Please join us on Wednesday the 3th of April for Publics Talk ‘Navigating Polarities’ by Marjolijn Dijkman. The talk is realised in collaboration with HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme.

Marjolijn Dijkman (b. 1978, lives and works in Brussels) is an interdisciplinary artist who engages in research-based projects and artworks developed in relation to specific contexts, and initiatives such as Enough Room for Space, an interdependent art organization initiating experimental research projects and exhibitions. Marjolijn’s sustained interest lies in considering the foundations of how humans perceive and experience their surroundings – the conventions which underlie humans’ conceptions of the world and their determination to interfere with and to influence it.

Many of Marjolijn’s works problematize peoples’ reliance on institutionalized systems to assert the politics of assumed knowledge. Her works are based on facts and research but often brought into the realm of fiction, abstraction, and speculation. Ranging from photographic archives and films, to landscape interventions and sculptural works, Marjolijn’s practice concerns itself with fields such as futurology, history, museology, anthropology, human geography, cosmology, and ecology.

Marjolijn has had solo shows most recently at NOME Gallery, Berlin (DE), Munchmuseet, Oslo (NO) (Liquid Properties, with Toril Johannessen), fig-2 at the ICA Studio, London (UK), Onomatopee, Eindhoven (NL), IKON Gallery, Birmingham (UK), and the Berkeley Art Museum (US). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions such as the 9th Contour Biennale, Mechelen 2019 (BE), the 21st Biennale of Sydney 2018 (AU), Working for the Commons Casco Art Institute, Utrecht (NL), the 11th Shanghai Biennale 2016 (CN), the 7th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre 2009 (BR), and the 8th Sharjah Biennial 2007 (AE).

On Friday the 5th of April there is a gathering at Marjolijn’s studio at HIAP to hear about her multidisciplinary and collaborative practice.