MYRTHE VAN DER MARK
the Netherlands, 22.12.1989
currently based in Brussels
HARVESTING BULBS. GROWTH OF THE SOIL. JUST BE WATER, MY FRIEND. [PENSIVE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING]
2025, pile of Flexi disc edition SPACE AGE CRYSTALS, glass, plinth, lighting, carpet
For the IKOB – Feminist Art Prize, the artist presents a performance at the exhibition opening: It, it is usual to add rose which is four rows. It is usual to add it. (2024–25). Taking place in the museum’s storage room, which is usually closed to visitors, the performance explores the symbolism of braids, the colors of mourning and its accompanying scents, flower arrangements, architectural clothing, accessories, tableware, and small, elaborate hair works. A landscape, a portrait, a still life. It, it is usual to add rose which is four rows. It is usual to add it. was commissioned by de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, and is a collaboration with the musician Joachim Badenhorst.
In the exhibition, van der Mark presents a sculptural element titled Harvesting bulbs. Growth of the soil. Just be water, my friend. [pensive orchestral music playing] (2025). It contains a stack of her Flexi disc edition SPACE AGE CRYSTALS (2022). The Flexi disc is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet and deteriorates when played for an extended time. The Flexis on display at IKOB contain recordings of van der Mark’s father’s last days, reworked into music by Joachim Badenhorst.
During her performance, van der Mark used airbrush blow pens to paint on envelopes that act as sleeves for the edition. These are available to purchase in the bookshop, each accompanied by one Flexi disc presented in the exhibition.
Price: €15
©️ IKOB - Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Credits: Lola Pertsowsky
Presented at IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen (BE)
2025, pile of Flexi disc edition SPACE AGE CRYSTALS, glass, plinth, lighting, carpet
For the IKOB – Feminist Art Prize, the artist presents a performance at the exhibition opening: It, it is usual to add rose which is four rows. It is usual to add it. (2024–25). Taking place in the museum’s storage room, which is usually closed to visitors, the performance explores the symbolism of braids, the colors of mourning and its accompanying scents, flower arrangements, architectural clothing, accessories, tableware, and small, elaborate hair works. A landscape, a portrait, a still life. It, it is usual to add rose which is four rows. It is usual to add it. was commissioned by de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, and is a collaboration with the musician Joachim Badenhorst.
In the exhibition, van der Mark presents a sculptural element titled Harvesting bulbs. Growth of the soil. Just be water, my friend. [pensive orchestral music playing] (2025). It contains a stack of her Flexi disc edition SPACE AGE CRYSTALS (2022). The Flexi disc is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet and deteriorates when played for an extended time. The Flexis on display at IKOB contain recordings of van der Mark’s father’s last days, reworked into music by Joachim Badenhorst.
During her performance, van der Mark used airbrush blow pens to paint on envelopes that act as sleeves for the edition. These are available to purchase in the bookshop, each accompanied by one Flexi disc presented in the exhibition.
Price: €15
©️ IKOB - Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Credits: Lola Pertsowsky
Presented at IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen (BE)
YEAH, BUT WHO? I MIGHT KNOW HER.
2024, performance, Japanese Slipper; Cocktail Glass, Midori, Cointreau, Lime Juice, Maraschino Cherry, Dry Ice, Misty Stix, variable dimensions; open edition
Work can take many different forms, as varied as the environments, tools, skills, goals, and institutions around a worker. For De Langste Dag van der Mark will view ‘a workplace’ as human activity contributing towards the goods and services. This refers to a general activity of performing tasks, whether they are paid or unpaid, formal or informal. It encompasses any effort or activity directed towards achieving a particular goal. She approaches serving staff as an example of a common profession, attending to customers by supplying them with a cocktail as requested: Japanese Slipper. The passage of time is represented by the sublimation process of dry ice, incorporated into the cocktail. Here, the word sublimation is used to describe an exchange of "bodies" and "spirits" similar to laboratory phase transition between solids and gases.
