Femme Brut

FemmeBRUT is the newest project of Marja van Putten, a Dutch visual artist, living in Amsterdam.
FemmeBRUT are a series of large abstract paintings with textiles in the lead.

She is a contemporary critical painter, who connects paintings with other media: textiles, c-prints and objects.
Her figurative canvases show a mix of images and materials with art-historical references, from different cultures and personal associations.

She organizes art projects, publishes her own Magazine ‘MARI/JA’, runs a web design and graphic design company, Arttrust. She is the initiator and board member of the DKB Foundation, the Digital Art Management Foundation, which is committed to the digital preservation of the oeuvres of deceased artists.

She was an assistant for 20 years for the sculptures of Armando, who passed away in 2018, including huge bronze sculptures.

Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

2022
– Solo Loods 6, Amsterdam, femmeBRUT
– Performance Human Tissue at Bouwput, organisation Mariko Hori
– Patterns of work, NoArtFashion
– VEGRO-FRIESE-DECKEN, Gallery Art Factory Flox, Kirchau (D)
– Luku / Omzien naar, Amstelkerk, Stadsarchief ivm Suriname weken
– Lezing Culturele toe-eigening, expositie Luku, i.s.m. Wim Vonk en Isidoor Wens
– IJ KunstCollectief, Nieuw Dakota/Beautiful Distress, Amsterdam
– Kunst 10D Bergen, Artists aan Zee VI
– What Art Can Do, gallery expo

2021
– NOARTFASHION, duo exhibition met Wim Vonk in new artspace in Limburg
– Curating & participating fifty-fifty with Astrid Moors at PlayRoom Zaandam, October 2021
– Close Encounters, solo Galerie Kruitberg
– 2 x Summershow: CBK Zuidoost en Arti et Amicitiae
– Achter de ramen, BO1, Feike de Boerlaan 15 hoek Borneostraat 1
– Salon Hang at Kunstverrein, https://kunstverein.nl/
– A4 project during Art Rotterdam with poet Zoë Cochia, July 2021

2020
– Exhibition Corona Archives, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.
– Summershow, Arti et Amicitiae.
– The Jurer does not weed, groupshow, Gallery Artishock, Rijswijk.
– Laat waaien – Laat zien, flags project Goes, Loods 32, review PZC (Zeeuwse Krant) & catalogue.
– Assignment (sketch) sculpture Nanjing for GoArtists.
– A doo...