Mette Sterre Enterprise
upMette Sterre’s creations escape fixed definitions.
They exceed performance practice, installation, digital technologies, body masks 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.
Text by Giulia Casalini, Dr. Feminist Live Art at the University of Roehampton, London
Current Presentation
- Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (chilling incisions calling things that don't have names)
at W139, Amsterdam (NL)
5th of September 2025 - 16th of November 2025
Upcoming presentations
- Performissima Festival at Institute Neerlandais (14.00) and Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (19.30) during Art Basel Paris 24th of October 2025
- "Bone Festival" 26th of November Berne (Schwitserland)
- "Cavities" commission by Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen (NL) (date to be confirmed) from 2026 - 2029
They exceed performance practice, installation, digital technologies, body masks 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.
Text by Giulia Casalini, Dr. Feminist Live Art at the University of Roehampton, London
Current Presentation
- Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (chilling incisions calling things that don't have names)
at W139, Amsterdam (NL)
5th of September 2025 - 16th of November 2025
Upcoming presentations
- Performissima Festival at Institute Neerlandais (14.00) and Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (19.30) during Art Basel Paris 24th of October 2025
- "Bone Festival" 26th of November Berne (Schwitserland)
- "Cavities" commission by Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen (NL) (date to be confirmed) from 2026 - 2029
