Katja Verheul

audiovisueel

I am a filmmaker and artistic archeologist based in Rotterdam (NL). I graduated with a BFA in Audio-Visual Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2012 and hold a MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University (UK) in 2016.

I believe in the revealing value of long-term research. The deep dive into complex matter is an important part of my work process. With my film and video projects I want to make complex (invisible) social, political and economical issues visible. My work often arises from the question; what remains after a war and what is the impact of these remains on people and nature?
I am working as an artistic archeologist digging through our most recent history. Before it is nostalgic, before it is a story that lies generations before us. Not only to demystify, but to make the mediated and almost historicized and perhaps forgotten reality personal again.


Off Screen X Studio Art Office

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 15-05-2024 t/m 15-05-2024
  • In samenwerking met: Studio Art Office
  • Locatie: Worm, Rotterdam
  • Preview Red Dust

Supermarket Art Fair

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 25-04-2024 t/m 28-04-2024
  • In samenwerking met: Paadmaan
  • Locatie: Stockholm, Stockholm
  • Vertoning Improvised Objects - Trust

Golden Pixel Cooperative Dramaturgy Lab - Red Dust

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

Eind presentatie

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 11-07-2024 t/m 11-07-2024
  • In samenwerking met: Rotterdam Writers Rooms
  • Locatie: Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • Openbare eind pitch van Rotterdam Writers Rooms. Ik zal mijn onderzoek voor A Day Without Space kort presenteren.
  • https://www.rotterdamwritersrooms.nl

Table Read - Sneak Peek

Performance

  • 30-05-2024 t/m 30-05-2024
  • In samenwerking met: Rotterdam Writers Rooms
  • Locatie: Weena 70, Rotterdam
  • Maak kennis met nieuwe films en televisieseries die worden ontwikkeld binnen het talenttraject Rotterdam Writers’ Rooms. Scènes uit deze projecten worden tot leven gewekt door een regisseur en acteurs, waarna het publiek kan meepraten. Ontdek nieuwe schrijvers en acteurs, en praat na tijdens de netwerkborrel!
  • https://www.rotterdamwritersrooms.nl

Trust

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

Trust

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

Rotterdam Writers Room

Residenties / uitwisseling

GPC LAB - Golden Pixel Cooperative

Residenties / uitwisseling

Red Dust

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-05-2023 t/m 31-05-2023
  • In samenwerking met: Dos Mares Residency
  • Locatie: Marseille, Marseille
  • Eind presentatie residentie periode bij Dos Mares.

Artist in Residence Dos Mares

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-05-2023 t/m 31-05-2023
  • In samenwerking met: Dos Mares residency program
  • Locatie: Marseille, Marseille
  • Ontwikkelen filmproject Red Dust op locatie

Artist in Residence Örö

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-02-2024 t/m 29-02-2024
  • In samenwerking met: Ores Residency
  • Locatie: Örö, Örö
  • The island Örö is a protected natural area that has been shaped by years of use as a military training ground. During my artist residency at the Örö, I will live, conduct research, and film on the island. I will create an experimental portrait of the long-term impact of military activities on the island. How have these activities shaped nature? How do the present and the past converge here, and what are the consequences?
  • https://www.ores.fi

WOW - Artist in residence

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-03-2020 t/m 28-02-2022
  • In samenwerking met: WOW
  • Locatie: Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • WOW houses a wide variety of disciplines, from classical music to modern dance and from painting to fashion design. With its programme, WOW acts as a platform for recently graduated talent and helps you make the transition from school to your own professional practice. WOW offers an inspiring environment where you can live, work, meet and exchange ideas with visitors and other artists.
  • https://www.wow-amsterdam.nl/artists/test/

Embedded Arts Practice in a Post-pandemic Future

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-09-2020 t/m 30-11-2020
  • In samenwerking met: UNIDEE - Fondazione Pistoletto
  • Locatie: Italie , Biella
  • The global Coronavirus pandemic is an event that had created new conditions for arts and culture. Those who wish to effect social change through their practice are left with questions: "What can we do from here?" and "What future can we help to build?”. The residency aims to collectively and collaboratively address key questions, challenges and themes in the area of embedded and socially engaged art practice.
  • https://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/activity.html?id=124

