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Minne Kersten (b. 1993, NL) lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work has a literary approach: she tells visual stories and constructs sculptural environments that support these stories or add to their reading and interpretation. She works with installations, videos, sculptures and painting which form the backdrop of a fictional world. In this world, which has its own often absurd logic that blurs the boundaries of reality and the imagined, people, objects and architectural elements find new relationships with each other.
She was a participant at De Ateliers from 2018-2020. She graduated from de Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2016, where she holds a BFA at the Image & Language department. In 2017 she was selected for the Slow Writing Lab by the Dutch Foundation for Literature.
education
2018-20 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2017-18 Slow Writing Lab (Dutch Foundation for Literature), NL
2012-16 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, BFA: Image & Language, Amsterdam, NL
2011-12 Art History, University of Amsterdam, NL
solo exhibitions
2022 Annet Gelink Gallery (forthcoming)
2021 Constant Companion, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL
2020 Offspring, de Ateliers, curated by Fabian Schöneich, NL
2017 The Burrow, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL
selected group exhibitions
2022 Prospects, Art Rotterdam Fair, NL (forthcoming)
2021 Haus Wien, Vienna, AT
2020 Left Laundry, curated by Gustav Wideberg, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Lets Take Ten, w/ Laumulistasamsteypan, Nýlistasafnið (NYLO) Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, IS
2018 To That Special Someone, at7 project space, Amsterdam, NL
2018 2e Triënnale van Beetsterzwaag, curated by Julia Geerlings & Niekolaas Lekkerkerk, Beetsterzwaag, NL
2018 Notes Of The Receptionist, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL
2018 Artist Trading Card Fair (ATCF), Kunstverein, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Laumulistasampsteypan’s Karaoke Bar, at7 project space, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Museumnight, Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL
2017 HAMUR / HAM, screening at Optics Festival, Roulette, November 2017, New York, USA
2017 Clusterfog Gig, Harbinger, Reykjavík, IS
2017 dig! dig! dig!, at7 project space, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Ether Snuiven, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
2017 “What is happening to my brain”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Drive-by performance, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, NL
2015 The Jamming Station, w/ Maria Barnas, Museumnight, Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Wonder & Wander, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Are You Alive Or Not?, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Liquid Gestures, Laumulistasamsteypan, Hrísey, IS
selected screenings
2021 Constant Companion, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL (forthcoming)
2021 RietveldTV, broadcasted on AT5, NL
writing & performance
2021 Artist talk, 28 May Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL
2021 Artist talk and lecture by Matisse Huiskens, 7 May, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL
2020 Artist talk CLUB SOLO, Breda, NL
2020 High Tide, text work for Stedelijk Museum, Breda, NL
2020 A Soft Room (instruction manual for creating a shelter), audio work for Radio Palanga, LT
2019 The Well, radiostation at de Ateliers, broadcasted on JAJAJANEENEENEE radio
2018 Brainwash Festival, performance, november, Amsterdam, NL
2018 No Wind Today, text work for Tubelight, no. 107, september, NL
2018 Nieuwe Types Festival, performance, Arnhem, NL
2017 When adding to walls, spaces shrink, text work for zine: Temporary Nightshop, Rotterdam, NL
2016 Archeology of the sky, podcast on radio Laumulistasamsteypan, 105.9 fm, IS
2016 Bomberjacket, podcast on radio Laumulistasamsteypan, 105.9 fm, IS
2016 De onnavolgbare fles, thesis Gerrit Rietveld Academie – edition of 25
2015 Ontmaskering van een schipbreuk, text work for publication, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Kleine barstjes schieten razendsnel in het rond, text work published on De Internet Gids
2014 Voice ~ a creature of transition, performance, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2014 De man die zijn stoel naar de berg droeg, performance Parool Theater, Amsterdam, NL
2013 een ZEKER iemand, De Punt, Amsterdam, NL
residencies
2021 Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL
2018 Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL
2017 Laumulistasamsteypan, Hrísey, IS
2016 Laumulistasamsteypan, Hrísey, IS
2014 Laumulistasamsteypan, Hrísey, IS
grants and stipends
2021 Theodora Niemeijer Fund – production grant, NL
2021 Dommering Foundation – film production grant, NL
2021 Stichting Stokroos – production grant, NL
2020 Mondriaan Fund, Stipend for Emerging Artists, NL
2020 Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds – Josine de Bruyn Kops Fonds, NL
2018-20 ASF Support Fund, two year residency stipend, NL
2017-18 Nederlands Letterenfonds (Dutch Foundation for Literature), Development grant, NL
2017 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), Projectsubsidy, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Nominated for Gerrit Rietveld Academie Thesis Prize, NL
2016 Dr. H. P. Berlage fonds, in support of my graduation work, Amsterdam, NL
other activities
2018-20 teaching Image & Language, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, NL
2017-19 co-founder and curator of at7 project space, Amsterdam, NL
collections
Various private collections in The Netherlands, Germany, Norway
