Boris van Berkum (Rotterdam, 1968) is a visual artist working at the intersection of art, heritage, and spirituality. His practice investigates how ritual, material, and community can generate new forms of remembrance and healing. Trained at the Willem de Kooning Academy (Rotterdam) and the Academy of Fine Arts (Prague), Van Berkum develops projects that merge contemporary art with transcultural, transhistorical and spiritual perspectives.
Since 2010, Winti priestess Marian Markelo has commissioned and entrusted Boris van Berkum to develop a contemporary Winti art oeuvre — an evolving visual language in which Afro-Surinamese spirituality engages in dialogue with European heritage. Acting on Markelo’s commission and spiritual guidance, Van Berkum created iconic ritual objects such as the Kabra ancestor mask (used annually during the national remembrance ceremony of the Dutch slavery past) and Mama Aisa Pronkbeeld, a sculptural embodiment of the goddess of life and earth.
His ongoing project Eau Décoloniale expands this dialogue into the realm of scent, exploring the colonial histories of perfume ingredients and their entanglement with global trade, extraction, and desire. “What is the moral price of Luxery?” He works with scientists from the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he is a guest-researcher.
Van Berkum’s recent projects include The Collection Resists (Missiemuseum Steyl) Winti Bal Masqué (Theater Rotterdam & Tafelberg Amsterdam), Healing Power (Afrika Museum / Tropenmuseum / Wereldmuseum), Kabra Blauw (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Kunstmuseum Den Haag), and Mama Aisa Pronkbeeld(Melly institute Rotterdam). His work has been featured in Het Uur van de Wolf (NTR broadcast, 2024) and is held in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, KunstMuseum Denhaag, the Amsterdam Museum, and the Groninger Museum.
Through these projects, Van Berkum seeks to re-activate the spiritual dimensions of art and to build bridges between communities, histories, and the senses.
Since 2010, Winti priestess Marian Markelo has commissioned and entrusted Boris van Berkum to develop a contemporary Winti art oeuvre — an evolving visual language in which Afro-Surinamese spirituality engages in dialogue with European heritage. Acting on Markelo’s commission and spiritual guidance, Van Berkum created iconic ritual objects such as the Kabra ancestor mask (used annually during the national remembrance ceremony of the Dutch slavery past) and Mama Aisa Pronkbeeld, a sculptural embodiment of the goddess of life and earth.
His ongoing project Eau Décoloniale expands this dialogue into the realm of scent, exploring the colonial histories of perfume ingredients and their entanglement with global trade, extraction, and desire. “What is the moral price of Luxery?” He works with scientists from the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he is a guest-researcher.
Van Berkum’s recent projects include The Collection Resists (Missiemuseum Steyl) Winti Bal Masqué (Theater Rotterdam & Tafelberg Amsterdam), Healing Power (Afrika Museum / Tropenmuseum / Wereldmuseum), Kabra Blauw (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Kunstmuseum Den Haag), and Mama Aisa Pronkbeeld(Melly institute Rotterdam). His work has been featured in Het Uur van de Wolf (NTR broadcast, 2024) and is held in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, KunstMuseum Denhaag, the Amsterdam Museum, and the Groninger Museum.
Through these projects, Van Berkum seeks to re-activate the spiritual dimensions of art and to build bridges between communities, histories, and the senses.
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Winti-priestess Marian Markelo gives blessings the latest work by Dutch Artist Boris van Berkum. This inauguration marked the acquisition of the Kabra Blauw lidded vase to the museum Boijmans collection.
