Mark van Overeem

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The installation "Sunrise" is a room-filling collage with a four-hour live act that can be viewed from the street. The work takes on the outside of reality and exposes the absurdity of our contradictions. Contradictions that suit us just fine. Fortunately, there is the "fortune seeker" as a target. Pulling fiber optic cables, working in horticulture, the meat industry, cleaning offices and factories and other work that the Dutchman does not wish to do, we mostly leave to workers we call "fortune seekers”. The economy demands plenty of these vulnerable workers, but meanwhile we build walls in Europe to keep these people out. Convenient, because low pay and should the economy slow down, these workers can be thrown out on the street without difficulty. This is exactly what one can see when walking in the Haagse Bos and other parks in The Hague. Provided one wants to see it, because a tent in a park also reminds us of our own fun camping vacations.

Sunrise , 2026
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The installation "Sunrise" is a room-filling collage with a four-hour live act that can be viewed from the street. The work takes on the outside of reality and exposes the absurdity of our contradictions. Contradictions that suit us just fine. Fortunately, there is the "fortune seeker" as a target. Pulling fiber optic cables, working in horticulture, the meat industry, cleaning offices and factories and other work that the Dutchman does not wish to do, we mostly leave to workers we call "fortune seekers”. The economy demands plenty of these vulnerable workers, but meanwhile we build walls in Europe to keep these people out. Convenient, because low pay and should the economy slow down, these workers can be thrown out on the street without difficulty. This is exactly what one can see when walking in the Haagse Bos and other parks in The Hague. Provided one wants to see it, because a tent in a park also reminds us of our own fun camping vacations.

Sunrise , 2023
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Site specific diorama

Façade Façade , 2022
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At the exhibition Moving Perspective, EST Art Foundation, Leiden

Relentlessly close , 2022
Printed fabric, hole in wall, Site specific
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Site specific diorama

Façade Façade , 2022
UV print, honeycomb cardboard, found objects, LED lighting, countdown timer, one-way mirror foil, acrylic paint, Space-filling
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Site specific diorama

Façade Façade , 2022
UV print, honeycomb cardboard, found objects, LED lighting, countdown timer, one-way mirror foil, acrylic paint, Room-filling
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Site specific diorama

Façade , 2022
UV print, honeycomb cardboard, found objects, LED lighting, countdown timer, one-way mirror foil, acrylic paint, Room-filling
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Site specific diorama

Façade Façade , 2022
UV print, honeycomb cardboard, found objects, LED lighting, countdown timer, one-way mirror foil, acrylic paint, Room-filling
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Stairs and Stars , 2021
Frame steel, uv-print on Ki-kern,, 80 cm x 60 cm x 40 cm
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If we were the same (III), 2021
Gouache on Ki-kern, Mural (gouache), 170 cm x 70 cm x 40cm
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Glass, acryl paint

So space you are matter now, like an object, 2019
Lightbox, mural, 130 cm x 220 cm
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Lightbox, mural

So space you are matter now, like a paraphrase, 2019
Mixed media , 130 cm x 225 cm x 160 cm
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Wood, paint, mural

So space you are matter now, like an elipse , 2019
Mixed media , 125 cm x 220 cm x 110 cm
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frame led-light dimmer chalk

So space you are matter now, like nobody knows, 2019
Mixed media , 85 cm x 120 cm
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So space you are matter now, like a point, 2019
Frame, glass, Acryl, 43 x 120
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Video registration A Wish in Return, Gem The Hague site specific installation

A Wish in Return, 2015
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GEM, museum voor actuele kunst

A Wish in Return, 2015
Installation , Site specific
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GEM, museum voor actuele kunst

A Wish in Return, 2015
Installation , Site specific
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GEM, museum voor actuele kunst

Presenting the present, 2015
UV-print on wall , Site specific
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Westbank

Sentimental settle, 2013
UV-print on wall, Site specific
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Raw China Expo, Pakhuis Santos, Rotterdam

