Marcel Van Eeden

Born in The Hague, Marcel van Eeden lives and works in this city as well as in Zurich and Berlin. Winner of the 2011 Guerlain prize, his works were presented, among others, at the MoMA in New York in 2011and the ZKM in Karlsruhe in 2012. Since 1993, Marcel van Eeden has been attempting like a reporter or archeologist to build a singular iconography by carefully choosing his sources from old newspapers, magazine, history books, textbooks, photographic collections and postcards. A storehouse of chaotic stories, snatched from their original context and resuscitated by the artist's compulsive recycling, this visual universe seems affected by a radical form of image collecting, an irrepressible thirst for consuming these images that paradoxically, once quenched, can save them from oblivion.