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
2021 | Artist in Residence at Buitenplaats Doornburgh Maarssen NL
2019 - 2021 | Artist in Residence at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam NL
2018 | Instituto Buena Bista Willemstad CW
2017 | Digital Anthropology 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
2022 | Manifesta 14, Thematic Exhibition On Speculation, Grand Hotel, Pristina
2022 | Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek Rotterdam
2022 | Come Alive - the Power of Pleasure, Muntgebouw Utrecht
2022 | Miss Alternative World Competition, Shakespeare Globe Theater London
2022 | Excavation Mark, Innovation Lab Festival Paardenkathedraal Theater Utrecht
2022 | Habitat Multiform, Viervaart Groede trio with Tanja Smeets and Maartje Korstanje
2022 | Museumnacht, Amsterdam, Arti et Amiciae Amsterdam
2022 | Its your birthday, Capital C gallery Amsterdam curated by Nina Folkersma
2022 | Lentekabinet Festival, Amsterdam
2022 | Lustwarande, Tilburg met trio with Caz Egelie en Joris Roossen
2021 | Rijksakademie Open Studio 2021, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2021 | Robots in Captivity, Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen
2021 | Being Both Things at Once, UK Mexican Arts Society Frieze Art Week London curated by Rosie Gibbens
2021 | Innovation:Lab Theater Utrecht, Utrecht
2020 | Stampa, W139, Amsterdam
2020 | Beest, Bellamy Kabinet, Amsterdam
2020 | Queer Bodies Against, FLUC, Vienna
2020 | 3pesos Trienale Bestos, Mexico City
2020 | The Opposite of a Cynic [Tongue] Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam duo show with Joseph Baan
2019 | Rijksakademie Open Studio 2019, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 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, 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, 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
-------| 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, Willem de
Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Rietveld Amsterdam, Sint Joost Breda
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, 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