CV
METTE STERRE
Education
2012-2014 | MA Performance Design & Practice University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins UK
2011 | MA Performance & Creative Research University of Roehampton London UK
2002-2006 | BA Fine Arts Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam NL
Residencies
2019 - 2021 | Artist in Residence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam NL
2018 | Instituto Buena Bista Willemstad CW
2017 | Digital Learning Lab London College of Fashion University of the Arts London UK]
(Selected) Solo Exhibitions
2018 | The Manchester Contemporary, JOEY RAMONE Manchester UK
2018 | Gallery Esmeralda Insititutio Bueno Bista Willemstad CW
2016 | Sairagaz, Honey You’re No Sea-Bunny JOEY RAMONE Rotterdam NL
2015 | The End of Normal TENT Rotterdam NL
(Selected) Performances from recent years
2019 | Rijksakademie Open Studio Amsterdam NL
2019 | Konvooi Festival, het Entrepot, Brugge BE
2019 | AMID Roes Theater Athens GR
2019 | Promenade ASFA Athens Video Dance Project Athens GR
2019 | Leerling/Meester, performative lecture, Museum de Pont, Tilburg NL
2018 | Staging Realities, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg DU
2018 | Hakuna Patata Irie tours, IBB, Willemstad CW
2018 | Le Faux Rire, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2018 |The 5 giants of the welfare state, London School of Economics, London UK
2017 |10th anniversay; An evening of performances, David Roberts Art Foundation, Club Koko, London UK
2017 | Black Hole Empire London Design Week, Fashion Space Gallery, London UK
2017 | Hummelmania Birmingham Art Weekender by Fierce Festival, Birmingham UK
2017 | Lecture:Queering the Occult Deep Trash Queen Mary University, London UK
2017 | Playtime Kunstvlaai at the SSBA Salon Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, NL
2016 | POLY PPE SPILL International Performance Festival, Ipswich UK
2016 | Megahammer #2 Glasgow International, Glasgow UK
2016 | Museum of Everything Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
2015 | Watermill Benefit Watermill Center, New York US
2015 | Spotlight on Schawinsky Migros Museum, Zurich SW
2015 | Tribes, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague CZ
2015 | Particles Lethaby Gallery, London UK
2015 | Jan van Schoonhoven exhibition Delft Museum Prinsenhof Delft NL
2015 | Carnivale Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht NL
2014 | Red Night Triennale Museum, Milan IT
2014 | Watermill Summer Program Benefit Watermill Centre, New York US
2014 | Crystal Mette & the Fictions Platform Theatre, London UK
2014 | Night Watch Festival Cambridge Junction, Cambridge UK
2014 | Hysteria # 3 Abjection CUE Art Fund, New York US
2014 | Hidden Barfly Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
2014 | Pre-Show/Degree-show Artsadmin, London UK
2014 | Acts React Festival Wimbledon Art Space, London UK (+ exhibition)
2013 | Scope Art Basel Galerie Jaap Sleper, Basel SW (+exhibition)
2013 | (Un)performing Departure Foundation, London UK
2013 | Hardcamp Resistance Gallery, London UK
(Selected) Group Exhibitions from recent years
2018 | Frankenstein de Vishallen, Haarlem NL
2017 | Once Upon a Pink,PuderRaum Gallery, Berlin DU
2017 | I can't be inside and outside at the same time, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh UK
2016 | Perspectives and contexts Window Gallery CSM, London UK
2016 | All You Can Art/Rotterdam Summer Carnival,commissioned by Institutio Bueno Bista, Kunsthal, Tent Rotterdam NL/CU
2015 | Art15, Artfair Olympic Stadion, London UK
2015 | Super Nova Schunck, Heerlen NL
2015 | Bow Open Nunnery Gallery, London UK
2014 | Object=Subject ROODKAPJE, Rotterdam NL
2014 | Fake Nature Point Zero Gallery, London UK
2014 | In search of the Miraculous Floating Island Gallery, London UK
2014 | Not doing anything until I feel the need de Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam NL
2014 | To the Zoo Kers Gallery, Amsterdam NL
2013 | Museum Night Amsterdam Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam NL
2013 | My head is like an animal South Square Centre, Bradford, UK
2013 | Wild Thing Tetem, Enschede NL (curated by Bart Hess + performance)
Grants/Awards Past 5 years
2019 | Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fund support for Exceptional Talent Award
2018 | Design Research Grant for Meta-Body Design Creative Industry Fund NL
2018 | International Presentation Grant Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam NL
2018 | Residency Grant for Instituto Buena Bista Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam NL
