Works / Filmography 2000 – 2026 (selection)
Enrique (2026), short fiction
Artemis (2024 – 2025), short documentary
In Transit, Identity and Love in Europe (2021), feature length documentary
Time and Place, a Talk with My Mom (2015), documentary
Illusion of Control (2012, art commission), videoinstallation
Control (2012, art commission), videoinstallation
BRIDGE (2010), videoinstallation
RE-constructions (2009), experimental short fiction
Public Spaces (2006), experimental short fiction
(Why do I keep going) FORWARD (2004), experimental documentary
Momentum (2003), experimental fiction/videoinstallation
The Dialectical Objective (2003, art commission) interactive videoinstallation
Perpetuum Mobile (2003, art commission), videoinstallation
Dislocations (2002), videoinstallation
The Nervous System (2002, artcommission), videoinstalation
Awards and nominations:
2025 Artemis: Grand Prize, International festival of cinema & environment, Morocco
2025 Artemis: Special mention, Sunchild Festival, Armenia
2024 Artemis: Nomination best short film, Wildlife Festival Rotterdam
2024 Artemis: Public Award, River Filmfestival, Padova, Italy
2024 Artemis: Award for best film of festival, FAUNA Tepoztlán Festival, Mexico
2024 Artemis: Honorable mention, Awareness Festival, LA, USA
2024 Artemis: Special Mention, Silver Frame Festival, Serbia
2025 Artemis: Nomination best short documentary, New York City independent Film Festival
2015 Time and Place: nomination Tiger Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
2015 Time and Place: nomination best photography, Sichuan TV Festival, Chengdu, China
2015 Time and Place: special mention by jury, Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010 RE-constructions: best film (Lab section) GoShort Int Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
2007 Public Spaces: Sphinx Award best video, Videomedeja, Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2007 Public Spaces: Special mention International documentary/shortfilm festival, Huesca, Spain
2006 Public Spaces: Golden Kalf nomination best short film, The Netherlands
2005 Momentum: first prize exhibition CRYSALIS, Bari, Italy
2005 (Why do I keep going) FORWARD: grand prix on Split Short Film festival, Croatia.
2004 Momentum: Golden Calf nomination best short film, The Netherlands
2003 Momentum: jury prize on the SENEF filmfestival,
2003 Momentum: nominations for best work, Vyper festival, Basel, and exhibition Monitoring, Kassel, Germany.
2002 Dislocations: nomination for the international media art price of ZDF/Arte and the ZKM
(Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Film and video festivals (selection from 2000 to 2026):
Nomination or award *
2025 On Art Festival (The Studio), Warschau, Lodz en Poznan, Poland
2025 Into The Great Wide Open (Artemis), Vlieland, The Netherlands
2025 New York City Independent Film Festival (Artemis), NYC, USA *
2025 Greenpoint Film Festival (Artemis), Brooklyn, New York, USA
2025 Brooklyn Filmfestival (Artemis), New York, USA
2025 International festival of cinema & environment (Artemis), Morocco *
2025 EcoFrames Environmental Film Festival (Artemis), Messinia, Greece
2025 Sunchild Festival (Artemis), Armenia *
2025 Author’s International Film Fest / FIC AUTOR (Finding Enrique) Guadalajara, Mexico.
2025 ECOCINE International Environmental and Human Rights Film Festival (Artemis), Campinas, Brazilie
2025 Festival De Medi Ambient I Sostenibilitat (Artemis), Montseny, Spain
2024 Rural FilmFest (Artemis), Valencia, Spain
2024 Babul Eco Film Festival (Artemis), Hyderabad, India
2024 Cinema e Ambiente Avezzano (Artemis), Italy
2024 Silver Frame Festival (Artemis), Srebrenica, Serbia *
2024 Groote Museum (Artemis), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2024 Videomedeja Festival (Artemis), Novi Sad, Servia
2024 River Filmfestival (Artemis), Padova, Italy *
2024 Wildlife Festival Rotterdam (Artemis), The Netherlands *
2024 Awareness Festival (Artemis), Los Angeles, USA
2024 The wild Cinema (Artemis), Vigo, Spain
2024 FAUNA Tepoztlán Festival (Artemis), Mexico *
2021 Peloponnisos/Kalamata International Doc Festival (In Transit), Greece
2021 New York City Independent Film Festival (In Transit), NYC, USA
2021 FC Hyena (premiere In Transit), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Time and Place), Germany
2016 Sichuan TV Festival, Chengdu (Time and Place), China *
