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Mirte van Duppen
info@mirtevanduppen.nl
+31(0)648066377
KvK 56095783
Tilburg (NL), 1990

Artist statement

The silence in which my camera moves guides the viewer's gaze, whom I can get to look but who will have to start seeing for themselves. With this, I invite the viewer to reflect on the surrealism, beauty and complexity found in their environment.

Mirte van Duppen interviewing, Kerkbrugge - Langerbrugge (BE), 2020 [photo: Hanse Cora]

My name is Mirte van Duppen, video artist with a background in graphic design. Filming, to me, is like a thought process, a way to explore situations unbeknownst to me. With my films I analyse the structures, functions and transformative power of (urban) landscapes and human interaction with these landscapes. The reality, that which we perceive, and fictional elements, that which we can imagine, are my tools for creating an analysis as well as a composition. I document this landscape in an intuitive way, with almost photographic film footage. As an audiovisual artist, I research the material, social and symbolic character within the landscape before me. This type of amazement and wonderment is something I try to convey to my audience, with work that raises more questions than it answers.

Mirte van Duppen filming AgriValley at fern grower Vitroplus, Burg - Haamstede, 2020 [photo: Mirza Bruggenweert]

My work is created by immersing myself into an environment I am unfamiliar with, and by starting the process of inspecting social issues and collecting personal stories; a method similar to that of an anthropologist. By opening up a dialogue with residents, users, makers, designers, and policy makers, I approach the theme from various angles. The way in which the work is exhibited, is also a key element in reference to my subjects: both the location and the context determine the established interaction with the audience. The interviews and film footage merge together in a spatial video installation, thus bringing an interaction between multiple screens to life – a rhyme of pictures – that highlights contradictions between images, but their similarities as well. A fusing of images enfolds itself before the viewer's eyes: a play of friction between what we think we see, and what we can imagine ourselves to see and experience.

watch here Kunstloc Brabants serie Makers in beeld (2021) by Sturmfrei Films

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cover publication AgriValley, 2023

PUBLICATION FOR SALE
Jap Sam Books, NAi Booksellers, Idea Books, Athenaeum Boekhandel, Gianotten Mutsaerts, bol.com, Bruna, NRC webwinkel

EXHIBITIONS
KIEMKRACHT FESTIVAL
08.03.2024 - 09.03.2024
10:00 - 22:00
VIERNULVIER, Gent (BE)
click here for more information and tickets

Cinedans FEST'24
24.03.2024
11:00 – 12:30 incl. Q&A
Cinema 2
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CURRENT RESEARCH
Flexscapes videographic research
COMING SOON mulitidisciplinary theatre
Community of Practice Flexwonen Provincie Noord-Brabant (NL)

education

2013 - 2015

Master of Design • Design (Think Tank for Visual Strategies) • Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)

2008 - 2012

Bachelor of Design • Graphic Design • ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL)

2010

Minor Design Critique / Editorial Design • ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem (NL)

consultancy

2023

Community of Practice (CoP) Flexwonen • Provincie Noord-Brabant (NL)

residencies & workshops

2023

D.O.C.H. | creative solutions1 week artist in residence Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, Bremen (DE) // invited by Karin Demuth

WARP-Artist-Village • The WARP Artist Village aims to provide emerging artists with feedback and stimulating input through personal interviews with professionals.

2021

JUMPtalent development program for young visual artists in Brabant, part of Talenthub Brabant

2020

KONNEKTOR3 weeks artist in residence• Kerkbrugge - Langerbrugge (BE) // invited by one of the curators Leontien Allemeersch

2019

Konvooi Kunstenfestival2 weeks artist in residence • Brugge (BE) // invited by curators PLAN B

Sandberg@Mediapark • participant of the masterclass • Hilversum (NL) // The masterclass is a creative breeding ground where makers from different disciplines are given space to experiment. A collaboration between Sandberg Instituut and Beeld en Geluid.

2018

Kunstloc (BKKC) • Kunstopdracht • Tilburg (NL) // A workshop for beginning visual artists to learn more about commission practice; presentation techniques, financial, management and preservation of art in the public space.

2017

HEIMA50 days artist in residence • Seyðisfjörður (IS) // own initiative

2016

AIR Antwerpen3 months artist in residence • State of the City • Antwerp (BE)
Kindly supported by Mondriaanfonds // ‘State of the City’ a project focused on the complex relationship between trade and sociocultural contexts in the cities of Antwerp, Rotterdam and Frankfurt am Main. The organization invited artists from each city to work on site in one of the other cities.

Open Set Dutch Design Seoul SessionsOpen Set • 2 weeks workshop • Kookmin University, Seoul (KR)
Kindly supported by Creative Industries Fund NL // The event was comprised of a series of workshops and symposiums hosted by Kookmin University and cultural institutions and centers, such as the Leeum Museum of Art, Dongdaemun Plaza and The Book Society.