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Boris van Berkum (b. 1968, Rotterdam, NL), lives and works in Rotterdam
Education
1992-1993 Academy for Fine Arts Prague Czech Republic
1988-1989 Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
1980-1998 Gymnasium Montessori Lyceum Rotterdam
Cultural management
2022 - Present Co-founder, member executive committee Cool Clay Collective, ceramic work-space by and for artists 2014 - Present Creative director Winti Bal Masqué
2000 - 2005 founder, owner and CEO Mothership
1997 - 2007 founder & artistic director MAMA showroom Rotterdam
Solo- exhibitions
2026 Eye Candy, Gasunie, Groningen
2023 Mama Aisa pronkbeeld, Rotterdam Cultural History #24
Melly kunstinstituut Rotterdam
curators: Sofia Hernadez Chong Cuy, Jessy Koeiman, Wendy van Slagmaat-Bos 2021 Snake Charmer Hilton Art lab Rotterdam
2021 Snake Charmer Object Rotterdam curator Anne v d Zwaag
2018 AFRICA not African? drawings & silkscreens Upstair’s at Erix Berlin, curator Eric D. Clark
2014 Kabra-mask exhibition Amsterdam Museum curator Annemarie de Wildt 2011 Mega-renaissance Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Sjarel Ex 2010 Kalki & recent works Witzenhausen gallery Amsterdam
Group-exhibitions
2026 Contemporary Ceramics Collective II, Fontana galerie Amsterdam
2024 – 2025 Beloved / Lievelingen, highlights of the collection. Depot Boijmans
2024 Goud / Gold – Wereldmuseum Leiden, Curator Wouter Welling
2024 Contemporary Ceramics Collective, Fontana galerie Amsterdam
2023-2024 Kabra Blauw Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Sue-an van der Zijpp.
2022 - 2023 Unpacking Boijmans, colonialism and the collection
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Alexandra van Dongen
2022 - 2023 Healing Power, Afrikamuseum curator Wouter Welling
2021 Test Lab European Ceramic Center EKWC Oisterwijk NL curator Ranti Tjan
2021/2022 AIR in Southeast # 2020/2021 curator Renske de Jong CBK zuid oost.
2021 Healing Power, Wereld Museum Amsterdam, curator Wouter Welling
2020 Permanent collection, het Dolhuys museum van de geest Haarlem
2019 To Return Opposite gallery Jingdezhen China curators Liu Zongna & Song Tao
2019 Healing power Wereld Museum Leiden, curator Wouter Welling
2018 Dutch circle of Sculptors 100 years, Pulchri curator Jeroen Damen
2017/2018 Sticky Business Stedelijk Museum Schiedam curator Marije Vogelzang
2017 Making of Mama Aisa DordtYart Dordtrecht Netherlands
2016 Ritual and the Sacred Route du Nord Rotterdam curator Hans van der Ham
2016 Hollandaise New Art Projects London UK, curator Ken Pratt
2016 Bal! Royal Palace Soestdijk Netherlands curator Anne van der Zwaag
2016 Persian Poems Seedz Rotterdam Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland
2015 Diversity and Inclusion: Challenging Implicit Bias –
University Leiden curator CBK Zuidoost Amsterdam
2015 Arte Concordia sculptures in public space Rotterdam curator Olpheart den Otter
2015 MOM contemporary masks CBK Zuid Oost Amsterdam
2014 Goethe Dialegs Goethe Institut Barcelona, curator Robert Punkenhofer
2014 The Individual Is Lost Zic Zerp Gallery Rotterdam
2014 Down to Earth gallery Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Catch my Drift Zic Zerp gallery Rotterdam
2013 Slavery - contemporary arts included? Galerie Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Digitale Kunstroof/ Digital Art Heist het gebouw Utrecht
2012/2013 Abundantia Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Peter van der Coelen
2012 Raw Art Expo, Raw Art Fair Rotterdam curator Bob Smit
2012 The Kids Are Alright, 15 years MAMA, Kunsthal Rotterdam curator Gerben Willers
Performances/ presentations
