bio&publications
Education
BA art and 1st degree art education and art history at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem (now Artez) 1996
Ter AA college Welfare Helmond 1991
Recent projects and exhibitions
Ik droomde een Ladder, Imperfectum Het Middelpunt Opdorp België 2025, outdoor textile installation
Monnikenwerk 2024, work in progress during a 5 weeks residence resulting in an installation:
The physicality of the church building, Johanneskerk Losdorp
Time under Construction, Pictura Groningen 2024, video installation, performances and talk with psychologist and writer Douwe Draaisma, in collaboration with Klaas Kloosterhuis
Limburg Biënnale Marres Maastricht 2024, Gebroken spel, iron work and sound, in collaboration with Klaas Kloosterhuis
4 stoelen en een bed, solo in galerie Gewaagd Hornhuizen, paper installation and video, 2024
2 year collaboration in art education with artspace Bierumer School and obs Hiliglo 2023 - 2025
15 weeks art education project Paper Room at Jenaplanschool Wijland 2025
Helix, videowork, Minerva art academy for Knowing me Knowing you exhibition, in collaboration with Klaas Kloosterhuis, 2024
Selection of recent group exhibitions
Zomeratelier CBK Zeeland Middelburg: AIR - group exhibition 2023
Overvaart der Zielen at Y2 2022
FLUX Bierumer School 2019
Project Eems Tussenstand, 2018
Project Eems Cultural Ambassy Leeuwarden invited by CBK Groningen 2018
Magnitude 01 ExBunker Utrecht, 2016
Pictures at an exhibition ACEC Apeldoorn, 2016
Collectives/collaborations
Kunsthuis Veere: a collaborative exhibition with Marijke Leertouwer
and a correspondence project about childhood memories 2023
18 hours marathon interview with my parents 2022, video
Long lasting relationship - recent collaboration in art, artcraftlove, together with Klaas Kloosterhuis:
Tug of war - IJsselbiënnale Nevengeul, performance, 2023
Wachten op het tij / Waiting for the tide - IJsselbiënnale Nevengeul, video triptych,2023
assignment to design valuation award for gemeente Eemsdelta, july 2023 (not selected)
one week residency Farmart Bellingwolde, 2023
Letters to the Baltic Sea / for Struggling Art Space / Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm, 2023
Innertube, Dihan Groningen, performance, 2022
ArtCraftLove, Dihan Groningen, video/performance, 2022
Brieven aan de Eems, art education project with children, initiated for Kinderboekenweek en IVAK 2022
Het geluid van Eemsdelta, together with Jorien Ketelaar, IVAK, Noord Nederlands Orkest and 10 performing artists 2021
Gronings Vuur, art and community project 2020
Project Eems, artist collective kunstruimte Bierumer School 2018 - 2019
A in Wonderland, travelling artist collective from the earthquake area of Groningen 2013 - 2018
Young Composers Meeting, together with several visual artists, Orkest ereprijs and composers, Apeldoorn 2008 - 2012
Selection of recent solo exhibitions
Gedenkwaardig, art in morthouses 2021, installation Enchanted Room / De betoverde kamer
Camera Incantatus, Portiersloge Groningen, installation and performance, 2019
Camera Incantatus, Kunstzentrum Coldam Germany, sound, video, installatie in multiple spaces, 2019
Rites de Passage, aka Anna Hyde OpenPoortenDagen Buggenum/Roermond, performance and installation, 2018
In Transit/Die Verwandlung, festival Terug naar het Begin location Luingahof Bierum, 2017
Performances
interactive performances KLEI: Artisbook Groningen and Galerie Noord Groningen 2022
LETTERS TO LAKE LEMAN / LETTERS TO RIVER Wisła
performative actions on the lake shore in Lausanne (Switzerland) and the riverbank in Warsawa (Poland), 2022
Brieven aan de Eems - Letters to river Ems, a performance during Wonderful GROMM 2021, for Tschumi Paviljoen and Kunstpunt Groningen
In Transit Letters to river Ems, on the dikes German and Dutch side, 2019
In Transit and the liminality of dreams, Heerenveen, oude post sorteercentrum Heerenveen, 2018
Magnitude 02, 3 days of actions and performances collective A in Wonderland, Kunstenlandschap Lonneker, 2017
Jacob, performance for festival Terug naar het Begin, 2016
Awards
Kunstzentrum Coldam 1st price jury award, 2018
Kern met Pit, provincie Groningen 1st price for Tunnelvisie als project, community project, 2013
Publications
Interview for CMK magazine 2025 'Kijken, denken en durven als een kunstenaar' (Kirsten Sikkema) 2025, about 2 year collaboration in art education
Interview for Kunstpunt, 'In het atelier' (Dinnis van Dijken) may 2024, in collaboration with Klaas Kloosterhuis
'Met de ogen van een kunstenaar - een bijzonder samenwerking' (Catrien de Boer) De culturele schatkamer 2024-2025, IVAK
Monthly articles in Bierumer School krant, 2021 - 2025
zomeratelier 2023, Sandra Smets, CBK Zeeland, august 2023
DvhN 'Per pendelbus langs Kunstpaviljoens': Kunstpunt en Tschumi paviljoen Groningen september 2021
Kunstspot 'Het unheimische gevoel van een aardbeving' Minke van der Velde
Hidden Times museummagazine Museum De Verborgen Tijd / Bierumer School, publications several art works and essay
DvhN 'Tunnelvisie als Project': community and participation project
Other activities
moderator artist talks
art educator, incidental assignments and long-term art education projects and collaborations
writer of articles for Bierumer Schoolkrant (among others)
personal lecture about live and work in Losdorp 2022
Vers van het land, poetry project, prints and stickering, 2021
Collective Connective
participant in critique sessions and discussions about new perspectives on professional art practices
initiated bij VHDG and Kunsthuis SYB, Artist in Space 2021
Sandra Smets
Catalogus Zomeratelier 2023
CBK Zeeland
Catrien de Boer
De culturele schatkamer 2024-2025
IVAK
Bureau Kurk/Kirsten Sikkema
CMK Magazine 2025
Cultuureducatie Met Kwalitiet
Kunst & Cultuur