Mette Sterre
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      • how to catch an octopus in a broken heart
      • Enchanted Field Research _Secret Meetings that shape the World
      • G-string Theory - Attempting to Rise Rijksakademie 2019
      • A circuit of overthinking- a circus of IT girls
      • Hakuna Patata
      • Black Hole Empire
      • Hummelmania
      • panorama messed up (there's everywhere)
      • Saiaragaz- honey you're no seabunny
      • plant * T carnival (rotterdam summer carnival)
      • The End Of Normal
      • Poly P.P.E.
      • Structurealist
      • Long Tongue Sally
      • Altra Motion Quartz
      • Crystal Mette & the Fictions
      • Double Helix ( a quatre mains)
      • iobjectisubject
      • It's a recognized fact
      • A man
      • Princess Lotti
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"Abcession (If you don't know, you don't grow) Performance during Rijksakademie Open Studio 2021 photograph by Nyre Tiessen

NEWS
  • Kunst is Lang Podcast from Mister Motley with Luuk Heezen
  • "Habitat Multiform" 
            exhibition with Maartje Korstanje and Tanja Smeets   
            curated by Iris Cornelis Project Space Viervaart, Groede
            7th of may until 3rd of September 
            4 star review at  Dutch National Newspaper NRC
            by Lucette Ter Borg


  • "Come Alive - the power of pleasure"                                  Grand exhibition about the erotic and sensual with 46 artists, talks and performances. A selection of artists are Melanie Bonajo, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Oscar Peters, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Simpsons, Ernesto Neto, Sophie Calle and others. Go and check it out, it's fabulous!  curated by Ine Gevers and Morgan Catalina  
          at Muntgebouw, Utrecht                             
          2nd of  June - 31st of  July 2022 
  • "It's your birthday"
          Celebrationial exhibition for Amsterdam Art  weekwith a great        
            selection of artists such as Erik van Lieshout, Molly Palmer, Marcel    
            van den Berg , Octave Rimbbert Riviere and others.  Free Entrance, js
              curated by Nina Folkersma  at Capital C Gallery, Weesperplein 4,    
            Amsterdam    

             11th of may  of  until 13th of August 2022
  • "How to catch an octopus in a Broken Heart?" 
          at  Lente Kabinet Festival                                                                                       performers: Peter Cripps Clarks and Rebecca Collins. 
           Curated by Femke  Dekker                                                      
           4th and 5th of June 2022,  't  Twiske         
            review  by Glamcult                 


Previous
Buitenplaats Doornburgh (for arts&science) Maarssen
Artist-in-Residence
performance and artist 
talk 13 November 2021 

MIP4 (international performance art festival Brasil)
 28 October  & 6 November 2021
artist talk & performance

Feeling Both Things at Once  (curated by Rosie Gibbens)
13 - 17 of October  UK Mexican Arts Society London
during Frieze  week London 

Press Coverage
Metropolis M, fluiditeit
written by Wilma Suto

Rijksakademie Open Studio 2021 Coverage
Metropolis M review Rijksakademie Open Studio 2021
written by Machteld de Leij
NRC  review Rijksakademie Open Studio 2021
written by Lucette Ter Borg
Telegraaf  Rijksakademie Open Studio 2021
written by Paola van de Velde
Trouw  Rijksakademie Open Studio 2021
written by Joke de Wolf

Mette Sterre: Fabulations for the End of the World


​ Liminal encounters of mineral-looking entities in the dark 
entangling and disentangling in unpredictable formations.
A primal machine reaches out for touch –
her skin is soft, and she is craving for love. 

Contacts. Collisions. Stillness. 
The atmosphere is saturated with elementary charge, 
animating all matter alike.


Mette Sterre’s creations escape fixed definitions.
They exceed performance 
practice, installation, digital technologies, body masks making and sculpture –
potentially expanding their territories without limits.
By entering her work we are 
cast into the materialisation of her mind processes: an unpredictable participatory and sensorial experience.

The environments created by the artist are loaded with transformative energetic fields that animate new worlds in which we encounter organic and inorganic living organisms and speculative fictions. The undecipherable glowing matter unfolds in front of us. What is it made of?

Animators in costumes, robots, sounds and visuals
unravel in anarchic formalisms 
and otherworldly movements,
acting as a strategy for disorientation,
de-centering 
and trespassing 
spatial parameters, linear time and human certainties.

Creatures that seem to be assembled into hybrid
and chimeric formulations
– partly 
machines, monsters or nonhumans – 
​are occupying the same space as us.
​Rather 
than being ego-centered actors within a system
that still oppresses those that are 
‘less than human’,
Sterre’s creations celebrate our variance through dissonance,
in a 
dimension of both fear and ecstasy.

Are we not hybrids yet? Formed of bacteria, minerals, fluids
and parasites, we are 
also one with the environment,
in a vitalistic, metamorphic processes. 

Simultaneously, we are slowly and surely also decomposing...
​In this ecosystem, 
even rocks have agency.

text by Giulia Casalini, phd candidate Feminist Live Art at the University of Roehampton, London
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"Black Hole Empire: After the Event Horizon" 

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photographs by Nesreen Salem, Chantal van Rijt video by MINT collective
  • home
  • work
    • projects >
      • Seapussy Power Galore - Abcession (if you don't know, you don't grow)
      • how to catch an octopus in a broken heart
      • Enchanted Field Research _Secret Meetings that shape the World
      • G-string Theory - Attempting to Rise Rijksakademie 2019
      • A circuit of overthinking- a circus of IT girls
      • Hakuna Patata
      • Black Hole Empire
      • Hummelmania
      • panorama messed up (there's everywhere)
      • Saiaragaz- honey you're no seabunny
      • plant * T carnival (rotterdam summer carnival)
      • The End Of Normal
      • Poly P.P.E.
      • Structurealist
      • Long Tongue Sally
      • Altra Motion Quartz
      • Crystal Mette & the Fictions
      • Double Helix ( a quatre mains)
      • iobjectisubject
      • It's a recognized fact
      • A man
      • Princess Lotti
    • exhibitions
    • photography
    • drawings
  • about me
    • contact
    • cv
    • Press
  • contact