Agenda
Dear Shapes in Space

Performance art workshops + expo | for art students and young makers from all creative backgrounds. September - November 2023 | Neck of the Woods Gallery Rotterdam. Open call will open in June 2023.

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Performing | De Pont Museum
Opening 17th of September

Woman in E by Ragnar Kjartansson

Art Week Rotterdam | About a Woman
9th - 12th of February 2023

Kop van Zuid | 11:00 - 17:00
Adress: Wilhelminakade 701, Rotterdam

Recent exhibitions:

Becoming Tree | London
Jan. 2020
This Art Fair
Aug. 2021
Riga International Performance Art Festival
Jun. 2021
Deformes Performance Trienal | Chili
Jun. 2020
Venice Arternational Performance Art Week
Jan. 2020
Homo Fragilis | Gallery Frank Taal
Dec. 2020
TAC Eindhoven
May. 2021
Witte Rook
Aug. 2020
Stedelijk Museum Breda
July. 2022
Kolkata International Performance Art Week
Jan. 2020
Riga International Performance Art Festival
Jun. 2021
Solstice Gallery | Brussels
Jun. 2018

Solo exhibitions & manifestations

  • 2023, Embassy of Art, Amsterdam, NL
  • 2020, Witte Rook, The Great Health, Breda, NL
  • 2019, De Aanschouw, Four, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2019, Concordia, Couplet 2.0., Enschede, NL
  • 2019, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, On the Sublime, Den Haag, NL
  • 2018, Concordia, Enschede, NL
  • 2018, WORM, Wer denn sagst dass Beton nicht brennt?, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2016, Uitdagen Rotterdam, Krisis, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2013, Bob Smit gallery, Being human anno 2012, Rotterdam, NL

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2022
    -  Workshop performance art, Neck of the Woods gallery, Rotterdam, NL
    -  BUT Film Festival, Breda, NL
    -  Woman in E, for Ragnar Kjartansson, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, NL
    -  Stedelijke Museum Breda, Podium 1m2, Breda, NL
    -  BUTFF, De Nieuwe Veste, Breda, NL
    -  Neck of The Woods III, Art Booster, Rotterdam, NL
    -  Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, 14th of May, The Great Health, New York, USA

  • 2021
    -  Publieke Werken, Rotterdam, NL
    -  Performance with Lise Sore and Sofie Hollander, at TAC, Eindhoven, NL
    - This Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
    - HECTOBAR, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
    - Riga Performance art Festival, LV
    - Be-coming Tree, live stream performance, NL/UK

  • 2020
    - Gallery Frank Taal,10+ , Homo Fragilis, Rotterdam, NL
    - Deformes Trienal, CorporAte, CL
    - Unnoticed Art Festival, Passenger, Dordrecht, NL
    - Fe-male, performance art festival, GL
    - Kolkata International Performance Art Festival, Solidarity, Kolkata, IN
    - Defibrilator Performance Art Gallery, Zhou B Art Center, What Remains, The Artist's Armor, Chicago, US
    - Palazzo Mora, International Performance Art Week, Venice, IT

  • 2019
    - Pictura, PiPe!, Cad Goddue, Dordrecht. NL
    - Goethe Institute, Porto Alegre, BR
    - International Performance Art Conference, Santiago de Compostela, ES
    - University of Granada, ES
    - Jesuit College of the University of Madeira, PT
    - Project ID Inbetween Identities, performance Diealogue,
      with o.a. Peter Baren, Andrigo & Aliprandi (IT), Fenia Kotsopoulou (UK), Marcel Sparmann (DE),
      Yvette Teeuwen, Miranda Meijer and Kirsten Heshusius, The Hague, NL
    - Root Gallery, Time to Perform, Rotterdam, NL

  • 2018
    - Gorcums Museum, Broeder - Bruder - Bruedher, Gorcum, NL
    - Solstice Gallery, Tabula Rasa, Brussels, BE
    - ART Rotterdam, Prospects & Concepts show, All for Art, Rotterdam, NL
    - Filmtheatre Cinerama, Der Stille Mensch a.o., Rotterdam

