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Judith Westerveld (1985, NL/ZA)
Lives and works in Amsterdam and Cape Town
Represented by Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
Judith Westerveld (1985) grew up in South Africa and the Netherlands. She studied Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, followed by the Master Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam. In her films, audio-visual installations and performance based work, as well as her drawings and photocollages she researches the relation between the archive, the voice and the narrative, probing who is heard and seen, remembered and historicized in a postcolonial world. Language, in spoken, written and embodied form, plays an important role in her work.
Over the last years Westerveld conducted archival research and focussed on marginalized, endangered and extinct languages within the context of the Dutch colonization of South Africa, as well as processes of language learning taking place in the Netherlands. In South Africa she collaborated with storytellers, heritage activists and people involved in language revitalization programs. This resulted in several artworks which document and reimagine pivotal moments in the Dutch and South African colonial history and introduce perspectives to intervene in current dominant historical narratives. In the Netherlands she worked together with people learning and teaching Dutch, focussing on the process of learning a new language and how this affects not only one’s mother tongue, but also a person’s identity and sense of belonging.
Gestures and body language, as an emotional register and another form of speaking and communicating, as well as memory, storytelling and archival material are recurring elements that shape Westerveld's work. Gathering a multiplicity of perspectives and interpretations that are historical and contemporary, public and private, her works intertwine the worlds of facts and stories. With her work she aims to address and reflect upon the multiple ways the colonial past continues to impact the present.
Westerveld lives and works in Amsterdam and Cape Town. From 2019 until 2023 her practice is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Stipend for Established Artists. In 2017-2018 she received the Stipend for Emerging Artists from the Mondriaan Fund.
Lives and works in Amsterdam and Cape Town
Represented by Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
Judith Westerveld (1985) grew up in South Africa and the Netherlands. She studied Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, followed by the Master Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam. In her films, audio-visual installations and performance based work, as well as her drawings and photocollages she researches the relation between the archive, the voice and the narrative, probing who is heard and seen, remembered and historicized in a postcolonial world. Language, in spoken, written and embodied form, plays an important role in her work.
Over the last years Westerveld conducted archival research and focussed on marginalized, endangered and extinct languages within the context of the Dutch colonization of South Africa, as well as processes of language learning taking place in the Netherlands. In South Africa she collaborated with storytellers, heritage activists and people involved in language revitalization programs. This resulted in several artworks which document and reimagine pivotal moments in the Dutch and South African colonial history and introduce perspectives to intervene in current dominant historical narratives. In the Netherlands she worked together with people learning and teaching Dutch, focussing on the process of learning a new language and how this affects not only one’s mother tongue, but also a person’s identity and sense of belonging.
Gestures and body language, as an emotional register and another form of speaking and communicating, as well as memory, storytelling and archival material are recurring elements that shape Westerveld's work. Gathering a multiplicity of perspectives and interpretations that are historical and contemporary, public and private, her works intertwine the worlds of facts and stories. With her work she aims to address and reflect upon the multiple ways the colonial past continues to impact the present.
Westerveld lives and works in Amsterdam and Cape Town. From 2019 until 2023 her practice is supported by the Mondriaan Fund, Stipend for Established Artists. In 2017-2018 she received the Stipend for Emerging Artists from the Mondriaan Fund.
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Judith Westerveld (1985) grew up in South Africa and the Netherlands. She studied Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, followed by the Master Artistic Research at the University of Amsterdam.
Her films and videos are distributed by, and part of the collections of LIMA (Amsterdam) and ARGOS (Brussels). From 2019 until 2023 her practice is supported by the Artist Basic grant, Mondriaan Fund. In 2017-2018 she received the Artist Start grant from the Mondriaan Fund.
