Solo exhibit: Sometimes we hold things together

23 March 2025

Sometimes ablaze, 2024

Sometimes we hold things together

Solo exhibit Upscale Gallery

Marijke de Pous is a visual artist based in Rotterdam with a background in philosophy. Her works often are a cocktail of drawing, performance, dance and photography. She likes to work with the body as a way to evoke presence and connection. Amidst mountains, fields and in her studio, she dances with landscape and materials to explore our emotional and physical ties to the earth and to each other.

Her choice of materials, including charcoal, clay and pastels, naturally creates a connection with nature, her movements simulate natural forces. By regularly inserting herself in her work, the relationship between nature and human is literally depicted. This creates a certain rawness in her work that is paired with the vulnerability or otherwise malleability of humans. Marijke de Pous is the missing piece of the puzzle that completes her work.

Upscale Gallery

Opening 5th April 2025