In her work, Marenne Welten (Oosterhout Gld, NL, 1959) seeks to depart from the familiar, away from the known. The more time you spend looking at her paintings, the more they reveal. From single brushstrokes, figures and interiors appear, charged with emotion and a certain historical baggage.
Since Marenne Welten started painting on canvas twenty years ago, her work can be divided in two parts. On the one hand she works on projects, immersing herself in a certain place or history and creating a series from that. In between these projects, Welten goes ‘back to the kitchen table’, literally and figuratively.
Welten lives and works in Middelburg. In 1983 she graduated from the St Joost Acadamy in Breda, Netherlands. Currently Marenne Welten’s solo exhibition House of Men is on view in Stedelijk Museum, Breda, through July 3. Solo exhibitions over the past include at De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands; Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany; De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands; Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany; Spacebureau, Antwerp, Belgium. In 2016 she was part of the group exhibition On Empathy at Bridget Donahue in New York. Welten will have a solo show with Harkawik in New York in April this year