Born in Bergambacht, the Netherlands
1963 - 1976
• Graphic designer
1973 - 1974
• Evening-classes drawing and staged photography at the Free Academy in The Hague.
• Start as a self-taught documentary photographer.
Since 1976
Works as a photographic artist. She starts with the still on-going project Hanging Around, of which she exhibits from time to time pictures of situations she meets during her travels and which she describes as the particular of everyday life. With the help of grants she works on long-term photo projects with delicate social-cultural subjects.
These result in:
Photobooks (text, design and publishing by marrie bot)
1984• Miserere, the great pilgrimages of penance in Europe, Dutch edition.
1985
• Miserere, English, French and German edition
1988
• The Burden of Existence, photo’s -stories of mentally handicapped - Dutch edition
1998
• A Last Farewell, death rituals in the multicultural Netherlands - Dutch edition
2004
• Geliefden-Timeless Love, the erotic in later life - Dutch/English edition
1977 - 2008
• Various publications in survey books on Photography and Art:* Portfolio publications in a variety of photo magazines in the Netherlands and abroad.
Awards
1989• Maria Austria Photography Prize for book The Burden of Existence
1990
• The Dr. A. Heineken Art Prize for the complete oeuvre
Documentary assignments (subjects of personal choice of M.B)
1977• Allotments - for the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts
1978
• Punk and Pop concerts - for the Municipal Archive in Rotterdam
1983 - 1984
• Working at classical music - for the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts
1985
• Classical Music and Ballet rehearsals - for the Holland Festival
2011 - 2012
• Classical Music Amateur Ensembles at home - Museum Rotterdam
• Commissioned Art-Projects - decorating new public buildings
1979
• School in Alkmaar
1989
• Nursing-home for Alzheimer patients, Rotterdam
1990
• Hospital Dirksland (construction phase 1), (with Hans Aarsman)
2000
• Hospital Dirksland (construction phase 2), (solo)
2005
• Townhall Vlissingen, public hall
2009
• Hospital Dirksland, four rooms for chemo-therapy patients
Her work is purchased by museums, archives, institutes and private collections.**
The photographs of Marrie Bot have been exhibited all over Europe in various galleries and museums.***
Publications in survey books on photography and art
1978• Photography in The Netherlands 1940 -1975
1980
• New Dutch Photography
1982
• Photography in Europe Now, No.4
1985
• Purchases of the National Art Collection 1984, works of contemporary artists
1986
• The animal in Photography 1843 - 1985, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
1986
Roots and Turns, 20th century photography in The Netherlands
1989
• Photography Between Covers, the Dutch documentary photobooks after 1945
1991
• The Fourth Wall, photography as theater
1992
• Commissioned photography, 1986 - 1992
1992
• Photos for the city 1972 - 1991, Documentary photography for the city of Amsterdam
1993
• Free Play, Dutch Art 1970 -1990
1998
• Post-mortem paintings and pictures in Dutch Art -1500-today
2002
• Art without Church, Dutch Art and religion 1945 - 1990
2002
• Open no.3, Art for psycho geriatric nursing-homes, SKOR
2002
• Photographers in The Netherlands 1852 - 2002
2005
• Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent, ed. du Chêne, Paris
2009
• Die Tode der Fotografie, chapter 5, by prof. Katharina Sykora, Braunschweig
• Vu’ Magazine no 4, Emergence
2010
• De Collectie - 25 years of art projects in hospitals and nursing homes, SKOR
Monographs
1985• Monograph no 101, Galerie Municipal du Château d’Eau, Toulouse
1990
• Marrie Bot Photographer, on the occasion of the Heineken Art-Prize
Photos purchased by
Stedelijk Museum, AmsterdamThe National Institute for the Arts,Amsterdam
Museum for Jewish History, Amsterdam
Museum for Art and Religion, Uden
Erasmus University, Rotterdam
The Print collection of the University of Leiden
Art Foundation of Rotterdam
The Municipal Archive of Rotterdam
The Municipal Archive of Amsterdam
Bibliothèque National, Paris
Municipal Collection Château d’Eau,Toulouse
Museum Nicéphore Niepce, Châlon sur Saône
Graham Nash Collection, Pasadena
Heineken Art Collection, Amsterdam
Helmut Gernsheim Collection in the Reiss-Engelhorn- Museum, Germany
Private Collections in the Netherlands and abroad
Grants
1976• Travel grant Ministry of Culture - project bicentennial celebrations USA
1978 - 1979 - 1980
• Ministry of Culture - projects Miserere and The Burden of Existence
1981
• The Art Foundation of Amsterdam - project The Burden of Existence
1988 - 1989 - 1994
• Ministry of Culture - project A Last Farewell
1994
• Foundation for Special Journalistiic Projects - project A Last Farewell
1996
• Foundation Anna Cornelis - project A Last Farewell
2001 - 2003
• National Foundation for The Arts -projects Rocío and Timeless Love
2003
• Foundation Pauwhof - project El Rocío
2004
• Foundation for Special Journalistic Projects - project El Rocío
2004
• Foundation Sluyterman van Loo - exhibition Timeless Love
2006 - 2014
• National Foundation for the Arts - project El Rocío, e.o
2010 - 2015
• National Foundation for the Arts - project El Rocío .e.o.
