Opening: 16 April 2009, 6 p.m.

Marijn van Kreij graduated from the St. Joost Art Academy, Breda, in 2003. Among the awards he has received was the Prix de Rome, Drawings/Graphics in 2004. In 2006 he received the Uriôt Prize, which enabled him to realise his publication entitled Marijn van Kreij – O Let It Be. Drawings, photographs and collages in 2008.

With his photographs, installations, drawings, videos and wall paintings, Marijn van Kreij is a special and promising artist. Even if his techniques and topics are innovative, the playful and bracing impulse of his works truly remains. Texts, so ubiquitous in this artist’s work, often take the form of poetic observations on life, relationships, dreams and wishes, sometimes with fragments of pop lyrics. “Tomorrow is Humourless”, says the title of a recent exhibition by him. But this is in no way true of Marijn van Kreij himself, who guides us along 20th-century art, with strange detours and the occasional wink. The texts, whether written on quicky post-its or carefully collected, reflect his humour: “If you find all your ideas useless and ridiculous, know that it is God (or your mother) beginning to speak to you.”

http://www.marijnvankreij.nl
http://www.kisterem.hu