Floor Martens
info@floormartens.com
Based in Maastricht, The Netherlands
Floor Martens (1998 Reuver) graduated in Fine Arts at the Maastricht Institute of Arts in 2019. In her practice she explores transformation processes of human, animals and nature and the connections between them. The values of our own physical material is often an important subject in her work, as well as themes such as intimacy, emotion, (in)tangibility and vulnerability. By intervening in the process of decay or holding onto its traces, she finds a way of holding on to memory and keeping something alive. Photographing bodies of loved ones, trees, flowers, self portraits, the sea or sky has become a way for Martens to freeze time. In stills she tries to capture corporeal expressions of their psyches. Whether an animal’s life cut short or a body forever distilled in a frame, Martens’ looks for vestiges of the soul, of the ineffable, in moments of arrested movement. For these subjects she mainly uses photographic images, printed in analogue techniques, but she also uses other media such as written text, audio, installation, book form and sculpture.
Education
Maastricht Academy of Fine-Arts and Design (fine-arts)
2015-2019
residence Jan Van Eyck Academy
Limburg Beeldende kunst stipendium
2020-2021
(upcoming) Verstrengeld
photography publication
published by Bruno Devos
HOPPER & FUCHS
june 2025
(upcoming) Zevenblad #8
image contribution Magazine Zevenblad Plaatsmaken
Arnhem
june 2025
Stadsgezicht
poster paper project
Roermond
2024
Gedacht
hand made book
Jan van Eyck Academy
2022
Participating ‘De Ommuurde Tuin'
Marres, house for Contemporary Culture
2022
Zevenblad #2
image contribution Magazine Zevenblad Plaatsmaken
Arnhem
2022
#TOKTOK Posterkrant
Greylight and ‘PAND
Heerlen
2022
Bloedmooi
hand made book
2019
amuse
Galerie Wilms
Venlo, NL (group)
2024
ADEM
ECI Cultuurfabriek
Roermond, NL (solo)
2024
supported by Mondriaan Fund
Prospects
Mondriaan Fonds
Art Rotterdam, NL(group)
2024
supported by Mondriaan Fund
a missing kind of orange
Situ3 house
Antwerp, BE (group)
2023
Tabu Sacra
Transport Art Space
Maastricht, NL (group)
2023
Parkstad Limburg Prijs
SCHUNCK
Heerlen, NL (group)
2022-2023
'Roète Route'
Venlo, NL (group)
2022
No Man’s Land
De Meldkamer
The Artist And The Others
Maastricht, NL (group)
2022
Blue Moon, Loop naar de maan!
Maanplein Cultura Nova
Heerlen, NL (group)
2021
Expositie in de Etalage
Station Maastricht,NL (group)
2021
Open Studios
Jan Van Eyck Academie
Maastricht, NL
The Studio #4
Bonnefantenmuseum
Maastricht, NL (solo)
2021
Je Loopt Door Mijn Hoofd
Odapark
Venray, NL (group)
2020
Multiply by Sharing
Werkplaats K
Kerkrade, NL (group)
2019
Make the Future
Dutch Design Week
Albert van Abbehuis
Eindhoven, NL (group)
2019
Hier zouden rozen moeten staan
Fine-arts graduation exhibition
Maastricht, NL
2019
To be knocked unconscious, or in more extreme cases, killed by fruit
B32
Maastricht, NL (group)
2019
Päpershop
Hasselt, BE (solo)
2018
Student take over
Natuurhistorisch museum
Maastricht, NL (group)
2018
guest lecture
Academy of Arts Maastricht
Fine Arts year 4
2024
workshop 'Schrijven met de tuin'
writing in the garden of Marres
Maastricht
2022
Parkstad Limburg Price, nominated
Heerlen
2022
studio visits
Academy of Arts Maastricht
Fine Arts year 4
2022
Hermine Van Bers prijs, nominated
Maastricht
2021
Limburg Beeldende Kunst stipendium
2021
Artistic Research project
gift to Van Bommel Van Dam
Boris Dieleman and Froukje de Boer
Venlo
2018