Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town, SA, lives in Amsterdam) certainly ranks among the leading painters and artists of our time. In her work she focuses heavily on the human figure. In single and group portraits, Dumas addresses current as well as timeless topics we are all familiar with such as love, death, identity and mourning, making reference to both present-day issues and themes of art history. She draws on an extensive pictorial archive containing private Polaroid prints, media images, pictures from magazines, as well as film stills as a source for her fascinating, at times disturbing yet always deeply moving paintings. The exhibition was planned and designed in close collaboration with Marlene Dumas and realized together with the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Tate Modern London. Sticking to a basic chronological order, the show traces her development as an artist. On display is a selection of over a hundred paintings and drawings, including several rarely shown collages from her early work and a few very recent paintings.

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