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      • Seapussy Power Galore - Abcession (if you don't know, you don't grow)
      • Excavation Mark
      • 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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CV  METTE STERRE  (1983 NL)
Lives and works in Amsterdam 
info at mettesterre.com
mettesterre at gmail.com
www.mettesterre.com
0031614203622  

Education
2019-2021| Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam
2012-2014| MA Performance Design & Practice Central Saint Martins, London
2002-2006| BA Autonomous Fine Art Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam

Selected Residencies
2024 | Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ,Seoul
2023 | European Ceramic Work Center , Oisterwijk
2023 | Crossing Parallels Program Technical University, Delft
2022 | Digital Innovation Lab Theater Utrecht, Amsterdam
2018 | Instituto Buena Bista Mondriaan Fonds Residentie, Willemstad
2017 | Digital Anthropology Lab  London College of Fashion, London
2015 | Watermill Summer Program Watermill Center, New York
2014 | Watermill Summer Program Watermill Center, New York

Selected Solo Presentations
2023 | There's no Flesh  Galerie Im Tracklhaus, Salzburg
2023 | An octopus named if 38CC, Delft
2023 | Vicious Circle Disco CODA  Apeldoorn 
2018 | Staging Realities Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
2018 | Manchester Contemporary Art Fair Joey Ramone, Manchester
2015 | The End of Normal  TENT, Rotterdam



Selected Presentations in the Netherlands
2023 | On Marvellous Things Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort
2023 | The Grand Palace of Everyone Nest, Den Haag
2022 | Innovation:Lab Theater Utrecht, Utrecht
2022 | Gods Head Brief Encounters Lust Warande, Tilburg
2022 | Come Alive Muntgebouw Utrecht
2022 | Habitat Multiform  project space de Viervaart, Groede
2022 | Big Dada Arti et Amicitea, Amsterdam
2022 | Art Rotterdam Kers Gallery, Rotterdam
2022 | Evidence in Motion: Amorphous Beings III, The Hague
2021 | Rijksakademie Open Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2019 | Rijksakademie Open Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2019 | Master Talk Museum de Pont, Tilburg
2018 | Le Faux Rire Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
2018 | High Light Art and Science Festival Theater de Veste, Delft
2017 | Playtime Kunstvlaai at the SSBA Salon Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam
2016 | All You Can Art #1 Summer Carnival, IBB, Kunsthal, Tent, Rotterdam
2015 | Super Nova  Schunck, Heerlen
2015 | Carnival Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht



Commissions  and collaborators
Rijkswaterstaat, Capital C, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Woonstad Rotterdam, Ulrike Quade Company, Getinthebackofthevan, Dimitris Pappianiou, Christopher Knowles, Libris Literatuur Prijs, Monster Chetwynd, Andrey Bartanev, Robert Wilson

Guest Lectures/Teaching
Rietveld Academie, Willem De Kooning Academy, Frank Mohr Institute, Mount Holyoke College, Central Saint Martins, St. Joost of Visual Arts, TENT,  American Academy Berlin, Royal Academy The Hague, Queen Mary University London, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Maastricht, University of the Arts London, Akademie voor Dans en Theater Amsterdam, Insituto Bueno Bista Curacao

















International Festivals/Bienales
2022 | Manifesta 14  Pristina, Kosovo
2022 | Alternative Miss World Competition Shakespeare Globe Theater, London
2021 | MIP4 Center of Experimentation and Info in Art, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2020 | 3pesos Trienale Bestos, Mexico City
2019 | LA Book Fair, Montez Press Radio and Publication, Los Angeles
2017 | Frieze; An evening of performances David Roberts Art Foundation, Londen
2017 | Athens Performance Biennal  ASFA, Athens
2016 | Megahammer #2 Glasgow International, Glasgow
2015 | Tribes Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague
2016 | POLY PPE  SPILL International Performance Festival, Ipswich
2015 | Watermill Summer Benefit Watermill Center, New York