2016 DOKUart – International Festival of Documentary Film (Time and Place), Bjelovar, Croatia
2015 Hot Springs Documentary Festival (Time and Place), USA
2015 Documentary Festival DOCAVIV (Time and Place), Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Sichuan TV Festival, Chengdu (Time and Place), China *
2015 EYE Filmmuseum – Best of IFFR (Time and Place), Amsterdam The Netherlands
2015 IFFR International Filmfestival Rotterdam (Time and Place), The Netherlands *
2015 NFF Dutch Filmfestival Utrecht (Time and Place), The Netherlands
2015 Kansk Video Festival (Time and Place), Siberia, Russia
2015 Camerimage Festival (Time and Place), Bydgoszcz, Poland
2015 EMAF, European Media Art Festival (Time and Place), Osnabruck, Germany
2015 New York City Independent Film Festival (Time and Place), NYC, USA
2009 GoShort Int Short film Festival (RE-constructions), Utrecht, The Netherlands *
2008 IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (Re-constructions), The Netherlands
2008 Alternative Film & Video Festival (4 video’s, lecture), Belgrade, Serbia
2007 Night Of The Shorts, Institute Néerlandais, Paris, France
2007 Transat Video (FORWARD), Caen, France
2007 Videomedeja Festival (Public Spaces), Novi Sad, Servia *
2007 Crossing Border Festival (FORWARD), The Hague, The Netherlands
2007 Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival (Public Spaces), France
2007 Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spanje; Public Spaces
2007 Huesca International Documentary/Shortfilm festival (Public Spaces), Spain *
2007 Edinghburgh International Filmfestival (Public Spaces), Scotland
2007 Holland Animation Festival (Public Spaces), Utrecht
2007 Ismailia International Film Festival (Public Spaces), Egypt
2007 EMAF, European Media Art Festival (Public Spaces), Osnabruck, Germany
2007 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm festival, (Public Spaces), Germany
2006 Sao Paulo International Filmfestival (Public Spaces), Sao Paulo, Brasil
2006 IFFR International Filmfestival Rotterdam (Public Spaces),The Netherlands
2006 NFF Dutch Filmfestival (Public Spaces), Utrecht, The Netherlands *
2005 International Shortfilmfestival, Hamburg, Germany
2005 Medfilm festival (FORWARD), Rome, Italy
2005 Creative Captital Conference, (FORWARD), Felix Meritis, Amsterdam
2005 Split Film Festival, Split (FORWARD), Croatia *
2005 (La MEP) Maison Européenne de la Photographie (FORWARD), Paris, France
2004 Rencontres international Paris, Berlin (FORWARD), Paris, France
2004 IMPAKT highlights tour (Momentum), diverse festivals
2004 EMAF, European Media Art Festival (Momentum), Osnabruck, Germany
2004 Videomedeja Festival (FORWARD), Novi Sad, Servia
2003 IMPAKT Festival (Momentum), Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2003 Kunstkanaal A’dam, R’dam en Den Haag (Momentum)
2003 NFF Dutch Filmfestival (Momentum), Utrecht, The Netherlands *
2003 50% Beeld, Montevideo TBA, Amsterdam, Nederland (Momentum)
2003 SENEF Fimfestival (Momentum), Seoul, South Korea *
2003 Videomedeja Festival (Momentum), Novi Sad, Servia
2003 Macau Arts festival (Momentum), Macau, South China
2003 International Festival of Contempary Cinema (Momentum), Mexico City, Mexico
2003 Vyper festival (Momentum), Basel, Swiss *
2003 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm festival (Momentum), Germany
2003 Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid (Momentum), Spain
2003 Tiburon Festival (Momentum), San Francisco, USA
Exhibitions 1994 – 2026 (selection)
2020 The City as Performative Object, online LI-MA program with Esther Polak, Lydia Schouten, Douwe Dijkstra and Giovanni Giaretta.
2019 Levenskunst, (Time and Place) Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, The Netherlands. Curators: Mariette Dölle/Koos Breukel.
2017 Kairos Castle, (Time and Place) Museum Gaasbeek, België. Curator: Joke Hermsen.
2016 Made in Amsterdam, (Time and Place) Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam. Curator: Gusta Reigwein.
2016 Empty Rooms, Museum Kunst der Westküste (Momentum), Curator: Ulrike Wolff-Thomsen
2012 Illusion of Control (commission and exhibition) CBK Groningen. Curator: Ankie Boomstra. Solo.
2012 CONTROL, Tschumi Paviljoen, Groningen. Curator: Marinus de Vries. Solo.
2011 Wroclaw Media Art Biennial, (video installation BRIDGE) Poland.
2010 The Plot Thickens, (video installation BRIDGE) Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam. Curator: Arjan Brentjes.
