Marie Reintjes - ‘Temporary Terrain’

January 16, 2026 - February 14, 2026

Opening on Friday, January 16th at 16:00

Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Oosterdokskade 243

Gallery Vriend van Bavink presents ‘Temporary Terrain’ - a solo exhibition by Marie Reintjes.

Reintjes draws from a personal family archive: thirty years of diaries, photographs, and tangible memories. By borrowing, distorting, and rearranging elements, she allows different layers of time to converge within a single image. Her paintings, clearly composed, rhythmic, and refined, show how light, structure, and omission are just as defining as what she depicts.

For Temporary Terrain, Reintjes brings together new work and earlier paintings, revealing her development: from quiet, airy landscapes to recent collage-like compositions in which memories and found images interlock. The exhibition also marks the publication of her book of the same name, featuring an essay by Inge Pollet.

Marie Reintjes has exhibited in various venues throughout the Netherlands; her work is included in both private and institutional collections. She lives and works in Arnhem and previously won the Vlissingen Art Prize.

2025, Paper trail (domestic altar), 100 x 150 cm acrylverf, acrylmarkers, houtskool en soft pastelkrijt op linnen