C.V.
Born 1988, The Hague, The Netherlands
Lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands
Education
2014 MFA Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2012 BFA Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
Solo Exhibitions
2025

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, MX

2024
Dwaet, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, BE
Scrapyard Abstraction, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
2023
Boxing Glove, Page, New York, USA
Bijna Niks, Overduin&Co, Los Angeles, USA
Vincent van GoghHuis, Zundert, NL
2021
Container, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibitions
2023
Galeria Mascota, Mexico City, MX
Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
Sector 1 Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, BE
2022
Theo van Doesburg Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
Overduin&Co, Los Angeles, USA
Omstand, Arnhem, NL
2021
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL
Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
2020
König Galerie, London, London, UK
Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, NL
Secretly place a hot piece of steel in moist food, Antonia Brown, Brussels, BE
Awards / Grants
2024
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Ireland, IR
2023
Vincent van GoghHuis, Zundert, NL
Stroom Den Haag, grant, NL
Mondriaan Fund, grant, NL
2022
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Thread, Senegal, SN
Mondrian Fund, grant, NL
2019
Royal Award for Modern Painting, Amsterdam, NL
Shiro Oni residency, Gunma, Japan, JP
Stroom The Hague, project grant, NL
2017
Mondrian Fund, grant, NL
2016
Studio Neïl Beloufa, Paris, FR
Sybren Hellinga Award, shortlisted, SYB, NL
Publications
Scrapyard Abstraction, 192 pages, 213 × 297 mm, 1000 copies, English, published by Zolo Press
and Sorry We’re Closed, March 2024, https://zolo.press/books/scrapyard-abstraction
Springvossen, Amsterdam FM, interview by Robert van Altena, 27-11-21
https://www.amsterdamfm.nl/springvossen-426-machteld-rullens/
Full of Emptiness, 192 pages, full color artist book, published by Zolo Press, October 2021
https://zolo.press/books/full-of-emptiness, https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?
id=9202&menu=0, https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/59032/, https://saint-martinbookshop.
com/collections/cool/products/machteld-rullens-full-of-emptiness-zolo-press-2021
Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst, By any means necessary, Nanda Janssen, access
date: December 12, 2019 (http://www.nandajanssen.nl/lib/pdf/schrijver/
Koninklijke_Prijs_Vrije_Schilderkunst_2019.pdf)
Metropolis M, Waarom de koning niet wil kiezen - bij de Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije
Schilderkunst 2019, Domeniek Ruyters, access date: November 11, 2019 (https://
www.metropolism.com/nl/features/39730_koninklijke_prijs_voor_de_vrije_schilderkunst_2019)