Selection of International Exhibitions
2022 | But what else is it but a dream map Art Quarter, Budapest
2021 | Being Both things at Once Sommers Gallery, London
2020 | Queer Bodies Against ____ FLUC, Vienna
2019 | AMID Roes Theater, Athens
2018 | Hakuna Patata Gallery Esmeralda, Willemstad, Curacao
2015 | Spotlight on Schawinsky Migros Museum, Zurich
2017 | Hummelmania  Birmingham Art/Fierce Festival Birmingham
2017 | Queering the Occult Queen Mary University, London
2017 | I can't be inside and outside at the same time Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2017 | Once Upon a Pink PuderRaum Gallery, Berlin
2015 | Art15 Artfair, Best of Graduates, Olympia, London
2014 | Robert Wilsons Illy Red Night Triennial Design Museum, Milan
2014 | Night Watch Festival Cambridge Junction, Cambridge




Press
2023 | 
Proposals for the future Dezeen, Simon Volt
2023 |  A Living Plastic Christmas Tree, an Ai Dragon Fly NRC, Hester van Santen
2023 | Top 5 summer exhibtions  Financial Times, Jeroen Bos
2023 | The Tentacles of Mette Sterre Tableau Magaazine, Marjolein Sponselee
2022 |The Art World Came to Kosovo New York Times, Alex Marshal    
2022 | Alternative Miss World Competition Channel 4 News Special          
 2022 |Moonriders  VPRO tv                                 
2022 | Manifesta 14 in Prishtina, by Prishtina Berlin Art Link, Tim Brinkhof   
 2022 | Po biennale sztuki w Prisztinie  Vogue Poland,Anna Pajecka        
2022 | Retrato del Pais Adolescente El Pais, Angela Molina               
 2022 | Art is awakening in Kosovo Spam Chronicles, Ashley Cornell        
2022 | Pristina in Kosovo Manifests Itself A*Desk, Maria Munoz
2022 | Kunst is Lang podcast  Mister Motley, Luuk Hezen              
2022 | Voor ieder wat wils, it’s about sex stupid! Metropolis M, Laura v d Bergh
2022 | Erotiek als levenskracht de Telegraaf, Paola van der Velde
2022 | Plezier, verval, pratende schilderijen NRC, Lucette Ter Borg     
2021 | Trillend van Mutaties en metamorfoses Metropolis M door Wilma Suto
2021 | De Rijksakademie laat talenten bloeien  Joke de Wolff, Trouw
2020 | Artwork of the Week  Anna van Leeuwen, Volkskrant    
2019 | Rainwater leaks in the studio during Rijksakademie Open Parool
2019 | Inanimate Human Life at the Open  Doro Beuns Xbit Magazine
2019 | Beautiful Drama and Reasons for Hope Lucette ter Borg NRC     
2018 | Bizar Coach Journey Curacao Dagblad
2017 | Fashioning Frankenstein  Estefania Perez Sabat Magazine    
2016 | Tribes:the walk Studies in Costume & Performance Vo.1, Sodja Lodker
2015 | The Art World's Summer Bacchanalia  Observer    
2015 | Introducing 40 of the UK's most promising artists Dazed and Confused
2014 | Clouds, Bubbles and Tinsel at the Watermill Center  Wall Street Journal
 2015 | A forest of performance artists  Marshall Heyman, Wallstreet journal  








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  • home
  • body masks
  • Projects
    • projects >
      • The Calculus of Infinitesimals Dissents into Abiogenesis Away From KeyBoard
      • Octopus Vulgaris Skin Suit
      • Phantasmaphobia
      • Vicious Circle Disco
      • Seapussy Power Galore - Abcession (if you don't know, you don't grow)
      • Excavation Mark
      • 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
    • photography
    • drawings
  • exhibitions
  • about
    • contact
    • cv
    • Press