Marianne Kemp’s tool is her loom. She works with horsehair or stiff plant fibres. Slow art, that is what the weaving is about. From the process of making to the act of looking at it.

A work arises intuitively, the resulting fabric fits in with Marianne’s current state of life. It is a ‘growth process’. With her work, she wants to stimulate people to look more closely, to observe, to take their time. Slow art, that is what the weaving is about.

Her inspiration starts almost immediately when she sits behind the loom, with the warp and weft in her hands and of course an extra material, horsehair or plant fibre. She has bins full of samples, from which she regularly takes a ‘starting piece’ to further develop a texture or technique. Marianne’s self-developed weaving techniques can be recognised by the structures and rhythms of nature.

Marianne obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague 1999 and the Master of Arts from the Chelsea college of Art & design, London 2000. She exhibited in the United States, at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan, Winterswijk and Kortrijk Belgium.

2020 – ‘Volume 50: Chronicling Fiber Art for Three Decades’ Browngrotta Arts, USA
2019 – ‘Identity + Intersection’ Browngrotta Arts, USA | ‘Textiles’ Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury Wiltshire, UK | Open Stal art event, Oldeberkoop.
2018 – ‘Blue/Green: color/context/code’, Browngrotta Arts, Wilton, USA | ‘Well Worn’, Cavalli Gallery, Somerset West, SA | ‘Contemporary art and Rietveld design’, Post Erasmuslaan 5 Utrecht.
2017 – LottoZero galery, Prato, IT |’Tegendraads’ Does Interieurs, Laren NH | ‘Historisch vervlochten met MIJ’, Museum IJsselstein | ‘Still Crazy After All These Years… 30 years in art’, Browngrotta Arts, USA | Salone del Mobile, Masterly Milano, IT.
2016 – ‘Wild Things’, curated by L. Edelkoort & P. Fimmano, Texture museum, Kortijk BE | C-Lab, KunstWest Expo, Amsterdam | Klifhanger Festival, Texel | KunstOer Winterswijk.
2015 – Influence and Evolution, Browngrotta Arts, Wilton USA | ArtZaanstad, Zaandam | “Tactiel Textiel”, Galerie Oranjerie POP UP, Goes.
2014 – Solo exhibition:’Geknoopt, gekruld, gesteven en verward’, Het Leids Wevershuisje Leiden.
2013 – Galerie Help U Zelve, Winterswijk.
2011 – Solo exhibition, Het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam | ‘Fairy Tale’, Dutch Design Hotel Artemis, Amsterdam.
2010 – ’10 jaar Via Milano’, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam | ‘North meets South’, Konvex, Bern CH | ‘Kleur!’ Designhuis, Eindhoven | Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano Italy.
2009 – Solo exhibition: FW:BK galerie, Amsterdam | ‘99% Stoer’, Dutch Design Hotel Artemis, Amsterdam | Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milano Italy.
2008 – 100% Design Tokyo, Created in Holland, Japan | Galarie De andere Kant, Zutphen.
2006 – Solo exhibition, Antigravite, Paris FR | Du-AG project space. München GER.
2005 – Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam | Stroud Textiles Biennale, Stroud UK.
2003 – ‘Making Tracks’ Rope Store Studio, Nailsworth UK.
2002 – Chelsea Crafts Fair, London UK | ‘Westway Exhibition’, London UK.
1999 – Amsteltuin, Amstelveen | ‘Debuut’ Pulchri Studio, Den Haag.

1999 – 2000 – MA, Design for the Environment, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London UK.
1995 – 1999 – BA, Textile Design. Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag NL
1992 – 1995 – Mode & Kleding, MBO, Alphen aan den Rijn NL.

1998 – Heavenly Blue, Amsterdam | Beppe Kessler, Amsterdam.
1997 – Intensive Group Project; Project with Fachhochschule and Sacho Hesslein, Hannover GER.
1997 – Exchange, Somerset School of Art and Technology, Taunton UK.

2018 – Weaving for Jessica Brook Design, UK | Project weaving art pieces for Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chantilly, FR | fashion project, Charlotte Bakkenes.
2016 – Designing and weaving five wall panels, Staffan Tollgard Design Group. London, UK.
2016-2018 – Workshops Weaving. DIY Textile School, Amsterdam.
2014 – ‘Penny the painting that moves’
2011 – Weaving items for fashion Designer, Steffie Christiaens Paris, FR.
2010 – Workshop ‘Wild met Materiaal’ Textielfestival, Leiden.
2009 – ‘Made in Mongolia project’. August 4 weeks. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
2006 – Lecture and tutorials – HFBK, Hamburg GER.
2007 – Weaving patterns. Kendix / vd Ploeg, Aarle Rixtel | Lectures – FLWK Textiles, Den Haag.
2005 – 2007 – Weaving of fringes. Van Lathem, Templeuve FR.
2003 – Stay of 6 months, Cape Town SA | Lampshades, Todhunter Earle Interiors, London UK | 3 soundproof wall Decibel Designs, London UK.
1999 – 9 Window panels for a private residence, Boxtel.

2007 – Documentation sub. STROOM Centre of visual Arts, Den Haag
2006 – Documentation sub. STROOM | Exhibition sub. STROOM.
2005 – Exhibition sub. STROOM | Presentation and Individual sub. STROOM.
1999 – VSB-grant | Vrije Vrouwe van Renswoude Foundation, Den Haag.

2007 – 2009 – Member of board Beehives, Vliegbasis Huygens Amsterdam.
2005 – 2007 – Member of board, accountmanager. Art Association Stand, Den Haag

2007 – Nomination for an object made with Inge Simonis – Lehi.ka 1st International Contemporary Ceremics Competition, Spain.
1998 – 1st Price – Millenium Table Damask, Dutch Textiles Museum, Tilburg.