2024 Kabra Blauw symposium Slavery past organizer NiNsee
2024 Mama Aisa prodo waka art-performance in public space Amsterdam Zuid Oost
2023 Keti Koti junior Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
organisor NiNsee National Institute for the Dutch Slavery History and Legacy
2023 Kabra Blauw Keti Koti lezing Keti Koti lecture de stilte verbroken David Olusoga Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
2023 Kabra Blauw Symposium Jaarbeurs Utrecht, organisator NiNsee
2023 Best Dressed Guest election, DJ Chantelle at Winti Bal Masqué, Theater Rotterdam 2023 The Inauguration of Mama Aisa, Winti Bal Masqué Theater Rotterdam
2023 Mama Aisa prodo waka procession performance in public space Rotterdam
2022 Inauguration Kabra Blauw depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
2019 - present (annual) Memri Waka Paleis op de Dam - Burgemeesterswoning Amsterdam 2013- present annual Kabra ancestor mask performance
Libation for the ancestors by Marian Markelo, Nationale Herdenking Slavernijverleden National Commemoration Dutch Slavery, Oosterpark Amsterdam
2013- present annual Kabra ancestor mask performance
Kabra Neti ancestor-ritual Muiderkerk Amsterdam
2013-2017 Kabra ancestor mask performance Keti Koti festival Afrika Museum
2015-2016 Kabra ancestor mask performance x 40 Wijksafari Bijlmer editie
2015 Afrofuturism Now – Worm Rotterdam NL
2014 Papa winti performance Witte de With art-festival Rotterdam
2014 Kabra ancestormask performance, Winti ancestor-ritual, Sunclub Rotterdam
2014 Winti performance MOMO festival Theater Rotterdam
2014 Winti Bal Masqué Laurenskerk Rotterdam
Workshops / education
2025 Mama Aisa and the resistance workshop program with Marian Markelo, Andy Arduin & Boris van Berkum OSCAM
2024 Lecture-series with Raoul de Jong Marian Markelo and Boris van Berkum Grassi museum Leipzig, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde Herrnhut
2024 Libation befor 3d scanning Marian Markelo and Boris van Berkum Grassimuseum 2024 Keti Koti junior organisor NiNsee Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
2023/2024 ‘Het Koloniale Object Spreekt’ development education Museum Boijmans. Marian Markelo, Boris van Berkum & educators Inez Veldman and Madeleine Maatstap 2023 Keti Koti junior organisor NiNsee Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
2016 workshop WdKA art academy Rotterdam
Public collections
Amsterdam Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam Groninger Museum, Museum Het Dolhuys Haarlem, Dutch Ministry of Justice, Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs, Suriname Museum Paramaribo
Public Art 2002 Ode aan Marten Toonder, Markt / Binnenrotte Rotterdam by Artist-group De Artoonisten: Hans van Bentem, Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk, Luuk Bode, DJ Chantelle (Boris van Berkum) Commissioned by the City of Rotterdam
Museumwinkels & Sale-points Art-editions Boris van Berkum
Van Abbe Museum, Amsterdam museum, Bonnefante Museum,
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Dutch Museum Giftshop, Dordrechts Museum Donner Rotterdam, Groninger Museum, Haags Historisch museum Heinen Delfts Blauw conceptstore Delft
Heinen Delfts Blauw conceptstore Amsterdam Kunstmuseum Den haag, Kunst Toko BAM! Amsterdam, Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, Mauritshuis Den haag Museum de Lakenhal Leiden , Museum Kampen, OBJECT Rotterdam, Paleis ’t Loo, Prinsenhof Delft, Princessehof Leeuwarden, Rembrandtshuis, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Wereld Museum Leiden, Wereld Museum Amsterdam, Wereld Museum Rotterdam, het Zeeuws museum, Residenz schloss Dresden, Grassi museum shop Leipzig.
