Painting |Marian Wijnvoord

Galerie Miranda’s 2026 winter exhibition proposes a voyage into abstracted landscapes by three contemporary artists working between painting and photography: Chuck Kelton, Chloe Sells and Marian Wijnvoord. MARIAN WIJNVOORD (1966, Netherlands) creates timeless images that refer to landscape, drawing upon the aesthetics of the North European painting tradition. Often her images are preoccupied with the capture of uncontrollable nature, showing a duality in both subject matter and technique by using the oldest preoccupation of painting: the illusion of space on a flat surface. The artist’s strong, present brushstrokes bring a contemporary tension to the physicality of the paint versus the intemporality of the image. The exhibition title Winterreise (Winter’s Journey), references the celebrated Franz Schubert song cycle (1827) which recounts the melancholy of a young traveller who wanders out into the snowy landscape on a journey to rid himself of his lost love.