Marcel van Beek

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Marcel van Beek Biography

Germany, born 1990

Marcel van Beek, born in Bonn in 1990, is a German visual artist and fine-art photographer based in Leipzig. He studied painting, graphic art and photography at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, graduating with distinction with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
His work explores the uncanny within the familiar. Abandoned architecture, shadowed passages, forests, water, botanical forms and human figures become carriers of memory, psychological tension and latent presence. Through unusual perspectives, reflections, inversion, motion blur and carefully controlled colour, van Beek creates images situated between representation and abstraction, reality and apparition.
Recurring motifs include thresholds, hidden gateways, distorted spaces and seemingly inanimate forms that begin to resemble bodies, creatures or watchful beings. Rather than illustrating horror directly, his photographs allow unease to emerge slowly from ordinary places and materials. His practice combines a painterly sensitivity to surface and composition with an interest in mythology, ecology, transformation and the darker territories of perception.
Since 2014, his work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and has received numerous international distinctions in fine-art, conceptual, nature, architectural and black-and-white photography.

Marcel van Beek

Marcel van Beek exhibitions, studies, awards...

MARCEL VAN BEEK

Visual Artist and Fine Art Photographer

Born 1990 in Bonn, Germany
Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany

Website: www.marcelvanbeek.de
Portfolio Overview: https://mybio.art/marcel-van-beek/
Instagram: @_marcel_van_beek
Email: marcelvanbeek@web.de

Education

2012–2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Graphic Art and Photography, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Alfter, Germany — graduated with distinction

Before 2012
Internship in stage design and theatre production, Junges Theater Bonn, Germany
Van Beek’s early experience of theatrical space and staging continues to inform his photographic practice, particularly his treatment of bodies, architectural thresholds, shadows and psychological space.

Selected Awards and Distinctions

2026

  • Gold Medal, Golden Shot Awards, Colour Category — Chlorophyll Trance II
  • Multiple Paltinum Awards, London Photography Awards
  • Multiple Paltinum Awards, MUSE Photography Awards
  • Second and Third Place, Phi Photography Awards
  • Finalist, Urban Photo Awards, Mark Power Special Prize — The Future Was Extracted Here
  • Selected Artist, YICCA Art Prize, Milan
  • Two-time Finalist, Siena Creative Photo Awards
  • Finalist, Dodho Magazine #36 — Citrinitas
  • Editor’s Pick, Minimalist Photography Awards — Drift Field
  • Silver and Bronze Awards, Exposure One Awards
  • Finalist and nominated works, Fine Art Photography Awards
  • Selected Photographer, Carlotta Gallery
  • Multiple nominations, Exposure One – One Shot Awards

Selected Solo and Institutional Exhibitions

2026

  • World of Water, Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Surface Topographies, Cuencas Art Gallery / Artsy, online solo viewing room

2025–2026

  • World of Water, KlimaWelten NRW, Hilchenbach, Germany

2025

  • Planetary Boundaries, German Environment Agency, Dessau, Germany

2023

  • World of Water, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Selected earlier exhibitions

  • Urbs accommodata, Leipzig University Library, Leipzig, Germany
  • Carboniferous, Leipzig University, Germany
  • Unsustainable Earth, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
  • Naturraum::Stadtraum, Leipzig, Germany

His work has been shown internationally in exhibitions and curated formats in Berlin, Glasgow, Athens, Geneva, Milan, Arles and Minneapolis.

Selected Juried and Group Exhibitions

2026

  • YICCA Art Prize Exhibition, Milan, Italy
  • WORLDS IN VIEW – ProfiFoto @ Arles, Les Murs Blancs, Rencontres d’Arles OFF, Arles, France
  • Urban Photo Awards Summer Exhibitions, within Trieste Photo Days, Italy
  • Landscape, Carlotta Gallery, international juried exhibition
  • Still Life / Found Objects, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  • Magic of Light, Southeast Center for Photography, United States
  • Still / Motion and Home / Away, Solas Gallery, international group exhibitions

Selected Publications

2026

  • Portae Arcanae, photographic artist’s book
  • WORLDS IN VIEW – ProfiFoto @ Arles 2026, Snap Collective
  • Dodho Portrait Award Book 2026
  • 101 Art Book: Nature 2026, Arts to Hearts Project
  • Magic of Light, exhibition catalogue
  • Still / Motion and Home / Away, exhibition catalogues

2025

  • World of Water, bilingual German–English photographic monograph, 124 pages

Earlier publications

  • Schattenlicht: Werke 2012–2022
  • Unsustainable Earth
  • Naturraum::Stadtraum
  • Ãœbergänge

Selected Collections and Institutional Placements

  • German Environment Agency, Dessau, Germany
  • Leipzig University, Germany
  • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany — works on long-term loan

Selected Bodies of Work

  • Portae Arcanae
  • Sovereign of Shadows
  • Nocturnes – aux portes de la nuit
  • Where the Land Waits
  • Chlorophyll Trance
  • Umbrella Spirit
  • The Future Was Extracted Here
  • Interference Field
  • Uranos
  • World of Water

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