  • 2017
    - Hoogtij #54, galerie Arte Sin Limites, Den Haag, NL
    - Arte Concordia, Zoön Politikon, curated by Karin Arink. With o.a. Robin Kolleman, Paul Cox, Rolf Engelen,
      Iris Bouwmeester, Maurice Meeuwisse and Tanja Smeets, Rotterdam, NL
    - ArtZNSTD, Backfire, The Wander, with a.o. Lizan Freijsen, Harold Linker and Robert Roelink, Zaandam, NL
  • 2016, Roodkapje, Winterwolven festival, Arminius,The Rite, Rotterdam, NL


  • 2015 - 2009 (selection)
    - Route du Nord, Rotterdam, NL
    - Pulchri studios, Den Haag, NL
    - Frank Taal galerie, Rotterdam, NL
    - Showroom Mama, Rotterdam, NL
    - International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
    - Goethe instituut Rotterdam, Museumnacht, with a.o. Mette Sterre and Inge Aanstoot, Rotterdam, NL

Talks & lectures (selection)

  • 2022
    - Masterclasses Creatieve Begaafdheid, Theater de Kamers, Vathorst, NL
    - ECHA2022, conference, i.c.w. Lotte van Lith, The Hague, NL 
    - Masterclasses Creatieve Begaafdheid, Vathorst, NL
    - Dear Shapes in Space, performance art workshops, i.c.w. WdKa & WORM, Rotterdam, NL

  • 2021
    - Kunstpodium T, Apprentice Master, artist talk, NL
    - Wanneer het Water Stil Is, interview as part of installation by Peter Bouwmans, 
      Stedelijk Museum Breda, NL
    - Dear Shapes in Space, performance art workshops, i.c.w. WdKa & WORM, Rotterdam, NL
    - Creatieve Begaafdheid for Novilo, Utrecht, NL
    - Be-coming Tree, live stream performance, NL/UK
    - Creatieve Begaafdheid i.c.w. A Lot of Complexity, Almere Vathorst, NL

  • 2020
    - Online lecture, No Fear - No Limit, supported by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Russia
    - Dear Shapes in Space, performance art classes for Willem de Kooning academy students, WORM,
      Rotterdam, NL
    - Novilo, art courses, Utrecht, NL

  • 2018
    - Gorcums Museum, Gorcum, NL
    - Open Performance Academy, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2017
    - Codarts University for the Arts, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2016
    Gallery Garage, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2015
    Willem de Kooning academy, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2014
    Not Dead Yet, Performance art and community arts project, Rotterdam, NL



    Also: 2016 - 2021, teaching and project coordinating for Stichting Art-S-Cool, The Hague, NL

Press & publications (selection)