Recent exhibitions and film screenings include: Message from Mukalap, 25th Ji.Hlava, International Documentary Film Festival, Prague (2021); Message from Mukalap, 21st NEMAF, Seoul International ALT Cinema&Media Festival (2021); Message from Mukalap, 50th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2021); Untitled (Spirit of Changing Times), Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2020); That’s What She Said, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg (2019); Far-off Nearby, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (2019); Writing back to history, Mediakunst Festival Arnhem, Filmtheater FOCUS, Arnhem (2019); A few common phrases, 48th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019); The Remnant, Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway (2019); The Dream of a Common Language (solo), Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2018); Mukalap, ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town (2018); Language is the only homeland, Nest, The Hague (2018); Floraphilia. Plants as Archives, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2018); The Last Reader, Annex M, Megaron’s Garden, Athens (2018); The Remnant, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, Johannesburg & Cape Town (2017); The Remnant, Short Highlights Program IFFR, EYE Film Museum, GroningerForum, Natlab Eindhoven, Chassé Cinema Breda, Cinema Middelburg (2017), The Remnant, 46th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2017); A Global Table, De Hallen/Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2017/2018); Re(as)sisting Narratives, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2016).
Her films and videos are distributed by, and part of the collections of LIMA (Amsterdam) and ARGOS (Brussels). From 2019 until 2023 her practice is supported by the Artist Basic grant, Mondriaan Fund. In 2017-2018 she received the Artist Start grant from the Mondriaan Fund.
Recent exhibitions and film screenings include: Message from Mukalap, 25th Ji.Hlava, International Documentary Film Festival, Prague (2021); Message from Mukalap, 21st NEMAF, Seoul International ALT Cinema&Media Festival (2021); Message from Mukalap, 50th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2021); Untitled (Spirit of Changing Times), Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2020); That’s What She Said, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg (2019); Far-off Nearby, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (2019); Writing back to history, Mediakunst Festival Arnhem, Filmtheater FOCUS, Arnhem (2019); A few common phrases, 48th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019); The Remnant, Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway (2019); The Dream of a Common Language (solo), Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam (2018); Mukalap, ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town (2018); Language is the only homeland, Nest, The Hague (2018); Floraphilia. Plants as Archives, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2018); The Last Reader, Annex M, Megaron’s Garden, Athens (2018); The Remnant, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, Johannesburg & Cape Town (2017); The Remnant, Short Highlights Program IFFR, EYE Film Museum, GroningerForum, Natlab Eindhoven, Chassé Cinema Breda, Cinema Middelburg (2017), The Remnant, 46th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2017); A Global Table, De Hallen/Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (2017/2018); Re(as)sisting Narratives, Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2016).
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Forthcoming solo exhibition at Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
2018 The Dream of a Common Language, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Spier Light Art, Stellenbosch
2022 Returning the Gaze, Sites of Memory, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Middelburg
2020 Untitled (Spirit of Changing Times), Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Far Away Close By (exercises in the translocal), Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
That's What She Said, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
Mukalap, performance during Borderwalk, organized by Borderlands Public Art Project, Cape Town
Prospects&Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam Lumen Travo, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek
2019 That's What She Said, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
Far-off Nearby (excercises in the translocal), Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
Lumen Travo, Art Rotterdam,Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
