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Pencil and gouache on paper, 42x29,7 cm, 2021 (sold)
Pencil and gouache on paper, 40x30 cm, 2022 (sold)
Lithography, edition of 9, 70x90 cm, 2023
Lithography, editions of 8, 32x65 cm, 2023
Lithography, edition of 6, 48x50 cm, 2024
Pencil and gouache on paper, 42x29,7 cm, 2021 (sold)
Series of jerrycans, pencil on paper, 13x18 cm, 2022
Ceramics, 2021/2022
Lithography, edition of 6, 100x70 cm, 2021(sold)
Lithography, edition of 6, 50x40 cm, 2021 (sold)
Lithography, edition of 8, 100x70 cm, 2021
Lithography, editions of 6, 30x30 cm, 2023
Screen print, edition of 20, 50x40 cm, 2022
Lithography, edition of 5, 50x35 cm, 2022
Pencil on paper, 30x30 cm, 2021 (sold)
Pencil on paper, 30x30 cm, 2021 (sold)
Lithography, edition of 2, 70x100 cm, 2021 (sold) 
Lithography, edition of 6, 40x60 cm, 2021 (sold)
Pencil, crayon and gouache on paper, 42x29,7 cm, 2020
Pencil and ink on paper, 30x30 cm, 2020 (NTK)
Pencil and ink on paper, 30x30 cm, 2020 (NTK)
Lithography, edition of 13, 42x30 cm, 2022
Screen print, edition of 23, 50x40 cm, 2022
Lithography, E/A, 20x25 cm, 2021
Lithography, edition of 12, 35x50 cm, 2022
©2025 Merel Wendt
Edition of 8, 100x70 cm, 2021
Edition of 6, 48x50 cm, 2024
Editions of 8, 32x65 cm, 2023
Edition of 10, 17x24 cm, 2024
Edition of 6, 60x45 cm, 2021 (sold out)
Edition of 12, 50x35 cm, 2022
Edition of 5, 50x35 cm 2022
Edition of 6, 70x100 cm 2021 (sold out)
Edition of 7, 53x40 cm, 2021
Edition of 6, 50x40 cm, 2021 (sold out)
Edition of 13, 42x30 cm, 2022
Edition of 2, 70x100 cm 2021 (sold out)
Edition of 5, 35x50 cm 2022
Edition of 12, 50x35 cm, 2023
Edition of 17, 18x24 cm, 2022
Editions of 6, 30x30 cm 2023
E/A, 20x25 cm,2021
Edition of 2, 35x50 cm 2022
©2025 Merel Wendt
Ceramic work part of Tijdcollages, duo-exhibition together with Marijke Klamer at Streekhistorisch Centrum Stadskanaal.
Marijke and I were invited by Witte Olifanten to respond to the collection of the museum of local history in Stadskanaal through creating works of ceramics. We explored the repetitive shapes of mass production, the loss of a swamp and its inhabitants and a hot bottle factory. (2023)
(sold)
©2025 Merel Wendt
ZOEK
2023Renée Ensing and I were selected by the Hanze Art Committee for a special commission in the new canteen of the Marie Kamphuisborg. "ZOEK" is a composition made up of wooden shapes illustrating the themes of health, connection and social contact using everyday objects.
The artwork contains references to various study programmes in the building such as Social Work, Human Resource Management, Applied Psychology and more. The artwork also studies several overlapping themes that you can find in the Marie Kamphuisborg. In this visual puzzle, the viewer is invited to make their own connections between the different illustrations. The meaning of the artwork depends on the observer; everyone forms different connections.
The artwork contains references to various study programmes in the building such as Social Work, Human Resource Management, Applied Psychology and more. The artwork also studies several overlapping themes that you can find in the Marie Kamphuisborg. In this visual puzzle, the viewer is invited to make their own connections between the different illustrations. The meaning of the artwork depends on the observer; everyone forms different connections.
Glaswerk
2020A 48 page abstract comic about the material glass and its features: fluidity, fragility, reflection and its amorphous structure. Made with the guidance of comic artist Nino Bulling during my internship.
Essay Skate Magazine
T-shirt design and screen printing, 2022
Sticker design 2021
Sticker design 2019
Screen printed socks
Every year, Renée Ensing and I collaborate to screen print a set of socks.
2022
2021 (sold out)
©2025 Merel Wendt
Merel Wendt (1999) is an illustrator, graphic artist and bottle enthusiast based in Groningen. 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, clay and pencil.
2024
Ieder Kind een Kunstenaar
Professionalisation programme VRIJDAG
2017-2021
BA Illustration and Animation Design
Academie Minerva Groningen, Cum Laude
2020
Internship with comic artist Nino Bulling, Berlin
2023 Flessenwerk, Galerie Noord Groningen
2022 PFAND, Kunstpunt Groningen
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, clay and pencil.
Education
2024
Ieder Kind een Kunstenaar
Professionalisation programme VRIJDAG
2017-2021
BA Illustration and Animation Design
Academie Minerva Groningen, Cum Laude
2020
Internship with comic artist Nino Bulling, Berlin
Solo exhibitions
2023 Flessenwerk, Galerie Noord Groningen
2022 PFAND, Kunstpunt Groningen
Group exhibitions
Currently:
20-04-/26-05 Wahlverwantschaft, Pictura, Groningen
2024 De Nieuwe Editie, Museum aan de A, Groningen
2024 Galerie Kunstsmederij, Grasnapolsky, Scheemda
2023 Feest der Herkenning, Galerie Noord, Groningen
2023 Heterdaad, MicksArt Gallery, Emmen
2023 Zonder Titel 2, CAMPIS, Assen
2023 Tijdcollages, Witte Olifanten IX, Stadskanaal (duo with Marijke Klamer)
2023 Ten slotte, DAD, Groningen
2023 Window exhibition, Sec Marché, Hattem
2023 WEP SALON, WEP, Groningen
2022 Drawing Zines, Drawing Centre Diepenheim
2022 Fumetto Comic Festival, Luzern, Switzerland
2022 Night By The Young, Rozentheater Amsterdam
2022 DAD Design Stories, Groningen
2021 IJswee, CBK Emmen
2021 Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven
2021 Manifestatie Jong V, Galerie DSG, Assen
2021 Detour, Graduation show Academy Minerva Groningen
2020 Channeled, The Waterhouse Gallery, Groningen
2020 Like a Virgin, Galerie H200, Groningen
2019 Panta Rhei, Grafiek2019 & Forma Aktua, Groningen
2019 Illustratie57, Groningen (curation and organising seminars)
2019 Grafiek in de Kerk, Woltersum
2018 Cross Comix, Rotterdam (student prize nomination)
2018 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
VRIJDAG Groningen
Sept 2024 - now Sculpting: everyday objects out of clay
Jan 2024 - now Visual arts teacher (in primary education)
Stichting De Vrolijkheid, Art Projects in Dutch Refugee Centres
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024 Art workshop teacher, AZC Ter Apel
Sept 2022 - Jan 2023 Art workshop teacher, AZC Burgum
2022,2023,2024 Summer project, AZC Ter Apel
Purple Carrot Collective
Jul 2021 - now Screen print and workshop collective