Martine Johanna
Lives and works in Zetten, NL
Martine Johanna is an artist known for her vivid paintings with both figurative and abstract elements. Her autobiographical works, seemingly lighthearted, explore the duality between youthful naivety and anxiety-riddled adulthood. The figures, fierce but fragile, crowd the compositions and occupy the majority of the space gazing distractedly into the beyond. Each of Johanna’s delicately rendered figures convey a sense of immersion within their own “internal psychic landscape.” The work is imbued with a mysterious narrative and sensation of knowing that each character in the work has a full and complex history that the viewer can never completely comprehend. The paintings have a signature prismatic palette, visually stimulating and playful while expressing an underlying sense of uncertainty and unrest.
Martine Johanna has had international success exhibiting extensively in the Netherlands and abroad. Inspiration for her work include a mixture of childhood and autobiographical memories and experiences, documentaries on human nature, independent films and history.
Martine Johanna studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, obtaining a Bachelor and a Master degree.
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Martine Johanna: How to Eliminate Stress and Anxiety through Good Housekeeping
7 April - 20 May 2023Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to present How to Eliminate Stress and Anxiety through Good Housekeeping, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Martine Johanna. The exhibition will be on...Read more -
Martine Johanna: Balancing Act
11 September - 24 October 2020Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to announce Balancing Act, a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Martine Johanna that continue the artist’s exploration of the female psyche. The...Read more -
Willie Green: Press Play
21 June - 24 August 2019Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to announce, Press Play, a musical and visual exhibition curated and produced by Willie Green. The exhibition will be on view from June 21st through...Read more -
Life is but a dream
Martine Johanna 12 October - 11 November 2018Massey Klein is pleased to present Life is but a dream, a solo exhibition of new works by Martine Johanna.Read more
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Episode 242: Martine Johanna
Brian Alfred, Sound & Vision, 10 December 2020 -
Artist Profile, Martine Johanna solo at Massey Klein
Dutch Culture USA, 26 September 2020 -
Artist Profile, Martine Johanna’s Balancing Act
Juxtapoz, 21 September 2020 -
Artist Profile, Martine Johanna
BOOOOOOOM, 16 September 2020 -
Artist Profile, Martine Johanna
Isabel Hou, Interlocutor, 14 September 2020