Katinka van Gorkum

artistic research - autobiographical - conceptual - crossover - digital technology - documentary - gender - LGBTI+ - literary - performance - writing - video - zine

Katinka van Gorkum (Rotterdam, 1988) is a visual artist, performer and writer interested in the interior as a figure for interiority. Van Gorkum's life and practice are intimately intertwined, with the concept of 'a house' at the center. She sees a house not as a fixed concept but as a skin, a part of the surface with which people cover the world around them. Through the private domain, she investigates the interior world of humans.

  • Portfolio
  • Activities
  • Awarded
  • Contact

    • Artist-in-residence at Bad Rotterdam Foundation

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-04-2020 t/m 01-02-2021
    • In collaboration with: BAD . Foundation
    • Location: Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • For ten months I was artist-in-residence at the Bad Foundation in Charlois. I used this period to focus on writing literary fiction. During my residency I took several writing courses (including at The Writers Guide to the Galaxy) and I participated in the studio routes Groot Atelierweekend Rotterdam and South Explorer via Stichting Bad. For these exhibitions I made two zines with my own texts, an installation with text and I recited my own work.
    • https://www.foundationbad.nl/guest-studios/guests/

    A.pass, post-master at Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies, Brussels, BE

    Workshop

    • 01-05-2018 t/m 01-06-2019
    • In collaboration with: A.pass Brussels, Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Theodora Niemeijer Fund Foundation
    • Location: A.pass, Brussels
    • a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) is an artistic and educational research environment that welcomes research practitioners, from all professional backgrounds in an international self-organized, collaborative and trans-disciplinary program. At a.pass I have started exploring the notions of interior and interiority in virtual space using the design program SketchUp. You can see my activities at a.pass in my video portfolio in the link.
    • https://apass.be/blockboard/my-case/?user=126

    Guest teacher at Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague

    Workshop

    • 01-01-2013 t/m 31-03-2021
    • In collaboration with: KABK
    • Location: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
    • From 2013 - 2016 I worked as a guest teacher at the Royal Academy of Arts The Hague. During one semester a year I created a workshop for the second year students at the Fine Arts Department. From 2020-2021 I worked as a guest teacher doing studio visits with the second, third and fourth year students at the Fine Arts Department

    The Hols Collective

    Project

    • 01-01-2013 t/m 31-12-2017
    • In collaboration with: Mondriaan Fund (for presentation at Art Brussels), Stroom Den Haag
    • From 2013-2017 I was part of The Holls Collective: "The Holls Collective is a group of eight artists, who use their group dynamics as both subject and medium. While retaining their individual practices, the members of The Holls operate as an interdisciplinary machine , involving physical labour, longevity and endurance to create performances, videos and space-invading installations."
    • http://www.thehollscollective.com/about

    20 B - Artwork in public space for the Municipality of Rijswijk

    Task

    • In collaboration with: Municipality of Rijswijk
    • Location: Community School Muziekbuurt, Rijswijk
    • 20B is a permanent sculpture for the playground of the new location of a primary school. The work consists of 8 elements that are derived from a working period during which the artist installed her studio inside the school. Where the school focuses on learning and facts, the world on the playground stands for play and fiction. 20b is an attempt to turn the playground into a place where memories find shelter, reality can be questioned and stories begin.
    • https://katinkavangorkum.com/20B-1

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Dream & Deed Foundation

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds, study grant for post-master program in Brussels

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Theodora Niemeijer Fund, grant for post-master program in Brussels

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund, grant for emerging artists

    • 2015
      Scholarship

    • Stroom The Hague, Pro Invest grant

    • 2014
      Pricing

    • Nominated for the Theodora Niemeijer Prize at VanAbbemuseum

    • 2014
      Pricing

    • Nominated for Startpointprize, publication + exhibition at Doc Gallery, Prague

    • 2012
      Pricing

    • Department Prize Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Arts The Hague

    • 2012