Projects
What I like to do

Love in Eternity ❤️ Bob & Nienke
Love in Eternity, 2022, 140 x 161 cm Where do I begin to tell the story of how great a love can be? Golden beautiful couple Nienke Bawa and Bob Kootte fell in love, lived together and loved each

Tango dance school El Corte
2019 This is the artwork Roses for El Corte, made for tango El Corte. The hanging system was designed by architects from Boeijenjong Architecten. This way the work can safely hang from the ceiling of the dance school.

Emsgalerie Rheine
Ins Blaue hinein träumen is a trilogy of ceilings called Quelle (source, 11x24m), Strömung (flow, 9x18m) and Mündung (mouth, 6x18m). The three ceilings embellish the Emsgalerie in Rheine, Germany and are the biggest productions Smulders has ever undertaken and

Holy Disorders, 2019, Domchurch, Utrecht
After the iconoclasm from 1566 Margriet Smulders brings colour in this majestic and historic Domchurch After the iconoclasm from 1566 Margriet Smulders brings colour in the gigantic Domchurch (domkerk). See more

Music-stand Bergharen
Municipality of Wychen For the municipality of Wychen I made in the little village Bergharen a big photograph of 5,5 meter diameter. Inspired by Italian ceiling-paintings of the 17th century, several residents of the village were asked to model

Houthoff
A work 11 metres wide, commissioned by Houthoff-Buruma law firm, Amsterdam, featuring frogs, irises, and fishes (September 2005). Serie Amor Omnia Vincit (2005) “There is a subtle menace in Smulders’s photograph: twisted twigs cut across the

Out of the cocoon
Serie Out of the cocoon

Maastricht University, Learned Mothers, 2001
For her book ‘geleerde Moeders’ (Learned mothers), Lies Wesseling commissioned Margriet Smulders to make a portrait series in which both roles come together.

The Making of…
Watch the video How we make our big wildlifes Video by Mathis Fuhs, Emsgalerie, Rheine an der Ems

Museum van Bommel van Dam, wallpainting
In April 2012 we were painting a huge mural on Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo.

Healing Herbs
For a health center we created a series full of healing herbs (2017)

Ankara, Tulipomania, 2003
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked me to make an artwork for the new chancery in Ankara (Turkey). On the garden wall of the new embassy a huge photo art work with measurements 10 x 2,5 meter is realised.

Randstad, 1998
The Art Photography Collection of Randstad asked me in 1998 to make a series of self portraits. Location: headoffice Randstad, Diemen, Amsterdam. Serie The Artist Working (1998) Randstad – the artist working IV, the manager My children Boris, 1992 and

University of Tilburg
BREAD / WINE, 2003, 185 x 360 cm In charge of the architect and other architectural experts, I made an artwork for the reception hall of the new building E, the TIAS-building. Architect Walter van Oerle suggested an artwork

Margriet Smulders’ Wild Dream
Two articles in newspaper De Gelderlander about the wild dream of Margriet Smulders Architect van De Oversteek: ‘Doe veel meer met deze stadsbrug’ Kunstenares droomt van ‘bloemenzee’ onder de Oversteek als ‘een ode aan de Waal’

India Dastkar Andhra
2013

Transforming Spaces
Bring art into your home Bring Artwork by Margriet Smulders into your home. We can make your interior spaces outstanding with wall to ceiling artworks that fill your domestic interior with breathtaking, colourful unique artworks, made especially for you.We

Dreams
Police Station This dreamproject sees all ceilings of police stations show her work. Preferably all stations, but if Margriet were to choose, definitely Nijmegen Police Headquarters. She would like to dedicate these ceilings to women who fall victim of


