Marc Nagtzaam

The Approach, 2020
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Riso print
42 x 31 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto Ruiz
Zeichnungen, 2020
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Riso print
43 x 27,3 cm
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The Approach, 2020
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Riso print
42 x 31 cm
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Borrowed Space, 2017-2019
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Set of 24 drawing compositions
Graphite on paper
Overall measure: 130 x 574 cm
Each composition: 64 x 46 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto Ruiz
Borrowed Space, 2017-2019. (Detail)
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Set of 24 drawing compositions
Graphite on paper
Overall measure: 130 x 574 cm
Each composition: 64 x 46 cm
UniquePhoto: Roberto Ruiz
The Construction of Situations, 2019
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Graphite on paper
52 x 43,3 cm
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A Drawing Placed Between Two Objects, 2016
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Graphite on paper
54,5 x 45,5 x 3 cm
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Exhibition view: Marc Nagtzaam and Mark Manders: A Drawing Placed Between Two Objects. ProjecteSD
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Photo: Roberto Ruiz
Zeichnungen 1, 2015
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Riso print
26,5 x 20,5 cm
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Elements of Speculation, 2016
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raphite on paper
77,5 x 58 cm
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Zeichnungen 6, 2015
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Riso print
26,5 x 20,5 cm
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The Bottom Line, 2016
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Exhibition view: SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Photo: Dirk Pauwels
Not Titled Yet G, 2014
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Graphite on paper
56 x 43 cm
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Installation view: Art Brussels, Booth ProjecteSD, 2014
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Photo: Mark Nagtzaam
Installation view: Not Available De Vleeshal, De Kabinetten, Mi ddelburg, The Netherlands, 2014
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Photo: Mark Nagtzaam
Installation view: Not Available De Vleeshal, De Kabinetten, Mi ddelburg, The Netherlands, 2014
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Photo: Mark Nagtzaam
Not Titled Yet D, 2014
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Graphite on paper
65,5 x 47,7 cm
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An Unresolved Situation, 2016
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Graphite on paper
46,3 x 37,2 cm
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TVC15, 2013
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Graphite on paper
57,5 x 43,9 cm
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Spoken Word Pieces, 2012
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Graphite on paper
56 x 41,5 cm
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Exhibition view: One Show About One Drawing, M-Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2011
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Exhibition view: One Show About One Drawing, M-Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2011
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Installation view: Modernist Persuasion, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2010
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A Hint of Articulation, 2010
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Graphite on paper
Framed: 65 x 50 cm
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As You Said, 2011
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Graphite on paper
52 x 39,3 cm
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Installation view: Modernist Persuasion, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2010
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Trackless, 2010
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Graphite on paper
63,7 x 49,6 cm
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Various Times, 2008
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Graphite on paper
63 x 48 cm
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Various Times, 2008
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Graphite on paper
67,8 x 49,9 cm
1/2
Modernist Persuasion, 2008
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Graphite on paper
67,8 x 49,9 cm
1/2
Installation view: Modernist Persuasion, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2011
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Anything Before and After, 2010
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Graphite on paper
67,5 x 57,5 cm
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Page 2, 2010
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Graphite on paper
67,5 x 57,5 cm
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Installation view: The Unknow Group, FRAC Bourgogne, 2010
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Five Easy Pieces, 2010
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Graphite on paper
88,5 x 68,3 cm
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It’s Over, It’s Ended, It’s Finished, It’s Done, 2010
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Graphite on paper
74,2 x 64,8 cm
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Installation view: Marc Nagtzaam: Nothing Rhymes, ProjecteSD, 2008
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Installation view: Marc Nagtzaam: Nothing Rhymes, ProjecteSD, 2008
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This is Pop?, 2005-2006
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Graphite on paper
100,2 x 63,6 cm
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Title Track, 2007
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Set of 35 drawings
Color pencil on paper,
Various formats.
Ed. 2
Installation view: Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2007
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Selected Works, 2006
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Graphite on paper
96,5 x 69,7 cm
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Instalation View: Roma Publlications, Culturgest Art Center, Lisboa, 2006
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Various works, 2003
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All graphite on paper
Unstable Objects, 2002
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Graphite on paper
153 x 113,5 cm
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Installation view: The order of Things, Muhka, Antwerp, 2008
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Regular Features 59-266, 1998-2006. (Detail)
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Graphite on paper
35 x 50 cm
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Biography
Born in Helmond, The Netherlands, 1968
Lives and works in Sluiskil, The Netherlands
Marc Nagtzaam has been producing a body of work that is based on one main subject: the idea of pattern, the repetition. He draws lines, grids, circles, words or sentences as in an endless search for collecting pieces of information. The repetition and the graphic structure of his works seems reminiscent of minimal and conceptual aesthetics. Most of Marc Nagtzaam´s drawings consist of colourless, darkly filled in graphite surfaces. Abstracted elements from architecture, graphic design, details from found photographs, or parts from previous drawings are starting points for every series of works. This source material is being reduced, with basic, elementary means: dots, lines and flat surfaces, to construct a sort of structure. As Nagtzaam himself points out: “I’m looking for representations of a (seemingly) concrete reality as well as I search for images which can only exist as a drawing.”
Selected Texts
- 2014Francesco StocchiGraphitic Assemblages
- 2011Ricardo Martín ColomaMarc Nagtzaam
- 2008Neus MiróMarc Nagtzaam
- 2008Dieter RoelstraeteTwittering Machines
- 2007Terry Van DrutenFundamental Drawing as Sanctuary
- 2007Leen BedauxToo Slow (text from catalogue ‘Van de Nieuwe Dingen’ guest studio)
- 1999Ann DemeesterRegelmaat. Orde. Cadans. Ruis. Ritme. Verstoring
Exhibitions
- 03 December 2025 — 07 February 2026
- 15 February — 19 March 2020
- 11 May — 02 July 2016
- 01—28 February 2023
- 15 February — 19 March 2020
- 10 September — 14 November 2020
News
- 4 May 2022
Group show: 112LAB Projectes Culturals, Barcelona
- 2 February — 7 March 2020
GROUP SHOW: VALERIE TRAAN, ANTWERP
- 31 August 2019, 14:00—18:00H
BOOK LAUNCH: ARCHIV & UC BOOKS, ZURICH
- 29 June 2019
CATALAGUE: ROMA PUBLICATIONS
- 24 May — 27 July 2019
SOLO SHOW: ART3, VALENCE
- 27 January — 21 April 2019
GROUP SHOW: DE WARANDE, TURNHOUT
- 22 September — 18 November 2018
GROUP SHOW, CENTRAAL MUSEUM UTRECHT