2024 Photo by Saskia Bakker Fotografie
Maryleen Schiltkamp studied art at the Rietveld Akademie and the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (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 at venues and festivals in London, Guildford, Amsterdam, Prague, Riga 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, in 2019 in The Hague and Amsterdam.
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, 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 August/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 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.