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Rotterdam Photo - January 2024

From February 1 to 4, I can be found in Rotterdam. I will have a full container at my disposal during Rotterdam Photo. Will you come along?

February 1, Thursday: 6.30 PM– 9 PM OPENING NIGHT
February 2, Friday: 11 AM – 7 PM
February 3, Saturday: 10 AM – 7 PM
February 4, Sunday: 10 AM – 6 PM

Location: Keilewerf, Vierhavenstraat 56 Rotterdam. You can buy your tickets here.




Update - March 2023

There really is news, but I neglected to report it here. Hence, this time an update on the past few months and what is still in the pipeline.

Three exhibitions featuring my work took place in the second half of 2022. I exhibited together with Peter Boersma at KW4 in Zwolle, in CONTRAPUNT X. We were allowed to decorate a corridor together and did so with great pleasure. Again, it was crazy to see how our work reacted to each other.


During the exhibition, a nice meeting took place with the gallery owner of the new gallery Alta Bosca in Gorredijk. He invited us to take part in a Christmas and New Year exhibition in his beautiful space and of course we accepted. Hopefully we will continue to work together in the future. 


At Pictura Groningen, I exhibited with ten other women photographers in November and December. We called the exhibition "Was übrig bleibt", after a song lyric by Dreiviertelblut. The other exhibitors were Dorota Marcinkiewicz, Elsa Parant, Gosia Kaliściak, Hanna Snijder, Jasmijn Duterloo, Johanna von Oldershausen, Maria Dabrowski, Monique Baan, Paulien Menzel andKarlijn van Diepen. I showed a totally new project. The Unseen Imagines Itself consists of vague images, thin layers and textual fragments.



In 2023, I participated in INCL.Lijst, a group exhibition organised by Atelier Horneman. This Groningen-based framer exists 12,5 years and celebrated it with an exhibition in which only work framed by Horneman was shown.



In the pipeline:

Salon WEP - For the exhibition SALON, the artists working in WEP invited more than 50 fellow artists to whom they feel connected. The entire project space of WEP will be filled with their artworks which will result in a surprising and diverse image of the contemporary art scene in Groningen. The opening is on March 24.

BAX Sneek - A major exhibition in my city of birth Sneek! I show photographic work from different series I made since my graduation. So it is a kind of retrospective of my career as an artist so far. The exhibition also includes ceramics by Riet Bakker. The opening is on April 8.


Groots in ‘t klein - June 2022

From 18 June to 10 September 2022, the exhibition 'Groots in 't klein' will be held in Galerie Bax in Sneek. All participating artists have been asked to submit works measuring exactly 20 by 20 centimetres. I have made 7 new sculptures for this exhibition. They are for sale in a special edition of 1.


Save the date: The Jam Session - January 2022

Coming up: Other Photographic Matters, The Jam Session. February 10 - 13, 12 - 5 pm, Hilton Rotterdam. With Birgit Matschullat, Els Kocken, Godelieve Krekelberg, Jasmijn Duterloo, Jessica Scholtes and me, Mariëlle Gebben.

“Now in its third year, Other Photographic Matters will take over the monumental space next to Hilton Hotel on Hofplein. In Other Photographic Matters, the work of six photographers who increasingly challenge the boundaries of photography comes together. This time they embrace the uncertainty inherent in the corona pandemic and create their work on the spot. From February 10 through 13, The Jam Session is studio and exhibition space in one. The role of the visitor depends on the then current corona regulations.”

We will spend four days working in the empty space. We bring along ourselves, our vision, ourexperience and the materials we would like to work with at that moment. Depending on the restrictions, the visitor's role is either that of a spectator looking through the windows or that of a participant in the work process. As in previous years, we will demonstrate how we mix photography with other art disciplines.

Birgit Matschullat will bring piles of images from one of her long-term projects and start editing them.
Els Kocken will be working on a collage series around the concept 'Ceci n'est pas un complot'.
Godelieve Krekelberg plans to virtually wrap the Euromast with photographic images.
Jasmijn Duterloo starts a dance with the fingerprint of her recently deceased mother.
Jessica Scholtes takes on the challenge of creating large-scale work.
Mariëlle Gebben aims to show at least one new image every day.










Houstad IJlst - October 2021

Rabbit and I had a great time in IJlst, Friesland, the town where we grew up. I was allowed to set up a solo exhibition in Museum Houtstad, in a beautiful place with huge windows that looked out on my elementary school and the sports complexes where I used to play gymnastics, table tennis and tennis.

I showed a selection of my work from the past four years. Rabbit and my book were part of the exhibition. It was wonderfully crowded, with wonderful conversations, sales and my parents proudly dragging everyone to the exhibition. Rabbit, The Flux and I were at home.


Mariëlle Gebben            mail@mrll.nl           +31641237338