Selection Solo Exhibitions
1976• Art Gallery, Lunteren (first exhibition)
• University Erasmus, Rotterdam
1977
• Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam
1978
• Gallery Clich, Paris
1979
• Gallery Therèse Roussel, Perpignan,
• Chateau Musée Nemours, Nemours, Le Monde. Paris
1982
• Gallery Perspektief, Rotterdam
• Gallery XYZ, Gand
1984
• Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, Cultural Center, Hasselt
1985
• Museum De Beyerd, Breda, Institut Néerlandais, Paris,
• Municipal Gallery Château d’Eau, Toulouse
1986
• Museum of Photography, Charleroi, Gallery Dry Photo, Prato
• Gallery Nueva Imagen, Pamplona
1987
• Gallery Spectrum, Zaragossa,
• Gallery Foto Forum Fabrik, Hamburg
1988
• Canon Image Center, Amsterdam
1989
• Gallery Fotomania, Rotterdam
1990
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,
• Museum for Religious Art, Uden
1992
• Gallery Dry Photo, Prato,
• Irish Gallery of Photography, Dublin
1998
• Museum for Ethnography, Rotterdam
1999
• Museum for Art and Religion, Uden
2000
• Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht
2004
• Museum of Photography, The Hague
2005
• Cultural Center De Warande,Tournay, Belgium
2007
• Art Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
• University of Tilburg
2008
• Museum Oriëntalis, Heilig Land Stichting
2011
• Museum for Art and Religion, Uden, Holland
2013
• Gallery At Home Marrie Bot, Rotterdam
2016
• Democracy Festival Bornholm, Denmark
Selection Group Exhibitions
1978• Photo festival Arles, France,
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1979
• Five Years Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam
1980
• Canon Photo Gallery, Paris
1983
• Northeastern University, Boston,USA
• Photo festival Coimbra, Portugal; Ferenc Art Gallery, Hull, England
• Center for Photography, Houston, USA
1984
• Photo festival’84, Amsterdam
• Gallery Pro Photo, Neurenberg, Germany; Center for Photography, Los Angeles
• Photo festival Brno, Czechoslovakia; Photographic Art Center, Vilnius Lithuania
1986
• Photo festival Turin, Italy ; Photo festival Athens, Greece
1988
• Photo festival Houston, US,
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1989
• The New Center for the Arts, Berlin, Germany
1990
• Historical Museum, Amsterdam
1991
• The Old Church, Amsterdam
1998
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem
2002
• Museum for Art and Religion Uden,
• Museum for Photography, The Hague
2003
• Museum for Photography, The Hague
2004
• Paris Photo Fair, Galerie Vu’
2005
• Gallery University Hospital, Leiden, Holland
2007
• Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Holland
• Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Austria
2008
• Biennal of Photography, Liège, Belgium
2009
• Art Gallery De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
• Museum Simon van Gijn, Dordrecht, Holland
• Galerie Vu’, Paris, France
2010
• Le Forum Meyrin, Meyrin- Genève, Switzerland
• 30 ans de Festival, Mai Photographies, Quimper, France
• Clarissenklooster, Hasselt, Belgium
2013
• Art Festival Watou, Belgium
2014
• Art Knokke, Belgium
2016
• Art Gallery de Mijlpaal - Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
2017
• Celibataire divas, Herkenrode Refuge, Belgium
Marrie Bot has been member of selection committees for documentary photo projects.
In 2008 she was a member of the jury for the First Appearances Award at the International Documentary Film festival IDFA in Amsterdam.
She gives lectures and paper presentations at symposia, workshops and masterclasses at art schools and visual anthropological studies (among others at the University of Leiden ).
Represented
In France:• Galerie Vu’, Paris
In Belgium:
• Galerie De Mijlpaal, Heusden-Zolder