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Marlene Dumas

(South African, born 1953)

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Marlene Dumas

Purple Pose, 1999

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Biography

Timeline

1953
Born Capetown, South Africa
1972 - 1975
BA in Fine Art, University of Cape Town
1976 - 1978
Atelier 63, Haarlem, Netherlands
1979 - 1980
Institute of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Lives and works in Amsterdam

Exhibitions

2019
Marlene Dumas Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Eau de Cologne, HART Hall, Hong Kong [organized by Sprüth Magers]
Ecstasy, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Freedom – The Fifty Key Dutch Artworks Since 1968, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, David Zwirner, New York
Highlights for a Future: De Collectie (1), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent [collection display]
Picture Gallery in Transformation: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago at MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo
Trouble in Paradise: Collection Rattan Chadha, Kunsthal Rotterdam [catalogue]
2018
Marlene Dumas Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Marlene Dumas: Myths & Mortals, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Marlene Dumas – Rosemarie Trockel: Werke aus der Sammlung Garnatz, Städtischen Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Moonrise. Marlene Dumas & Edvard Munch, Munchmuseet, Oslo [curated by Marlene Dumas]
Art & Vinyl: Artists & the Record Album From Picasso to the Present, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco [catalogue]
Crossing Night, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico [organized by Idris Naim Foundation]
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
De meest eigentijdse schilderijententoonstelling, Museum Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Debout!: Exposition de la Collection Pinault / Stand up!: Exhibition of The Pinault Collection, Couvent des Jacobins and Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France [catalogue]
Drawing Africa on the Map, Quetzal Art Centre, Vidigueira, Portugal
The Ethics of Scrutiny, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Faith Love Hope: 800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese, Kunsthaus Graz Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years, Tilton Gallery, New York
Kochi-Muziris Biennial 2018: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, Kochi Biennale Foundation, Kerala, India
THE MOON: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark [itinerary: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Sandvika, Norway]
Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
Nude: Art from the Tate Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Rembrandt and the Golden Age, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
Rise Up! Social Justice in Art from the Collection of J. Michael Bewley, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Road to Justice, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Shelter. A contemporary intervention, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
A TIME CAPSULE REVISITED: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett (1984- 2017), New Temporary Parkett Space, Zurich
Works on Paper II, Zeno X, Antwerp
Zéro de conduite: Works from the Serralves Collection, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2017
Marlene Dumas Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Marlene Dumas. Die Entstehung eines Altarbildes/The Creation of an Altarpiece, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden (solo exhibition)
Marlene Dumas: Dresden Mural, St. Anne’s Church, Freiberger Platz, Dresden [permanent installation] (solo exhibition)
Marlene Dumas. Hope and Fear, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (solo exhibition)
Marlene Dumas: Oscar Wilde and Bosie, National Portrait Gallery, London [part of I Am Me] (solo exhibition)
Marlene Dumas. Skulls, Albertinum, Dresden (solo exhibition)
The Absent Museum, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels [catalogue]
Beyeler Collection/Remix. With Works by Andy Warhol from the Daros Collection, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
De Collectie: Stedelijk Base, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam [collection display]
De Pont at 25: anniversary exhibition/Weerzien 25 jaar De Pont: jubileumtentoonstelling, De Pont Museum, Tillburg, The Netherlands
Die Augen der Bilder - Porträts von Fragonard bis Dumas/The Eyes of the Pictures - Portraits from Fragonard to Dumas, Museum Langmatt-Stifting Langmatt Sidney und Jenny Brown, Baden, Switzerland [catalogue]
Face-to-Face with Images, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany [catalogue]
Goede Hoop? Zuid-Afrika - Nederland vanaf 1600, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Grey Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
“I Am a Native Foreigner,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
I am a problem, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK2), Frankfurt
Markers, David Zwirner, London
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, National Gallery, London [itinerary: Black & White. Painting from Dürer to Eliasson, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf] [catalogue]
Portrait, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
The Repatriation of the White Cube, Lusanga International Research Centre for Art and Economic Inequality, Bulungu Territory, Congo
Van de wereld. Beelden van beslotenheid en bevrijding/(Un)worldly Images of Seclusion and Liberation, Museum Parkabdij, Leuven [catalogue]
2016
Marlene Dumas Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands [catalogue]
Cabinet d’Amis: the accidental collection of Jan Hoet, Hôtel de la Poste, Tour & Taxis, Brussels [part of Art Brussels 2016: From Discovery to Recovery]
The Campaign for Art: Drawings, Part 1, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Drawing Conclusions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Échos, Chapel of the former Laennec Hospital and 33èmes Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Paris [catalogue]
Excitement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York
First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Inside - Artists, Writers, and Readers, Artangel, London
The Making of A Fugitive, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Power of the Avant-Garde: Now and Then, BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels [itinerary: National Museum Warsaw, Warsaw] [catalogue]
She: International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai [catalogue]
