Artist Statement/CV
I have been listening to fairy tales and mythical stories for as long as I can remember. As a child, they offered me comfort and space. I loved their strangeness. The idea that anything was possible. In those stories, I felt at home. Free to dream, wander, and feel.
But when I moved from the village to the city as a student, I lost that feeling. The hustle and bustle. The rawness. It was overwhelming. Slowly, I lost contact with myself. One day, I wondered: how do you live when you no longer feel what gives you direction?
During a residency, in which I performed, I had an insight. I was buried under paper pulp. It felt like a second skin. Heavy. Still. Detached from appearance or identity. Only my inner world remained tangible. Raw. Animalistic. Powerful. In that moment, the image of a wolf appeared.
That wolf led me back to the stories of the past. Stories that have been passed down for centuries. About where we come from and where we are going. And suddenly I understood: these stories are not outdated. They can still give direction now.
Since then, I have worked as an archaeologist of my inner world. In the silence of meditation, I dig. Layer by layer. Symbols appear: the egg, the spider, the wolf. These are images from the collective unconscious, a universal repository of human experiences, symbols, and archetypes, as Carl Jung described. They carry meaning. For me, the egg stands for birth. The spider for the mother and the web of connection. The wolf for instinct and strength.
When I became a mother, an even deeper layer opened up. My body was completely devoted to new life. It was magical and raw at the same time. Never before had I felt so sharply my instinct, the primal power of the female body, and the connection to all mothers before me.
My images are rituals. Performances in which I use my body to make my inner images visible. They don’t provide answers.
They whisper softly, yet clearly: to you, powerful woman.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2019 AVROTROS OPIUM Mediapark Hilversum
2018 'Spacemakers' - led by Tanja Smeets, Galerie Pouloeuff Naarden
2018 Casa dell'Arte - Art Residency Program in Bodrum, Turkey
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PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS
Fresh Eyes International, talent 2023 - GUP magazine
Art residence -Bodrum and Istanbul 2018, Turkye
Arte Laguna Price 2017 Venice, Italy
New Dutch Photography talent 2015, GUP Magazine Amsterdam
Studiolinga Photography Prize, 2012 nomination, Gallery Arps and Co,Amsterdam
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EXHIBITIONS
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2024 ART-ICON, Paris
2024 Women in Art 2024, selectie Westerpark, Kiekie-foundation, Amsterdam
2024 Women in Art 2024, selectie Mercatorplein, Kiekie-foundation, Amsterdam
2024 Women in Art 2024, de Hallen, Kiekie-foundation, Amsterdam
2023 Fresh Eyes International talent 2023, GUP- Haute Photography, Amsterdam
2022 ClimatExpo, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
2020 Utrecht Down Under, Utrecht
2020 Kunstliefde, Utrecht
2020 'Art Utrecht' , Utrecht
2019 ‘Nasty Women’ de Balie, Amsterdam
2019 Tentoonstelling: ’Absurd beings’, Kunstkapel Amsterdam, video van mij en Krisztina Czika.
2018 Galerie Pouloeuff - 'Spacemakers' onder leiding van Tanja Smeets, Naarden
2018 Kunstliefde- Utrecht
2017 augustus- september UtrechtDownUnder, Utrecht
2017 Arte Laguna Prize, Arsenal of Venice, Italie
2016 April-Juni Groepsexpositie: Het beste van 2015 galerie Pouloeuff, Museum MIJ, Ijsselstein
2015 13 november-3 januari, Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden
2014 21 t/m 31 november, groepsexpositie New Dutch Photography Talent 2015, Amsterdam
2014 28 mei t/m 31 augustus Zomerexpo Licht, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
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PROJECTS AND WORKEXPERIENCE
2019 22-28 april. AVROTROS- OPIUM- residentie, Hilversum.
2018 Oktober- November, Art residence 'Spacemakers'- o.l.v. Tanja Smeets, curator Ine van der Hoorn- Naarden
2018 Oktober-November, Art residence -Bodrum en Istanbul, Turkije
2017 Kinderkunstprogramma: Makiestan, Een stad bouwen van karton, Into The Great Wide Open ,Vlieland
2011-2014 Live Build, kunstwinkel voor drinkwater in Kameroen, Utrecht en Amsterdam
2011- Heden. Docent Beeldende Vorming, Kalsbeek College te Woerden
2010- 2011 Docent Beeldende vorming , Scala College te Alphen aan den Rijn
2009- 2012 Videoworkshops, Dropstuff, Amsterdam
2007 Muurschildering Hotel Bloom, Brussel
PUBLICATIONS
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2023 Fresh Eyes International, talent 2023 book - GUP Magazine
2020 https://rizoom.art/Takeover-135-Inge-van-Heerde
2019 WOA, interview www.womanofarts.nl
2017 Boek Arte Laguna Price Winners, Venetie
2016 1 van de 'featured photographers' op deze site. www.independent-photo.com.
2016 Mijn werk gepubliceerd op Lensculture.com
2014 New Dutch Photography talent 2015 boek.
2015 Book cover voor proefschrift MRI mapping of cerebral physiology using respiratory challenges, Alex A. Bhogal
2014 Book cover voor proefschrift MRI quantitative hemodynamic evaluation of the brain, Jill. B. De Vis.
2014 Book cover voor proefschrift Optimization of image-guided sampling techniques in Breast Cancer, Suzanne van Diepstraten.
2014 Zomerexpo 'Licht' catalogus
2009 Eigen huis en interieur, muurschildering Hotel Bloom, Brussel.
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EDUCATION
2005-2009 Bachelor of Education in Visual Art and Design, HKU
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