating & participating fifty-fifty with Astrid Moors at PlayRoom Zaandam, October 2021
– Close Encounters, solo Galerie Kruitberg
– 2 x Summershow: CBK Zuidoost en Arti et Amicitiae
– Achter de ramen, BO1, Feike de Boerlaan 15 hoek Borneostraat 1
– Salon Hang at Kunstverrein, https://kunstverein.nl/
– A4 project during Art Rotterdam with poet Zoë Cochia, July 2021

2020
– Exhibition Corona Archives, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.
– Summershow, Arti et Amicitiae.
– The Jurer does not weed, groupshow, Gallery Artishock, Rijswijk.
– Laat waaien – Laat zien, flags project Goes, Loods 32, review PZC (Zeeuwse Krant) & catalogue.
– Assignment (sketch) sculpture Nanjing for GoArtists.
– A doodle a day. Expositie Arti et Amicitiae
– SET#WERELDWIJD, organisation, online publication & participation online expositie during Covid-19 Lockdown.
– video Unicorns broadcasted on Salto TV
– About a woman, Lecture roundtable conference with Trudi van Zadelhof.
– Open call project Arti, participation groupdrawing

2019
– Exhibition at the DiYuan Art Museum, Nanhu, Jiaxing, a groupshow
– Hal 45, Den Helder, Land’s End, Set#net
– groupshow Women in Art, KOEL 310
– Alkmaar, groupshow 100% female, Groupshow Grote Kerk Alkmaar
– Psynapse gallery, Rotterdam, solo, opening Trudi van Zadelhof
– DROM Enkhuizen, solo, August – December.
– Summershow, Arti et Amicitiae.
– Artspace, Arti et Amicitiae, performance ‘How to smoke a painting?’
– Hartstocht, expo & A.I.R., Kattendijke with Wim Vonk
– Nasty Women Portugal

2018
– Transit, Loods 6, September 2018 Transit, NSDM Fuse, August 2018
– Schwarzmalen 3, april 2018, Art Chapel

2017-2010 (selection)
– SET#RUST, site specific work at Gallery Het Depot2016
– Art symposium/A.I.R. Cyprus, Dysfunctionalities in Art
– Ontroerwoud, participating with Flags of the World 5 x 10m! at CBK Oost Amsterdam.
– Set#net, Set#Slatuinen
– Schwarzmalen 2, 8 painters in VondelCS, with FB poll input
– Schwarzmalen 1, with Astrid Moors, painting project with FB poll input
– Solo Exhibition ‘De Slang’, Amsterdam
– Set#net exhibition, Set#Edam
– Het blijft Familie, group exhibition, Amsterdam
– Set#net exhibition, Set#Serieel
– Group exhibition, Light in Painting, Zakynthos, Greece, with BBK NL / Russian artist union
– Set#net exhibition, ‘Set#Bellamy’, BEP, Amsterdam
– Set#net exhibition ‘Set#west’, Kunsttraject Amsterdam (group expo)
– Suriname Museum Fort Zeelandia, Kunst uit Botopasi, with Wim Vonk en Isidoor Wens
– Cheapart Amsterdam, Loods 6
– Artceb in Artots, Den Bosch, artists 2012/2012
– A.i.R. Artceb Botopasi Suriname
– Lecture CBK Drenthe
– Kunsthaus Rhenania, Koeln, Germany, with Wim Vonk
– solo Kunsttraject, shop window project
– Open studios IJburg
– Zaal 100, solo exhibition Project ‘Flags of the World’
– Rooms, 10 jaar Artots
– SET 5, solo exhibition, installation in CrossFire Projects, Amsterdam
– Gemixt en Aangetast, exhibition in Artots, Den Bosch, with Marianne van Heeswijk, Laura Hoek, Lianne de Lepper, Marja van Putten
– Participation and organization van Kwasiafrikani,
– Participation and organization van digital_view 6.20, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
– Publication digt-paint in Boekman 75
– Rheden, Graph manifestation
– nomination Artolive prize and exhibition at Arti et Amicitiae
– Expo and publication HTV de IJsberg, ‘het topje van de ijsberg’
– Rode Loper Festival, Amsterdam
– Hoorn, Participation group exhibition, Galerie Oost 99
– Leiden, Haagweg4, Digt-paint 5.3 beta.
– Ladenkastproject Galerie Phoebus

1996-2007
lots of exhibitions, mostly in art initiatives, temporary spaces
often self initiated and organized group exhibitions

Art initiatives & side businesses

1997-2017
assistent for bronze sculptures of ARMANDO

Since 2000
Curating art shows with Astrid Moors
1. fifty-fifty, in PLAYroom Zaandam
2. schwarzmalen.nl since 2014
art project for painters using polls (on FB) as a critical response to crowdfunding
3. digt-paint.nl 2000-2008
artist initiative for artists who combine paint and pixels

Since 2014
Initiator and member of the board DKB Digitaal KunstBeheer, digital archive to preserve art of dead artists, support for surviving dependents, intermediary for existing archives.
Since 2017 in cooperation with RKD Den Haag. digitaalkunstbeheer.org

2002-now
webdesign & graphic design arttrust.nl

1994-2002
Basisbeurs Mondriaanfonds (Fonds BKVB)

Fondsen
2022 crowdfundactie voor femmeBRUT 140% geslaagd
Werktuig PPO 3 x toekenning
2015 crowdfundactie voor Schwarzmalen
Basisbeurs Mondriaanfonds (Fonds BKVB)