Marcel Wesdorp
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​Marcel Wesdorp (1965) is a visual artist from Rotterdam who graduated in 1993 from the Academy of Visual Arts, the current Willem de Kooning Academy. He also joined up in 1999 to a Master's degree in photography at the St. Joost Academy. He makes virtual, computer-developed animations of landscapes in the media: film, print, photo, map and books. What a pen stroke is for the artist is a series of pixels for Wesdorp. Purely software-based techniques are his tools. He also creates his images with modelling and collages of elevation data. They are usually in many shades of grey and without any presence of people, flora and fauna. Prints of these digitally developed areas appear to be real photos. This also applies to his series 'Possible Environments', where for the first time in his career a warm turquoise with subtle nuances predominates. There seems to be life in this seemingly tropical archipelago. Ancient meteorite impacts on earth left their traces under the surface. In many such places there is exploitation of minerals. This appropriation makes you think about the value of our coexistence on earth. The ‘mining’ should therefore be taken literally. His work has been exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Belvédère, Palais de Tokyo and Photo Basel. His work is also in various collections including those of the Erasmus University, the Social Insurance Bank, the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Centraal Boekhuis and the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.

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​CONTACT

​Marcel Wesdorp [1965]
Tjalklaan 37 
3028 JH Rotterdam, 
The Netherlands 
[email protected]

​REPRESENTATION

​Galerie Helder
Tasmanstraat 188
2518 VT Den Haag
The Netherlands
[email protected]​  \  galleryviewer.com

Group shows

Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam, 2023
​Frank Taal Galerie, Rotterdam, 2023
​ArWe Gallery, curated INTENS, Gouda, 2021
Galerie Helder, Den Haag, 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
​BIG ART #1, Amsterdam, 2016
WTC Art Gallery, Rotterdam, 2016
Galerie Helder (in duplo), Den Haag, 2016
​Erasmus Universiteit, 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
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ArtWalk Amsterdam, 2003
Galerie Ingenhoven, Esbeek, 2002
Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 1999

Solo shows

​Houtrustker, Den Haag, 2023
Galerie Helder, Den Haag, 2021
Goethe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2020
Galerie Helder, Den Haag, 2020
Zerp Galerie, Rotterdam, 2011
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2011
​Galerie 300procent, Rotterdam, 2009
​Nova Zembla, Den Bosch, 1999
Sterrenwacht, Rotterdam, 1994
Wijnhaven, Rotterdam, 1991
Art Fairs

​Platforms Project, Athens, 2022
KunstRAI, Amsterdam, 2022
Photo Basel, Swiss, 2021
​Unseen, Amsterdam, 2021
KunstRAI (solo), Amsterdam, 2015
Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, Rotterdam, 2015
KunstRAI, Amsterdam, 2014
Art at the warehouse, Rotterdam, 2013
​Club A Project, Amsterdam, 2012
​Paviljoen Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2012

Open Studio's

GRAW, Blokland studio's, 2023 [guest]
GRAW, 
Jhr. De Savornin Lohman School, 2022 [guest]
GRAW, Blokland studio's 2021 [guest]
GRAW, Blokland studio's 2020 [guest] 
​Korenbeurs Schiedam, 2015 [guest]
Open Atelierroute Schiedam, 2006
 [guest] 

Artist Talks/Interviews/lectures

Houtrustkerk artist talk 2023
ARWE Galery artist talk 2021

Gallery Helder artist talk 2020
Den Haag FM radio interview 2019
Gallery Helder artist talk 2019
Gallery Helder artist talk 2018 

Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus interview 2017
Township Rotterdam Timmerhuis artist talk 2017
Gallery Helder artist talk 2014
Willem de Kooning academie teacher course, the immaterial future 2011
VPRO radio interview 2011
Willem de Kooning academie classroom​ about Landscape 2011
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam artist talk 2011
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam artist talk 2007
​ABK Rotterdam artist talk 2004
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