Growing from the 1st of May 2025
With her six-month roadtrip to Kyrgyzstan – at the border of China – in 2023, Marjolijn Boterenbrood tried to answer the question: how do we connect to our landscapes? She travelled the Silk Road, this network between west and east, to make connections with artists there.
Later in 2025 the tube worms, sponges and sea squirts (zakpijpen) will get a co-resident: Marjolijn Boterenbrood. Her underwater project is named Growing Connections. Growing Connections because the non-human life that comes from various distant regions.
For years Marjolijn Boterenbrood has been experimenting with miraculous forms of life in salt, fresh and brackish water. With the 'underwater works' at Schouwen Duiveland, Vlieland and on the Oosterdokskade in Amsterdam, she experiments with underwater life and look at the -for us not visible- international connections/migrations underwater. This non-human life is coming to Amsterdam: mussels from the Gulf of Mexico, Australian tube worms, migrating barnacles, American lobsters and zebra mussels from the Black Sea, mussels from the Gulf of Mexico.
About the artist
Marjolijn Boterenbrood is a multidisciplinary artist whose works primarily revolve around the concepts of space and places through sensory impressions. Boterenbrood works through these subjects to reveal the hidden intrinsic aspects of the certain places that she visits. Through this, the places can be fully understood through the different dimensions that have been accentuated in Boterenbrood’s works.
