Maaike Wycisk
Meisterschwanden, Aargau, Switzerland
Maaike Wycisk is a self-thought Dutch artist, born near Rotterdam in 1979. During her life she has l...
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Maaike Wycisk
Joined In 2022
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About the artist
Maaike Wycisk
Joined In 2022
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Maaike Wycisk is a self-thought Dutch artist, born near Rotterdam in 1979. During her life she has lived in many different places and countries. Currently she is living near Zürich, in Switzerland.
All her life she has been intrigued by fashion and female portraits. Especially the story that they are trying to sell: a photoshopped reality without imperfections.
With her work she digitally combines these “perfect” images with the rough structures of old magazines, walls, and graffiti. In this way, she also makes a digital, photoshopped manipulation of a picture by adding more layers and “imperfections”.
With her work she is trying to show that the over polished, perfectionated images are even more interesting if imperfections and structures are added. Beauty is fleeting but that does not mean it does not get even more interesting!
In some of her works she also adds butterflies to further underline the fragility of beauty and vanity.
A portion of her work is not so much about the message, but just about having fun with different images. For these works she uses artists or celebrities that inspire her, or sometimes also animals or objects.
In that respect, her work is mainly a discovery journey in which ...
Self-taught
2022:
April - June 2022: Exposition Hilton Düsseldorf, Germany
April - Mai 2022: Exposition Renaissance Hotel Bordeaux, France
March – April 2022: Exposition «For Her” Gallery Kuvik, Dortmund Germany
Representation in magazine “Artmosphere”
March – May 2022: Solo exposition in Villa Sutter Switzerland
2021:
November 2021: Exposition Hilton London
October 2021: Exposition Hilton Paris
May 2021: New York Art Walk
March – May 2021: Solo exposition Villa Sutter Switzerland
April 2021: Exposition Hilton Dubai
January 2021: Exposition MADS Art Gallery Milano
November 2020 – November 2021: Exposition New York Art
2020:
November 2020. Exposition Hilton Paris
October 2020: Art Talents Zürich Art Fair
Augustus 2020: Siww Art Expo Zürich
Augustus 2020: Exposition Hilton Strasbourg
July 2020: Exposition Hilton Dresden
February 2020: Exposition Hilton Paris
2019:
October 2019: Art Talents Zürich Art fair
Augustus 2019: Swiss Art Expo Zürich
July 2019: Exposition Hilton Stockholm
May 2019: Fresh Exposition Marriot Rotterdam