De Nieuwe Wildernis

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-09-2020 t/m 31-01-2021
  • In samenwerking met: FilmForward
  • Locatie: Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • De eerste editie van de Vrijplaats staat in het teken van ‘De Nieuwe Wildernis’. Die nieuwe wildernis is alles wat zich voorbij de grenzen bevindt van hoe filmische verhalen en audiovisuele producties momenteel worden bedacht en geproduceerd. Een wereld die in rap tempo verandert en evolueert.
  • https://filmforward.nl/vrijplaats/vrijplaats-2020-de-nieuwe-wildernis/

Care, Caring and Repair in Cognitive Capitalism

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-08-2020 t/m 31-08-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art
  • Locatie: Online, Online
  • Building upon our past five year engagement with topics concerning estrangement, individuation and collectivity in art and politics, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art 2020 will address the present and future conditions of our new pandemic reality, as well as the new possibilities it may generate.
  • https://sfsia.art/2020-online/

Het Domijn - Artist in Residence

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-01-2020 t/m 30-04-2022
  • In samenwerking met: Het Domijn
  • Locatie: Weesp, Weesp
  • Sinds 1 januari 2017 heeft Het Domijn een gastatelier waar kunstenaars van buiten het terrein tijdelijk kunnen werken.
  • https://www.hetdomijn.nl/nl/de-kantine/

Yarat Contemporary Art Centre - Artist in residence

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-05-2019 t/m 31-07-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Yarat Contemporary Art Centre
  • Locatie: Baku, Baku
  • YARAT Contemporary Art Space invites artists to apply for the residency programme. The programme is divided into two periods (March - July, September - December) and grants selected artists an opportunity to live and work in Baku for up to four months. Each period hosts two international residents.
  • https://www.yarat.az/index.php?lang=en&page=17&yrtMaincatID=14&yrtSubcatID=7

Jan van Eyck Academi - Artist in residence

Residenties / uitwisseling

  • 01-04-2018 t/m 31-03-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Jan van Eyck academie
  • Locatie: Maastricht, Maastricht
  • The Jan van Eyck Academie is committed to exploring the agency, roles, and civic significance of art, design and other creative practices in relation to the climate crisis, environmental breakdown, and their manifold effects. This institutional focus opens up a wide discourse and creates a framework that embraces a diversity of practices and allows for a multitude of voices.
  • https://www.janvaneyck.nl/postacademy/about

Improvised Objects

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 05-05-2022 t/m 05-05-2022
  • In samenwerking met: Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE)
  • Locatie: Oberhausen, Oberhausen
  • 2021 / 4K/ 16:9/ stereo sound/ 5.1 / DCP/ 9.36 min. In a world where billions are spent on state-of-the-art weaponry, the deadliest weapon is still a so-called Improvised Explosive Device, which most people can make from materials found at their homes. An IED maker, a soldier and a philosopher describe their relationship with these objects, which can have almost any shape, form and content.
  • https://vimeo.com/453348645

Improvised Objects

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-09-2021 t/m 30-09-2021
  • In samenwerking met: Dutch Focus, RIFF
  • Locatie: Reykjavik , Reykjavik
  • 2021 / 4K/ 16:9/ stereo sound/ 5.1 / DCP/ 9.36 min. In a world where billions are spent on state-of-the-art weaponry, the deadliest weapon is still a so-called Improvised Explosive Device, which most people can make from materials found at their homes. An IED maker, a soldier and a philosopher describe their relationship with these objects, which can have almost any shape, form and content.
  • https://riff.is/dutch-focus-2021/

Dynamo

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

Improvised Objects

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-07-2021 t/m 31-07-2021
  • In samenwerking met: IFFR
  • Locatie: Rotterdam , Rotterdam
  • 2021 / 4K/ 16:9/ stereo sound/ 5.1 / DCP/ 9.36 min. In a world where billions are spent on state-of-the-art weaponry, the deadliest weapon is still a so-called Improvised Explosive Device, which most people can make from materials found at their homes. An IED maker, a soldier and a philosopher describe their relationship with these objects, which can have almost any shape, form and content.
  • https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2021/films/improvised-objects

Dynamo

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-06-2021 t/m 31-05-2022
  • In samenwerking met: Kaan Architecten
  • Locatie: online , Rotterdam
  • DYNAMO weaves a mysterious tale of a creature wandering around the empty CUBE. Nothing can stay hidden in a completely transparent building. But what are we watching? Or rather, who is watching who?
  • https://minutes.kaanarchitecten.com/films/dynamo

