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Merel Wendt (1999) is an illustrator, graphic artist and bottle enthusiast. 
Bottles are an inexhaustible source of inspiration to her, they function as characters in her work. As a maker, she tries to visualise her fascination with their form by manipulating their properties, such as shape, color and size.  She stretches, inflates and exaggerates them. In doing so, she aims to reacquaint the viewer to the bottle as both form and object.

Her illustrated bottle collection began as her graduation project called PFAND in which she used her role as illustrator and bottle enthusiast to visualise the invisible collection of Berlin's deposit collectors.
This culminated in a major form study of the bottle, which is still ongoing.  She takes an analogue approach in her work, using techniques such as lithography, screen printing, ceramics and pencil.




Education



2017-2021     BA Illustration and Animation Design
                        Academie Minerva Groningen, Cum Laude

2020              Internship with comic artist Nino Bulling, Berlin



Exhibitions



Upcoming
03-12-2023     Zonder Titel 2, CAMPIS Assen
23-12-2023     Feest der Herkenning, Galerie Noord

Currently
Heterdaad, MicksArt Gallery Emmen

Past
2023         Tijdcollages, Witte Olifanten IX, duo-exhibition together                                     with Marijke Klamer, Streekhistorisch Centrum Stadskanaal
                   Ten slotte, DAD Groningen
                   Flessenwerk, Galerie Noord Groningen (solo)
                   Window exhibition, Sec Marché Hattem
                   WEP SALON, WEP Groningen
2022         Drawing Zines, Drawing Centre Diepenheim
                   PFAND, Kunstpunt Groningen (solo)
                   Group exhibtion, Bistro Basta Groningen
                   Fumetto Comic Festival, Luzern Switzerland
                   Night By The Young, Rozentheater Amsterdam
                   DAD Design Stories, Groningen        
                   VPRO Dorst Instagram takeover
2021          IJswee, CBK Emmen
                   Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw Eindhoven

                   Manifestatie Jong V, Galerie DSG Assen

                   Detour, Graduation show Academy Minerva Groningen

2020         Channeled, The Waterhouse Gallery, Groningen

                   Like a Virgin, Galerie H200 Groningen

2019          Panta Rhei, Grafiek2019 & Forma Aktua Groningen

                   Illustratie57, Groningen (curation and organising seminars)

                   Grafiek in de Kerk, Woltersum

2018         Cross Comix, Rotterdam (student price nomination)

                  Allie van Altena Farewell Exhibition, Groningen



Teaching experience


Academie Minerva Groningen
Nov 2023     Projectweek Fine Art year 1-4
                        Big-sized polyesterplate lithography
Sept 2023    Introductionweek Illustration Design year 2
                        Zine workshop
Nov 2022     Projectweek Fine Art year 2-3
                        Prints of collections, researching objects and lithography
                        in the public domain
                   
Feb 2022      Projectweek Fine Art year 1
                        Prints of collections, collections of prints
                        Exploring objects and still-lives through polyesterplate-                                    lithography

Stichting De Vrolijkheid, Art Projects in Dutch Refugee Centres
Aug 2022-now    Art workshop teacher, AZC Ter Apel
Oct-dec 2022      Art workshop teacher, AZC Burgum
                        














Interviews and articles



Dagblad van het Noorden,  Veenkoloniën bekeken door jonge ogen
Dagblad van het Noorden,  Flessen met karakter




Selected clients



Hanze Hogeschool Groningen, Essay Skate Magazine, Stichting Eurosonic Noorderslag, Stichting Poëziepaleis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
   



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