about

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

Zomeratelier CBK Zeeland
AIR july - august 2023
group exhibition august- september 2023

Kunsthuis Veere
a collaborative exhibition with Marijke Leertouwer
and a correspondence project about childhood memories
Veere July 2023

Series of interactive performances KLEI
Artisbook Groningen march 2022
Galerie Noord Groningen april 2022

A personal lecture
about live and work
april 2022

Interview the parents
18 hour interview marathon with my parents
february 2022

Vers van het land
Poetryproject
prints and stickering
start september 2021

Brieven aan de Eems - Letters to river Ems
a performance during Wonderful GROMM september 11 2021
Tschumi Paviljoen and Kunstpunt Groningen

Brieven aan de Eems
art education project with children
initiated for Kinderboekenweek en IVAK

Gedenkwaardig
Art in morthouses may 2021
installation Enchanted Room / De betoverde kamer

Connective
participant in critique sessions and discussions about new perspectives on professional art practices
initiated bij VHDG and Kunsthuis SYB, Artist in Space april, may 2021

Selection of recent group exhibitions

Overvaart der Zielen at Y2 2022
FLUX Bierumerschool 2019
Project Eems Tussenstand, 2018
Project Eems Cultural Ambassy Leeuwarden invited by CBK Groningen 2018
Box In Transit Y2 Groningen, 2017
Magnitude 01 ExBunker Utrecht, 2016
Pictures at an exhibition ACEC Apeldoorn, 2016

Collectives/collaborations

Long lasting relationship / Recent collaboration in art
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 Maas, for Brienenoord Magazine, 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

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

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 Bierum, 2017

Performances

LETTERS TO LAKE LEMAN / LETTERS TO RIVER Wisła
performative actions on the lake shore in Lausanne (Switzerland) and riverbank in Warsawa (Poland)
October 2022
A attempt to reach important people in Geneva
And ask for peace once the water returns to the Carpathians Oekrain
By writing letters on water soluble paper

In Transit Letters to river Ems, on the dikes German and Dutch side, 2019
In Transit and the liminality of dreams, Kunstroute Heerenveen, Oude post sorteercentrum, 2018
Magnitude 02, 3 days of actions and performances collective A in Wonderland, Kunstenlandschap Lonneker, 2017
Jacob, performance for Terug naar het Begin, 2016

Awards

Kunstzentrum Coldam 1st price jury award, 2018
Kern met Pit, provincie Groningen 1st price for Tunnelproject; community project, 2013

Publications

Monthly articles in Bierumer School krant, 2021 - 2023

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