2018 ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town
Language is the only homeland, Nest, The Hague
Floraphilia. Plants as Archives, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne
The Last Reader, Annex M, Megaron’s Garden, Athens
A week of Womxn, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town
2017 A Global Table, De Hallen/Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Womxn, De Balie, Amsterdam
2016 Re(as)sisting Narratives, District Six Museum, Cape Town
Hesitation, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
Re(as)sisting Narratives, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Q-U-I-J-T, Beelden voor de radio, Torenkamer Festival, Amsterdam
2013 Stories from the Ripple Pool, SMBA, Stedelijke Museum Bureau Amsterdam
2012 Expeditions, Galerie Ruimte, Amsterdam
SCREENINGS
2023 Message from Mukalap, Transitions, Maastricht
2022 Message from Mukalap, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2021 Message from Mukalap, 25th Ji.Hlava, International Documentary Film Festival
Message from Mukalap, 21st NEMAF, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival
Message from Mukalap, 50th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Kulimatji, Symposium on Words and Music, SOAS University of London
A few common phrases, AT5 RietveldTV, tv broadcast
Writing back to history, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, The Hague
Writing back to history, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
A few common phrases, 48th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
The Remnant, Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway
2019 24/11: Writing back to history, Mediakunst Festival Arnhem, Filmtheater FOCUS, Arnhem
25-26/10: Kulimatji, Symposium on Language and Music, SOAS University of London
30&31/03: AT5 RietveldTV tv boradcast of A few common phrases
27/1: A few common phrases, 48th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
16/1: The Remnant, Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway
Writing back to history, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, The Hague
2018 24/9: Sida Îtse, IZIKO South African Museum, Cape Town
6-8/7: Writing back to history, The Hague Contemporary, The Hague
26/3 - 1/4: The Remnant, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF, Bucharest
2017 1-11/6: The Remnant, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, Johannesburg & Cape Town
25/2: The Remnant, Southern Summer School, BAK, Utrecht
17/2: The Remnant, LIMA, Amsterdam
5-20/2: The Remnant, Short Highlights Program IFFR, EYE Film Museum
Amsterdam, GroningerForum, Natlab Eindhoven, Chassé Cinema Breda, Cinema Middelburg
25/1-5/2: The Remnant, 46th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
2016 2/6: Still not at ease, Archives Matter Conference, Center for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University, London
2014 2-3/4: Still not at ease & Foreclosure, Nothing to see, Nothing to hide, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2013 4/8: Foreclosure, I dreamt I was, Bob Smit Gallery, Rotterdam
2012 26/10: Still not at ease, Africa in the Picture Film Festival, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
ARTIST TALKS
2023 Presentation for Fine Art students, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2021 Presentation for ARRG, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
Kulimatji, Symposium Om te behoort, University of Amsterdam, Gent University and Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam
2020 Kulimatji, Kalahari Basin Network, online
Get a Grant Event, Mondriaan Fonds, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2019 Symposium on Language and Music, SOAS University London
That's What She Said, Bag Factory, Johannesburg
Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam
24 uur Noord, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
2017 The Human Library, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Southern Summer School, BAK, Utrecht
2016 Re(as)sisting Narratives in Context, District Six Museum, Cape Town
Re(as)sisting Narratives in Context, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Archives Matter Conference, Center for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University, London
2013 Experiences in Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag
PUBLICATIONS
04/2020 Artist contribution of the film Message from Mukalap, in Simulacrum Jrg. 28
#3bzzzzzzzzzsjoeeffff….fffieeeeeeeewtttttzzzzzhzhhhooonggggggggggg
12/2018 Publication of the photo collage series ‘Echolocation’ in Karin Amatmoekrim's article ‘Angst is de rode draad in alle
verzwegen geschiedenissen’ published by De Correspondent in the series ‘Verzwegen geschiedenis’.
