Marjolijn Dijkman | Contemporary Arts Center

Marjolijn Dijkman was born in 1978 in Groningen, The Netherlands. She received her BFA from
the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2001 and held post-graduate positions at the Piet Zwart Institute
in 2003 and Jan van Eyck Academy from 2006-07. Her work has been featured in numerous
international exhibitions, including at the Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE (2007); Berkeley Art
Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (2010); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
(2014); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2015); Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China
(2016); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2017); and Turku Art Museum, Turku,
Finland (2022). Dijkman is one of the founding members of Enough Room for Space (2005-
present), a collaborative arts initiative centered on projects and discussions that respond to
pressing social, political, and ecological issues. Dijkman currently lives and works in Brussels,
Belgium.

Bio updated as of 2023.

Related Exhibitions

Started
04 September
2020

Ended
21 March
2021

Marjolijn Dijkman

By documenting materials linked to what may become one of the largest lithium mines in the world in Manono in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dijkman comments on the ecological fallout generated from mining this valuable mineral and the toxic electronic waste produced as a result of the rise of green energy.