Marije Gertenbach - Characters - oil on jute

Marije Gertenbach (b. 1990, NL) currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Gertenbach graduated from the Amsterdam University of the Arts and was artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam in 2015-2016. She uses painting as her main means of communication. In her work, she explores the different ways in which a painting manifests itself in society and what role it could play. She is concerned with creating confusion and emphasizing the ambiguity of our ritual interaction with objects and spaces. A painting is never a static object, but always in motion.