“I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed”
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Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas is a South African artist and painter based in the Netherlands.
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culture · South African artist (born 1953) · painter · draftsperson · artist · visual artist · lithographer · collagist · conceptual artist · author · sculptor · writer · also Marlene Dumas, M. Dumas, Dumas
Born 3 August 1953 · Q260617
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2026· 4 entries
“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information)”
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“I don't go to psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They all supposed to help you, but i like to stay in bed where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini”
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“Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of a light. That's why dead painters shine so bright”
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2025· 1 entry
“Her work is informed by her childhood experience growing up in Apartheid and addresses social struggles of oppressed peoples around the world. Working with gestural brush strokes and thin washes of paint, her works have a distinctly transparent appearance that emphasizes their materiality and intimate subject matter.”
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded artist of the year (2015).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Antwerp (2015).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Johannes Vermeer Award (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts (2011).
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded David Röellprijs (1998).
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1980· 1 entry
Studied at University of Amsterdam (1979–1980).
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1976· 1 entry
Studied at De Ateliers (1976).
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1975· 1 entry
Studied at Michaelis School of Fine Art (1972–1975).
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1973· 1 entry
Exploring her political concerns and reflections on her identity as a white woman of Afrikaans descent in South Africa through her work
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1953· 2 entries
Born 1953-08-03.
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In Cape Town, South Africa, and grew up in Kuils River in the Western Cape, where her father had a vineyard
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