Conceptual art, exhibition design and curating
Marieke van Diemen examines, from many different angles, how display of artifacts affect the perception. Thus Van Diemen established an unique view on conceptual art and exhibition design.
Centraal Museum Utrecht, museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Dutch House of Parliament follow the concepts and designs by Marieke van Diemen for the display of their art collections.
The MAZE at museum Boijmans van Beuningen
For museum Boijmans van Beuningen Van Diemen realised a huge display design at the Atrium, the heart of the new Depot building: the MAZE.
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NS Dutch Railways
After some years of graphic design, public art will return in the newly designed Intercity Next Generation trains, sixty in total.
The art will consist of a selection of ten photographic works, printed on interior glass and walls. In spring 2025 the works will be revealed, now still under embargo.
Ter Apel
Next to the NS commission Van Diemen works on the renovation of her commission for the Refugee Registration Centre, Ter Apel, 2001, where refugees are registered in The Netherlands.
After 23 years of intensive use the Centre was in need of a thorough renovation. Besides the color plan, which will stay intact, there used to be furniture-like elements: the home and heart left behind.
These elements were removed due to shortage of space. Sixty four XL-size photographs of the former situation will be installed in each hearing room to restore the original concept.
About Perception
Every ordinary object surrounding us is designed to influence our perception. It has been considered and reconsidered in order to communicate whatever idea. This fascinates Marieke van Diemen.
She explores the effects on ‘the eye’ whilst confronted with the ordinary and casualness, the bottom-line of her investigation.
This crystallizes particularly in museums where her work quietly intervenes with the general conventions of exposing.
To expose: not only as in displaying, also as in to explain or state, introduce and reveal.
Portfolio
Photography Editions and Museum Series
Commissions Conceptual Museum Design
Installations Investigations on perception
Sculpture Award winning veneer sculptures
DEPOT: THE MAZE
Marieke van Diemen designed a distinctive set of showcases for the Atrium of DEPOT: the MAZE.
DEPOT will be the world’s first publicly accessible depository designed by MVRDV.
Marieke explains her vision on this conceptual museum design.
Printroom
The print room and depository of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen follows the conceptual museum design by Marieke van Diemen.
Two separate rooms, divided by a twenty-five meter glass wall reveal the daily practice of preservation and presentation of a world-famous collection of 80.000 works on paper.
