Miriam Sentler

installation - video - artistic research - ecology - environment

Sentler works within the mediums of (sound/video) installation, performance and artist publications. She is fascinated by the changing of industrial and modern landscapes and the migration of humans, animals and matter in these environments. In order to open various layers of a place up to the audience, she collaborates with scientists and individuals next to taking different roles during the process, learning skills affiliated to her current field of research. For example, she became a fisher and ceramist in order to replicate a fish fossil originating from a lignite pit for Descent into the Future (2020/2021), functioned as a hobby-ornithologist in the endangered woods of the Hambacher Forst for the Chase ( 2020) and explored the Antlantic Ocean as a modern-day shark hunter for Cairban (2021). Sacrifice is a central topic in Sentler's work, where she questions if we should sacrifice nature and human environments to build potentially better habitats.

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    • Exhibition: CLIMATE OF CONCERN - RADIUS CCA

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-07-2022 t/m 11-09-2022
    • Location: RADIUS CCA, Delft
    • CLIMATE OF CONCERN is the second exhibition of the Underland year program. Through the work of nine artists, the current over-indebtedness to the fossil fuel industry and mineral extractivism are examined. With works by Bianca Bondi, Julian Charriere, Amalie Jakobsen, Regina de Miquel, Agniezka Polska, Lisa Rave, Oliver Ressler, Miriam Sentler and Sam Smith.
    • http://radius-cca.org/en/exhibitions/underland-chapter-2-climate-of-concern

    Exhibition: Still Waters Run Deep - New Dakota

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 26-06-2022 t/m 07-08-2022
    • In collaboration with: VU Environmental Research Centre, curated by Marlies Augustijn
    • Location: New Dakota, Amsterdam
    • is a group exhibition about the interaction between man and water, curated by curator Marlies Augustijn, in which seven artists share their vision on extraction and connection. With artists Phoebe Boswell, Deep Time Agency (Miriam Sentler & Wouter Osterholt), Patrick Hough, Esther Kokmeijer, Kasia Molgas and Hannah Rowan.
    • https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/mogelijk-gemaakt/nieuw-dakota-presenteert-de-tentoonstelling-still-waters-run-deep/

    Residency: Jester (formerly: CIAP/FLACC) & Emile van Dorenmuseum

    Residencies / exchange

    • 30-05-2022 t/m 12-06-2022
    • In collaboration with: Emile van Dorenmuseum
    • Location: FLACC, Genk
    • Residency with Jester (the organization which originated from the merging of CIAP kunstverein and FLACC, workplace for professional artists), in collaboration with the Emile van Dorenmuseum, Genk.
    • https://www.flacc.info/nl

    Commission: New Views - Museum Bommel van Dam & Odapark

    Task

    • 15-06-2021 t/m 09-09-2022
    • In collaboration with: Municipality of Tegelen
    • Location: Tegelen, Venray and Venlo, Tegelen, Venray and Venlo
    • Museum van Bommel van Dam and Odapark in Venray have jointly started New Views. Supported by the North Limburg Culture Region, nine artists and designers from the Euregion around North Limburg are developing a project within this exhibition that contributes to the greening of our living environment. Each artist focuses on a specific location. In these nine places, efforts are being made towards a green intervention in the public space.
    • https://deeptimeagency.com/swamp-palace

    Exhibition: Prospects - Art Rotterdam

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 17-05-2022 t/m 22-05-2022
    • In collaboration with: Mondriaan Fund
    • Location: van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam
    • The Mondriaan Fund organizes the annual Prospects exhibition to give an extra impetus to the visibility of starting artists. Having them all together at Art Rotterdam gives art professionals and collectors, as well as a broad group of interested visitors, the opportunity to become acquainted with the work of these promising artists.
    • https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/activities/prospects-mondriaan-fund-shows-talent/

    Exhibition: Exploded View - Arti et Amictiae

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 25-02-2022 t/m 29-04-2022
    • In collaboration with: CLUE+, Foundation in Principio, Zone2Source
    • Location: Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
    • In 2018 and 2019, 13 international artists went on an extended research period to the Parco Regionalle Dell'Appia Antica in Rome (IT). The final works were on show at Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam in February 2022.
    • https://www.arti.nl/tentoonstelling/exploded-view/

