Lily van der Stokker
30 Nov 2019 - 23 Feb 2020
Exhibition View Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lily van der Stokker – Help help a little old lady here, November 30, 2019 – February 23, 2020
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Exhibition View Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lily van der Stokker – Help help a little old lady here, November 30, 2019 – February 23, 2020
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Lily van der Stokker
Nice Being Left Right, 2014/19
Acrylic on wall
411 x 725.5 cm
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Paris
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Nice Being Left Right, 2014/19
Acrylic on wall
411 x 725.5 cm
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Paris
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Lily van der Stokker, Birthday, 1998/2019
Acrylic on wall and wood, 171 x 151 x 46 cm
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Paris
Photo: Lorenzo Pusterla
Acrylic on wall and wood, 171 x 151 x 46 cm
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Paris
Photo: Lorenzo Pusterla
Lily van der Stokker, € 25.000, 2019
Acrylic on wall, 414 x 313 cm
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Paris
Photo: Lorenzo Pusterla
Acrylic on wall, 414 x 313 cm
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Paris
Photo: Lorenzo Pusterla
Exhibition View Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lily van der Stokker – Help help a little old lady here, November 30, 2019 – February 23, 2020
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Lily van der Stokker
I Am an Artwork, 2004/19
Acrylic on wall and wood
208.5 x 400 x 61.5 cm
Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
I Am an Artwork, 2004/19
Acrylic on wall and wood
208.5 x 400 x 61.5 cm
Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Exhibition View Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Lily van der Stokker – Help help a little old lady here, November 30, 2019 – February 23, 2020
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Lily van der Stokker
Sandwiches with Chocolate Sprinkles, 2007/19
Acrylic on wall
416 x 819 cm
Courtesy the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milan/New York
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
Sandwiches with Chocolate Sprinkles, 2007/19
Acrylic on wall
416 x 819 cm
Courtesy the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milan/New York
Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography
LILY VAN DER STOKKER
30 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
Lily van der Stokker (b. Den Bosch, Netherlands, 1954) has been renowned since the early 1990s for her playful wall paintings in bright colors. Floral motifs and ornamental clouds are dominant elements in works whose aesthetic and fluorescent palette bring Pop art to mind. Meticulously executed in a time-consuming and labor-intensive process, the murals are based on small-format drawings the artist prepares with scrupulous precision. Simplicity and humor are hallmarks of van der Stokker’s oeuvre. Integrated text fragments or affirmative messages such as “Friendly Good,” or “Hoi” often directly address the viewer.
Recurrent concerns in her art revolve around the stereotype of “femininity,” ostensible banalities, but also the economics of art and everyday life or the artist’s existence. Her playful use of color can also be read as a challenge to a conventional bourgeois conception of art for which exuberant colorfulness is incompatible with reflective gravitas. The solo exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst provides the most comprehensive insight into van der Stokker’s oeuvre to date, encompassing more than 10 wall paintings as well as several drawings dating from the late 1980s to the present.
The solo exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst was curated by Dr. Raphael Gygax and provides a comprehensive insight into van der Stokker’s oeuvre to date. An accompanying publication has been released in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Roma Publications.
Lily van der Stokker lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. Selected solo exhibitions: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015), New Museum, New York (2013), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2010), Tate St. Ives (2010).
30 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
Lily van der Stokker (b. Den Bosch, Netherlands, 1954) has been renowned since the early 1990s for her playful wall paintings in bright colors. Floral motifs and ornamental clouds are dominant elements in works whose aesthetic and fluorescent palette bring Pop art to mind. Meticulously executed in a time-consuming and labor-intensive process, the murals are based on small-format drawings the artist prepares with scrupulous precision. Simplicity and humor are hallmarks of van der Stokker’s oeuvre. Integrated text fragments or affirmative messages such as “Friendly Good,” or “Hoi” often directly address the viewer.
Recurrent concerns in her art revolve around the stereotype of “femininity,” ostensible banalities, but also the economics of art and everyday life or the artist’s existence. Her playful use of color can also be read as a challenge to a conventional bourgeois conception of art for which exuberant colorfulness is incompatible with reflective gravitas. The solo exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst provides the most comprehensive insight into van der Stokker’s oeuvre to date, encompassing more than 10 wall paintings as well as several drawings dating from the late 1980s to the present.
The solo exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst was curated by Dr. Raphael Gygax and provides a comprehensive insight into van der Stokker’s oeuvre to date. An accompanying publication has been released in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Roma Publications.
Lily van der Stokker lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. Selected solo exhibitions: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015), New Museum, New York (2013), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2010), Tate St. Ives (2010).