Art Fairs
2024: PAN Amsterdam
2024 Art Miami
2024 Noth Sea Jazz,
2025 Brussels Ceramics
2025 Art Rotterdam
2025 PAN Amsterdam
Art-talks & Lectures
2024 Free Space, screening documentairy with aftertalk De Balie Amsterdam
2024 Mama Aisa pronkbeeld the making of and other secrets, Boris van Berkum 2023 Van Babie tot Kabra masker Symposium Amsterdam Museum
2023 Focus art-talk Keynote speaker Gloria Wekker Melly Kunstinstituut Rotterdam 2023 Winti Talkshow MOMO festival Theater Rotterdam
2022 About Kabra Blauw Alexandra van Dongen Melly Kunstinstituut Rotterdam
2022 The anthropology of art and material culture. University college
dr. Markus Balkenhol (Meertensinstituut) & prof. Marleen de Witte (Universiteit Utrecht) 2021 Crash Course: Media Art & Sculpture lecture by Boris van Berkum V_2 Rotterdam 2019 Ode aan Marten Toonder Lecture vy Boris van Berkum Rotary Club Rotterdam 2017 The Making of Mama Aisa talkshow with Noraley Beyer Dortyart Dordrecht
2017 Afrika 010 curator Paul Faber Afrika 010 Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
2017 Artist practice BKAdemie lecture by Boris van Berkum Rotterdam
Catalogues and publications
2024 Goud / Gold catalogus Wereldmuseum Leiden
2023 Keti Koti book, author Janice Deul, publisher Amboanthos
2023 AD newspaper interview Marian Markelo & Boris van Berkum
2022 Happinez 8 pages about Winti & the Winti art-collection
2021 De (weder-) geboorte van Mama Aisa essay author curator Bart Krieger 2021 Metamorfosen essay author Alexandra van Dongen (museum Boijmans). 2021 Healing Power exhibition-catalogue Museum van Wereldculturen.
author dr. Markus Balkenhol, publisher Sidepress
2019 My Afternoon with an Alien Folk Artist essay author Darius James
2017 Neo Afro in Afrofuturism, essay authors dr. Aminata Cairo & Jeroen Deckers 2016 Afrikaanse Renaissance essay Afrika 010 exhibition-catalogue
author dr. Paul Faber, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
2016 Paleis Soestdijk door de ogen van kunstenaars
Volkskrant review group exhibition Bal! jounalist Anne van Leeuwen
2015 Mask-dancing in contemporary Winti ritual essay Material Religion Journal, author dr. Markus Balkenhol Meertens instituut
2015 Negotiations around the Kabra mask essay Material Religion Journal, author Annemarie de Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2015 Winti Kabra and the Limbo imagination essay Material Religion Journal author Wayne Modest, director Wereldmuseum.
2015 The Dancing Kabra Mask essay Africanah.org
author Annemarie the Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2013 Sweet Sixteen 16 years showroom MAMA, Showroom MAMA
2012 Top 100 Dutch Artists, Elsevier magazine
2011 Mega Renaissance catalogue Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2011 Mega Renaissance Exhibition review Ceramics & Perception magazine US
Artist in residencies
2024 Begegnungen Dresden Germany, Goethe instituut, CBK Rotterdam Grassi museum
2021/ 2022 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Oisterwijk (ceramics)
2020 Heinen Delftsblauw Putten (ceramics)
2019/2020 BijlmAIR Amsterdam Zuid-oost (research)
2019 NA artist in residency Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2016 Paradise Tiles Isfahan Iran (mosaic, tiles & calligraphy)
2015 Pottery Workshop Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2014, 2010, 2004 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Den Bosch (ceramics) 2007 Beeldenstorm / Make Eindhoven (bronze)
Documentary
2024 Free Space film dir. Karen Junger and Stefan Sanders. Uur van de Wolf NTR 2023 Winti Bal Masqué video-report Bart Krieger
2022 Blessing Marian Markelo of Mama Aisa figurines dir. Marieke van der Lippe 2021 Mama: The Dysfunctional Family director Ciska Meister
2021 Kabra Blauw the making of an object of desire dir. Marieke van der Lippe 2021 Behind the Kabra Mask, director Marieke van der Lippe, ABAN foundation 2018 Drie vrouwen, director Ida Does NTR
2011 Moving Statues Arttube Boijmans TV
Television/ Radio
2024 Kloosters & Clusters Open TV Rotterdam
2023 Art & Keti Koti 1 hour interview Boris van Berkum, Vroeg! Vara BNN
2023 Report Winti Bal Masqué Open TV Rotterdam
2023 NOS report NiNsee launches Kabra Blauw Herdenkingsjaar Slavernijverleden. 2022 Open TV report Inauguration Kabra Blauw dekselpot in Depot Boijmans
2013 and 2017 – present Nationale Herdenking Slavernijverleden
Report NTR National commemoration abolishment of Slavery
Libation by Marian Markelo with performance Kabra ancestor mask.
