Marlies De Clerck
BIO | SELECTED WORKS
Installation view Marlies De Clerck, group show ‘Reflections In Transition’' (2019), Barbé Urbain gallery, Gent, BE
Marlies De Clerck (Heist BE, 1988) works and lives in Brussels. De Clerck’s painting often have a direct link to the Belgian sense of humour and irony. Obviousnesses and customs are taken out of context and re-actualised. The everyday is isolated and reinterpreted. Painting as a mirror for our existence. In the group show ‘Reflections in Transition’ at Barbé Urbain gallery, De Clerck shows a series of paintings representing horses.
The paradox of them being the universal symbol of freedom, detained by a human presence outside of the canvas, is not only an investigation into the change of the status of the theme, but also a personal investigation into the tradition of painting itself.The titles of the works refer to characters from liturature and popular culture.
In December 2019 Marlies De Clerck had her solo ‘Slice Of Life’ at M HKA (INBOX), was laureate and was awarded the honorable mention at ArtContest, Bxl and in 2017 finished her Residency Cité Internationale Des Art, Paris.
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Marlies De Clerck
Born in 1988
Lives and works in Brussels, BE
Education
2014 - 2016 Master painting, Luca school of arts, Ghent & Brussels (BE)
2010 - 2011 Master printmaking, KASK School of arts, Ghent (BE)
2007 - 2010 Bachelor printmaking, KASK School of arts, Ghent (BE)
Solo shows
2019
Slice of Life, M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
North East South West, Factory 60, Brussels (BE)
Group shows
2019
Reflections in Transition, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent (BE)
Neighbours Vol.8, Riot, Ghent (BE)
De//Generatie, De ontsteking, Ghent (BE)
Salon de Peinture, M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
0pen the Gate, Studio Citygate, Anderlecht (BE)
Biënnale van België, Floraliënhal, Ghent (BE)
Art contest, Vanderborght building, Brussels (BE)
24e rencontre art plastique internationale, Le21, Mesnil-église (BE)
A provisional Legacy, Adornes Domain, Bruges (BE)
JRSLM paradise lost, Usquare, Brussels (BE)
2018
Buren, Gouvernement, Ghent (BE)
Generation Brussels, Vanderborght, Brussels (BE)
2017
Gink – Sea, HFBK Hamburg (DE)
Auction, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
Re-Art, Zaventem (BE)
2016
On Ice, Cristalijn, Ghent (BE)
Bang!, Flanders Art Institute, Brussels (BE)
Sturm Der Liebe, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels (BE)
Make The Art World Great Again, Soft Focus Institute, Antwerp (BE)
International Degree Style, Gallery Ravenstein (Bozar), Brussels (BE)
Artenova, Mechelen (BE)
2015
Cachet de la poste faisant foi, fondation Hippocrène, Paris (FR)
2014
Kick - start, W139, Amsterdam (NL)
Password: Printmaking, Art hall, Tallinn (EE)
2013
Collage Recyclage, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE)2013
TUMULT in Gent, Soscastoa gallery, Ghent (BE)
2012
Me a group show, KIOSK, Ghent (BE)
Yesterday I was so New York, Recyclart, Brussels (BE)
Confining Spaces, Paviljoen, Campus Bijloke, Ghent (BE)
2011
Art Amsterdam after party exhibition, @Arthouse, Amsterdam (NL)
2010
ART ITS, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent (BE)
2009
De nieuwe narratieven, Kunsttoren, Ghent (BE)
À la poupée, Bogaerdenkapel, Bruges (BE)
Winterkamp, Campo Victoria, Ghent (BE)
2008
Kunstenbuffet II, Croxhapox, Ghent (BE)
Residencies
2017 Residency Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris (FR)
2013 Password Printmaking, Tallin (EE)
2012 Frans Masereeel Centre, Kasterlee (BE)