Maaike Dirkx

Born in the Netherlands, had already some Expositions during her Studies since 1997 . In 2002 she came to live and work in Hamburg, Germany.
Her work, mostly Collagen with integrated painting and comiclike drawings create a combination between symbolism and pop-art.
In her paintings the artist processes social and educational themes, also gives a voice to controversial themes like seksual discrimination of women and the contradiction in the representation of advertising.
Almost intuitiv she collects various facets to the theme, inserts then cuttings out of newspapers and magazines, sometimes objects. She utileses symbols, that the observer can unconsciously classify.
Her works explode in a lake of colours, are eventfull at the same time static.
Fotorealistic filles are combined with geometrical forms and then figures are imbedded. Sometimes painted, but in older collages little cut out pin-ups.
Her paintings contains visual feral statements, that animates the observer to think about the theme.
The artist shows her artwork in most cases as a installation. For example her Flakes Project(in which sexismus in the foodadvertisement is satirized) for which
the artist self handed build a supermarket set.
For the presentation of h...

Expositions 2014

- Galerie b65/Kulturgold, Einzelausstellung
„Zwisschen Kunst und Kitsch“, 4 - 28 April
- 439, Hamburg, Einzelausstellung,
3 Oktober - 25 Oktober
- Speckstraße, Gängeviertel, Gemeinschaftsaustellung,
November

Expositions 2015

- Zustandszone Hamburg, Flakes Store
Einzelausstellung, Februar
- Portrait Kutter, Radio Interview, April
- Kunstroute Eindhoven, Oktober

Ausstellungen 2016

- Altonale, Juli
- Artflash und Mlove, September