2019 Iedereen Verlicht NTR documentary - spirituality in the Netherlands
Grands
2024 Basis stipend Mondriaan fonds
2024 Goethe Instituut / CBK Rotterdam
2023 Volkskracht, DNB cultuurfonds, CBK Rotterdam
2023 Mondriaanfonds Project grand Mama Aisa pronkbeeld
2022 Stimuleringsfonds Project grand Vormgeving
2021 Droom & Daad Project grand
2019- 2023 Stipendium for established artists Mondriaanfonds
2019 Fonds Kwadraat
2016 Art of Impact development grand (Ministry Education Culture & Science) 2016 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
2016 CBK Rotterdam Project grand Research and Development
2015 Mondriaanfonds Project grand residency Iran Isfahan
2014 Mondriaan fund Project grand
2013 Fonds 21 Project grand
2013 CBK Rotterdam development grand
2013 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
Boris van Berkum (b. 1968, Rotterdam, NL), lives and works in Rotterdam
Education
1992-1993 Academy for Fine Arts Prague Czech Republic
1988-1989 Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
1980-1998 Gymnasium Montessori Lyceum Rotterdam
Cultural management
2022 - Present Co-founder, member executive committee Cool Clay Collective, ceramic work-space by and for artists 2014 - Present Creative director Winti Bal Masqué
2000 - 2005 founder, owner and CEO Mothership
1997 - 2007 founder & artistic director MAMA showroom Rotterdam
Solo- exhibitions
2026 Eye Candy, Gasunie, Groningen
2023 Mama Aisa pronkbeeld, Rotterdam Cultural History #24
Melly kunstinstituut Rotterdam
curators: Sofia Hernadez Chong Cuy, Jessy Koeiman, Wendy van Slagmaat-Bos 2021 Snake Charmer Hilton Art lab Rotterdam
2021 Snake Charmer Object Rotterdam curator Anne v d Zwaag
2018 AFRICA not African? drawings & silkscreens Upstair’s at Erix Berlin, curator Eric D. Clark
2014 Kabra-mask exhibition Amsterdam Museum curator Annemarie de Wildt 2011 Mega-renaissance Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Sjarel Ex 2010 Kalki & recent works Witzenhausen gallery Amsterdam
Group-exhibitions
2026 Contemporary Ceramics Collective II, Fontana galerie Amsterdam
2024 – 2025 Beloved / Lievelingen, highlights of the collection. Depot Boijmans
2024 Goud / Gold – Wereldmuseum Leiden, Curator Wouter Welling
2024 Contemporary Ceramics Collective, Fontana galerie Amsterdam
2023-2024 Kabra Blauw Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Sue-an van der Zijpp.
2022 - 2023 Unpacking Boijmans, colonialism and the collection
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Alexandra van Dongen
2022 - 2023 Healing Power, Afrikamuseum curator Wouter Welling
2021 Test Lab European Ceramic Center EKWC Oisterwijk NL curator Ranti Tjan
2021/2022 AIR in Southeast # 2020/2021 curator Renske de Jong CBK zuid oost.
