Marlene Dumas, Stedelijk Museum, Until January 4, 2015
Born in South Arica and educated in Cape Town, Marlene Dumas has lived in Amsterdam for many years and is one of the brightest stars on the contemporary art scene.
Critics tend to classify her as an intellectual expressionist who often draws inspiration from newspaper and magazine articles. According to Dumas, the huge amount of images that we see on a daily basis influences the way that we see each other and the world around us. Her works often address existential themes, invariably reflecting historical motifs and current political events. Dumas’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum is the first such retrospective of her paintings in the Netherlands in the past 20 years, as well as the largest exhibition of her works in Europe to date. Here, one will find many of the artist’s best-known oeuvres, dating from the late 1970s to the present.
Museumplein 10
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