Lily
van der Stokker

Born in 1954 in Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

At first glance, Lily Van Der Stokker’s works seem to display a certain irony, but it is actually rather a case of irreverence. The kind of distance and conceptual detachment in her work allows her to embrace a tangy flower-power and a gritty optimism. Van Der Stokker plays with the hierarchies and classifications between art and decorative elements, overturning the famous doctrine of Minimalism “Less is More” with a far more appropriate proposition: «The more the better»! Her drawings and murals are all composed of a set of elements: decorative motifs, colours and words, each playing a specific role. The motifs allow the artist to signify various registers in turn — feminine, childish, enchanted, frivolous — without having to represent them.




ARTWORKS

Retro Kitchen 2021-2022 Acrylic paint on wall, wood and polyester with mixed 200 x 304 x 70,2 cm	Nothing 2 (design for wall painting) 2019 Color pencil and pen on paper 30 x 42 cm	Cookies 2 (design for wall painting) 2019 Color pencil on paper 21 x 29,7 cm
Chicken Salad 2019-2023 Acrylic paint on white cardboard 70 x 85 cm	€25000 2 (design for wall painting) 2019 Color pencil on paper 42 x 30 cm	Shopping list 2 (design for wall painting) 2019 Color pencil on paper 42 x 30 cm
Apple crumble 2 (design for wall painting) 2019 Marker and color pencil on paper 21 x 29,7 cm	Miconizolnitrate 2 2019 Acrylic paint on wood 18 x 26 x 24,5 cm	I Fake Nothing 2018 Acrylic on canvas (after a drawing from 1991) 200 x 290 cm
I Fake Nothing 2018 Acrylic on canvas (after a drawing from 1991) 200 x 281 cm	Burned baking pan 2015-2018 Acrylic on wood panel 104 x 150 cm	Best regards 2014 Acrylic paint on linen, wooden stand 203,5 x 259,1 cm
Sock Painting 2012 - 2021 Acrylic paint on panel 110 x 90 x 2,5 cm	Mistake (design for wallpainting with carpet) 2010 Color pencil and pen on paper 24,6 x 33 x 1,8 cm	Argument 2008-2011 Acrylic paint on wood panels 304,8 x 365,8 cm
EXHIBITIONS

I am here FRAC Normandie, Caen 2024	Parole : Eliza Douglas | Lily van der Stokker Air de Paris, Romainville 2023	I am going to bed Coda Museum, Apeldoorn 2023
Thank You Darling Camden Art Centre, London 2022	Help Help a Little Old Lady Here Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich 2019-2020	Friendly Good Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2018-2019
HUH Scad Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia 2018	Hello Chair Air de Paris, Paris 2014	Lily van der Stokker Air de Paris, Paris 2005
Small Talk Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany 2002	Rob Pruitt / Lily van der Stokker Air de Paris, Paris 2002	Lily van der Stokker Air de Paris, Paris 1998