Lique Schoot ~ A Life Story in Pictures
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- Painting installation – oil on linen
- 306 x 337 cm I 120.5 x 132.7 in
- 2025
‘The self-portraits of Lique Schoot are visual autobiographical statements that reflect current times. Looking at ourselves is seeing others and the world around us.’
Lique Schoot is a multidisciplinary artist. She works in the tradition of conceptual art. Since graduating in 1997, she has concentrated on the self-portrait as a vehicle for exploring the nature of existence.
LS diaries
In 2003, she began photographing herself daily to capture the human condition. She does this at arm’s length with an analog compact camera. Her visual diaries, now numbering over 8,000 snapshots, are the basis for her work (photography, painting, and installations) that centers on general emotions, identity, and life’s major themes, such as growth, blossoming, decay, and death. From an autobiographical perspective, the work connects with current events and social issues.
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DWARS door de collectie #1
Museum van Bommel van Dam, NL
From June 14, 2025
L: Self-portrait 10 03 31, Bedroom, Arnhem-NL, 2010
R: Overview exhibition
- 42 Days with Hair Towels (2005 – 2025) – ongoing
- Installation of 42 framed photographs
- 162,6 x 124,6 cm I 58.1 x 49.1 in
- 2025
UPCOMING 2026
Grey! Art on Aging
January 24 – June 14, 2026
In a society obsessively seeking eternal youth, the Museum van Bommel van Dam presents the first major exhibition on aging, “Grey! Art on Aging,” starting January 24, 2026.
Featuring work by international contemporary artists, the exhibition explores the perspective and experience of aging in an aging society: from ageism and image formation to the beauty of the changing body and the relationship between generations.
Through photographs, videos, paintings, installations, and drawings by renowned artists, “Grey!” shows a rich picture of one of the most important challenges of our time.
Participating artists include Tyna Adebowale, Diana Blok, Melanie Bonajo, Marrie Bot, Jan van Herwijnen, Wen Hui, Isadora Kosofsky, Marcos Kueh, Maria Lassnig, Lique Schoot, Sjoerd Schunselaar, Joan Semmel, Lily Van Der Stokker, and Fiona Tan.
The selfie installation “42 Days with Hair Towels (2005-2025)” depicts moments spanning 20 years when the artist emerges from the shower with a towel wrapped around her head. She gradually ages in an unfiltered way.
- Museum van Bommel van Dam
- Keulsepoort 1, Venlo-NL
UPCOMING 2027
Studio DM
Artist-in-residence Drents Museum Assen, NL
May / June, 2027
The Drents Museum not only wants to be a place for art that has already been made, but also for art that has yet to be made. In their artist residence Studio DM they offer artists a place to live and work for a time. This house near the museum has a studio space and is a perfect base from which to find inspiration in the landscape of Drenthe or in the museum.
- Space 9M.02 – 3,28 x 2,49 x 3,2 m I 129.1 x 98 x 126 in
- Installation beyond the face, beyond humanity
- Photo: Jan Willem Kaldenbach
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BIG ART Slotervaart
With more than 100 XL artworks by a blend of established artists and designers as well as upcoming talents. They fill the place with a unique mix of monumental paintings, oversized drawings, large sculptures, big photos and impressive installations.
Lique’s installation “beyond the face, beyond humanity” is on display in space 9M.02, on the 9th floor, when entering the show.
The installation contains 5 paintings from the series “Memory Portraits” on a wall painting and the poem “empty faces”, written in 2016.
Where and When
September 26 – 28, 2025
11am – 6pm
Louwesweg 6
1066 EC Amsterdam, NL
- Poem empty faces
- Print on alu-Dibond
- 18,8 x 15,8 cm (framed)
- 2016 / 2025
- Self-portrait 13 16 10 (series Memory Portraits)
- 63 x 50 x 4,5 cm
- Oil on linen
- 2025
New Works
- Self-portrait 06 06 24
- Living room, Arnhem-NL, 2006
LS diaries (2003 – ongoing) – Color
The photo diary is expanded with color photos. Read more…>
- The Days The Years, #15 (2005 – 2022) – detail
- Installation of 15 photos from the LS diaries
- 300 x 130 cm
- 2024
Storyboards (2014 – ongoing)
- The Garden (Self-portraits 05 07 20, 19 08 18), 2024
- Digital Photo Collage / Print on alu-Dibond
- 22,4 x 28,4 x 3,5 cm I 8.8 x 11.2 x 1.4 in (incl. frame)
Through the years Lique made a lot of sketches on the computer, combinations of photographs taken from her visual diaries (and sometimes her family archives) that tell little stories about life, somewhere between dream and reality.
Because the project of daily photographed self-portraits is running for more than 20 years now, it is possible to make a poetic work such as ‘The Garden’ – as a metaphor for life.
The series currently show 40 works.
Bedroom Portraits (2005 – 2025)
Lique is painting self-portraits for almost thirty years. She selects certain images from her visual diaries to become the basis for her works. Her paintings refine and distill the immediacy of candid photography to create formally dynamic compositions at the same time that they expose self-revelation to be another form of camouflage.They are a marvelous balancing act between abstraction and figuration, between rationality and feeling, and between existence and perception.
The Bedroom Portraits show all kind of different feelings and emotions taking place in our bedroom, such as sadness, loneliness, but also love and happiness. The colors of the paintings are bright and based on the rainbow. It is a series about hope, peace, comfort and new beginnings – love to others and the world around us.
Selected Works (1998 – ongoing)
