Sue van Geijn is a

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based contemporary artist (14 September 1988 -) born in

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, and Willem de Kooning Academy graduate.

Biography

Van Geijn is currently part of the artist-run group of the

W139 W139 is an artist-run space established in 1979 on the Warmoesstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Netherlands. The former theatre was Squatting, squatted in October 1979 by five young artists as "a movement against the closed world of commercial a ...

in Amsterdam, wherefore she invited

Kazuma Eekman Kazuma Eekman is a Dutch- Japanese contemporary artist with a love for illustration and painting from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He graduated in 2014 from the Willem de Kooning Academy and is known for his illustrations in different Dutch news ...

, Emile Hermans, Iris Schutgevaar, Diedrik Sibma and Roos Wijma for the exposition UU&ME that opened on 10 June 2016. She is the co-founder of buro BG "a concept development bureau based in Amsterdam and Rotterdam,

" which organised different collaborative events in vacant buildings and the

Stadsschouwburg The Stadsschouwburg (; Dutch: ''Municipal Theatre'') of Amsterdam is the name of a theatre building at the Leidseplein in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The building is in the neo-Renaissance style dating back to 1894, and is the former home of the Na ...

Amsterdam. Her work has been shown among others places at the W139, Route du Nord,

Beurs van Berlage The Beurs van Berlage is a building on the Damrak, in the centre of Amsterdam. It was designed as a commodity exchange by architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage and constructed between 1896 and 1903. It influenced many modernist architects, in part ...

, BAK and can be found in different publications and prints such as the calendar 'I am not doing anything until I feel the need' by Joanneke Meester whereby the original works were also shown at the Nederlandse Bank. Her work often includes written texts to establish a connection with the

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

, the viewer, its surroundings or herself, many of which can be found in the

public domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work A creative work is a manifestation of creative effort including fine artwork (sculpture, paintings, drawing, sketching, performance art), dance, writing (literature), filmmaking, ...

such as 'You are here now' and 'Conversations with the building'.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Geijn, Sue van 1988 births Living people 21st-century Dutch artists Artists from Amsterdam Willem de Kooning Academy alumni