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NOW
Amsterdam Art Fund granted me with a stipend for artistic development and to work on my new project: Mater(ial)
UPCOMING
May 2025 Exhibition at Penningsfoundation of the book installation Media Vita
May 2025 Exhibition Cica Museum, Gimpo South Korea
Winter 2025 Residency Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice
Publication The Higgs Particle view here (edition 50, leporello of 220 cm in Dutch) you can order it by sending me an message
PAST EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2024 Land Art Festival Ode aan de Linge, Geldermalsen, with the performance work Back
2024 Groupshow Arcade, Abdij Ulingsheide, Tegelen, Flujas Collectief and Museum Bommel van Dam
2024 Groupshow Escaleren, 250 years of Pictura, Dordrecht, with Polluted Mother
2024 Groupshow The White Flag Project, Kunstcentrum De Kolk, Spaarndamm
2023 Groupshow Prikkel at Buitenplaats Doornburgh in Maarssen, where Leib, Overexposed and At night the knives are sharpened was shown
2023 Groupshow Bodytalk at Museum Het Nieuwe Domein in Sittard, where Mother an Child is shown and the video work Ten Hands
2023 Groupshow Ode to the Linge Landart festival, Geldermalsen with The Waiting and Drifting in Time
2023 Groupshow Places of Reflection, Kunstroute Woudkapel Bilthoven
2023 Groupshow Inspiring a Climate Renaissance, Human Impacts Institute, New York, America
2022 Soloshow Hand Over at Festival Terug naar het begin at the church of Uitwierde, Groningen with Mother and Child, Five Faces, Hand Over
2022 Groupshow CONSCIOUSNESS: ways of expression, Palazzo Barolo in Turin Italy, Unfocused Days, curator Davide Silvioli
2021 Soloshow Traces at Art Centre The Kolk in Spaarndam
2021 Publication art book The Higgs Particle
2021 Groupshow Bored in The House at Museum Jan Cunen, with Mother and Child
2021 Duoshow Surrender at Museum Tot Zover Amsterdam, with Fuga, Mother and Child and Surrender
2021 Art route Momentous (Gedenkwaardig, in the province of Groningen, where art is displayed in empty memorial houses at cemeteries.
2020 Retrospective Eat Love Die at Museum Tot Zover
2020 Group exhibition Beauty/? at K.L.8 in Brussels with video choreography Smile
2020 Groupshow Depictions of the Living, The Art Pavilion,Londen, with Drifting in Time a.o.:Saskia Boelsums Mustafa Boga Darren Cullen Maria Blue Jessica Wetherly
2019 Photo installation Drift in public space of Almere-Haven
2019 Soloshow 10×10 years and Drifting in Time Corrosia Theater Film & Expo Almere
2019 Soloshow Media Vita at VOX-POP Amsterdam, with Media Vita and Unfocused Days
2018 Duoshow with Claartje Chajes in Concertgemaal Amsterdam, with Unfocused Days and Five Faces
2018 Photoseries Surrender i.c.w. Performance students at Theatre School Maastricht
2017 Groupshow Beyond Us and Them at Fotodok with Chrooma and Black School
2016 Soloshow Higgs Particle at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Photo Festival Schiedam, with performance lecture and installation
2014 Soloshow Black School in City Hall of Lelystad
2013 Soloshow Five Faces City Hall Lelystad
2012 Groupshow Who’s afraid off… Corrosia Almere with Five faces and Ten Hands, The Collection of Fears and Desires at a.o.. Anouk Kruithof, Els Vanden Meersch, Nicky Maas, Maarten Boekweit
RESIDENCY
2024 Pictura, Dordrecht, Residency Escaleren, to create work at the location; Polluted Mother
2023 Buitenplaats Doornburgh, a former monastry in Maarssen, where I did artistic research for the exhibition Prikkel
2016 Oerol, Terschelling, artistic research Het Higgs Deeltje
2005 Residency New York, as a guest staying at the apartment of the Mondriaanfund
STIPENDIUM/PRIZE
2023 Stipend Amsterdam Art Fund, one year funding for artistic development and learning new skills
2024 Study Grant Crossyart, funding for theoretical research in phenomenology and in the questions: what do artists share about their personal motives in relation to their work? And how do they translate autobiographical principles into art?
