Artist Statement
My work is socially engaged; picturing the society we try to live in from an ironic perspective.
Connecting to the experience of culture today, I involve the viewer in situations or environments which suggest the possibility of an action. These installations are brought to life through performance.

I offer alternatives to existing situations, constructively criticising.
Yet, it's about small things, sentimental and inter-human aspects each offering some resistance to MTV and Hollywood utopia's.
Being part of and guilty of the system it's also self critique.

Paradox and play.

Personal Details
    Mette Sterre
    Banierstraat 33C1
    3032 PB Rotterdam
    phonenumber: +31 6 14203622
    email: MetteSterre@gmail.com
    website: www.mettesterre.com

    Education
    Fine arts, Willem de Kooning Academie, Cum Laude 2002-2006

    Selection of Exhibitions and performances 2011- 2007
         2011

• "RE:Amsterdam", Galerie 10, Amsterdam (group exhibition with Inge Aanstoot, Rufus Ketting, Hidde van Schie, Atladotir d'Or a.o.)
  

• "Palace Party", Kunsthalle Charlottenbourg, Copenhagen (DA) (performance event)
  
• “Woodmill sags”, Woodmill, London (UK) (group exhibition/performance)
• "Pop up Show", Kers gallery, Amsterdam (performance/group exhibition with Anouk Griffioen, Camille Smeets, Thomas Raemeckers)
  
• "Dolf Henkes Ceremonial Price Award festivity", Tent, Rotterdam (performance)
  
• "Onthullen, verhullen", Theater de Veste, Delft (performance)    
  

        2010

• "F.A.R.T.", Hotel Quartier Du Point, Rotterdam  (group exhibtion/performance)
  
• “DirectAction international performance festival”, IAMTK, Berlin (DE) (performance)
  
• "Ongekend", Club Container, Rotterdam (group exhibition & artauction)
  
• "Play", van Abbenmuseum, Eindhoven (performance Spartacus Chetwynd) (2010)
  
• "Openingsperformance", Art Rotterdam  (performance Abner Preis)
  
• "Portret Pavilion: facebook avant la lettre", Kasteel Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten (group exhibition/performance, curators, gallerist and musuem directors presented their favorite portraits in the context of collection of Kasteel Duivenvoorden
  
  2009
  

• "Non-stop music planet", Futur en Seine, Parijs (FR) (performance i.c.w. Spartacus Chetwynd)
  
• "Museumnacht", Goethe Institituut, Rotterdam (group exhibition/performance)
  
• "Nudist Barbeque", South London Cultural Center, London (GB)   (performance Spartacacus Chetwynd)
  
• “Moralitiy part 1”, Witte de With, Rotterdam (performance Spartacus Chetwynd)
  
• "Spinoza", Rozentheater, Amsterdam (group exhibition)
  
• "Obscene", de Kade, Zaandam (performance i.c.w. De Poppekastkrakers)
  
• "Transmediale", Planet Art, C-base, Berlijn (DE) (group exhibition/performance i.c.w. De Poppekastkrakers )
  
• "Ongekend", Young Masters@Auction, Amsterdam  (group exhibition/performance)
  
• "Riders on the Worm", Worm, Rotterdam (group exhibition/performance)
  
  2008
  
• "Hideaway", Heden, DenHaag (performance i.c.w. Rosalie Monod de Froideville)
  
• "Dan zeg ik niet wat ik heb gezien", het Langhuis, Zwolle (duo exhibition with Reinier Kranendonk)
  
• "Art Id" , sideshow of Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (group exhibition) with Sabrina Basten, Marie Civikov, Efrat Zehavi and others
  
  2007
  

• "De symfonie van psychotische handen", Buro Dijkstra, Rotterdam (duo exhibition with Olaf Mooij/performance)
  
• "Today's Art festival", Villa Nuts, Den Haag (group exhibition, i.c.w. Dennis de Bel)
  
• "Peephow", Zeebelttheater, Uitmarkt, Den Haag (performance)
  
• "Wereld van de Witte de With", TENT, Rotterdam (performance Toine Horvers)
  
• "Vurige nachten", Blaak 10, Museumnacht, Rotterdam (performance)
  
• "Layla en Majnun", Tropentheater, Amsterdam (performance)
  
• “Helden”, Wereld van de Witte de With, Rotterdam (performance)
  
• "Beautiful City", Munster Skulptur Projekte, Munster (DE) (performance Maria Pask)
  
• "The game of questions",de Nachten, de Singel, Antwerpen (BE) (peformance Dora Garcia Lopez)
  
• “999,99 euro show”, Buro Dijkstra, Rotterdam (group exhibition with Olaf Mooij, Jan Bokma, Eric Jan van de Geer a.o)
  
  

    Assignments

• “KunstprojectKleinpolder”, Commissioned by Woonstad Rotterdam 2010 Development and production of the television serie "D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette Spacekadettes Timecapsule". A 4 episodes long television serie, researching history, present and future of the life of the inhabitants in a post-war neighbourhood undergoing urban development. D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette Spacekadette was send back in time on a mission by her spacedaddy (Henri van Zanten) to gather information for her timecapsule. Each episode has it own theme; changing Overschie, politics, leasure and the future of Overschie. Items within the program are portraits at home of the inhabitants, where they're asked to contribute an item to the timecapsule, streetinterviews about subjects and their future, and a wisdomlesson from the future by d.o.k.t.e.r. Mette.
  
• "Slapen aan het spoor", commissioned by Wesd, Hotel Coen, Delft 2009 Developping an installation in a 4 star hotel room, reacting to the environment and the coming of a new traintunnel. The Installation consist of skybed with slideprojections of landscapes. A trainbench on a rails, installed on a platform so you can look out from the window and follow the always changing construction side
  
• "I Bridge You and You", Rotterdam Zuidplein, Rotterdam commissioned by “i bridge you project” 2009 D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette interviewing young adolescents, concerning their world and issues involved. What and how they'd like to change things? During the 4 day project “I bridge You”, iniated by the Observatorium, Yourcity and Chantal van Heeswijk, recordings were made in a walk-in-mini-studio, a private one-on-one inquiry.
  
  Publications
  
• “Resovision TV”, during London Frieze Art Fair, 2 time appearance and interview, London (GB) 2010
  
• “Rotterdam TV”, broadcasting 4 episodes of the tv program "D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette Spacekadette's Timecapsule", 2010
  
• “Ketel tv”, Portretteketete in working space 2009
  
• "Zooi TV", item about "d.o.k.t.e.r. Mette" at Museumnacht 2007
  
• “Blend special magazin”, Tetem kunstruimte, Special, 2010
  
• “BuroDijkstra ArtGallery 2005~2008 PartI”, artbook, 2009
  
• “Rozentheater magazine”, article on exhibition “Spinoza”, 2009
  
• "Beelden” article about the "Kunstambassade Rotterdam", 2006
  
• "Snag", Either/Or uitgeverij, artbook i.c.w. Maartje van den Noort, Arti Suhkai, 2006
  
• “Noordatlantisch licht”, Stichting Bep, Willem de Kooning jaar, catalogue 2005