Maryleen Schiltkamp (1959) is a visual artist who was born on the Caribbean island of Curaçao and also grew up there. She studied graphic design at the Rietveld Academie (1977–1978) and classical fine art, painting and sculpting at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (1978–1981) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Expositie olieverfwerken Maryleen Schiltkamp, Het Curaçaosch Museum, 1993 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28157089
Besides in Amsterdam, Schiltkamp has lived and worked in New York City, Saint Petersburg and Prague.LiveART s Maryleen Schiltkamp, Janem Bartošem a Tomášem Jamníkem, 2 May 2017 http://www.nrpraha.cz/program/789/liveart-s-maryleen-schiltkamp-janem-bartosem-a-tomasem-jamnikem/Ed McCormack, "Maryleen Schiltkamp’s Fruitful Romance with Eastern Art", Gallery & Studio, New York, November/December 2003/January 2004 https://www.galleryand.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VOL-06-2-Nov-Dec2003_Jan2004.pdf
Development The New York magazine Gallery & Studio once called her "one of our more historically aware contemporary artists, forging “connections between the classical and the modern, the figurative and the abstract”.Ed McCormack, "Maryleen Schiltkamp’s Fruitful Romance with Eastern Art", Gallery & Studio, New York, November/December 2003/January 2004 https://www.galleryand.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VOL-06-2-Nov-Dec2003_Jan2004.pdf
She also sculpts. In 1982, she worked in the marble quarries of Carrara in Italy and on the Greek island of Tinos.Expositie olieverfwerken Maryleen Schiltkamp, Het Curaçaosch Museum, 1993 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28157089 She often paints with oil on canvas. Her 1993 exhibition at the Curaçaosch Museum, for example, exclusively featured oil paintings.Expositie olieverfwerken Maryleen Schiltkamp, Het Curaçaosch Museum, 1993 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28157089 After she became interested in Japanese art in 1996, she started working with paper, scrolls and folding screens.Ed McCormack, "Maryleen Schiltkamp’s Fruitful Romance with Eastern Art", Gallery & Studio, New York, November/December 2003/January 2004 https://www.galleryand.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VOL-06-2-Nov-Dec2003_Jan2004.pdf Since 2013, she has been cooperating with musicians in an art form called "MusicPainting", after Latvian pianist Reinis Zariņš reached out to her on Facebook "looking for someone who could paint the objective content of the music as it was being played".Arterritory.com, 10 March 2023, "Awakening. musicpaintingLIVE" https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/topical_qa/26567-awakening_musicpaintinglive/Una Meistere on Arterritory.com, 4 April 2023, "Co-creators in musicpaintingLIVE" https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/interviews/26607-co-creators_in_musicpaintinglive
MusicPainting and other projects Reinis Zariņš and Maryleen Schiltkamp met in 2013. In the following ten years, they performed in five projects, such as one featuring works by Bach, Ravel and Messiaen at the Cēsis Arts Festival (Latvia) in 2017 and Russian piano masterpieces at the 2018 winter festival at the Amsterdam Hermitage (which was renamed H'Art after ties to Russia were cut in 2023).Una Meistere on Arterritory.com, 4 April 2023, "Co-creators in musicpaintingLIVE" https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/interviews/26607-co-creators_in_musicpaintinglive
She has also worked with the Icelandic and French-Russian Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel (consisting of violinist Judith Ingolfsson and pianist Vladimir Stoupel)altermidi, "L'art brise le silence: LiveART avec Maryleen Schiltkamp – Je commence et je m'arrête en même temps que la musique. Et pour moi, c'est souvent une expérience très intense et bouleversante." (Art Breaks the Silence: LiveART with Maryleen Schiltkamp – I start and stop at the same time as the music. And for me, it is often a very intense and moving experience.), 9 September 2023 https://altermidi.org/2023/09/09/liveart-avec-maryleen-schiltkamp/ as well as with Dutch pianist Tobias Borsboom.Olga de Kort, "Borsbooms fraaie, kleurrijke, genuanceerde en mooi gebalanceerde, technisch onberispelijke en muzikaal zeer geslaagde pleidooi maakte een diepe indruk", Pianist, March 2020, Volume 7, Issue 1.Jeanette Vergouwen, "Tobias Borsboom ontsluitert muziek van Novák", Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, 2020. In 2018, the British Fitzwilliam String Quartet celebrated its 50th anniversary with a joint project of Schiltkamp and Dora Williams.Fitzwilliam Quartet, "2018 – FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET AT 50!" https://www.fitzwilliamquartet.com/past-news.html Others she performs with include pianist Alexander Kraft van Ermel, grandson of composer Wim Statius Muller, for example in the project "Excursions!"."Excursions!", Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam, 2024 https://www.podiummozaiek.nl/programma/details/2851/excursions-maryleen-schiltkamp-alexander-kraft-van-ermel