10/2017 Publication of the photo collage series ‘Echolocation’ in a special issue of ZAM Magazine ‘Between Bitter Almonds and Good
Hope’, in collaboration with journalist Evelyn Groenink, https://specials.zammagazine.com
Publication of the essay ‘Compassion: Do we take care of ourselves?’ in ‘Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society’, Valiz,
Amsterdam
06/2017 Publication of an interview with Susan Neiman in ‘Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society’, Valiz, Amsterdam
06/2017 Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society, eds. Rini Hurkmans, Jeroen Boomgaard, Judith Westerveld, Valiz, Amsterdam
06/2012 Publication of the essay ‘The Relevance of Collective Autonomy’ in ‘At Work: The Autonomy Project-Newspaper 3’,
Onomatopee, Eindhoven
05/2012 Publication of the work ‘The Fragility of Coherence’ in ‘Versal Ten: the literary & arts journal out of Amsterdam’, wordsinhere,
Amsterdam
GRANS, RESIDENCIES AND PRIZES
2019-2023 Stipendium Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund, www.mondriaanfonds.nl
2019 Printmaking residency Print&Media department, University of Cape Town
2018 Printmaking residency at AGA LAB, Amsterdam
2017-2018 Stipendium Emerging Artists Mondriaan Fund, www.mondriaanfonds.nl
2015 Residency at De Torenkamer, Opium op 4, Radio 4 AVROTROS, Amsterdam
2012 Nomination AIAS Prix D'Honeur
WORK EXPERIENCE
07/2014 - 07/2017 Co-Editor of the book ‘Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society’, with Rini Hurkmans, Jeroen Boomgaard, Valiz, Amsterdam
04/2014 - 10/2017 Coordinator PhDArts, Leiden University, www.phdarts.eu
09/2011 - 02/2016 Employee Unda Foundation, Flag of Compassion, www.flagofcompassion.com
EDUCATION
09/2011 - 07/2013
Master Artistic Research (cum laude), Universiteit van Amsterdam
09/2005 - 06/2011
Bachelor of Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
09/2008 - 01/2009
Bachelor of Fine Art, exchange program, Konstfack University College of Art, Crafts and Design,
Stockholm
09/2005 - 06/2011 Bachelor of Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2021 Forthcoming solo exhibition at Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
2018 The Dream of a Common Language, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Spier Light Art, Stellenbosch
2022 Returning the Gaze, Sites of Memory, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Middelburg
2020 Untitled (Spirit of Changing Times), Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Far Away Close By (exercises in the translocal), Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
That's What She Said, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
Mukalap, performance during Borderwalk, organized by Borderlands Public Art Project, Cape Town
Prospects&Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam Lumen Travo, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek
2019 That's What She Said, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
Far-off Nearby (excercises in the translocal), Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
Lumen Travo, Art Rotterdam,Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
2018 ICA Live Art Festival, Cape Town
Language is the only homeland, Nest, The Hague
Floraphilia. Plants as Archives, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne
The Last Reader, Annex M, Megaron’s Garden, Athens
A week of Womxn, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town
2017 A Global Table, De Hallen/Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Womxn, De Balie, Amsterdam
2016 Re(as)sisting Narratives, District Six Museum, Cape Town
Hesitation, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
Re(as)sisting Narratives, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Q-U-I-J-T, Beelden voor de radio, Torenkamer Festival, Amsterdam
2013 Stories from the Ripple Pool, SMBA, Stedelijke Museum Bureau Amsterdam
2012 Expeditions, Galerie Ruimte, Amsterdam
SCREENINGS
2023 Message from Mukalap, Transitions, Maastricht
2022 Message from Mukalap, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2021 Message from Mukalap, 25th Ji.Hlava, International Documentary Film Festival
Message from Mukalap, 21st NEMAF, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival
Message from Mukalap, 50th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Kulimatji, Symposium on Words and Music, SOAS University of London
A few common phrases, AT5 RietveldTV, tv broadcast
Writing back to history, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, The Hague
Writing back to history, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
A few common phrases, 48th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
The Remnant, Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway
2019 24/11: Writing back to history, Mediakunst Festival Arnhem, Filmtheater FOCUS, Arnhem
25-26/10: Kulimatji, Symposium on Language and Music, SOAS University of London
30&31/03: AT5 RietveldTV tv boradcast of A few common phrases
