Margriet Craens studied Dutch Language and Culture and Fine Arts. She now works as a multi-disciplinary artist and writer, experimenting in art, design, food and culture. In a well-meant, playful and possibly humoristic way she provides an alternative view on our every day world. Always connected to larger topics in life, but without moving into an abstract zone.
Margriet Craens (1988) lives and works in Eindhoven.
Education
2016 Fine Art St. Lucas Antwerpen
2014 Academy St. Moritz, workshop Daniele Buetti
2010-2014 Fine Art, AKV St. Joost ’s-Hertogenbosch (BA)
2007-2011 Dutch Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam (BA)
2000-2006 VWO, Rythovius College Eersel
Grants
2019 projectbijdrage Cultuur Eindhoven
2019 Werkbijdrage Jong Talent Mondriaan Fonds
2017 projectbijdrage Cultuur Eindhoven
2016 Voucher Stimuleringsfonds
Exhibition
2020 Bar no. 5 / Prospects and Concepts / Art Rotterdam / Van Nellefabriek / Rotterdam
2020 Roerstok / Honey I shrunk the kids / self initiated / Wall Street / Eindhoven
2019 Ridgecrest / pilot Residency for the People / i.c.w. Onomatopee / Eindhoven
2019 The Digital Art Market / U R Art / Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven
2019 Children of O / with Design Academy Eindhoven / Neo-futurist dinners / Mediamatic / Amsterdam
2019 Wall Street takes stock / self initiated / Wall Street / Eindhoven
2019 Wall Street X Van Abbemuseum / Museum Takeover: Bodies of Knowledge / Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven
2019 Blockbuster / Wallspace i.c.w. Van Abbemuseum / Wall Street / Eindhoven
2018 The Light Market / GLOW / Eindhoven
2018 On Your Own Account / with Fontys ArtCoDe / Dutch Design Week / Wall Street / Eindhoven
2018 Dimensionair / with Design Academy Eindhoven / Neo-futurist dinners / Mediamatic / Amsterdam
2018 Kip Siam / Here & There / TCDC / Bangkok Design Week / Bangkok
2017 Let’s Stick Together / Brabant Wunderkammer / BKKC / Tilburg
2017 The Chair Affair / Beyond Generations / Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven
2017 Wall Street / self initiated / Dutch Design Week / Eindhoven
2017 Let’s Stick Together / Art Miami Basel / Chamber Gallery / Basel
2017 Me and Chef Watson / Neo-futurist dinners / Mediamatic / Amsterdam
2017 The Chair Affair + Let’s Stick Together + The Elephant Factory / Here & There / State of Design / Berlin
2017 Let’s Stick Together / #3 Domestic Appeal / Chamber Gallery / New York
2017 Me and Chef Watson / STRP Biennale / Eindhoven
2016 The Elephant Factory / Here & There / TCDC / Chang Mai Design Week / Chiang Mai
2016 Let’s Stick Together / For Play / MU / Eindhoven
2016 The Fat Pony / self initiated / Dutch Design Week / Eindhoven
2016 Gerrit Rietveld and the lightness / See the lightness / Jan van Eyk Academie / Maastricht
2016 The Chair Affair / PULSE Art / KinderModern / New York
2015 70%BAR / self initiated / Dutch Design Week / Eindhoven
2015 The Chair Affair / Onomatopee / Dutch Design Week / Eindhoven
2015 Transplantation Office / BKKC Land Art / Spinolaschans / Breda
2015 The haunted fisherman / Bosch Art Parade / Binnendieze ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2015 Could clouds / Kindergeburtstag Rene Haustein / Cite Internationale des Arts / Paris
2015 The Chair Affair / Vincent Affair / Nuneville / Nuenen
2014 What is not written in Luke 2.0 / Kerstgrot / Maas Kunstruimte / Nijmegen
2014 Ist’s nicht eine schöne Welt?! / Foederer Talent Award / Glow / Eindhoven
2014 In search of the sublime / Eindexpo / AKV. St. Joost / ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2014 In search of the sublime / Een roos voor losse flodders / Croxhapox / Gent
Publication
2017 Credit Fontys / project by ArtCoDe Fontys students executed at Wall Street / published by Fontys / text by Margriet Craens / design by Philip Stroomberg
2016 Under my Umbrella / starting point of project ‘The Elephant Factory’ by Lucas Maassen and Margriet Craens / story by Margriet Craens / exhibited at TCDC Chiang Mai
2016 Gerrit Rietveld and the lightness / project by Lucas Maassen & Sons / story by Margriet Craens / exhibited at Jan van Eyk Maastricht
2015 The Chair Affair / project by Lucas Maassen and Margriet Craens / published by Onomatopee / stories by Twan van Bragt / design by Olivier Lebrun
2015 Alvar Aalto and the eight legged stool / project by Lucas Maassen & Sons /
story by Margriet Craens / exhibited at New York Collective 3
And
2019 participant ‘Toren van Babel’ Cultuur Eindhoven
2017 - 2018 program manager at Dutch Design Foundation
2015 assistant Lucas Maassen during workshop 100 times Lucas Maassen & Sons / Design department University of Guangzhou China / exhibition at Fei Gallery / Guangzhou
2014 participant ‘8 billion city’ Arne Hendriks / Future Fictions / Z33 / Hasselt
2013 internship project management Leerling/Meesterproject / Kunstpodium T / Tilburg
2012 assistant Marien Schouten at EKWC (Europees Keramisch WerkCentrum)
2012 assistant Marion Verboom at EKWC