Too far to go, 2013
Army tent, UV-print, Lightbox, 3 m x 5 m x 5m
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Gemak, Operandi

Without will, 2012
UV-print on wooden wall, found objects, 270 cm x 200 cm x 90 cm
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Raw Expo, Fenixloods, Rotterdam

Second nature Once again (Part II), 2012
UV-print on wall, found objects, Site specific
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Vishal, Haarlem

Twin time, 2012
UV-print on wall, found objects, 200 cm x 300 cm x 50 cm
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Villa de bank, Enschede

Panautomaticum, 2011
Fotoprint, olieverf op plaatmateriaal, Site specific
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Marion de Canniere, Antwerpen (B)

Smoking Infinity, 2011
Video projection (animation), UV-print on board , Site specific
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SUNRISE_STROOM

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I regard the wall in my studio as a permeable wall between the tangible world and the unknown mysterious world of the inner self.

Throughout his artistic career, Mark van Overeem has been fascinated by boundaries, reflections and repetitions, and by the inner spaces created by boundaries. Following a lengthy exploration of this phenomenon in oils on panel, his more recent work has examined the human environment, linking the world of the imagination to tangible reality. He now uses photography, applying it on an architectural scale in large ruimtewerken (‘spatial works’), as he himself calls his installations. These works are concerned primarily with social issues like the Hutongs (700-year-old neighbourhoods of Beijing that are now gradually disappearing) or, as in A Wish in Return, the time he spent in Israel. But Van Overeem is not driven by any sense of ideological commitment. The associations evoked by his work are personal; he never takes sides and offers no solutions. What interests him is the experience of constraint and conveying that experience to the public, for each of whom it will be palpable but different. In A Wish in Return, individual visitors play an important role. Draped in blankets and armed with torches, they grope their way through the nocturnal labyrinth of reality, illusion and reflection. Van Overeem is referring back to the public places of Jerusalem, but also creating a new enclosed space in which associations have free rein. In doing so, he plays a game with reproduction and repetition. The same game is a feature of the other works in this exhibition at the GEM. Side rooms accommodate works in which photographs have been printed on top of paintings and the results are presented as three-dimensional objects in space. In one of these rooms, Van Overeem exhibits Presenting the Present, a painting presented in this spatial way and then mirrored. This approach gives the work a site-specific nature and a temporality, since it will exist in this form only for the duration of the exhibition.

Websites

www.markvanovereem.nl

Social media

www.instagram.com/markvanovereem/

Member of a professional association/artists’ association

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Curriculum vitae

Education

1999 - 2000

Course HBO / KUO at the Amsterdam and Arnhem University of Applied Sciences diploma
1991 - 1995

Fine arts Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
1991 - 1995

tekenen / schilderen Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten

exhibitions

2026

Flux-us - 00 I Love You Art Rotterdam , Netherlands Group
2026

SUNSET INKIJK ROTTERDAM, Netherlands In juni 2026 openingsshow nieuwe presentatieruimte in Rotterdam Solo
2022

Façade Façade De Spelonk The Hague, Netherlands Site specific diorama www.despelonk.nl Solo
2022

Moving perspective EST Art Foundation Leiden , Netherlands Site specific est-art-foundation.org Group
2022

Josilda da Conceição Gallery Amsterdam , Netherlands Group
2022

EST Leiden , Netherlands Group
2021

Façade Façade De Spelonk The Hague , Netherlands Spatial installation www.despelonk.nl Solo
2021

The two of you De Aanschouw Rotterdam, Netherlands Spatial installation www.aanschouw.nl Solo
2020

5.3.1. 5.3.1. Delft , Netherlands 6 maart 2020, vijf kunstenaars, drie dagen, een studio. Group
2020

Josilda da Conceição Gallery Amsterdam , Netherlands OPENING 25 april 2020 Group
2020

Es kippelt, aber wann Kunstverein 701 e.V. Düsseldorf, DE Dusseldorf, Germany Group
2015