2021 Healing Power, Wereld Museum Amsterdam, curator Wouter Welling
2020 Permanent collection, het Dolhuys museum van de geest Haarlem
2019 To Return Opposite gallery Jingdezhen China curators Liu Zongna & Song Tao
2019 Healing power Wereld Museum Leiden, curator Wouter Welling
2018 Dutch circle of Sculptors 100 years, Pulchri curator Jeroen Damen
2017/2018 Sticky Business Stedelijk Museum Schiedam curator Marije Vogelzang
2017 Making of Mama Aisa DordtYart Dordtrecht Netherlands
2016 Ritual and the Sacred Route du Nord Rotterdam curator Hans van der Ham
2016 Hollandaise New Art Projects London UK, curator Ken Pratt
2016 Bal! Royal Palace Soestdijk Netherlands curator Anne van der Zwaag
2016 Persian Poems Seedz Rotterdam Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland
2015 Diversity and Inclusion: Challenging Implicit Bias –
University Leiden curator CBK Zuidoost Amsterdam
2015 Arte Concordia sculptures in public space Rotterdam curator Olpheart den Otter
2015 MOM contemporary masks CBK Zuid Oost Amsterdam
2014 Goethe Dialegs Goethe Institut Barcelona, curator Robert Punkenhofer
2014 The Individual Is Lost Zic Zerp Gallery Rotterdam
2014 Down to Earth gallery Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Catch my Drift Zic Zerp gallery Rotterdam
2013 Slavery - contemporary arts included? Galerie Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Digitale Kunstroof/ Digital Art Heist het gebouw Utrecht
2012/2013 Abundantia Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Peter van der Coelen
2012 Raw Art Expo, Raw Art Fair Rotterdam curator Bob Smit
2012 The Kids Are Alright, 15 years MAMA, Kunsthal Rotterdam curator Gerben Willers
Performances/ presentations
2024 Kabra Blauw symposium Slavery past organizer NiNsee
2024 Mama Aisa prodo waka art-performance in public space Amsterdam Zuid Oost
2023 Keti Koti junior Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
organisor NiNsee National Institute for the Dutch Slavery History and Legacy
2023 Kabra Blauw Keti Koti lezing Keti Koti lecture de stilte verbroken David Olusoga Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
2023 Kabra Blauw Symposium Jaarbeurs Utrecht, organisator NiNsee
2023 Best Dressed Guest election, DJ Chantelle at Winti Bal Masqué, Theater Rotterdam 2023 The Inauguration of Mama Aisa, Winti Bal Masqué Theater Rotterdam
2023 Mama Aisa prodo waka procession performance in public space Rotterdam
2022 Inauguration Kabra Blauw depot Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
2019 - present (annual) Memri Waka Paleis op de Dam - Burgemeesterswoning Amsterdam 2013- present annual Kabra ancestor mask performance
Libation for the ancestors by Marian Markelo, Nationale Herdenking Slavernijverleden National Commemoration Dutch Slavery, Oosterpark Amsterdam
2013- present annual Kabra ancestor mask performance
Kabra Neti ancestor-ritual Muiderkerk Amsterdam
2013-2017 Kabra ancestor mask performance Keti Koti festival Afrika Museum
2015-2016 Kabra ancestor mask performance x 40 Wijksafari Bijlmer editie
2015 Afrofuturism Now – Worm Rotterdam NL
2014 Papa winti performance Witte de With art-festival Rotterdam
2014 Kabra ancestormask performance, Winti ancestor-ritual, Sunclub Rotterdam
2014 Winti performance MOMO festival Theater Rotterdam
2014 Winti Bal Masqué Laurenskerk Rotterdam
Workshops / education
2025 Mama Aisa and the resistance workshop program with Marian Markelo, Andy Arduin & Boris van Berkum OSCAM