Schiltkamp's association with music is not new, however, as evidenced in the description of her oil painting "Le Sacre" (1991) in which a "Summerian myth from 2,000 B.C. is linked with Greek mythology and hedonistic vegetation-rites which dance their way up to the Rite of Spring symphony by 20th century composer Igor Stravinsky".Expositie olieverfwerken Maryleen Schiltkamp, Het Curaçaosch Museum, 1993 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28157089 She took piano lessons as a child.Una Meistere on Arterritory.com, 4 April 2023, "Co-creators in musicpaintingLIVE" https://arterritory.com/en/visual_arts/interviews/26607-co-creators_in_musicpaintinglive
Through the LiveART Foundation, which she launched in 2022, she commissioned the work "Atlantis and other utopias" by Austrian-born composer and pianist Marion von Tilzer, which will be performed by the Amstel Quartet on saxophones, Marion von Tilzer on piano as well as German drummer and percussionist Jacobus Thiele."Atlantis and other Utopias", Stadsherstel Amsterdam, City of Amsterdam, the Netherlands https://stadsherstel.nl/cultuuragenda/atlantis-and-other-utopias/Website Marion von Tilzer https://marionvontilzer.com/
Exhibitions Schiltkamp has exhibited and performed in different countries such as France, England, the United States (for example in the Sylvia White Gallery, Los Angeles in 1995 and in Atelier International, New York in 2002), the Netherlands (for example at Studio 2000 Art Gallery, Amsterdam in 1993) and Japan (for example in the Bungei Shunju Gallery in Tokyo 1998 and 2003).altermidi, "L'art brise le silence: LiveART avec Maryleen Schiltkamp – Je commence et je m'arrête en même temps que la musique. Et pour moi, c'est souvent une expérience très intense et bouleversante." (Art Breaks the Silence: LiveART with Maryleen Schiltkamp – I start and stop at the same time as the music. And for me, it is often a very intense and moving experience.), 9 September 2023 https://altermidi.org/2023/09/09/liveart-avec-maryleen-schiltkamp/Fitzwilliam Quartet, "2018 – FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET AT 50!" https://www.fitzwilliamquartet.com/past-news.htmlEd McCormack, "Maryleen Schiltkamp’s Fruitful Romance with Eastern Art", Gallery & Studio, New York, November/December 2003/January 2004 https://www.galleryand.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VOL-06-2-Nov-Dec2003_Jan2004.pdfExpositie olieverfwerken Maryleen Schiltkamp, Het Curaçaosch Museum, 1993 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28157089"Rencontres Musicales Internationales d'Aigues-Vives !", program Aigues-Vives festival, France, 2023 https://aiguesvivesenmusiques.org/event/5165278/644015538/rencontres-musicales-internationales-d-aigues-vives Besides in Japan, her solo exhibition "Japonismes" was also on display at the Nippon Gallery in New York City in 2003.Ed McCormack, "Maryleen Schiltkamp’s Fruitful Romance with Eastern Art", Gallery & Studio, New York, November/December 2003/January 2004 https://www.galleryand.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VOL-06-2-Nov-Dec2003_Jan2004.pdfMaurice Tapplinger, "Maryleen Schiltkamp and Art’s Nobler Aspirations", Gallery & Studio, New York, Sept–Oct 2002 https://www.galleryand.studio/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/VOL-05-1-Sept-Oct-2002.pdf
Her work is part of private collections in various countries.Expositie olieverfwerken Maryleen Schiltkamp, Het Curaçaosch Museum, 1993 https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28157089 In 2000, she created the work "Holland on the Hoof" as part of Cow Parade for the headquarters of Organon, then based in West Orange, New Jersey. At the time, Organon was still part of AkzoNobel, which according to its website "has been supplying innovative paints and coatings" since 1792.
Documentary In 2017, the British documentary "The Art of the Symphony" – filmed in Prague, premiered in Paris, France and Prague, Czech Republic."The Art of the Symphony", FilmDoc, France https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/51053"Umění symfonie výstavou i projekcí filmu" (The Art of Symphony with an Exhibition and Film Screening), Full Moon Zine, Czech Republic 2017 https://www.fullmoonzine.cz/novinky/umeni-symfonie-vystavou-i-projekci-filmu Its director was Alan Mercer for DSCH Films. Mercer is also editor-in-chief of DSCH Journal (dedicated to the life and work of Dmitri Shostakovich) and founder of the DSCH Society, in which DSCH stands for the composer Dmitri Shostakovich. The documentary features Schiltkamp and her interpretations and renditions of Shostakovich's work. Screenings took place in various cities including The Hague and Amsterdam."The Art of the Symphony", Blinibioscoop, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2017 https://www.blinibioscoop.nl/archief/item/150-the-art-of-the-symphony"The Art of the Symphony" Wijkvereniging Benoordenhout, The Hague, the Netherlands, 6 February 2020 https://www.wvbn.nl/the-art-of-the-symphony/activiteiten/"The Art of the Symphony", Theater De Balie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2019 https://debalie.nl/programma/the-art-of-the-symphony-06-04-2019/"L'Art de la symphonie" Embassy of the Czech Republic in The Hague, The Hague, the Netherlands, 21 March 2019 https://mzv.gov.cz/hague/en/bilateral_relations/art_of_the_symphony.html
External links "The Art of the Symphony" DSCH Films Main website
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