A Wish in Return KM21 (fka GEM) The Hague, Netherlands Solo
2013

RAW CHINA EXPO, Pakhuis SANTOS, Rotterdam Rotterdam , Netherlands Group
2012

Operandi, Gemak, Den Haag The Hague Group
2012

Droste Effect, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, Droste Effect Haarlem, Netherlands Group
2012

Stil Even, Stedelijk Museum Zwolle Zwolle , Netherlands Group
2012

Going merz, Kunstruimte 09, Groningen Groningen , Netherlands Solo
2012

Twin time, De Vishal, Haarlem Haarlem , Netherlands Solo
2011

De Wand De Ruimte, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort Amersfoort, Netherlands Met Guido Nieuwendijk, Jan van der Ploeg en Tonneke Sengers Group

Projects

2011
Art Amsterdam, Galerie Wit Netherlands Beurs
2010
Art Amsterdam, Galerie Wit Netherlands Beurs

International exchanges/Residencies

2013

Beijing, China China
2013

Jerusalem/ West Bank, Israël Israel

Commissions

2013

Ministerie Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties Veiligheid en Ministerie Ju Den Haag Site specific voor de tentoonstelling werk ter gelegenheid nieuwe huisvesting Ministeries finished

Sales/Works in collections

2011

Aegon Den Haag Schilderijen (Hoofdkantoor)
2011

Verbeke Foundation Kemzeke (B) Collages
2008

Akzo Art foundation Amsterdam Schilderij (Hoofdkantoor)

Publications

2022

#4 Mark van Overeem Façade Façade Catalog Dart Dirks Den Haag , Netherlands Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name Façade Façade
2022

Margreet Hofland Den Haag , Netherlands
2011

Juni 2011 Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort: De Wand De Ruimte. Publicatie bij de gelijknamige tentoonstelling van 14 juni t/m 25 september 2011 in het Mondriaanhuis te Amersfoort Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort Catalogus
2011

Oktober 2011 De Roskam: ‘Mark van Overeem biedt nieuw perspectief in Villa’, door Jet van der Sluis, naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling Panautomaticum bij Villa de Bank, Enschede De Roskam Artikel
2010

Maart 2010 De Gelderlander: In de rubriek 'Punting' naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling No Mirror No Painting door Antonie den Ridder, 'Oog laat zich graag door dit zelfbedrog plezieren' De Gelderlander Artikel
2010

Maart 2010 Kunstbeeld: In de rubriek 'Expo' naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling No Mirror No Painting. Mark van Overeem, door Roos van der Lint Kunstbeeld Recensie
2010

Maart 2010 Catalogus No Mirror No Painting. Uitgegeven naar aanleiding van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling bij Galerie Wit, Wageningen Galerie Wit, Wageningen Catalogus
2009

Juni 2009 Het Financiële Dagblad: 'Wanden lijken te wijken', door Manon Berendse in de rubriek 'In de galerie' naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling Double Room bij Galerie Wit, Wageningen Het financiële Dagblad Artikel
2008

Augustus 2008 Het Financieele Dagblad: 'Waar stopt iets? En waar gaat het door?', door Jaap Röell Het financiële Dagblad Artikel
2005

‘Het ondergewone’ Stroom Haags Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst Catalogus

reviews

2022

Diorama met muren, pleinen en grimmige stiltes Newspaper Margreet Hofland The Hague , Netherlands Diorama met muren, pleinen en grimmige stiltes Den Haag Centraal, Januari 13, 2022

Awards and grants

2019

Stipendium for established artists, Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam mondriaan fonds
2018

Mondriaanfonds Amsterdam Amsterdam , Netherlands Stipendium for established artists, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam
2012

Basisstipendium Mondriaan fonds, Amsterdam
2011

Pro-onderzoek Stroom Den Haag
2002

Basisstipendium Mondriaan fonds, Amsterdam

Secondary art-related activities

2014 - 2020

Initiatiefnemer, coach /editor Art Resort Studio, Den Haag On-going