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✨ Featured on Gallery Viewer
I'm honored to share a recent feature on Gallery Viewer, The article offers a glimpse into my studio, my 40-year journey with beauty and femininity, and highlights my current show at Contour Gallery and Photo London and the reception of my work at Photo London.👉 Read the full article here

01-06-2025- 16-07-2025 40 years an Artist
🎉 2025-06-01 – Celebration Time
Welcome!
Join us on Sunday, June 1st, 2025 at 3 PM for the opening of my new exhibition – a moment of beauty, connection, and joy.
📍 Contour Gallery. Josephstraat 164, Rotterdam
You are warmly invited.

30 April · 6:30 PM BST🌸 Artist Talk
🌸 Artist Talk: Margriet Smulders & Dr Susan Bright
📍 Online recording available
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of speaking with curator Dr Susan Bright about beauty, memory, and the emotional layers in my floral still lifes. The talk took place during Photo London 2025, where my work was presented by Contour Gallery (Booth D15).
🎥 Missed it? You can still watch the full recording:
Watch the talk
Passcode: PajU20J%

15-5-2025 / 18-5-2025 Photo London
Galerie Contour Rotterdam, directed by Muriel Mager is presenting my work at Photo London, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA with a Preview Day on 14 May
Email: muriel@contour.gallery
2020 /2022 Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Happy to announce a film has been made: Oogmerk, a series on Dutch artists. How I make these works.

25-5-2025 / 6-7-2025 Vive la fête 40 jaar
Galerie Contour Rotterdam is directed by Muriel Mager
Email: muriel@contour.gallery

Passages / Ode to Johanna / Welcome in our studiobuilding.
All emancipation starts with education in my latest photo, a girl is flying high.

25 years ago I gave birth to Gaia on my mirror.
I'll be your mirror. When you think the night has seen your mind, that inside your twisted and unkind, let me be your eyes ...

24-11-2024 / 1-12-2024. PAN art fair Contour Gallery booth 25
25 years ago my first flower still life saw the light. To celebrate this jubilee you can order this work in size 40 x 44 cm as a special edition in an edition of 40. € 1.111,- ( 9% VAT included )

22-07-2024 / 25-8-2024 Masterspieces of Art, Salzburg
Very glad 😍 my work is shown in Salzburg by Helmut Reinisch Contemporary gallery in his Pop-up Gallery during the salzburger Festspiele. ,Masterpieces of Art' shows 'masterpieces' that are intended to appeal directly to the viewer through their distinctive style of expression. A.o.: Nobuyoshi Araki, Stephan Balkenhol, Arnulf Rainer, Katharina Grosse, Erwin Wurm... Thanks a lot Helmut and your gorgeous Lions Team. 22-7-2024 /25-8-2024