2024 Lecture-series with Raoul de Jong Marian Markelo and Boris van Berkum Grassi museum Leipzig, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde Herrnhut
2024 Libation befor 3d scanning Marian Markelo and Boris van Berkum Grassimuseum 2024 Keti Koti junior organisor NiNsee Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
2023/2024 ‘Het Koloniale Object Spreekt’ development education Museum Boijmans. Marian Markelo, Boris van Berkum & educators Inez Veldman and Madeleine Maatstap 2023 Keti Koti junior organisor NiNsee Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
2016 workshop WdKA art academy Rotterdam
Public collections
Amsterdam Museum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam Groninger Museum, Museum Het Dolhuys Haarlem, Dutch Ministry of Justice, Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs, Suriname Museum Paramaribo
Public Art 2002 Ode aan Marten Toonder, Markt / Binnenrotte Rotterdam by Artist-group De Artoonisten: Hans van Bentem, Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk, Luuk Bode, DJ Chantelle (Boris van Berkum) Commissioned by the City of Rotterdam
Museumwinkels & Sale-points Art-editions Boris van Berkum
Van Abbe Museum, Amsterdam museum, Bonnefante Museum,
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Dutch Museum Giftshop, Dordrechts Museum Donner Rotterdam, Groninger Museum, Haags Historisch museum Heinen Delfts Blauw conceptstore Delft
Heinen Delfts Blauw conceptstore Amsterdam Kunstmuseum Den haag, Kunst Toko BAM! Amsterdam, Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, Mauritshuis Den haag Museum de Lakenhal Leiden , Museum Kampen, OBJECT Rotterdam, Paleis ’t Loo, Prinsenhof Delft, Princessehof Leeuwarden, Rembrandtshuis, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Wereld Museum Leiden, Wereld Museum Amsterdam, Wereld Museum Rotterdam, het Zeeuws museum, Residenz schloss Dresden, Grassi museum shop Leipzig.
Art Fairs
2024: PAN Amsterdam
2024 Art Miami
2024 Noth Sea Jazz,
2025 Brussels Ceramics
2025 Art Rotterdam
2025 PAN Amsterdam
Art-talks & Lectures
2024 Free Space, screening documentairy with aftertalk De Balie Amsterdam
2024 Mama Aisa pronkbeeld the making of and other secrets, Boris van Berkum 2023 Van Babie tot Kabra masker Symposium Amsterdam Museum
2023 Focus art-talk Keynote speaker Gloria Wekker Melly Kunstinstituut Rotterdam 2023 Winti Talkshow MOMO festival Theater Rotterdam
2022 About Kabra Blauw Alexandra van Dongen Melly Kunstinstituut Rotterdam
2022 The anthropology of art and material culture. University college
dr. Markus Balkenhol (Meertensinstituut) & prof. Marleen de Witte (Universiteit Utrecht) 2021 Crash Course: Media Art & Sculpture lecture by Boris van Berkum V_2 Rotterdam 2019 Ode aan Marten Toonder Lecture vy Boris van Berkum Rotary Club Rotterdam 2017 The Making of Mama Aisa talkshow with Noraley Beyer Dortyart Dordrecht
2017 Afrika 010 curator Paul Faber Afrika 010 Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
2017 Artist practice BKAdemie lecture by Boris van Berkum Rotterdam
Catalogues and publications
2024 Goud / Gold catalogus Wereldmuseum Leiden
2023 Keti Koti book, author Janice Deul, publisher Amboanthos
2023 AD newspaper interview Marian Markelo & Boris van Berkum
2022 Happinez 8 pages about Winti & the Winti art-collection
2021 De (weder-) geboorte van Mama Aisa essay author curator Bart Krieger 2021 Metamorfosen essay author Alexandra van Dongen (museum Boijmans). 2021 Healing Power exhibition-catalogue Museum van Wereldculturen.
