
Maaike Schoorel
Picture of the artist in her studio, 2018
© Koos Breukel
Maaike Schoorel (NL 1973) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) and the Royal College of Art (London). Her paintings have been acquired by museums and collectors worldwide, and have been exhibited at the Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Kunstmuseum Den Haag (The Hague), Martin Gropius Bau Museum (Berlin), Museum Kunstpalast (Dusseldorf), Hayward Gallery (London), Saatchi Gallery (London), Fondazione Memmo (Rome), LA County Museum (Los Angeles), CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art (San Francisco), Museum MDD (Belgium), Sydney Biennale amongst other venues. She recently returned to Amsterdam, having spent many years living in London, New York and Rome.

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Maaike Schoorel
De Leie, 2020
oil on canvas
140 × 500 cm
The triptych, large as it is, it surrounds the viewer and gives the impression one could immerse oneself in the painting.

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1.c Detail

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1.e Process

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Maaike Schoorel
Panda, 2020
oil on canvas
160 × 100 cm

2.b Detail

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Maaike Schoorel
Glaasjes, 2020
oil on canvas
40 × 30 cm
… but above all she has the ability to paint the transparency of glass or the reflective quality of water.

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Maaike Schoorel
Installation Frans Hals Museum, 2012

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“Schoorel joins in a painterly game that stretches back at least as far as the seventeenth century. Frans Hals is exemplary of the way that a ruffled collar or sleeve constantly oscillates between the mimetic rendering of a thing in the world and the virtuosic demonstration of its own material identity as paint. But whereas in the work of Hals and his contemporaries, this instability generally plays out only in discrete areas, never threatening the recognizability of the overall composition, in Schoorel’s work the playing field extends across the entirety of the canvas.”
— Jacob Proctor

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Maaike Schoorel
Rügen Sunlight, 2019
oil on canvas
160 × 100 cm

5.b Detail

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Maaike Schoorel
Waterplant, 2019
oil on canvas
29 × 25 cm

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Maaike Schoorel
Lace and Flowers, 2019
oil on canvas
80 × 110 cm

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7.c Detail

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Maaike Schoorel
Installation Sydney Biennal, 2016

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Maaike Schoorel
Lianen, 2019
oil on canvas
45 cm diameter

9.b Detail

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Maaike Schoorel
De Woning (van Wassenhove) installation 2020

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Maaike Schoorel
De Woning (van Wassenhove), 2020
oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm

11.b Process

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12.b Detail

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Maaike Schoorel
Walking in Potsdam, 2019
oil on canvas
150 × 100 cm

13.b Collaboration with Pim Blokker

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Maaike Schoorel
Patterns, 2019
oil on canvas
90 cm