Price: €7.40
Presented at Mu.ZEE & KAAP
Ostend (BE)
2024, performance, Japanese Slipper; Cocktail Glass, Midori, Cointreau, Lime Juice, Maraschino Cherry, Dry Ice, Misty Stix, variable dimensions; open edition
Work can take many different forms, as varied as the environments, tools, skills, goals, and institutions around a worker. For De Langste Dag van der Mark will view ‘a workplace’ as human activity contributing towards the goods and services. This refers to a general activity of performing tasks, whether they are paid or unpaid, formal or informal. It encompasses any effort or activity directed towards achieving a particular goal. She approaches serving staff as an example of a common profession, attending to customers by supplying them with a cocktail as requested: Japanese Slipper. The passage of time is represented by the sublimation process of dry ice, incorporated into the cocktail. Here, the word sublimation is used to describe an exchange of "bodies" and "spirits" similar to laboratory phase transition between solids and gases.
Price: €7.40
Presented at Mu.ZEE & KAAP
Ostend (BE)
AIRDROP
2024, performance
UbuWeb is a web-based educational resource for avant-garde material operating on the basis of a gift economy. AirDrop derived from a selection of videos from the Dance section of UbuWeb in collaboration with artist Louise Delanghe. The setting of this bootleg series is a needle punch mandarin carpet, created through van der Mark’s installation Girl lives in the village. Sculptress. If you must know., at CC Strombeek. The carpet bears the traces from 29 skylight domes imprinted through LED light into the orange carpet over time. Delanghe indicates the rhythm of the choreography, and the registration of the work was transmitted through AirDrop by the curator of the exhibition.
Presented at Avee Gallery
Kortrijk (BE)
2024, performance
UbuWeb is a web-based educational resource for avant-garde material operating on the basis of a gift economy. AirDrop derived from a selection of videos from the Dance section of UbuWeb in collaboration with artist Louise Delanghe. The setting of this bootleg series is a needle punch mandarin carpet, created through van der Mark’s installation Girl lives in the village. Sculptress. If you must know., at CC Strombeek. The carpet bears the traces from 29 skylight domes imprinted through LED light into the orange carpet over time. Delanghe indicates the rhythm of the choreography, and the registration of the work was transmitted through AirDrop by the curator of the exhibition.
Presented at Avee Gallery
Kortrijk (BE)
THE ECSTATIC BEING
2024, performance / room-sized installation with a.o. orange shelter rescue camping tent, memory foam, daylight therapy light, Belladonna drops, music compositions and recordings made by Joachim Badenhorst during the 3-days performances at the 8th Yokohama Triennale
The title is derived from the exhibition The Ecstatic Being — a group exhibition at STUK in Leuven, June 2023 — for which van der Mark was commissioned. The performance and installation are part of a growing body of work developed around ideas of metamorphosis and form-changing. The performance in collaboration with Joachim Badenhorst is derived from the Mazdaznan teachings. The focus lies on body-related rituals, singing with rhythmic movements and re-channel internal energies. The objects in the installation are residues or traces from the performances held on March 14 -16.
Presented at Yokohama Museum of Art
Yokohama (JPN)
2024, performance / room-sized installation with a.o. orange shelter rescue camping tent, memory foam, daylight therapy light, Belladonna drops, music compositions and recordings made by Joachim Badenhorst during the 3-days performances at the 8th Yokohama Triennale
The title is derived from the exhibition The Ecstatic Being — a group exhibition at STUK in Leuven, June 2023 — for which van der Mark was commissioned. The performance and installation are part of a growing body of work developed around ideas of metamorphosis and form-changing. The performance in collaboration with Joachim Badenhorst is derived from the Mazdaznan teachings. The focus lies on body-related rituals, singing with rhythmic movements and re-channel internal energies. The objects in the installation are residues or traces from the performances held on March 14 -16.
Presented at Yokohama Museum of Art
Yokohama (JPN)
