Biography
Maddy Arkesteyn was born in Goirle (NL) in 1966 and died in Brussels (BE) in 2012.
Education at the Academy for Visual Arts, Maastricht (NL), at the De Ateliers in Amsterdam (NL) , at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (BE) and at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences (Bachelor and Master).
Since 1993 joint and solo exhibitions. In 2010 Residency at the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen (CN). Acquisitions through the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam (NL), the Museum of Modern Art Bologna in Bologna (IT) and privat collections
Exhibition (Selection)
- 2011 Pictura, Maddy Arkesteyn and Charlotte Schleiffert, When the second voice does not occupy a stable position, Dordecht (NL)
- 2010 Einzelausstellung CEAC, Brancusi’s Psychosis goes exotic, Xiamen University Art College, Xiamen (CN)
- 2009 Gallery Sabine Wachters, International Photo Festival Knokke-Heist, (BE)
- 2007 Einzelausstellung Piers 101, In the space of the uncontrollable moment, the sense of freedom is tangible, Brussels (BE)
- 2003 TENT. Wormhole 3, Stepping out sometime else, Rotterdam (NL)
- 2001 Einzelausstellung Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Köln (D)
- 2000 Museo laboratorio de Arte Contemporanea, Citta Sant Angelo (IT) | Einzelausstellung Gallery Sabine Wachters, Brussels (BE)
- 1999 Einzelausstellung Stichting Plus Min, Renesse (NL)
- 1996 Stedelijk Museum, Peiling 5, Amsterdam (NL) | Museum Booijmans van Beuningen, Unfold, Rotterdam (NL)