Miriam Sentler

video, omgeving, installatie, Ecologie, Artistiek onderzoek

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.

Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne (2022) - Tapestry, depicting the relationships between oil and myth throughout time. By undertaking residencies close to the oil industry’s working places, ecological facts, personal stories and local myths encountered in the landscapes are used to explore the commercial use of both oil and myth. Produced in collaboration with the TextileLab, the professional workplace of the Textielmuseum Tilburg, currently on show at RADIUS CCA, Delft. (350 x 175 cm. Jacquard weave, merino wool and cotton). https://miriamsentler.com/Fossil-Fuel-Mnemosyne
Concrete Reef - Sculpture and publication, bringing together replicas of various maritime fossils found in the ENCI marl quarry, replicated with the last bags of cement of the closed ENCI mine. The construction is inspired by a star constellation, referring to the name that the coral fossils from this area acquired during medieval times: star-stones. This name was derived from the surfaces of the fossils, which, according to some, resembled stars. At the bottom of the ENCI lake, the sculpture will function as an artificial reef, creating a new habitat and benefiting new lifeforms in the post-modern environment. Currently on show at Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam. (220 x 110 cm, monochrome risography publication, 95x135 mm, 95 pages, edition of 50). https://miriamsentler.com/Concrete-Reef
Ancestors Rising (2022) - Video, showing a drone flight over the Garzweiler lignite pit (DE) with the replica of a 10.000-year-old shamanistic headdress, found in the excavation site in 1987. During the flight, the archaeological object was relocated on its exact finding spot, nowadays pointing to a location in the air. The antlers may have symbolized a connection with the wider universe, reaching out into the cosmos from the top of the head like antennae. The Mesolithic shaman created change in the physical world from the visions he received from the universe. In collaboration with artist Wouter Osterholt - Deep Time Agency. (4K video, ca. 00h12m05s) https://miriamsentler.com/Ancestors-Rising
Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt (2021) - A newspaper publication and audio performance, depicting a three-day sea journey on the Atlantic Ocean, searching for the Basking Shark. While shark-hunting has been banned in the Hebridean waters since 1994, the project showcases a contemporary endeavor of finding, stalking, and ‘shooting’ a shark – with a camera instead of a harpoon. In collaboration with environmental humanities researcher Sadie Hale (UK/PT), developed during a residency at KNOCKvologan in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland (432 x 279 mm, 30 pages). https://miriamsentler.com/Cairban-A-contemporary-shark-hunt
Descent into the Future (2020) - Installation, serving as a test installation for a dive into the Blausteinsee (DE), during which a fish-fossil originating from the former lignite pit was relocated underwater. The return of the fish-fossil closes the material cycle of this landscape, which has transformed from liquid to solid and again to liquid due to the fossil fuel industry. In collaboration with artist Wouter Osterholt - Deep Time Agency. (fishtank, maps, picture: 185x50x50 cm, 60x80x75 cm, 20x30 cm, video documentation of dive (18m30s, HD). https://miriamsentler.com/Descent-into-the-Future-1
The Chase (2020) - Audio installation, revolving around the loss of birdsongs due to the forced resettlement to ‘Neu-Keyenberg’, one of the newly built copy-villages replacing the original settlements of North-Rhine Westphalia, where lignite is being excavated. The work highlights the unique composition of birds present within the disappearing landscape. In collaboration with a composer, a score was made. The composer’s inability of keeping track of the birds represents the problem of archiving the natural, resulting in an auditive play (or chase) between the archived and the archiver. In collaboration with composer Drake Stoughton. (00h07m53s loop, artist publication: 24 x 17 cm). https://miriamsentler.com/The-Chase-1
Janus Walk (2019) - Performance and installation, emphasizing the immaterial and performative rituals of the Via Appia Antica, and the manner in which these have been threatened by the over-trafficking of the ancient pilgrimage route. During the performance, the Roman god of travel, Janus, was carried by a group of performers from its original standing point to the busy four-way crossing opposite the church Domine Quo Vadis. (print: Dibond, 118 x 84 cm, 16 analogue photographs on diaprojector and 3D-printed sculpture: 60x50x45cm, transportation box). https://miriamsentler.com/Janus-Walk
The Mobile Oasis Project (2018) - Installation, playing with the mythification of exotic animals. Deriving from a photograph made on the North Norwegian island of Sørøya in the spring of 2017 while undertaking a residency, the work discusses the presence of two camels on the arctic island. (ca. 320 x 150cm, camel wool, paper-mache, 8 glass bottles, prints, Sahara sand, 2 jerrycans, print on Dibond: 118,9 x 84,1 cm). https://miriamsentler.com/The-Mobile-Oasis-Project
Archipel (2017) - Installation, focusing on ‘phantom islands’, fake islands added intentionally to 19th and 20th centrury world maps by companies in order to avoid plagiarism. Names given to remote islands by explorers, such as Possession and Loneliness, were the starting point for this fictional cluster of islands. During the exhibition, visitors were invited to write a postcard from a fictional island, tricking the recipient into believing these places were real. Over the course of two months, five-hundred postcards were sent, manifesting the existence of these fictional islands. (sand, water, wood, pigment, variable dimensions, postcards, set of 3: 16 x 11 cm). https://miriamsentler.com/Archipel
Rock Monody (2016) - Audio Installation, consisting of a singing stone originating from the Italian Dolomites. During a walk through the mountains, a stone was taken, wrapped up in a container, and send to the Netherlands. Standing in a room painted in a shade mimicking the color of the moss growing on its back, the singing stone is weeping about his brutal abduction from the Abruzzian mountains, a place where he stood undisturbed for millions of years. In collaboration with opera singer Martin Reisbacher. (00h07m51s, stone from the Majella mountains, moss-colored walls, variable dimensions). https://miriamsentler.com/Rock-Monody

