Biography
Marion Verboom’s art is a syntax of Minimalism. Inspired by architecture, urbanism, mythology, ancestral crafts and logosyllabic writing, her sculptures and installations operate through iteration, by stacking contiguous or disjointed fragments in modular combinations.
Upon graduating from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris (2009), Verboom joined the De Ateliers artist-in-residence program (Amsterdam, 2009/2011). Since 2015, she has been creating a series of totemic sculptures entitled “Achronies”. With these baroque assemblages, Verboom subverts the traditional architectural column with patterns and motifs ranging from Classical Greek, pre-Columbian, ancient Anatolian to Modernist European repertoires. Appearing in a diverse range of raw materials (concrete, wood, plaster, bronze, clay, aluminum, and acrylic resin), her sculptures unfold in a wide color spectrum.
Verboom’s work carries an incessant permeability towards a multiplicity of histories of art and aesthetics. The slow transformation of living forms encounters the mutations and alterations of the symbol, across history and geography. Verboom simultaneously activates the Modernist style and its primitive occurrence, in an archeology of forms caught between ancestral knowledge and cultural hybridization.
Recent solo exhibitions of Verboom’s work have been held at Le Voyage à Nantes (Nantes, 2023); la Verrière – Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, (Brussels, 2023); le Carré Centre d’art contemporain (Château-Gontier, 2021); Frac Île-de-France (Paris, 2020); MASC, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d’Olonne (2015). She has participated in group exhibitions at Ömer Koç Collection, Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion (Istanbul, 2022); MO.CO. Panacée (Montpellier, 2022); MAC VAL (Val de Marne, 2020); Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon, 2020); Fondation Cartier (Paris, 2019). She contributed to the installation in the new “Toguna” space at the Palais de Tokyo (2018), has collaborated with Maison Chloé (2017–2020), and was the recipient of the LVMH Métiers d’Art grant and residency (2018). Verboom’s work is present in public collections, such as Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Frac Bretagne, Musée d’Arts de Nantes, and MAC VAL.
