About
Maryleen Schiltkamp studied art at the Rietveld Akademie and the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and has exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Curacao, Amsterdam, St.Petersburg and Prague. She also has performed with live musicpainting at venues and festivals in London, Guildford, Amsterdam, Prague and Cēsis (Latvia). Maryleen’s artworks on Shostakovich Symphonies have been the subject of a British documentary, The Art of the Symphony, which premiered in 2017 in Paris and Prague, and in 2019 in Amsterdam and The Hague.
In recent years, Maryleen has been fascinated by the visual parallels of musical movement and colour relating to sound, through which various collaborations with musicians have developed. These include combining exhibitions with recitals; mixed-media projects for video-film and live-painting during recitals, a new performance-art in which Maryleen collaborates with Reinis Zariņš in musicpaintingLIVE – recently in a groundbreaking concert-performance of Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Riga in 2023. Other live music-painting collaborations are with Tobias Borsboom in the project PAN on the tone poem Pan Op.43 by Czech composer Vítězslav Novák, with Marcel Worms for J.S.Bachs Wohltemperierte Klavier.
An exhibition of Maryleen’s oil paintings based on Dvořák’s Symphony No.9, “From the New World” took place in 2024 in Amsterdam followed by Maryleen’s participation at the EuropArtFair 2024, Amsterdam, with neo-classical oil paintings for which she was awarded third prize by a jury of gallery owners and art collectors of the EuropArtAward!
2024 also saw a LiveART concert with Alexander Kraft van Ermel in Excursions! and an interdisciplinary project with Marion von Tilzer on the theme of ‘Atlantis and Other Utopias’, including live video projections by Studio de Maan related to Maryleen’s series of ‘Atlantis’ oil paintings, both in Amsterdam.
A remarkable LiveART performance of Shostakovich Piano Trio No.2, Op. 67, took place in Lilienberg – Kammermusik Bodensee – in August and in Kunsthalle Appenzell in September 2025, in collaboration with the Swiss Piano Trio in Switzerland.
Upcoming events include a participation at the EuropArtFair 2025, a LiveART collaboration with pianist Maureen Galea on Granados ‘Goyescas’ at the Three Palaces Festival in Malta, the exhibition of oil paintings on ‘Atlantis’ in Amsterdam,
2026 will see the Dutch première of Stravinsky’s ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’ as live performance art in collaboration with Latvian pianist Reinis Zariņš in the program LES SACRES at Podium Mozaiek Theatre in Amsterdam.
Since 2022 Maryleen Schiltkamp is the founder and chair of the LiveART Foundation. She currently lives in Amsterdam.
Biographical
Maryleen Schiltkamp’s oil paintings combine classical order with colorful temperament, and a wide reference to the continuity of tradition in art. The artist was born in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles in 1959. She is of Dutch heritage, however bright colors and a sense of rhythm which could relate to the Caribbean can be found in her work. In 1977 she left the island to study graphic design at the Rietveld Academie and classical fine art at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and studied Geology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
As an international artist, Maryleen has had numerous solo as well as group exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Curaçao, Amsterdam, St. Petersburg and Prague. Her work is in many private and public collections throughout the world.
Education
- 1977 – ’78 Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Fine arts and graphic design. - 1978 – ’81 Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Fine arts, classical studies, painting and sculpting. - 1985 – ’88 Studied Geology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
A selection of exhibitions & performances
- 1993: Studio 2000 Art Gallery, Amsterdam
- 1995: Sylvia White Gallery, Los Angeles
- 1997: ‘Renaissance’, Ginza Nagasaki Art Gallery, Tokyo
- 1998, 2003: ‘Japonismes’, Bungei Shunju Gallery, Tokyo
- 2001: Curacao Museum, Curacao
- 2002: ‘Degrees of Freedom’, Atelier International, New York
- 2003: ‘Japonismes’, Nippon Gallery, New York
- 2007: ‘Firebird’, Diaghilev Center, St.Petersburg
- 2017: LiveART with Jan Bartoš (piano) and Tomáš Jamník (cello), Novoměstské radnice (New Town Hall), Prague
- 2018: MusicpaintingLIVE, with Reinis Zariņš (piano), Festival Winteravonden aan de Amstel, H’ART Museum, Amsterdam
- 2019: Documentary ‘The Art of the Symphony’, on Shostakovich’s symphonies and LiveART by Maryleen in collaboration with director Alan Mercer (DSCH Films); screening, exhibition & panel discussion at De Balie, Amsterdam and the House of Europe, The Hague
- 2020: Paintings on the symphonic poem Pan opus 43 by Vítězslav Novák with Tobias Borsboom (piano), MuZEEum, Vlissingen
- 2022: Musicpainting collaboration with pianist Marcel Worms; integral performance of J. S. Bach’s Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 1 at Salviuskerkje, Limbricht, The Netherlands.
- 2023: MusicpaintingLIVE, with Reinis Zariņš (piano), Awakenings concert, with Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring, Hanzas Perons, Riga