author dr. Markus Balkenhol, publisher Sidepress
2019 My Afternoon with an Alien Folk Artist essay author Darius James
2017 Neo Afro in Afrofuturism, essay authors dr. Aminata Cairo & Jeroen Deckers 2016 Afrikaanse Renaissance essay Afrika 010 exhibition-catalogue
author dr. Paul Faber, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
2016 Paleis Soestdijk door de ogen van kunstenaars
Volkskrant review group exhibition Bal! jounalist Anne van Leeuwen
2015 Mask-dancing in contemporary Winti ritual essay Material Religion Journal, author dr. Markus Balkenhol Meertens instituut
2015 Negotiations around the Kabra mask essay Material Religion Journal, author Annemarie de Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2015 Winti Kabra and the Limbo imagination essay Material Religion Journal author Wayne Modest, director Wereldmuseum.
2015 The Dancing Kabra Mask essay Africanah.org
author Annemarie the Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2013 Sweet Sixteen 16 years showroom MAMA, Showroom MAMA
2012 Top 100 Dutch Artists, Elsevier magazine
2011 Mega Renaissance catalogue Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2011 Mega Renaissance Exhibition review Ceramics & Perception magazine US
Artist in residencies
2024 Begegnungen Dresden Germany, Goethe instituut, CBK Rotterdam Grassi museum
2021/ 2022 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Oisterwijk (ceramics)
2020 Heinen Delftsblauw Putten (ceramics)
2019/2020 BijlmAIR Amsterdam Zuid-oost (research)
2019 NA artist in residency Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2016 Paradise Tiles Isfahan Iran (mosaic, tiles & calligraphy)
2015 Pottery Workshop Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2014, 2010, 2004 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Den Bosch (ceramics) 2007 Beeldenstorm / Make Eindhoven (bronze)
Documentary
2024 Free Space film dir. Karen Junger and Stefan Sanders. Uur van de Wolf NTR 2023 Winti Bal Masqué video-report Bart Krieger
2022 Blessing Marian Markelo of Mama Aisa figurines dir. Marieke van der Lippe 2021 Mama: The Dysfunctional Family director Ciska Meister
2021 Kabra Blauw the making of an object of desire dir. Marieke van der Lippe 2021 Behind the Kabra Mask, director Marieke van der Lippe, ABAN foundation 2018 Drie vrouwen, director Ida Does NTR
2011 Moving Statues Arttube Boijmans TV
Television/ Radio
2024 Kloosters & Clusters Open TV Rotterdam
2023 Art & Keti Koti 1 hour interview Boris van Berkum, Vroeg! Vara BNN
2023 Report Winti Bal Masqué Open TV Rotterdam
2023 NOS report NiNsee launches Kabra Blauw Herdenkingsjaar Slavernijverleden. 2022 Open TV report Inauguration Kabra Blauw dekselpot in Depot Boijmans
2013 and 2017 – present Nationale Herdenking Slavernijverleden
Report NTR National commemoration abolishment of Slavery
Libation by Marian Markelo with performance Kabra ancestor mask.
2019 Iedereen Verlicht NTR documentary - spirituality in the Netherlands
Grands
2024 Basis stipend Mondriaan fonds
2024 Goethe Instituut / CBK Rotterdam
2023 Volkskracht, DNB cultuurfonds, CBK Rotterdam
2023 Mondriaanfonds Project grand Mama Aisa pronkbeeld
2022 Stimuleringsfonds Project grand Vormgeving
2021 Droom & Daad Project grand
2019- 2023 Stipendium for established artists Mondriaanfonds
2019 Fonds Kwadraat
2016 Art of Impact development grand (Ministry Education Culture & Science) 2016 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
2016 CBK Rotterdam Project grand Research and Development
2015 Mondriaanfonds Project grand residency Iran Isfahan
2014 Mondriaan fund Project grand
2013 Fonds 21 Project grand
2013 CBK Rotterdam development grand
2013 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
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