Exhibition: CLIMATE OF CONCERN - RADIUS CCA

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Locatie: RADIUS CCA

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 Charriére, 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 - Nieuw Dakota

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Locatie: Nieuw Dakota
In samenwerking met: VU Environmental Research Centre, curated by Marlies Augustijn

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

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Locatie: FLACC
In samenwerking met: Emile van Dorenmuseum

Residency with Jester (the organisation 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

Exhibition: Prospects - Art Rotterdam

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Locatie: van Nellefabriek
In samenwerking met: Mondriaan Fonds

The Mondriaan Fund organizes the annual Prospects exhibition to give an extra impulse 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

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Locatie: Arti et Amicitiae
In samenwerking met: CLUE+, Stichting in Principio, Zone2Source

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/

Residency: USF Verftet

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Locatie: USF Verftet
In samenwerking met: Stiftelsen Kulturhuset USF and Bergen Kommune

USF Verftet and the council of Bergen offers 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/

Performance: The Chase - CIAP Kunstverein

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Locatie: Winterslag, C-Mine
In samenwerking met: Artist talk with composer Drake Stoughton and guided tour by ornithologist Johan Schoonaert

CIAP invites Miriam to be the next guest to animate a piece of public furniture — the heated daybed, realised 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: KNOCKvologan

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Locatie: Isle of Mull
In samenwerking met: Environmental humanities researcher Sadie Hale

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

Commission: Nieuwe Uitzichten - Museum Bommel van Dam & Odapark

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Locatie: Tegelen, Venray en Venlo
In samenwerking met: Gemeente Tegelen

Museum van Bommel van Dam and Odapark in Venray have jointly started Nieuwe Uitzichten. 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

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

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Locatie: Printing Plant Art Book Fair - Looiersgracht 60
In samenwerking met: In conversation with Mariam Zulfiqar (curator UP Projects London)

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

Exhibition: KRIEG Gallery - Elite 2018

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Locatie: KRIEG

ELITE 18 is the second edition of the annual group exhibition organised by KRIEG – an independent project space located on the premises of the PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt (BE). It presents works of young artists connected, in one way or another, to the Euregio Maas-Rhein, who were nominated by four experts familiar with this context: Koen van den Broek, Lene ter Haar, Eva L’Hoest and Fabian Seibert.

https://krieggallery.art/activities/elite-18--rachelle-bindels-manu-engelen-jonas-locht-dana-saez-miriam-sentler-and-cleo-totti

Exhibition: Ten is for God - Neverneverland

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Locatie: Mid-term Exhibition Artistic Research
In samenwerking met: Universiteit van Amsterdam - Master Artistic Research

Mid-term exhibition of the MA Artistic Research students of the University of Amsterdam.

https://www.nevernever.nl

Residency: RAVI (Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International)

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Locatie: RAVI

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 continual 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: Exploded View Rome

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Locatie: Parco Regionale Dell´ Appia Antica
In samenwerking met: VU CLUE+, Zone2Source, Stichting in Principio, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art 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. Gert-Jan Burgers (VU-Chair in Mediterranean archaeology and heritage/director CLUE+) and Alice Smits (artistic director Zone2Source Amsterdam).

https://www.explodedview.net

Exhibition: Start Up Slow Accident - Nieuw Dakota

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Locatie: Nieuw Dakota
In samenwerking met: Curated by Paul Devens

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: Marres Currents: Running Time

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Locatie: Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture
In samenwerking met: curated by Bas Hendrikx and Barbara Cueto

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: Young Masters - Media Art Festival Friesland

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Locatie: Oude Kerk

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

Commission: Overgangszone

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Locatie: ENCI marl quarry

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. Consequently, we invited 12 young artists who will follow the different parties involved, for one and a half year.

https://overgangszone.nl/

Exhibition: Fresh Cacao - De Cacaofabriek

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Locatie: Cacaofabriek

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

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Locatie: Gallery Ron Mandos

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/
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