    Performance: The Chase - CIAP Kunstverein

    Performance

    • 14-08-2021 t/m 15-08-2021
    • In collaboration with: Artist talk with composer Drake Stoughton and guided tour by ornithologist Johan Schoonaert
    • Location: Winterslag, C-Mine, Genk
    • CIAP invites Miriam to be the next guest to animate a piece of public furniture — the heated daybed, realized on the C-mine site by Ciel Grommen and Maximiliaan Royakkers. Departing from the question of how to inhabit the 'disturbed landscape' of Winterslag, their project Le Paysage Ménagé provided both a physical and theoretical framework for future interventions on site. Miriam Sentler's talk and auditory performance is the second episode in the series of events.
    • https://ciap.be/projects/events/thechase

    Residency: USF Verftet

    Residencies / exchange

    • 15-09-2021 t/m 15-11-2021
    • In collaboration with: Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF and Bergen Kommune
    • Location: USF Verftet, Bergen
    • USF Verftet and the council of Bergen offer a residency to professional artists of all fields. The aim is to strengthen, promote and develop collaborations between contemporary artists in Bergen and foreign artists. Yearly, an average of eight international artists and writers are selected for the residency program.
    • https://www.airbergen.no/

    Residency: KNOCKvologan

    Residencies / exchange

    • 12-07-2021 t/m 08-08-2021
    • In collaboration with: Environmental humanities researcher Sadie Hale
    • Location: Isle of Mull, Knockvologan, Scotland
    • The KNOCKvologan residency offers a remote refuge for art, literature, research and nature preservation and strengthens collaborations between artists, writers, researchers and the local community.
    • https://knockvologan.net

    Artist talk: Building an Archive of a Disappearing Landscape - Looiersgracht 60

    Reading

    • 20-09-2019 t/m 23-09-2019
    • In collaboration with: In conversation with Mariam Zulfiqar (curator UP Projects London)
    • Location: Printing Plant Art Book Fair - Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam
    • Panel discussion with artist Miriam Sentler and ecologist Kees van Oers (KNAW), moderated by Mariam Zulfiqar (UP Projects London). In the context of Printing Plant Art Book Fair during Amsterdam Art Week.
    • https://www.looiersgracht60.org

    Commission: Exploded View Rome

    Task

    • 01-04-2017 t/m 25-02-2022
    • In collaboration with: VU CLUE+, Zone2Source, Foundation in Principio, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art Rome
    • Location: Parco Regionale Dell´ Appia Antica, Rome
    • In 2018 and 2019, 13 international artists went on an extended research period to the Parco Regionalle Dell´Appia Antica in Rome (IT). The project took place within the artistic research project Exploded View, organized by curator Dr. Krien Clevis, Prof. dr. dr. Gert-Jan Burgers (VU-Chair in Mediterranean archaeology and heritage/director CLUE+) and Alice Smits (artistic director Zone2Source Amsterdam).
    • https://www.explodedview.net

    Residency: RAVI (Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International)

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-04-2018 t/m 02-07-2018
    • Location: RAVI, Liege
    • The Résidences-Ateliers Vivegnis International fall within the tradition of participating in the development of the visual arts sector, an area to which the City of Liège has devoted continuous attention. With RAVI, the City of Liège wishes to help artists develop their practice as well as to invite them to take part in current debates and to engage with elements from their environment.
    • https://www.ravi-liege.eu

    Commission: Transition Zone

    Task

    • 01-10-2016 t/m 24-09-2017
    • Location: ENCI marl quarry, Maastricht
    • Transition Zone is a project about connections, participation and visibility. It is a project about art and research, and the presentation of its results in situ, in the ENCI area. This special location is one in which various experienced notions of place are making particular changes possible. Accordingly, we invited 12 young artists who will follow the different parties involved, for one and a half year.
    • https://overgangszone.nl/

    Exhibition: Ten is for God - Neverneverland

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-04-2018 t/m 16-04-2018
    • In collaboration with: University of Amsterdam - Master Artistic Research
    • Location: Mid-term Exhibition Artistic Research, Amsterdam
    • Mid-term exhibition of the MA Artistic Research students of the University of Amsterdam.
    • https://www.nevernever.nl

