about the world and so on – Marieke Coppens

Marieke Coppens in short

Marieke Coppens is an Amsterdam born and based visual artist.

She became a visual artist instead of a comedian due to a serious accident with a horse.

Her work was shown in amongst others: CODA, FOAM, SCHUNCK, Het Textiek NMuseum Jan Cunen, Museum van Bommel van Dam.

Those white cubes are not (necessarily) Marieke Coppens' preferred contexts. She works preferably in the grayscale of the art world to be able to make the best fitting context for her work.

She has worked with publishers like Valiz and the missing O. In May 2024 her debut niet het uiterlijk voor goede vriendschappen net als de tongen van de honden will see the light, presented by the missing O.

Her work was published in (amongst others) NRC, Metropolis M, Mister Motley, Tubelight Magazine, Noordhollands Dagblad.

About this website, the site is predominantly in English, or something that should be English. However some works have been accompanied with Dutch texts, I didn't translate most of those Dutch texts in English.

I’ve heard the doubtful compliment I might be a better writer than a visual artist more than once. So below some (unpublished) texts I’ve written throughout the years, most are in Dutch. If you don’t have trouble asking google to translate this text in your preferred language, please do so.

If you like to recycle parts of these texts, please contact me first. If you like to start a penpalship, just mail me something nice, I always answer within a year or two. Please also have a look in the shop for published texts.

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Screenshot of the documentary *Herb and Dorothy* by Megumi Sasagi (2008)

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