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The virtual solo exhibition ‘Between Image & Surface’ brings together a carefully curated selection of works that explore the constantly shifting relationship between photography, painting and material.
For Marianne Breugelmans, photography is never the final image. It serves as the starting point of a process in which observation gradually transforms into interpretation. Fragments of analogue photographs are isolated, enlarged, painted over and combined with textured surfaces, allowing familiar subjects to evolve into new visual realities. Although the subjects vary — from Art Nouveau architecture and historic interiors to fossils, botanical forms and urban fragments — each work explores the same central question: how an image changes once it becomes material. Photography is no longer documentation but the beginning of a transformation, where layers of paint, texture and collage gradually reshape perception itself.
Texture plays a defining role within Marianne’s artistic language. Acrylic paint is applied in translucent veils, expressive gestures and tactile structures, creating surfaces that invite close observation. Every mark contributes to a dialogue between image and material, between what is recognised and what remains open to interpretation.
The exhibition unfolds as an invitation to slow down. Rather than offering immediate answers, the works encourage visitors to linger, allowing subtle details and visual relationships to emerge gradually. With each viewing, new connections reveal themselves, demonstrating that perception itself is never fixed but constantly evolving.
Between Image & Surface is therefore not only an exhibition about photography or painting. It is an exploration of the space in between—where image becomes experience, and where looking develops into discovery.
The Sound behind the Art
a closer encounter with the work
The Viewing Room offers an additional layer to Between Image & Surface, creating a quieter space in which Marianne Breugelmans’ works can be explored individually and beyond the narrative of the exhibition. Here, the focus shifts from the exhibition as a whole to the works themselves. Photography, acrylic paint, collage and surface can be examined more closely, revealing the details, textures and material interventions that are so characteristic of Marianne’s practice.
Removed from the exhibition route, new relationships begin to emerge. Architectural structures, fragments of nature, traces of time and abstracted forms can be viewed alongside one another, allowing recurring elements within the work to become more visible.
The Viewing Room is therefore not simply an extension of the exhibition, but another way of looking — slower, closer and with more attention to the individual work.
Explore the works from a different perspective and discover how image, material and surface continue to shift as you look again.
About the Artist
Marianne Breugelmans is a Dutch mixed-media artist whose work explores the relationship between photography, painting and material.
Working primarily with analogue photography, she creates photo–acrylic collages in which photographic images are combined with layers of acrylic paint, texture and collage. Rather than treating photography simply as documentation, Marianne uses the image as material — something that can be fragmented, reconstructed and transformed.
Architecture, natural structures and the traces left by time form recurring points of departure within her practice. Interiors, façades, fossils, organic forms and weathered surfaces are translated into compositions that move between recognition and abstraction. Through layering, repetition, colour and material intervention, the original photographic image gradually takes on a new identity. What begins as an observation of the visible world becomes a surface in which photography and painting can no longer easily be separated.
Her work invites careful observation, revealing new details and relationships as the viewer continues to look.