2017 | Research and Development Fund Center of Visual Arts Rotterdam NL
2017 | Project Fund STICHTING STOKROOS Utrecht NL
2015 | Catlin Guide selection of UK Best MA and BA graduates from 2015 UK
2015 | Research & Development Grant Center of Visual Arts Rotterdam NL
2015 | Byrd Hofmann foundation New York Bursary for Watermill Summer Program US
Curatorial / Organizational
2018 | Visiting Practitioner at Bcademy Rotterdam, Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, TENT, Royal Academy of Visual Arts The Hague, University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins, Mount Holyoke College Massachusetts
2016 | Curator of MA Performance Design & Practice Degree Show, Central Saint Martins London UK
2016 | Visiting Practitioner at the Hutto Project at the American Academy Berlin DU
2015 | Curator of Radicals Performance Night, Roodkapje Rotterdam NL
2015 | Supporting costume design for Getinthebackofthevan Best Little Whore House in Texas, Spill Festival, Ipswich UK
2015 | Supporting Costume Design for Dimitris Pappaioannou at the Watermill Center Open Day Life, New York US
2015 | Supporting Costume Design for Christopher Knowles The Sundance Kid is Beautiful, the Wooster Group Performance Garage, New York US
2014 | Curator of Hysteria, Garden's Gallery, London, UK
Publications
2019 | Beautiful Drama and Reasons for Hope, NRC Newspaper, 21 nov, NL
2019 | At the Open Studio it seems as if the artist has just left, Volkskrant, 22 nov, NL
2019 | Rainwater leaks in the studio during Rijksakademie Open, Parool 21 nov, NL
2019 | Inanimate Human Life at the Open Xbit Magazine, 12 dec, NL
2019 | LOVE, Montez Press, Hamburg, DE
2018 | Bizar Coach Journey, Curacao Dagblad, 29 Aug, CU
2017 | Fashioning Frankenstein, Sabat Magazine, Estefania Perez, 19 Nov, UK
2017 | A mythic narrator, wdka.nl, alumni interview, 2 Dec 2017
2017 | Queering is the alchemy of turning a white cube into a discoball, Maggie Kuzan UK
2017 | Body Issue, interview Yelena Myshko, 24 May, NL
2016 | Tribes:the walk, Studies in Costume & Performance Vo.1 Nr. 2 Sodja Lotker UK
2016 | Glitter string opzij, vuurwerk uit haar reet, Vrij Nederland, Elfie Tromp, 23 sep, NL
2016 | “Rotterdam Unlimited Barst Open”, 28 june, Metro, NL
METTE STERRE
Education
2012-2014 | MA Performance Design & Practice University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins UK
2011 | MA Performance & Creative Research University of Roehampton London UK
2002-2006 | BA Fine Arts Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam NL
Residencies
2019 - 2021 | Artist in Residence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam NL
2018 | Instituto Buena Bista Willemstad CW
2017 | Digital Learning Lab London College of Fashion University of the Arts London UK]
(Selected) Solo Exhibitions
2018 | The Manchester Contemporary, JOEY RAMONE Manchester UK
2018 | Gallery Esmeralda Insititutio Bueno Bista Willemstad CW
2016 | Sairagaz, Honey You’re No Sea-Bunny JOEY RAMONE Rotterdam NL
2015 | The End of Normal TENT Rotterdam NL
(Selected) Performances from recent years
2019 | Rijksakademie Open Studio Amsterdam NL
2019 | Konvooi Festival, het Entrepot, Brugge BE
2019 | AMID Roes Theater Athens GR
2019 | Promenade ASFA Athens Video Dance Project Athens GR
2019 | Leerling/Meester, performative lecture, Museum de Pont, Tilburg NL
2018 | Staging Realities, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg DU
2018 | Hakuna Patata Irie tours, IBB, Willemstad CW
2018 | Le Faux Rire, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2018 |The 5 giants of the welfare state, London School of Economics, London UK
2017 |10th anniversay; An evening of performances, David Roberts Art Foundation, Club Koko, London UK
2017 | Black Hole Empire London Design Week, Fashion Space Gallery, London UK
2017 | Hummelmania Birmingham Art Weekender by Fierce Festival, Birmingham UK
2017 | Lecture:Queering the Occult Deep Trash Queen Mary University, London UK
2017 | Playtime Kunstvlaai at the SSBA Salon Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam, NL
2016 | POLY PPE SPILL International Performance Festival, Ipswich UK
2016 | Megahammer #2 Glasgow International, Glasgow UK
2016 | Museum of Everything Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
2015 | Watermill Benefit Watermill Center, New York US
2015 | Spotlight on Schawinsky Migros Museum, Zurich SW
2015 | Tribes, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague CZ
2015 | Particles Lethaby Gallery, London UK
