About Maartje Folkeringa

Maartje Folkeringa's work stems from a fascination with human behaviour, such as unwritten social rules, the fear of missing out, the drive for uniqueness with the desire for affirmation, and the curiosity for the immaterial.

Concentration, intuition, and meditative work processes play an essential role, as well as handmade crafts and learning to work with new materials. Folkeringa's works are mono-material and poly-material. She works labour-intensive, which contrasts with the speed of the present day. Lively colours refer to our contemporary visual- and consumer culture. Symmetry, dynamics and in-between space are indispensable ingredients for her tactile universe.

At first, Folkeringa created Individuals, figuratively depicting human figures. These figures (from 50 to 240 cm in height) are aware of their surroundings, and a lot is happening in their mind. In the series showroom bling bling, de beste (the best), het hoogste punt (the highest point), display premium and paradice, Folkeringa loosely refers to self-presentation, (unconscious) conformism and unwritten social rules embodied in things we identify with. Since 2020, while working on a series called afleiding als aanleiding (distraction as a cause), her focus has shifted from the outer to the inner and the visible to the invisible, with attention to slow processes, intuition and confidence.

Works have been exhibited in the Netherlands and abroad and are part of collections like Museum Jan Cunen, Oss; AkzoNobel Art Foundation; Curaçao Centre for Contemporary Art, Curaçao; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam; SKY culture, Foshan, China; and private collections. Maartje Folkeringa (1978) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (bachelor) and the Sandberg Institute (master), both in Amsterdam. She attended artist-in-residence programs at Instituto Buena Bista, Curaçao; Make, Eindhoven; and the European Ceramic Centre in Oisterwijk. Since 2015 Folkeringa lectures fine art at the HKU, Utrecht.

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Maartje Folkeringa
Studio: Oude Haagseweg 121a
1066 DC Amsterdam
email@maartjefolkeringa.nl

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Art Now 69, Like (swipe), 05-2023

Collect, Binnenkijken bij Maartje Folkeringa, Koos de Wilt, 03-2022

Mister Motley, Art everday life, Kritische schijn en schittering, by Alex de Vries | 22-03-2020

Fold, Unfold, Refold | Publication by Nanne op 't Ende, with artists' Sonia Kacem, Stéphanie Baechler, Mathilde Dumont and me | 2019

Trendbeheer Apprentice/Master Project #16 Maartje Folkeringa @ Kunstpodium T | Niels Post | 13.05.2017

Mister Motley Trick or Trait | Paper Podium | Wieke Teselink | 02.12.2014

Trendbeheer Maartje Folkeringa Boek | Niels Post | 08.10.2014

2014-TRICK OR TRAIT. Publication made in collaboration with publishing house and projectspace Onomatopee and with the designers from RAW Color. Now for sale! Onomatopee The writers about my work are Lucette ter Borg, Freek Lomme, Renske Janssen and Sarah Bay Williams.

´Eat your heart out and feed your true hunger´ | Freek Lomme

´Gimme´ | Sarah Bay Williams

´Stardust, The sober exuberance of Maartje Folkeringa´ | Lucette ter Borg

´Against the shiny surface´ | Renske Janssen

2013
ARTtube, film made by Jennifer Pettersson
WATCH FILM

Tubelight, ´verfijnde barbaren´, Richtje Reinsma, tubelight mei/juni

Beelden 3#2012, jaargang 15, nr. 58,´Maartje Folkeringa. Kijken naar hoe we doen´, Ans van Berkum

NRC Handelsblad,´Kostbaarheden, gemaakt van niks´, Lucette ter Borg, 16-08-2012

FD Persoonlijk, Het Financieele Dagblad, ´Gietschuim met bladgoud´, Manon Berendse, 23-06-2012