Bio – Margriet van Breevoort

Margriet van Breevoort was born in Amsterdam in the year 1990, she studied at the Hogeschool voor de kunsten Utrecht and received her diploma with honours in the year 2013.

Her oeuvre enters a thin line between the exceptional and the impossible and makes the viewer experience an extraordinary world through the use of hyper-realistic sculpture techniques. In her work Van Breevoort tries to emphasize a network of contradictions which include the dialectic between man vs nature and the organic versus the technical. She puzzles about a nature that can only exist under the condition of man and tries to reflect this doubt about what people call nature in the Anthropocene, in her work. Questions about authenticity therefore drive the creation of many of the works she makes. Can we still speak of the “natural” when everything that man considers to be nature has been influenced by and exists by the grace of man himself?

2023 Biënnale Noordwijk, Noordwijk aan zee, 21 March – 21 August
2023 Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 8 February – 12 February
2023 Pigs and sheep and beasts, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, 13 January – 23 April
2022 More & meer, Museum More, Gorssel, 15 October – 12 March
2022 Vooruitzien, Oude Raadhuis, Zwijndrecht, 16 September – 16 October
2022 Kunst van het geloven, Nepomuk kapel, Boxmeer, 22 August – 11 September
2022 Empowerment, North Sea Jazz Festival, 8 – 10 July
2022 BBA Art Prize, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany, 3 – 19 June
2022 Come alive Foreplay + Come alive, Nieuwe Muntgebouw, Utrecht, 29 April – 31 July
2022 Solo, Technophilia, Galerie LUMC, Leiden, 17 March – 26 June
2021 Counterbodies edition #2, De achtertuin Rotterdam, Netherlands, 10 – 12 December
2021 Passie en obsessie, Stedelijk museum Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, 9 October – 28 November
2021 Solo, In light of tomorrow, Gallery NL=US, Rotterdam, 19 June – 31 July
2021 Counterbodies, Art Rotterdam, 4 – 10 February
2021 Art Rock, Museum of Saint-Brieuc, France, 18 May – 30 May
2020 Nieuwe aarde: 12 visioenen, Westerkerk, Amsterdam, 31 October – 16 December
2020 Onward and upward, Droog, Amsterdam, 2 October – 17 January
2019 Jusqu’ici tout va bien?, Centquatre-Paris, Paris, 12 October – 9 February
2019 Solo, Pulchri studio, Den Haag, 4 – 28 October
2019 Solo, Willem twee, Den Bosch, 11 June – 7 July
2019 Species, WGKunst, Amsterdam, 12 April – 28 April
2019 Out of office, Singer Laren, Laren, 11 December – 7 April
2018 Art the Hague, Den Haag, 26 – 30 September
2018 Robotlove, Campina Melkfabriek, Eindhoven, 15 September – 2 December
2018 Hyperrealisme Sculptuur, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 10 March – 1 July
2018 Beeldentuin Ravensteyn, Heenvliet, 4 May – 27 May
2017 Art the Hague, Den Haag, 4 October – 8 October
2017 Art of playing, Den Haag, 4 October – 8 October
2017 En boven de Polder de Hemel, Wijkermeer, 7 October – 8 October
2017 Opening Dits, Gallery Dits, Amsterdam, 21 September – 29 October
2017 Into the void, Duo show with Krystyna Ziach, NL=US, Rotterdam, 1 September – 15 October
2017 Prospects/concepts, Art Rotterdam, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam 9 February – 12 February
2016 Maelström, de kracht van het ongrijpbare, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, 5 November – 11 November
2016 Beelden in Leiden, Hooglandse kerkgracht, Leiden, 19 May – 7 August
2016 Ecce Homo Erectus, Odapark, Venray, 12 March – 26 June
2015 Solo, MILK, Amsterdam, 19 December – 21 January
2015 Pudding, Artdeli, Amsterdam, 30 July – 27 August
2015 Tussen Taal & Beeld / Verzamelde Verhalen #07, Kunstenfestival Watou, Schore, Belgie, 4 July – 30 August
2015 No Man’s Art Pop-up Gallery, Donner bookstore, Rotterdam, 28 May – 7 June
2015 Tweetakt, Neude, Utrecht, 27 March – 12 April
2015 Kaap, Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan, 6 April – 31 May
2014 Alles van Waarde, Fort Asperen, Acquoy, Netherlands, 20 August – 28 September
2014 Scope Basel 2014, Witzenhausen gallery, Basel, Switzerland, 17 June – 21 June
2014 KAAP, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, 11 May – 29 June
2014 Moira en Lucy: Op het spoor van het surrealisme, Moira, Utrecht, 19 April – 11 May
2014 art fair: Realisme, Passenger terminal Amsterdam, 16 – 19 January courtesy of Artkitchen
2013 Art in Redlight, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, 26 – 30 December courtesy of Frank Taal
2013 Solo Margriet van Breevoort, Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, 26 October – 23 November
2013 Promise Promise, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam, 8 Septembre- 3 October
2013 GOGBOT Youngblood Graduates in Free Space, Tetem kunstruimte, Enschede, 5 September – 15 September
2013 art fair: Art Copenhagen, Witzenhausen gallery, Kopenhagen, 30 August – 1 September
2013 Utrecht DownUnder, Utrechtse werfkelders, 23 august – 1 September
2013 Best of Graduates, Ron Mandos Galerie, Amsterdam, 27 July – 31 august
2013 Jan Zumbrink Prijs #5, De Vishal, Haarlem, 16 June – 28 July
2013 Exposure Graduation show, Atelier gebouw Fine Art, Utrecht, 27 June – 30 June
2011 Hemelse Zomer 3 en Beeldentuin, Galerie de Ploegh, Soest, 29 May – 10 September