Born in 1978 in Middelrode, The Netherlands, Marijn van Kreij
lives and works in Amsterdam. Van Kreij uses a range of media,
including drawing, sculpture and video. Central to his practice is
an idiosyncratic process of appropriation, repetition and copy,
made manifest through various devices, including the staging of
ready-mades. Van Kreij’s pieces often borrow lyrics from pop songs
or re-visit historical works of art. Drawings, such as “Untitled
(Styles, Crews, Flows, Beats) #1, #2” (2007), first appear as
absent-minded doodles where text, marks and images coexist on the
same page. But through a characteristic process of doubling,
whereby van Kreij copies his own drawings, the chaotic
compositions’ calculated effect is revealed as a complex anarchical
poetics built on the free interplay of textual and visual
signs.
Van Kreij has recently presented solo exhibitions at andriesse
eyck gallery, Amsterdam(2015), Barbara Seiler, Zürich (2014),
AND/OR, London (2013). Van Kreij has presented a solo exhibitions
at Museum De Hallen, Haarlem (2011), Galerie Paul Andriesse,
Amsterdam (2011), Loraini Alimantiri/Gazonrouge, Athens (2009) and
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2009).
His work has also been shown as part of “A Dutch Landscape” at La
Casa Encendida, Madrid (2012), “All About Drawing”, Stedelijk
Museum, Schiedam (2011), “Endless Lowlands, Breaking Up” at BINZ39,
Zurich and KLEMM'S, Berlin (2008), “KölnShow 2” at European
Kunsthalle, Cologne (2007) and “I Want To Believe” at Eva
Presenhuber, Zurich (2007). He has been awarded the Uriot-prize,
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2006) as well as
the Prix de Rome Tekenen/Grafiek (basic prize), Amsterdam
(2004).
Marijn van Kreij is represented by Galerie Paul Andriesse,
Amsterdam and Loraini Alimantiri/Gazonrouge, Athens.
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