2023 Projectgrant Mondriaan Fund
2022 Grant Cultuurfund
2021 Artistfee of Mondriaan Fund
2020 Artistfee of Mondriaan Fund
2020 Grant Cultuurfonds
2019 Grant of Stichting Stokroos
2018 Work grant Tijlfonds, Cultuurfonds,
2011 Selected te represent the Netherlands at The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space
2008 Performance WE top 3 best mime performances 2008 in De Theatermaker
2008 Projectgrant, Fund BKVB
2005 Residency New York, travel grant supported by Mondriaan Fund
2004 Work grant Fund BKVB
2003 Starting Stipend Fund BKVB
2000 Nomination academy Prize, Academy of Visual Arts Maastricht
Teaching and lectures
2009-2024 Theatre School Maastricht: performance and scenography, external expert examinations scenography Maastricht, HKU master scenography
2017-2019 Project teacher Rietveld Academy, HKU, Frank Mohr Institute
2017 Involved in Content with the Education Profile of the Federation of Culture
2015-2024 Lectures at Dutch Design Week, Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Fotodok, Arcam, HEMA senior managment, OISTAD, University of Utrecht, Masterclass Artez Arnhem, Hema designdepartement, Arup Amsterdam
PERFORMANCES (selection)
2013 Rhwydo (Vangst in Welsh and English), tour 30 performances, Swansea, Bangor, Cardiff, Eistedfodd, Wales Engeland
2012 Vangst, Oerol, Terschelling,
2012 Sea childrens performance bij Tg Max Rotterdam
2011 Vangst, Theaterfestival Boulevard, Festival BIES, Corrosia, Kunstenfestival Grenswerk
2011 The Collection of Fears and Desires , The one-to-one Festival, Battersea Arts Centre Londen
2010 Breath Festival a/d Werf
2009 Immense, Festival VEO Valencia Spanje
2008 WE Festival a/d Werf, Over ‘t IJ Festival, De Karavaan BIES!
2007 Immense Summer of Antwerp België
2007 Brood Festival aan de Werf
2006 Immens Festival a/d Werf
2006 Attack of Beauty in public space of Rotterdam i.cw. Conny Jansen Danst and Pieter Athmer
2004 Short Movie Fears and Desires In the USA
2004 Please don’t leave me, in casino Las Vegas in Rotterdam
2002 Hartstocht, Brugge Culturele Hoofdstad, i.s.m. Dries Verhoeven, Theaterfestival Boulevard, 2004 Festival a/d Werf, 2008 Frascati
2000 Zucht Theaterfestival Boulevard i.c.w.. Dries Verhoeven
1999 Crude Pure Theatre Festival Boulevard
1998 Video- and super8installation Pure Theatre Festival Boulevard
1997 Watching with your ears opening of Theatre Festival Boulevard
SCENOGRAFIE (selectie)
Archive scenography can be found HIER
2015 various costume designs selected for Costume at the turn of the century 1990-2015 in het A.A. Bakhrushin Central State Theatre Museum in Moskou
2008-2015 Scenographer at Tryater in Leeuwarden, director Ira Judkovskaja: Burning Bright, Eintsje Libben, Macbeth, Uncle Wanja, Grûn
2001-2007 Scenographer at Noord Nederlands Toneel in Groningen director Koos Terpstra: Dantons Death, Othello Children of the Sun, Torquato Tasso, De Luitenant van Inishmore a.o..
1999-2005 Scenographer director Victoria Meirik in The Netherlands and Norway: The Inheritance, Crave, Kamikaze, Antigone, Ivanov, Richard III a.o.