Katrina Niebergal (she/they) is a Rotterdam-based artist whose practice operates at the intersections of research, filmmaking, and scenographic installation. Increasingly, these modes are converging into long-term world-making projects. Guided by poetic logic, attuned to myth as a living framework, her work focuses on the contested figure of the womanly “irrational,” and on prehistoric and speculative-future epochs as potential times outside patriarchal and capitalist hegemony. These inquiries directly inform her methodology, which combines fluid research processes with material gathering, acts of reinterpretation, and the construction of counter-narratives. Within this framework of method and temporal inquiry, Katrina examines how human technological developments reverberate through culture and society, shaping patterns of knowledge, power, and ways of being. She situates these developments in relation to both mythic structures and lived experience, asking how technologies of the past and future are inscribed within present bodies and politics. Grounded in the ethics of intersectional feminism, her work reflects on her own entanglement within these histories and systems. Across projects, she explores how recognizing such entanglement might enable the cultivation of radical (self-)trust, the recuperation of agency, and the creation of spaces for alternative modes of being.
Rehearsals for Departure / Site 9831-B (forthcoming visual-essay contribution), (OUTER) SPACE(S), Vol. 47, no. 1/2,
(OUTER) SPACE(S), Kunstlicht Vol. 47 no. 1/2, explores outer space as both material reality and cultural imagination. The issue examines space exploration in relation to geopolitics, extraction, technology, colonial histories, and speculative futures, foregrounding how cosmic imaginaries intersect with earthly infrastructures, power structures, and modes of representation.
SF scene-making EVENTS (forthcoming)
Two participatory scene-making events in collaboration with Platform DIS, Nijmegen, where small groups of participants engage with site, props, costumes, and text- and sound-based prompts. The events function as collective laboratories for exploring speculative futures, feminist SF methods, and embodied, performative research, generating filmed and photographic material to inform ongoing artistic development.
SF scene-making EVENTS (forthcoming)
Two research-based events developed with Platform DIS, Nijmegen, in which participants engage with site-responsive props, costumes, and prompts. The events explore embodied world-building and collective speculation, using feminist science fiction (SF) as a framework for developing scene-making as an artistic method.
(forthcoming screening)
(forthingcoming screening) wysiwyg
With the aim of expanding visitors' horizons in film and art, platform wysiwyg has found a home at Filmhuis Den Haag. Each month, they organize various film programs, each with a different focus. Whether you are interested in seeing works that rarely make it to the cinema screen, exploring the role of sound in film, or discussing unfinished film projects with strangers — every month there is something for you at one of wysiwyg's programs at Filmhuis Den Haag.
Sensory Walk (TEST EVENT)
A test event/developmental experiment developed to trial sculptural costume components and to explore how they reshape movement, sound, and perception in relation to landscape. The event generated feedback on material, sensory, and performative aspects of the work. The work forms part of an ongoing investigation into feminist science fiction, speculative evolution, and collective imagination.
Sound & Radio Works 2025
Radiophrenia is an artist run FM radio station broadcasting in Glasgow and online. Radiophrenia aims to promote the medium of radio as an art form and encourage experimental approaches to making radio that are not catered for by mainstream stations.
Experimental Pizza Club
During Amsterdam Art Week, the Experimental Pizza Club will host a public dinner-event at the artist-run W139.
WORM x IFFR x ART ROTTERDAM
WORM and IFFR team up for four nights of collaborative programming; a wildly eclectic program combining film, music and more.
Dreams
Studio Dreams is an artist’s studio in Rotterdam, located in the former De Player space in Afrikaanderwijk, since approximately September 2022. At some point in our very early days, one of us suggested to make a group exhibition together as a way to bond as studio mates, but also to locate, relocate, dislocate, localize and vocalize our sharing of space and our place and presence in the neighborhood.
come, Memory
come, Memory is a film and scenographic installation, a result of a long trajectory of research, experimentation and collaboration, that centers on a series of ancient (especially Neolithic) European sacred sites, and looks speculatively, through embedded, eroded and residual evidence, at the presence/absence of the divine feminine.
Come to your senses
"Come to your senses" is a monthly radio show, broadcast on Good Times Bad Times community radio, Rotterdam. Through voice, sound, and song, it explores senso-r-eality; poetic capacity; cosmic entanglement; and beyond — and acts as a kind-of-notion-device or sort-of-diary for my life, research, and art practice.
Unbound Anthologies
Together, the artists use the space to ask incomplete questions - presenting moments of intuitive object-making. The works present chapters in larger anthologies, characters of the past interacting with the present, and personal-historical weaves which invite us in and branch outside the exhibition space for the upcoming weeks.