  • 2023, Interview, Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam
  • 2023, Podcast interview, Cultuur Junkies
  • 2023, Interview, book by L.Lith & H. Berends, A Lot of Complexity publishers
  • 2022, Parool, BIG Art gaat back to basics in de Bijlmerbajes [link]
  • 2022, AVROTros, Nu te zien, Ragnar Kjartansson [link]
  • 2022, Oost-online, Groot is het credo van kunstbeurs Big Art in Bijlmerbajes [link]
  • 2022, Architectuur.nl, Bajes opent deuren voor Big Art [link]
  • 2022, Urban Body in Action, ESP [link]
  • 2022, Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend, photo report
  • 2022, Punch exhibition Space, featuring performance Homo Fragilis
  • 2022, Glasshouse Life art Lab archive, interview
  • 2022, Cultuurshot nieuwsbrief, Re-Fashion (read)
  • 2022, Open Art Speak, interview (Listen)
  • 2022, Open Rotterdam, interview about Re-Fashion
  • 2022, Fashion United, about Re-Fashion (read)
  • 2022, Culture Spark, interview about Re-Fashion (read)
  • 2021, Duitje, interview about Re-Fashion (read)
  • 2021, Publieke Radio Omroep Amsterdam, interview (check)
  • 2021, LAM Museum, Art Entrepreneur Award 2021 (read)
  • 2021, Trendbeheer, verslag van This Art Fair 2021
  • 2021, Museum de Lakenhal, If Things Grow Wrong, Leiden, NL
  • 2021, WECF Nederland, socials campaign, CorporAte
  • 2021, Gorcums Museum - een overzicht 2013 - 2020, book cover image and content book (view)
  • 2020, Jegens & Tevens, about performance and fine-arts work at Frank Taal gallery expo 10+ (read)
  • 2020, Dflbrl8tr gallery, What Remains, Chicago (USA) (read)
  • 2020, Witte Rook, interview, on The Great Health, performance at residency Witte Rook, Breda (read)
  • 2020, International Festival of Minimum Urban Performances, Urban Body in Action (read, page 160-161)
  • 2020, PAS (Performance Art Studies), Johannes Deimling
  • 2020, NPO Radio 1, Nieuwsuur BV, as art teacher for Art-S-Cool (listen)
  • 2020, Jegens&Tevens, about Pictura Performance Festival, Dordrecht (read)
  • 2019, Pictura/Blad no.3, 2019, PiPe, Pictura (read)
  • 2019, P.S. Performance Site, Project I.D., about Diealogue (check)
  • 2019, Tubantia, about Couplet 2.0. at Concordia, Enschede (read)
  • 2019, Metropolis M, about All for Art at Art Rotterdam and Couplet 2.0. at Concordia (read)
  • 2019, Museumtijdschrift, about Couplet 2.0. at Concordia, Enschede (read)
  • 2019, SEA Foundation, #sea_youhere, online featuring of three of my art projects, Facebook & Instagram
  • 2018, NPO Radio 1, radio interview about Couplet 2.0 at Concordia, Enschede (listen)
  • 2018, Tubantia, about Concordia's artproject Couplet 2.0 (read)
  • 2018, RTV Oost, about Concordia's artproject Couplet 2.0 (read)
  • 2018, AD, about the installation/performance Broeder-Bruder-Bruedher (read)
  • 2018, Kunst en Cultuurkaart, Arnhem aan Zee, interview, by Albert van der Weide (read)
  • 2018, Willem de Kooning academy, interview (read)
  • 2018, Mondriaan Fonds, blog, Verstarring Doorbreken (read)
  • 2018, Trendbeheer, about All for Art on Art Rotterdam (read)
  • 2018, De Telegraaf, 9th of February, 'Minder beurzen, Sterkere presentatie' about All for Art (read)
  • 2018, Mondriaan Fonds, Blog Birgit Donker, about All for Art, at Art Rotterdam (read)
  • 2018, Het Parool, 8th of February, about All for Art, at Art Rotterdam (read)
  • 2018, Museumtijdschrift, about All for Art, at Art Rotterdam (read)
  • 2018, Mondriaan Fonds, (online and printed) catalogue for Prospects & Concepts (read)
  • 2017, Interview, Not Random Art Magazine
  • 2015, Frame the Artist, TENT Centre for Contemporary Art and Showroom MAMA (Rotterdam)
  • 2014, De Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2014, on Being Human Anno 2012
  • 2008, AD, newspaper, article on Urban Aula project

Curating

    2020 - 2022, Dear Shapes in Space, Performance Art Event, Worm & Neck of the Woods gallery
    2021, De Aanschouw, Marco de Waal, M.V. Baks, Lise Sore, Rotterdam, NL
    2021, Performance dramaturgy for the NPO live television broadcast,
              Nationale Kinderherdenking, Madurodam,  The Hague, NL
    2008 - 2013, Gallery Downw_arts, Rotterdam, NL

Grants & subsidies (selection)

  • 2022, Cultuurschakel, stipend
  • 2022, Pictoright, stipend
  • 2021, LAM Museum / This Art Fair, aanmoedingsprijs Art Entrepreneur Award)
  • 2021, Pictoright, stipend
  • 2021, Fonds Kwadraat, stipend
  • 2021, Stichting Droom & Daad, for Dear Shapes in Space, performance art workshops
  • 2019, Stichting Stokroos, Venice International Performance art Week
  • 2018, CBK Rotterdam, IBB
  • 2016, Mondriaan Foundation, Werkbijdrage Jong Talent (exceptional talent grant)
  • 2012, Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude (exceptional talent scolarship)
  • 2012, Bekker la Bastide fonds (exceptional talent scolarship)

Commissions

  • Art direction new mural, Emmauscollege, Rotterdam (2022)
  • Installation Broeder, Gorcums Museum (2021)
  • Mural, Emmauscollege Rotterdam (2008)

Acquired works

  • Modern Medicine, Filmfabriek (2022)
  • Modern Medicine, Frank Taal gallery, private collector (2020)
  • Silent Breach, Maria Ziekenhuis art collection, BE (2019)
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