2015 | Jan van Schoonhoven exhibition Delft Museum Prinsenhof Delft NL
2015 | Carnivale Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht NL
2014 | Red Night Triennale Museum, Milan IT
2014 | Watermill Summer Program Benefit Watermill Centre, New York US
2014 | Crystal Mette & the Fictions Platform Theatre, London UK
2014 | Night Watch Festival Cambridge Junction, Cambridge UK
2014 | Hysteria # 3 Abjection CUE Art Fund, New York US
2014 | Hidden Barfly Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
2014 | Pre-Show/Degree-show Artsadmin, London UK
2014 | Acts React Festival Wimbledon Art Space, London UK (+ exhibition)
2013 | Scope Art Basel Galerie Jaap Sleper, Basel SW (+exhibition)
2013 | (Un)performing Departure Foundation, London UK
2013 | Hardcamp Resistance Gallery, London UK
(Selected) Group Exhibitions from recent years
2018 | Frankenstein de Vishallen, Haarlem NL
2017 | Once Upon a Pink,PuderRaum Gallery, Berlin DU
2017 | I can't be inside and outside at the same time, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh UK
2016 | Perspectives and contexts Window Gallery CSM, London UK
2016 | All You Can Art/Rotterdam Summer Carnival,commissioned by Institutio Bueno Bista, Kunsthal, Tent Rotterdam NL/CU
2015 | Art15, Artfair Olympic Stadion, London UK
2015 | Super Nova Schunck, Heerlen NL
2015 | Bow Open Nunnery Gallery, London UK
2014 | Object=Subject ROODKAPJE, Rotterdam NL
2014 | Fake Nature Point Zero Gallery, London UK
2014 | In search of the Miraculous Floating Island Gallery, London UK
2014 | Not doing anything until I feel the need de Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam NL
2014 | To the Zoo Kers Gallery, Amsterdam NL
2013 | Museum Night Amsterdam Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam NL
2013 | My head is like an animal South Square Centre, Bradford, UK
2013 | Wild Thing Tetem, Enschede NL (curated by Bart Hess + performance)
Grants/Awards Past 5 years
2019 | Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fund support for Exceptional Talent Award
2018 | Design Research Grant for Meta-Body Design Creative Industry Fund NL
2018 | International Presentation Grant Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam NL
2018 | Residency Grant for Instituto Buena Bista Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam NL
2017 | Research and Development Fund Center of Visual Arts Rotterdam NL
2017 | Project Fund STICHTING STOKROOS Utrecht NL
2015 | Catlin Guide selection of UK Best MA and BA graduates from 2015 UK
2015 | Research & Development Grant Center of Visual Arts Rotterdam NL
2015 | Byrd Hofmann foundation New York Bursary for Watermill Summer Program US
Curatorial / Organizational
2018 | Visiting Practitioner at Bcademy Rotterdam, Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, TENT, Royal Academy of Visual Arts The Hague, University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins, Mount Holyoke College Massachusetts
2016 | Curator of MA Performance Design & Practice Degree Show, Central Saint Martins London UK
2016 | Visiting Practitioner at the Hutto Project at the American Academy Berlin DU
2015 | Curator of Radicals Performance Night, Roodkapje Rotterdam NL
2015 | Supporting costume design for Getinthebackofthevan Best Little Whore House in Texas, Spill Festival, Ipswich UK
2015 | Supporting Costume Design for Dimitris Pappaioannou at the Watermill Center Open Day Life, New York US
2015 | Supporting Costume Design for Christopher Knowles The Sundance Kid is Beautiful, the Wooster Group Performance Garage, New York US
2014 | Curator of Hysteria, Garden's Gallery, London, UK
Publications
2019 | Beautiful Drama and Reasons for Hope, NRC Newspaper, 21 nov, NL
2019 | At the Open Studio it seems as if the artist has just left, Volkskrant, 22 nov, NL
2019 | Rainwater leaks in the studio during Rijksakademie Open, Parool 21 nov, NL
2019 | Inanimate Human Life at the Open Xbit Magazine, 12 dec, NL
2019 | LOVE, Montez Press, Hamburg, DE
2018 | Bizar Coach Journey, Curacao Dagblad, 29 Aug, CU
2017 | Fashioning Frankenstein, Sabat Magazine, Estefania Perez, 19 Nov, UK
2017 | A mythic narrator, wdka.nl, alumni interview, 2 Dec 2017
2017 | Queering is the alchemy of turning a white cube into a discoball, Maggie Kuzan UK
2017 | Body Issue, interview Yelena Myshko, 24 May, NL
2016 | Tribes:the walk, Studies in Costume & Performance Vo.1 Nr. 2 Sodja Lotker UK
2016 | Glitter string opzij, vuurwerk uit haar reet, Vrij Nederland, Elfie Tromp, 23 sep, NL
2016 | “Rotterdam Unlimited Barst Open”, 28 june, Metro, NL