    Exhibition: KRIEG Gallery - Elite 2018

    Exhibition / presentation

    Exhibition: Marres Currents: Running Time

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 14-12-2016 t/m 12-02-2017
    • In collaboration with: curated by Bas Hendrikx and Barbara Cueto
    • Location: Marres, Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
    • Marres Currents #4: Running Time was a group exhibition with artists who recently graduated in Belgium, the Ruhrgebiet in Germany, and the south of the Netherlands.
    • https://marres.org/en/programmas/marres-currents-4-running-time-2/

    Exhibition: Start Up Slow Accident - New Dakota

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 26-02-2017 t/m 31-03-2017
    • In collaboration with: Curated by Paul Devens
    • Location: New Dakota, Amsterdam
    • With the Start-up program line, Nieuw Dakota offers a new generation of young, ambitious and innovative artists a chance to make their debut. This edition of Start-up shows work by artists from the Fine Arts department of the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design (MaFAD). Visual artist and MaFAD teacher Paul Devens curates the exhibition, with work by Simon Weins (D), Eline Kersten (NL), Joep Hinssen (NL), Sara Bachour (IT), Gladys Zeevaarders (NL), Thomas Hütten (D ), Maarten Davidse (NL).
    • http://www.nieuwdakota.com

    Exhibition: Young Masters - Media Art Festival Friesland

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-12-2016 t/m 08-01-2017
    • Location: Oude Kerk, Leeuwarden
    • The objective of the Media Art Friesland Foundation is to promote, initiate and organize cultural events in the field of media art, as well as to perform all other activities insofar as these are related to or may be beneficial to the foregoing, all in the broadest sense of the word. . Our core activity is organizing the annual Media Art Festival (MAF). This consists of the Young Masters exhibition with works by 15 talented young artists.
    • https://mediaartfriesland.nl/2016/category/young-masters/index.html

    Exhibition: Fresh Cacao - The Cacao Factory

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 15-08-2016 t/m 15-09-2016
    • Location: Cacaofabriek, Helmond
    • Fresh Cacao is the annual exhibition with work by young artists who graduated last summer. De Cacaofabriek believes it is important to offer young artists the opportunity to present themselves and develop further. Eleven artists from five academies have been selected: Breda and Den Bosch (AKV Sint Joost), AKI Enschede, Utrecht (HKU) and Maastricht academy of Fine Arts.
    • https://cacaofabriek.nl

    Exhibition: Best of Graduates - Gallery Ron Mandos

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-08-2016 t/m 27-08-2016
    • Location: Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
    • Following on previous years, team Ron Mandos along with curator Radek Vana visited all of the Dutch art academies to select new and upcoming talents for the annual summer exhibition: BEST OF GRADUATES 2016. The ninth edition will take place from the 5th to the 27th of August 2016. The exhibition welcomes 25 newly graduated artists with a wide variety of media and styles.
    • https://ronmandos.nl/exhibition/best-of-graduates-2016/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund - Young Talent/ Stipendium for Emerging Artists

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds/ Tijl Fund - Project Grant for Production Textile Museum Tilburg

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Stokroos Foundation - Project Grant for Production at Textile Museum Tilburg

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds - Residency Grant for KNOCKvologan Studies

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Niemeijer Fund Foundation - Project Grant for Concrete Reef

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • BBK Neustart Berlin - Project Grant for Ancestors Rising

    • 2022
      Scholarship

    • Creative Industries Fund NL - Project Grant for Planktos VS Goliath

    • 2022
      Pricing

    • Ron Mandos Young Blood Award Nominee

    • 2016
      Pricing

    • Henriette Hustinx Prize Nominee

    • 2016
      Pricing

    • Young Master Award Nominee - Media Art Festival

    • 2016
      Pricing

    • Nomination CoCA Foundation Art Prize

    • 2022
      Publication

    • Shifting Earth Archivers: Human and Non-Human Memory, Activism and Archiving in Relation to North-Rhine Westphalian Lignite Industry

    • 2020
    • Thesis
    • Amsterdam University Press - Miriam Sentler, supervised by Miriam van Rijsingen and Paula Albuquerque