Marcel Wesdorp
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Born in Netherlands (1965) and graduated at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam and the advanced programme in photography at St. Joost Academy in Breda, Wesdorp creates computerized animations of landscapes. Prints of these digitally developed areas seem to be real photographs, uniquely named by their specific xyz co-ordinates. But at a second glance you are struck by an unknown reality that lies beyond. Some steps in this process lead to unsuspected and surprisingly catching images, each of them with a most sensitive and enigmatic touch, as may be seen in his PW series. Apart from the purely software based techniques, the collection and modelling of existing satellite data and maps is a second intricate field of work of the artist. Here another elaborate few years were needed to complete the paper-printed black and white ‘Untitled World File’. Wesdorp’s fine imagination of scale and proportion makes you dazzle for this vacuum of time and space. Wesdorp’s work has been shown several times at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2007-2011), at Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen (2012), in Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), Erasmus University, Rotterdam (2013) and with gallery Helder in the solo presentation at KunstRAI, Amsterdam (2015). Wesdorp continues to investigate new ways to show what lies beyond the surface.

CONTACT
Marcel Wesdorp
Tjalklaan 37 
3028 JH Rotterdam, 
The Netherlands 
+31 (0) 681 80 31 74
​E-mail: marcelwesdorp@me.com
Solo shows

Galerie Helder, Den Haag, 2021
Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, 2020
Galerie Helder, Den Haag, 2020
Zerp Galerie, Rotterdam, 2011
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2011
​Galerie 300procent, Rotterdam, 2009


Artist Talks/Interviews/seminars

ARWE Galery 
lecture 2021
Gallery Helder Artist Talk 2020
Den Haag FM Radio interview Continuous Diversity 2019
Gallery Helder Artist Talk 2019
Gallery Helder Artist Talk 2018 

Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus interview Art and technology 2017
Township Rotterdam Timmerhuis lecture 2017
Gallery Helder Artist Talk 2014
Willem de Kooning academie project week The intangible future 2011
VPRO Radio interview Out of Nothing 2011
Willem de Kooning academie photography guest lecturer about Landscapes 2011
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam lecture 2011
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Group shows

​ArWe Gallery, curated INTENS, Gouda, 2021
Photo Festival Schiedam, 2020
Galerie Helder, curated Continuous Diversity, Den Haag, 2019
Galerie Helder, curated Coordinated Coordinates, Den Haag, 2018
PHK18, Rotterdam, 2018
Oslo and Akershus University, Oslo, 2017
WTC Art Gallery, a art exchange program between South Korea
and the Netherlands, 
Rotterdam, 2016
Symposion, Gorinchem, 2015
​Galerie Helder (in duplo), Den Haag, 2015
​Galerie Helder (in duplo), Den Haag, 2014
Erasmus Universiteit (in duplo), Rotterdam, 2013
Photo Festival Schiedam, 2013
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012
Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, 2012
Museum Le Secret, Zwolle, 2012
Graphos Biennale, Den Bosch, 2011
Galerie 300procent, Rotterdam, 2010
Galerie 300procent, Rotterdam, 2008
​Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2007
Galerie 300procent (in duplo), Schiedam, 2006
Art Fairs

KunstRAI, Amsterdam, 2022  (ArWe Gallery)
Photo Basel, Swiss, 2021  (ArWe Gallery)
​Unseen, Amsterdam, 2021  (Galerie Helder) (ArWe Gallery)
BIG ART #1, Amsterdam, 2016  (Galerie Helder)
KunstRAI (solo), Amsterdam, 2015  (Galerie Helder)
Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, Rotterdam, 2015  (Galerie Helder)
KunstRAI, Amsterdam, 2014  (Galerie Helder)
Art at the warehouse, Rotterdam, 2013  (Zerp Galerie)
​Club A Project, Amsterdam, 2012  (Zerp Galerie)
​Paviljoen Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2012  (Zerp Galerie)


At Locations

Social Insurance Bank Rotterdam​, The Garden (2003)
Centraal Boekhuis Culemborg, The Book of Images (1996)

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  • ARTIST BIO & CONTACT
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