CV
1973 Born in Hoorn
Education and Residencies
2014 Baltic Art Center,Visby, SE
2009 Residency Made in Mirrors, Recife, Brazil, BRE
2008 Roland Holst Huis Bergen, NL
2007 American Academy, Rome (Fonds BKVB), IT
2001 Galerie du Jour, Paris (Agnès B), FR
2000 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
1998 Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Grants / Prizes
2015 Elisabeth van Thuringen Project prize
2014 Anna Bijn prize for Jaja de Oerknal (book of poems)
2014 Nomination for VSB Poetry Prize
2008 J.C. Bloem Poetry prize
2004 Cees Buddingh Prize for Poetry
2010 Basisstipendium Fonds BKVB
2009 Projectsubsdie Fonds BKVB
2007 Letterensubsidie Fonds der Letteren
2002 Startstipendium Fonds BKVB
Solo Exhibitions
2018 - 2019 Song for three rooms, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL
2018 We are turning corners, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Sputter Fiction, Nationaal Glasmuseum, Leerdam, NL
2016 The Planet O, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Then, Then, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, NL
2012 Apple of my Eye double-sided camera obscura cinema, built in public space, Bergen, NL
2011 The Lost Park (film + vinyl) MAMAM, Recife, BR
2010 The Living Room, Klemm's gallery, Berlin, DE
The Lost Park, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL
2008 Reposition, Buro Leeuwarden, NL
Masterpieces, Scheltema, Leiden, NL
2001 One Room to say nine goodbyes in, Playstation Fons Welters, NL
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2019 State of Transparency, Looiersgracht60, Amsterdam, NL
Department Store, Schunck, NL
De Expo Koel-Kast, Garage Noord, NL
2018 Face, Verkadefabriek, Den Bosch, NL
2017 Origin, Lensvelt, Amsterdam, NL
Where do we go from here?, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Cross Works, DordtYart, Dordrecht, NL
2016 The Nine Day Week, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, LT
Unresolved, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
The Luser Story, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
The Planet O, The Jolly Joker, Amsterdam
Reading Anarchism, BAK Utrecht
Silence Out Loud, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen
Rhubarb Rhubarb, Museum De Hallen, Haarlem
2015 The Aesthetic of the Fragment, Panache Towers, Antwerp
Lady Windermere's Escape, Rietveld TV
Back to the Future, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Ars Poetica Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
When I give, I give myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
2014 Beating around the bush, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL
Denn alles was den Gesetzen des Verstandes und der Vernunft widerstreitet, ist freilich unmöglich, Meinblau Berlin,
DE
ReVerse Poetry Film Festival, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Beelden op de Berg, Wageningen , NL
Shapeshifting, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
Seeing is Believing, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2012 ToT Zover, Nederlands Uitvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Facing Forward (visual essay) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Opera Aperta, text contribution in lightbox to the Dutch Pavillion at Venice Biennial , IT
In- and outside- writing, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium, BE
2010 Noord Holland Biennial, Schermerhorn, NL
The Chained Lady, The Miscroscope & The Southern Fish, SOFA
Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand, NZ
The Storyteller, iCI, New York, NY
The Storyteller, Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES
2009 Questioning History, Fotomuseum Rotterdam, NL
Every Version belongs to the Myth, Projects Arts Centre Dublin, IE
Take the Money and Run, De Appel/ Witte de With, NL
2007 Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
A for Alibi, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Again for tomorrow, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Work in public space
2012 Oogappelhuis Bergen, assignment DSP Amsterdam, NL
2005 Binnenzee, SKOR, assignment SKOR Amsterdam, NL
Fairs
2017 Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2016 Amsterdam Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
Screening
2014 The International Cosmonaut, film presentation at ReVerse Poetry Festival Amsterdam and Bonnefanten Museum,
Maastricht
2013 Seeing is Believing, visual essay for lecture series by Witte de With Rotterdam.
2012 Als. De. Dood., film presentation Nederlands Uitvaartmuseum ToT Zover. (litt.: As. In. Death. expression in
Dutch for extreme fear.)
On the Nature of News Desks and the Need to Get Lost Facing Forward, presentation of visual essay, Stedelijk
Museum Amsterdam, NL
Publications (selection)
2017 Altijd Augustus, Uitgeverij Van Oorschot, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2014 UMBRA, publication of 11 poems, with 11 photographs by Viviane Sassen, publisher Oodee, London, UK
2013 Jaja de oerknal (Yeah-right the Big Bang), poetry, De Arbeiderspers, NL
Snow is Falling and Written Snow is Falling', text work for Mark Manders publication, Venice Biennial 2013, IT
2011 Fantastisch, collection of columns written for NRC Handelsblad, De Arbeiderspers, NL
2010 The Lost Park, vinyl
2007 The Writing Room
2007 Er staat een stad op (A City Rises), poetry, De Arbeiderspers, NL
Collections
Bonnefantenmuseum, The Netherlands
ABN Amro, The Netherlands
AMC Art Collection, The Netherlands
Articles and Interviews
2013 Systemen van uitsluiting, Tubelight #87, Vincent van Velsen
2010 In een ben ik het meest thuis gedicht Maria Barnas over het maken van poëzie en beeldende kunst, NRC
Handelsblad, 12 Nov. 2010, Birgit Donker
Further activities
2016 Member of the the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Initiating of De Gids Gallery, a bi-monthly art presentation & essay, in the literary magazine De Gids
2015 Teaching at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Text & Image
2014 Teaching at Rietveld Berlin, temporary course for Rietveld students of graphic design in Berlin, DE
2013 Shapeshifting, curating of show based on the mechanism of fear in contemporary society curating of show based on
the mechanism of fear in contemporary society, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Curating and writing essay 'Two, Three Versions of the Imaginary' after Maurice Blanchot, Annet Gelink Gallery,
Amsterdam, NL
2009 - 2011 Weekly column for NRC Handelsblad, cultural pages, NL
2005 Founding of publishing house Missingbooks, with Germaine Kruip en Maxine Kopsa, that reprints unavailable
books. Part 1: Film and publication, on Rodolfo Walsh, NL
Since 2008 Advisor Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL