CV - Marjolijn Dijkman

Bio

Marjolijn Dijkman graduated from the free media department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 2001, finished a post graduate course at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2003 and was for two years a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht until 2008. She is a tutor at the Fine Art Department of the MFA AKV St. Joost since 2009.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in independent artspaces, centers for contemporary art and museums of modern art. Recent solo exhibitions included: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum at IKON Gallery in Birmingham and Spike Island in Bristol (2011), MATRIX 234 at BAM/ PFA in Berkeley (2010) and Comma 02 at Bloomberg SPACE in London (2009). Recent group exhibitions include Portscapes at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (2010), Ondertussen at the 4th NH Biennial, NL (2010), Screaming and Hearing at the 7th Mercosul Biennial Porto Alegre, BR (2009), The Uncertainty Principle at MACBA in Barcelona, ES (2009), Now JumP at the Nam June Paik Museum in Yongin-si, KR (2008), The Order of Things at the MuHKA in Antwerp, BE (2008), Decollecting at the FRAC NPDC in Dunkerque, FR (2007), Neue Konzepte at the Bonner Kunstverein, DE (2007) and 8th Sharjah Biennial 'Still life, Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change', UE (2007)

In 2005 she initiated together with Maarten Vanden Eynde the organisation Enough Room for Space. Often in collaboration with others she co-curated and initiated several events and exhibition projects. Amongst which: Smooth Structures at Smart Project Space in Amsterdam (2010), Present Perfect in Europe and Cameroon (2009 - ongoing), Localisms at Museum de Paviljoens in Almere (2008), Formatting Utopia at the Mundaneum in Mons (2008), Corrillos at Tent. in Rotterdam (2007/2008), Please Excuse our Appearance at IKON Gallery in Birmingham (2007), Happy Hour for Supersocial at the Liverpool Biennial ’06 (2007) and Georgia Here We Come! at the National Art Centre in Tbilisi (2006).

Marjolijn Dijkman (b. 1978) lives in Brussels (BE) and Rotterdam (NL)