Dynamo - 12 ways to film a building

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 08-04-2021 t/m 08-04-2021
  • In samenwerking met: Het nieuwe instituut - Kaan architecten
  • Locatie: online , Rotterdam
  • On the occasion of this Thursday Night Live!, Brendan Cormier, who works as Senior Curator of Exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, will introduce MINUTES and animate a discussion with the filmmakers who took part in the project. He will bring his experience of commissioning film for major exhibitions as a way of adding a new dimension of understanding for the viewer.
  • https://live.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/12-ways-film-building

Maiden

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

Maiden

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-11-2020 t/m 30-11-2020
  • In samenwerking met: LeGuessWho? Festival, Utrecht (NL)
  • Locatie: Utrecht, Utrecht
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://on.leguesswho.com/lineup/open-call-video-art

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 04-09-2020 t/m 04-09-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Kosovo Screening Program, Kino in der Reitschule, Bern (CH)
  • Locatie: BERN, BERN
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://www.kulturalink.org/kino-program

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 30-01-2020 t/m 04-02-2020
  • In samenwerking met: Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston (USA)
  • Locatie: Boston, Boston
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://revolutionsperminutefest.org/2020.html

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 14-11-2019 t/m 17-11-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Kasseler Dokfest (DE)
  • Locatie: Kassel, Kassel
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://www.kasselerdokfest.de/en/progamflyer-1

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-11-2019 t/m 30-11-2019
  • In samenwerking met: MedFilm Festival (IT)
  • Locatie: Rome, Rome
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://www.medfilmfestival.org/it/medfilm-festival-2019-tutti-i-vincitori/

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 24-10-2019 t/m 29-10-2019
  • In samenwerking met: East Silver Market, Ji.hlava IDFF (CZ)
  • Locatie: Jihlava, Jihlava
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-08-2019 t/m 31-08-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Dokufest (KS)
  • Locatie: Prizren, Prizren
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://www.albinfo.ch/filmi-per-berberin-shqiptar-nga-zvicra-shfaqet-ne-dokufest/

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-05-2019 t/m 31-05-2019
  • In samenwerking met: VAFT
  • Locatie: Turku, Turku
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://www.videoartfestivalturku.com

Toni and Bleri

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-04-2019 t/m 30-04-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Visions du Réel (CH)
  • Locatie: Nyon, Nyon
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://www.visionsdureel.ch/en/program/awards/2019-award

The Dust Movers

Performance

  • 01-07-2019 t/m 31-07-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Zadie Xa solo exhibition opening night, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre (AZ)
  • Locatie: BAKU, Baku
  • The performance is inspired by the magic of public cleaning ladies who fearlessly cleanse the streets of the city with their brooms. They are equated with white witches who use their spells to keep the city from dark devastation. As if from another time, these enigmatic women stand in sharp contrast with the modern appearance of the city. They are sweeping the way with delicate but also determined movements, which in a few seconds becomes dusty again, reminding of poetic Sisyphus workers who hav
  • https://www.yarat.az/index.php?lang=en&page=12&yrtMaincatID=12&yrtSubcatID=0&yrtEventID=2139

Maiden

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-11-2020 t/m 31-01-2021
  • In samenwerking met: LAZNIA Center for Contemporary Art (PL)
  • Locatie: LODZ, LODZ
  • A group of young girls re-enact, deconstruct and rebuild an old myth to question its meaning today.
  • https://www.laznia.pl/wystawy/current-situation-374/

Maiden - Forget what you know, See who I am

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

Hostile Sites - Part 2

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 21-05-2019 t/m 09-06-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Invisible cities, MAXXI (IT)
  • Locatie: Rome, Rome
  • The performance is inspired by the magic of public cleaning ladies who fearlessly cleanse the streets of the city with their brooms. They are equated with white witches who use their spells to keep the city from dark devastation. As if from another time, these enigmatic women stand in sharp contrast with the modern appearance of the city. They are sweeping the way with delicate but also determined movements, which in a few seconds becomes dusty again, reminding of poetic Sisyphus workers who hav
  • https://www.maxxi.art/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/invisible_cities_proiezioni.pdf

Open Studio's, Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 20-03-2019 t/m 24-03-2019
  • In samenwerking met: Open Studio's, Jan van Eyck Academie (NL)
  • Locatie: Maastricht, Maastricht
  • During Open Studios an international group of 46 participating artists, designers, curators and writers will show what they have been working on the past year, in their studios, the exhibition spaces, Labs and other locations throughout and beyond the academy building. The works on show, the experiments, research and collaborative projects will give an insight into their work process and testify to the possibilities of the academy.
  • https://www.janvaneyck.nl/projects/2019-open-studios