Stellung Nehmen, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
Tate Modern: Display. Painting and Mass Media, Tate Modern, London
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Met Breuer, New York [catalogue]
2015
Marlene Dumas Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Marlene Dumas/Juan Muñoz: Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London
56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures, Venice [catalogue]
75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Donation Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden [organized in collaboration with Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
FACES - between figures, portraits and masks, Neues Museum Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
FLAESH, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague [catalogue]
The Great Mother/La Grande Madre, Palazzo Reale, Milan [organized in collaboration with Fondazione Nicola Trussardi as part of Expo in città 2015] [catalogue]
I Got Rhythm. Kunst und Jazz seit 1920/Art and Jazz since 1920, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart [catalogue]
The Language of Flowers, Gucci Museo, Florence
Meet Me Halfway: Selections from the Anita Reiner Collection, Cristin Tierney, New York [catalogue]
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami [catalogue]
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina [itinerary: The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon] [catalogue]
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg [catalogue]
Roma Publications 1998 – 2014, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome [catalogue]
Silence out loud. Tentoonstelling van Joost Zwagerman/Exhibition by Joost Zwagerman, Kranenburgh, Bergen, The Netherlands
Start by Asking Questions: Works from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections, Dallas, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa [catalogue]
A Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London [online catalogue]
UNREALISM, The Moore Building, Miami Design District
Works on Paper II, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2014
Marlene Dumas Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam [itinerary: Tate Modern, London; Fondation Beyeler, Basel] (solo exhibition)
4th Biennial of Painting: The Touch of the Painter/Biënnale van de schilderkunst: De toets van de schilder, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Deinze, Belgium
An Appetite for painting: Contemporary painting 2000-2014, The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo, Norway [catalogue]
Artlovers: Stories of art in the Pinault Collection, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco [catalogue]
Boom She Boom. Works from the MMK Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK 2), Frankfurt
The Chosen: Selected Works from Florida Jewish Art Collectors, Jewish Museum of Florida, Florida International University, Miami Beach
Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas [itinerary: Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge, Geneva] [catalogue]
HOW FAR HOW NEAR, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent [catalogue]
Manifesta 10: European Biennial of Contemporary Art, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg [catalogue]
Melting Walls: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection. Babel Trilogy Part 3, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University [exhibition publication]
The Nakeds, Drawing Room, London [catalogue]
RE: Painted | ‘Painting’ from the collection, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent
The Sea/De Zee: salut d’honneur Jan Hoet, Kunstmuseum aan zee (Mu.ZEE), Ostend, Belgium
Selections From the Collection of Blake Byrne, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin [catalogue]
Queensize - Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin
Zwagerman kiest, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2012
Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy (solo)
Marlene Dumas - Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam (solo)
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - De Ateliers, Amsterdam (solo)
Marlene Dumas - Love Hasn’t Got Anything To Do With It - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (solo)
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - De Ateliers, Amsterdam (solo)
Marlene Dumas - De Ateliers, Amsterdam (solo)
Art & Press - De Ateliers, Amsterdam (solo)
This will have been Art, Love and politics in the 1980s - De Ateliers, Amsterdam (solo)This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA
Visions - Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels
Der Nackte Mann - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
Look.ed! - Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Kids - Contemporary Fine Arts - CFA, Berlin
Wide Open School - Hayward Gallery, London (England)
Couleur Radicaal - Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
Circus Wols - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Sidetracks Painting in the paramodern continuum - De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2011
Frith Street Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Bienale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
2010 - 2011
Tronies, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2010
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo)
David Zwirner, New York, NY (solo)
Victoria Miro, London, UK
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Public Collections

Albertina, Vienna
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Modern and Contemporary Museum of Art, Strasbourg, France
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Literature

2006
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Udine, Italy (cat.)
The Portrait Now, edited by Sandy Nairne and Sarah Howgate, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
The Triumph of Painting, Published by Jonathan Cape in association with Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
(my private) Heroes, Marta Herfrod, Germany (cat.)
The Nude: Ideal and reality, painting and sculpture. From Neoclassicsm to Today, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (cat.)
Marlene Dumas - selected works, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA (cat.)
Marlene Dumas + Marijke van Warmerdam: Con vista al celestiale, Siracusa Contemporary Art Center, Montevergini, Italy (cat.)
Slow Art: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
Soul: Bezielde kunst - Inspired Art, Grootseminarie, Brugges, Belgium (cat.)
Drawing from the Modern 1975 - 2005, MOMA, New York, USA (cat.)
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