Sarah-Joy Zwarts




























2024

wat er al is
Group exhibition, Mariastraat 13 Maastricht 
(june) 

Public lecture, Academy of Architecture Maastricht
(april)

Reversed archeology
Hoekpresentatie, Bureau Europa Maastricht


2023

A missing kind of orange
In-situ group exhibition, Antwerp

Jardins coulés / Gestures #1 (draft)
Artist Books, De Meldkamer Maastricht 

Super books fair
Represented by The Artist and The Others, Haus der Kunst, München

STEK #1
Billboard project, CC De Kimpel and surroundings of Bilzen

Lines of flight vol.2
Artist’s group zine published by KIOSK, Ghent


2022

Lines of flight vol.1
Artist’s group zine published by KIOSK, Ghent

Books by artists
Group presentation, De Meldkamer Maastricht

Super books fair
Represented by The Artist and The Others, Haus der Kunst, München


2020

Chasing flowers
Group exhibition, Coup de Ville St. Niklaas


2019

Embracing exchange
Group exhibition, St. Andrieskapel Maastricht

Come closer
Group exhibition by Forum Triangulare, Kasteel d’Aspremont-Lynden Oud-Rekem



2018

The secret life of materials
Group exhibition, Make Eindhoven x Warp Art x Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven

Vitrine jeune artiste
Solo presentation, Les Brasseurs, Luik

Anonyme Zeichner
Group exhibition, Gallery Körnerpark, Berlijn


2017

Perhaps maybe in spring
Solo presentation, SEAS CC Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist

The autonomous life of things #1
Group exhibition, Beeldenstorm/Daglight, Eindhoven

Birds of passage
Solo presentation, WARP Art, St. Niklaas

Embracing exchange
Group exhibition, Sphinx, Maastricht

Jardins coulés
Solo presentation, Greylight projects, Hoensbroek

Individuele ontwikkelingsbeurs, Vlaamse overheid


2016

Open studio’s
Individual presentation, FLACC, Genk

Artist in residence
FLACC, Genk

Drawing front
Group exhibition, Drawing Centre, Diepenheim

Stroom Projectbeurs, Provincie Limburg (BE)


2015

Preludium V
Group exhibition, Drawing Centre, Diepenheim


2014

Graduation
Group exhibition, KASK, Gent

Black room, blank wall
Group exhibition, Bijloke, Gent

Masterclass Arno Kramer
Drawing Centre, Diepenheim


2013

Endline
Group exhibition, Technicum, Gent

In-situ project tekenkunst
Group exhibition, Voorkamer, Lier

I could have lived here
Group exhibition, M-Museum, Leuven


2012

Prijs Tekenkunst
Group exhibition, CC Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-berg

Masterclass botanisch tekenen
Teylers Museum, Haarlem
















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• About •

Sarah was born in Maastricht, 1987. She works as an independent visual artist somewhere in the lucid area between fact and fiction. Her work currently focuses on oceanic and sea-related themes of both historical and mythological origin, starting at the mid-19th century rise of interest in the marine world.

She is triggered by the unreachable sea as a location where the human imagination can play freely and new ideas emerge, due to its unboundedness. Sarah sees this metaphor closely linked to the technological developments happening in the same period, not only allowing fellow marine enthousiasts, explorers and dreamers to roam about freely, but simultaneously causing a shift in the statute of the image, opening up a search towards its new definition.

On a smaller scale (but nonetheless adding to the above themes) is Sarah’s interest for the reception of the sea and the constructive role it has played in various works and oeuvres, broadly ranging from literature, visual arts, films, explorations, to others. She believes these cases can act as precedental examples for current affairs and chooses to (loosely) refer to them in her artistic practice, in order to inspire either way.

Sarah has been appointed Advisory Committee Member Visual Arts for the Flemish Government (BE) in 2019 and contributes in Theory at Zuyd Hogeschool Maastricht (NL). 
 


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