27/1: A few common phrases, 48th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
16/1: The Remnant, Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway
Writing back to history, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, The Hague
2018 24/9: Sida Îtse, IZIKO South African Museum, Cape Town
6-8/7: Writing back to history, The Hague Contemporary, The Hague
26/3 - 1/4: The Remnant, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF, Bucharest
2017 1-11/6: The Remnant, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, Johannesburg & Cape Town
25/2: The Remnant, Southern Summer School, BAK, Utrecht
17/2: The Remnant, LIMA, Amsterdam
5-20/2: The Remnant, Short Highlights Program IFFR, EYE Film Museum
Amsterdam, GroningerForum, Natlab Eindhoven, Chassé Cinema Breda, Cinema Middelburg
25/1-5/2: The Remnant, 46th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
2016 2/6: Still not at ease, Archives Matter Conference, Center for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University, London
2014 2-3/4: Still not at ease & Foreclosure, Nothing to see, Nothing to hide, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2013 4/8: Foreclosure, I dreamt I was, Bob Smit Gallery, Rotterdam
2012 26/10: Still not at ease, Africa in the Picture Film Festival, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
ARTIST TALKS
2023 Presentation for Fine Art students, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2021 Presentation for ARRG, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
Kulimatji, Symposium Om te behoort, University of Amsterdam, Gent University and Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam
2020 Kulimatji, Kalahari Basin Network, online
Get a Grant Event, Mondriaan Fonds, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2019 Symposium on Language and Music, SOAS University London
That's What She Said, Bag Factory, Johannesburg
Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam
24 uur Noord, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
2017 The Human Library, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Southern Summer School, BAK, Utrecht
2016 Re(as)sisting Narratives in Context, District Six Museum, Cape Town
Re(as)sisting Narratives in Context, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Archives Matter Conference, Center for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University, London
2013 Experiences in Artistic Research, Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag
PUBLICATIONS
04/2020 Artist contribution of the film Message from Mukalap, in Simulacrum Jrg. 28
#3bzzzzzzzzzsjoeeffff….fffieeeeeeeewtttttzzzzzhzhhhooonggggggggggg
12/2018 Publication of the photo collage series ‘Echolocation’ in Karin Amatmoekrim's article ‘Angst is de rode draad in alle
verzwegen geschiedenissen’ published by De Correspondent in the series ‘Verzwegen geschiedenis’.
10/2017 Publication of the photo collage series ‘Echolocation’ in a special issue of ZAM Magazine ‘Between Bitter Almonds and Good
Hope’, in collaboration with journalist Evelyn Groenink, https://specials.zammagazine.com
Publication of the essay ‘Compassion: Do we take care of ourselves?’ in ‘Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society’, Valiz,
Amsterdam
06/2017 Publication of an interview with Susan Neiman in ‘Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society’, Valiz, Amsterdam
06/2017 Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society, eds. Rini Hurkmans, Jeroen Boomgaard, Judith Westerveld, Valiz, Amsterdam
06/2012 Publication of the essay ‘The Relevance of Collective Autonomy’ in ‘At Work: The Autonomy Project-Newspaper 3’,
Onomatopee, Eindhoven
05/2012 Publication of the work ‘The Fragility of Coherence’ in ‘Versal Ten: the literary & arts journal out of Amsterdam’, wordsinhere,
Amsterdam
GRANS, RESIDENCIES AND PRIZES
2019-2023 Stipendium Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund, www.mondriaanfonds.nl
2019 Printmaking residency Print&Media department, University of Cape Town
2018 Printmaking residency at AGA LAB, Amsterdam
2017-2018 Stipendium Emerging Artists Mondriaan Fund, www.mondriaanfonds.nl
2015 Residency at De Torenkamer, Opium op 4, Radio 4 AVROTROS, Amsterdam
2012 Nomination AIAS Prix D'Honeur
WORK EXPERIENCE
07/2014 - 07/2017 Co-Editor of the book ‘Compassion a Paradox in Art and Society’, with Rini Hurkmans, Jeroen Boomgaard, Valiz, Amsterdam
04/2014 - 10/2017 Coordinator PhDArts, Leiden University, www.phdarts.eu
09/2011 - 02/2016 Employee Unda Foundation, Flag of Compassion, www.flagofcompassion.com
EDUCATION
09/2011 - 07/2013
Master Artistic Research (cum laude), Universiteit van Amsterdam
09/2005 - 06/2011
Bachelor of Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
09/2008 - 01/2009
Bachelor of Fine Art, exchange program, Konstfack University College of Art, Crafts and Design,
Stockholm
09/2005 - 06/2011 Bachelor of Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
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