Marike Andeweg (1978), artist, works in Amsterdam. Graduate Industrial Product Engineering (2001). What started from being technically schooled, her knowledge of materials and experience as a creative business owner has Andeweg used as a solid base for her full time art practice since 5 years. Her practice arose from a deep urge to make sense of the visually cluttered and overstimulated world around her - by consciously slowing her pace and working with her hands. Represented at Big Art 2023, AAF Amsterdam 2023, Solo show “What About” in Zaandam 2023, live drawing at Glue Amsterdam 2025.
Andeweg observes, gathers, distils, and what remains becomes her point of departure. Feeling materials pass through her fingers, she challenges herself to lean into the discomfort of uncertainty, searching for that moment when everything quietly comes together. It starts to make sense, at least for her. She experiences her artistic process as a continuous balancing act between doing and reflecting.
Being naturally drawn to create art with a warm, minimalistic, and deceptively simple presence - one that soothes the senses and brings calm amidst daily visual noise - Andeweg’s work embodies a search for stillness.
An underlying element in her practice is the transformation of vulnerability into quiet power. By working with wood veneer, she explores how something as inherently delicate can regain a sense of strength and presence. The same applies to the cotton rag paper sheets she shapes by hand into individual elements which, once connected, form a strong and cohesive whole.
Andeweg enjoys experimenting with the layering of colour - not through paint, but with the ordinary material combination of tulle embedded in resin - to express the same sense of stillness, now infused with colour. Always on a white backdrop, for balance and space to breathe.
Andeweg’s inspirational axis lies between the principles of the ZERO movement and the meditative depth of colour field painters such as Mark Rothko