2009 Holland Experience, Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, Corea. Curated by NIMk.
2009 Zoomscape (how the train drove in the cinema), Central Station, Amsterdam. Curated by EYE.
2008 Erranti/wanderers, (video installation Momentum) Palazzo Publico, Sienna, Italy.
2008 Shortly speaking… Dutch: Museum Tour of Dutch Video Art in Poland.
2008 Discovering Slowness, (video installation Public Spaces) Chinese European Art Centre (CEAC), Xiamen, China. Curator: Marjan Teeuwen.
2008 Deambulation, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine (CIC), Saint Gervais, Genève.
2007 Cinema and Photography (Discovering Slowness), The National Centre of Photography, St Petersburg, Russia.
2007 Discovering Slowness, Museum of Noord Brabant, The Netherlands.
2007 Histoires Animées, (video installation Momentum) Travelling exhibition – Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporaines, Tourcoin, France. CaixaForum, Barcelona (amongst others).
2007 Monitoring, (video installation Momentum) Kasseler Docfest, Kassel, Germany.
2006 Dutch Installation Art, MNAC, National Museum for Modern Art, Bucharest, Rumania. Curated by NIMk.
2005 UPUPA-project, Bari, Italy. Curated by Grazia de Palma.
2005 Crysalis, teoria dell’evolutione, (video installation Momentum) Bari, Italy, 1st price best artwork. Curated by Grazia de Palma.
2005 Backwards, (FORWARD) Exhibition Pixxelpoint festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
2005 Videonale, Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, Germany.
2004 Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, (Video installation Momentum) Sittard, The Netherlands.
2004 Museum Coda Apeldoorn, (Video installation Momentum) The Netherlands.
2004 Video Village (video installation FORWARD), Palazzo Trienale, Milan, Italy.
2004 World Wide Video Festival (video installation FORWARD), Amsterdam.
2003 In or Out, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
2003 Stad als film, (Momentum) Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2002 The Nervous System (commission), Tschumi Paviljoen, Groningen. Curator: Marinus de Vries. Solo.
2000 Videogrammes (video installation Dislocations), Vidéochroniques, Marseille, France. Solo.
1999 DIS.location, HMKV, Dortmund, Germany.
1998 first exhibition of Netherlands Media Art institute (NIMk), Video installation Dislocations, , Amsterdam.
1997 The Second, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1996 Dotcom Gallery, NYC (Soho Arts Festival), Installation LUDWIG, USA.
1996 Montevideo, René Coelho Gallery, Installation LUDWIG, Amsterdam. Solo.
1994 Video Art Plastiques, Hérouville Saint Claire, France.
1994 Montevideo, René Coelho Gallery, Installation Status Quo, Amsterdam. Solo.
Art Commissions 2001 – 2026:
2012 City of Groningen: Illusion of Control, monumental art commission in a parking garage on Damsterdiep.
2012 Tschumi Pavilion, Groningen: Control, artwork in a glass pavilion.
2003 Government Buildings Agency: Perpetuum Mobile, monumental art commission for the Ministry of Transport, Public Works, and Water Management, The Hague.
2003 Province of Groningen: The Dialectical Objective, monumental art commission for the De Semslinie Kunstlijn art route.
2002 Tschumi Pavilion, Groningen: The Nervous System, Artwork in a glass pavilion.
1999 Cityscape, Jaarbeursplein, Utrecht
2001 Film/video installation for the dance theater performance ‘The Post Millennium Circus’ by Cloudchamber. Performed in 15 municipal theaters across the country.
Other Activities:
1998–2003: Guest lecturer and government-appointed instructor at the Minerva Academy of Fine Arts (Groningen), HKU (Utrecht), ArtEZ (Arnhem), and the Frank Mohr Institute (Groningen).
1995–2010: Various works have been included in private and corporate collections, including those of the Bouwfonds and ABN/AMRO Bank.
2000–2005: Jury member for the LSVB Art Prize, the René Coelho Prize, and the Alternative Film Festival in Belgrade.
2004–2006: Lectures at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, the HKA in Arnhem, the Palazzo Triennale in Milan, the Pixxelpoint Festival in Slovenia, the Potenza Film Festival in Italy, and at the NIMk in Amsterdam.
2020: ‘Time and Place, a conversation with my mother’, broadcast on NPO2 Extra.
2020–2025: Member of the selection committee for the New York City Independent Film Festival.
To date: Member of the Dutch Academy for Film (DAF) and of Arti et Amicitiae.
Almost all video works are distributed by (Montevideo-NIMk-)LIMA and EYE Experimental.
October 2026: Jury member at the Videomedeja Festival, Vojvodina Museum, Novi Sad.