Toni and Bleri _ Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds, Art Rotterdam (NL)

Tentoonstelling / presentatie

  • 01-03-2022 t/m 31-05-2022
  • In samenwerking met: Prospects and Concepts, Mondriaan Fonds, Art Rotterdam (NL)
  • Locatie: Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • During one of the last days of the winter two young Kosovar actors find some left over construction material. While dreaming about leaving the country without the visa hassle they decide to take the shattered parts with them. At an abandoned building they start constructing the different parts building their own one-man rocket - while stories from the past are brought up. Both boys decide that the rocket needs to be launched from the top of the highest mountains in Kosovo, the mythical Accursed
  • https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/en/activities/prospects-mondriaan-fund-shows-talent/prospects-2019/

Erkenningen

    Stipendium
  • AFK - ontwikkelbudget

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • Josine de Bruyn Kops

  • 2020
    Stipendium
  • Mondriaan Fonds - jong talentontwikkeling

  • 2017
    Stipendium
  • Mondriaan Fonds - de korte verbeelding

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • Mondriaan Fodns - corona overbrugging

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • Amarte Fonds

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • Dommering Fonds

  • 2020
    Stipendium
  • Werktuig PPO

  • 2021
    Stipendium
  • Stroom den haag - ontwikkelbudget

  • 2018
    Stipendium
  • Jan van Eyck

  • 2018
    Stipendium
  • Filmfonds Startsubsidie Dissolving into the World

  • 2022
    Stipendium
  • O&O CBK Rotterdam

  • 2022
    Stipendium
  • Amarte Fonds

  • 2024
    Stipendium
  • Mondriaan Fonds - Basis

  • 2023
    Stipendium
  • Gemeente Rotterdam

  • 2022
    Stipendium
  • Cultuurfonds - Horizon

  • 2022
    Stipendium
  • Mondriaan Fonds - Bijdrage residentie

  • 2023
    Collectie
  • In Between Art Film (IT)

  • 2019, Italy
    Collectie
  • Lima Amsterdam

  • 2021, Amsterdam
    Publicatie
  • De Vrijplaats

  • 2021
  • publicatie
  • Filmforward - Filmforward
    Publicatie
  • Maiden

  • 2019
  • catalogue
  • Yarat Contemporary Art Centre - Forget what you know, See who I am, ARTIM, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre (AZ)
    Publicatie
  • A Green Piece: an unrealised film

  • 2019
  • artist publication
  • self published - Katja Verheul
    Publicatie
  • The Poor Acoustics of the Forest

  • 2019
  • artist publication
  • self published - Katja Verheul
    Publicatie
  • The Law and Rules

  • 2018
  • art work
  • self published - Katja Verheul
    Publicatie
  • Thea Segall (un)edited for Jan van Eyck inlab - The Art of Forgetting

  • 2018
  • Jan van Eyck inlab - Jan van Eyck inlab
    Publicatie
  • British Indian Ocean Territory

  • 2016
  • self published - Katja Verheul
    Publicatie
  • The American Diplomat Series

  • 2021
  • series of books
  • lulu - Katja Verheul, American diplomats
    Publicatie
  • Online Interview Kaan Architecten

  • 2021
  • Interview
  • Kaan Architecten - https://www.instagram.com/p/CVNQB-6oNj-/
    Publicatie
  • Online interview IFFR

  • 2021
  • Interview
  • IFFR - https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2021/films/improvised-objects
    Publicatie
  • Interview residentie wow

  • 2021
  • Interview
  • WOW - https://mailchi.mp/wow-amsterdam/z47nz1tplh-7220693?e=9f5755a84a
    Publicatie
  • Toni and Bler on seeNL

  • 2019
  • Text/description
  • SEENL - https://issuu.com/netherlandsfilmfund/docs/seenl35_def_issuu
    Publicatie
  • Interview VICE

  • 2019
  • INTERVIEW
  • VICE - https://www.vice.com/nl/article/mbzb8n/ezels-oorlog-en-afhaalgerechten-op-art-rotterdam
    Publicatie
  • TEXT Toni and Bleri

  • 2019
  • description/text
  • Mondriaan Fonds - https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/profiel/katja-verheul/