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.

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Untitled 12: Chinese Girls, performance, 2008

1 January 200819 December 2019

Untitled 12: Chinese Girls (2008), in collaboration with Xiamen University.

One circle, 12 girls, 24 shoes, 12 needles and 12 yarn bobbins.

During the performance the girls arrived form different directions, but all as if they were part of the audience. They also looked like that. When they came together they formed a circle and all started to sew their right shoe to the left shoe of the girl standing on the right from her.

Untitled 12: Chinese Girls (2008), in collaboration with Xiamen University. One circle, 12 girls, 24 shoes, 12 needles and 12 yarn bobbins. During the performance the girls arrived form different directions, but all as if they were part of the audience. They also looked like that. When they came together they formed a circle and all started to sew their right shoe to the left shoe of the girl standing on the right from her.