Marilyn Sonneveld (b. 1990, NL) is an interdisciplinary visual artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and works across oil painting, glass, sculpture and installation. Moving fluidly between materials, techniques and scales, her practice explores intimacy, memory and the body through a vivid interplay of colour, form and transparency.
Sonneveld’s work often begins with personal experience, everyday gestures and the emotional complexities of close relationships. Her paintings and glass works move between abstraction and figuration, creating spaces where recognisable forms emerge and dissolve. Rather than offering fixed narratives, they evoke the fragmentary nature of memory, where images, sensations and emotions remain present in traces, shadows and atmospheres. Her recent work has increasingly turned towards the dynamics of intimacy, care and kinship, exploring the ways in which love, vulnerability, loss and belonging shape our relationships with ourselves and with one another.
In 2023, Sonneveld presented When the Sun Comes Up, a large-scale, site-specific glass installation at Kunsthal Rotterdam. Made during her pregnancy, the work marked an important moment in her practice, as she turned towards her own physicality and the transformative experience of impending motherhood. The installation brought together nine painted glass panels, layering depictions of the body to reflect the physical and psychological changes of pregnancy.
Sonneveld was nominated for the Royal Award for Modern Painting in both 2024 and 2025, with her work included in the corresponding exhibitions at the Royal Palace Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions, galleries and art fairs including Kunsthal Rotterdam, Het HEM, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Unfair Amsterdam, EDJI Gallery Brussels, PADA Lisbon and No Man’s Art Gallery’s international programme in Mexico City. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Dutch Government Collection, De Nederlandsche Bank, ABN AMRO and YCC Club.
Marilyn Sonneveld in her studio in Amsterdam, NL, 2026
Education
2013 Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, NL
2012 Design Skolen Kolding, DK
Solo Exhibitions
2026 the black bird was singing, the light was bright, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2026 Onze lieve heer op zolder, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Reverie, EDJI Gallery, Brussels, BE
2024 Heat Wave, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Catch The Light When Its Cloudy, Badr El Jundi Gallery, Madrid, ES
2023 When The Sun Comes Up, Kunsthal Light #3, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2022 Untitled Art Miami Beach, with Badr El Jundi Gallery, Miami, US
2022 Unfair Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Everything is better when I’m with me, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2019 The Beauty One Cometh, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 2nd life, Almost Not Done, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Bye Flora, Spring House, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Het Tussenuur, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, NL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 pale moonlight and the magic of beauty, Gallery O-68, Velp, NL
2026 O vader, kom huiswaarts, Loods 6, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Nocturnals, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2025 BEDROCK, Capital C, Amsterdam, NL
2025 Royal Award for Modern Painting 2025, Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Rolling into the summer, Working Hands, De Bouwput, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Matter Matters, jiuba art space with Yours Truly art space, Amsterdam NL
2024 Art Rotterdam, with No Man’s Art Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2023 No hymns to colour, Gallery Fanny Freytag, NL
2022 No Man’s Art Gallery Mexico City, MX
2023 Alessandro Albanese Gallery, Matera, IT
2022 Art Rotterdam, with No Man’s Art Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2021 Salvaje y Dulce, Badr El Jundi Gallery, Marbella, ES
2021 Natch, PADA, Lissabon, PT
2020 High Tide, Het HEM, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Premium Bohemian, Gallery Untitled, Rotterdam, NL
2017 Wipsite Expo, Wg Kunst, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Museumnacht, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Art Trade, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Sociëteit SEXYLAND, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Installation in collaboration with Bonne Suits, De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Club Gem, Kunstuitleen, Rotterdam, NL
2016 WIPSITE, De Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, NL
Publications
2018 Seks is een levensbehoefte en het maakt mij vrolijk, de Volkskrant
2018 Milly Maria, ilustracija: Marilyn Sonneveld, Vice
2018 De clitoris is bezig aan haar eigen coming-of-age verhaal, de Volkskrant
2018 Wipsite geeft seksuele voorlichting 2.0 op WB terrein
2018 Voorlichtingssite moet vooral lol van seks benadrukken
2017 Dit gaat niet over seks, Bruna Uitgeverij
Residencies
2022 No Man’s Art Residency, Mexico City, MX
2021 PADA studios residency, Lissabon, PT
2019 Mondriaan Fonds Cultuurreis Artist in Residence, Hortus, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Artist in Residence, Hortus, Amsterdam, NL
Collections
De Nederlandsche Bank
De Rijksoverheid
Badr El Jundi Collection
Nominations
2025 Royal Award for Modern Painting
2024 Royal Award for Modern Painting
Stipends
2024 Basis Grant, Mondriaan Fonds
2019 Ontwikkelbudget, AFK
2019 Mondriaan Fonds Oriëntatiereis
Illustrations
MAMA cash Feminist Festival, Stedelijk Museum
David Cronenberg, Eye Exposed, Eye Film Museum
Wipsite
Sonneveld is founder of ‘Wipsite’, a sexual education platform that centers the fun of sex rather than the clinical aspects.