2014

Disarming Design from Palestine • 3 weeks workshop • www.disarmingdesign.com • Ramallah (PS) // Palestinian artists and designers, and 5 visiting master-students from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, exchanged and collaborated with local producers to develop new products that spoke about their experience of Palestine.

exhibitions

AgriValley // multiple works // Kindly supported by Talent Development / Creative Industries Fund NL, Impulsgelden Provincie Noord-Brabant, Kunstloc, Tilburg Makersfonds, jump! and Algoritmic Perfumery, Vitro Plus

2024

Cinedans FEST'24 • EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL) upcoming

KIEMKRACHT FESTIVAL • VIERNULVIER, Gent (BE) upcoming

Boekhandel Limerick • Gent (BE) upcoming

2023

Landscapes of Progress? • Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton (GB)

Dutch Design Week • Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL)

beyond smart home • UMZU, Bremen (DE)

Volt • WARP, Sint-Niklaas (BE)

Cine-Machine • Werkwarenhuis, Den Bosch (NL)

Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL)

2022

Seasoning Winter • United Cowboys, Eindhoven (NL)

Dutch Design Week • Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL)

CASCO, Leuven (BE)

[SOLO SHOW] Trappentribune LocHal • Tilburg (NL) // talk with: Mirte van Duppen, moderator Arjanne Bode, landscape architect Nout Sterk and orchids grower Perry Bruggeling

[SOLO SHOW] Futurelab LocHal • Tilburg (NL)

"Oogstfeest" - pilot vitaal buitengebied, Wernhout (NL)

This Art Fair, Amsterdam (NL)

[SOLO SHOW] on location at famer R.J. Langendijk, Diessen (NL)

[SOLO SHOW] Kunstlinie, Almere (NL)

Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL)

2020

Talent Wall #4 • Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL) Kindly supported by Creative Industries Fund NL, Impulsgelden Provincie Noord-Brabant, Kunstloc Brabant and Tilburg Makersfonds

Een witte muur die in iets anders verandert (2022) // three-channel video installation

2022

Dutch Design Week This is where we make • Fontys, TU/E and TAC • TAC, Eindhoven (NL)

[SOLO SHOW] TAC, Eindhoven (NL) Kindly supported by Mondriaanfonds, Creative Industries Fund NL, Impulsgelden Provincie Noord-Brabant, Kunstloc Brabant and TAC

Het begint met een kamer voor jezelf. (2021) // two-channel video installation

2021

Dutch Design Week • MAKE Eindhoven, Eindhoven (NL)

De ijzeren boomgaard (2020) // two-channel video installation and film posters

2021

[SOLO SHOW] Art Rendez Vous Breda #12 • Atlas Initiatief, Breda (NL)

KONNEKTOR • Den Hannekesnest, Kerkbrugge - Langerbrugge (BE) // collaborating artists: Monica Ruiz Loyola and Edwin Stolk

JUMP Expo (projection) • De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL) // curators: Ageeth Boermans and Bert Loerakker

[SOLO SHOW] Cinecitta • Tilburg (NL)

2020

[SOLO SHOW] Cinecitta • Tilburg (NL) postponed
Nacht van de Meetjeslandse kerken • Kerkbrugge - Langerbrugge (BE) cancelled

Groeten uit d’haven van Brugge (2019) // video panels

2019

Konvooi Kunstenfestival • Brugge (BE) // curator: PLAN B

Territory of the Beings (2019) // one-channel video

2021

Undercurrent: Film in de garage • Rotterdam Architecture Month, Rotterdam (NL) // program: Dorian de Rijk, From Form, Katja Verheul, Jaime Levinas, Miruna Dunu, Frederique Pisuisse, Cristobal Pereira, Gijs van der Meer, Katarina Jazbec and Mathieu Roy

2020

Architecture, Design, Art Film Festival • Palm Springs (USA)

2019

Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival • Istanbul (TR)

[DUO SHOW] Expoplu Extra • Expoplu, Nijmegen (NL) // collaborating artist: Bart Nijboer // curator: Youri Appelo

Floating Signifiers (2018) // one-channel video

2018

VIEWMASTER projects • Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL) // curator: Mique Eggermont

Brot af Seyðisfirði / Fragments of Seyðisfjörður& (2017) // two-channel video installation

2019

[DUO SHOW] Expoplu Extra • Expoplu, Nijmegen (NL) // collaborating artist: Bart Nijboer // curator: Youri Appelo

2018

Kunstenfestival PLAN B • Gouvernement, Gent (BE)

Kunstenfestival PLAN B • Bekegem (BE)

2017

HEIMA • Seyðisfjörður (IS)

VIEW of the/from the WATERSIDE (2016) // three-channel video installation

2021

JUMP Expo • De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL) // curators: Ageeth Boermans and Bert Loerakker

2018

[SOLO SHOW] Piazza dell’Arte, Antwerp (BE) Kindly supported by Stad Antwerpen and Creative Industries Fund NL // self-organised show

2016

State of the City • Basis, Frankfurt (DE) // collaborating artists: Ghislain Amar, Levent Kunt, Stijn Van Dorpe, Karl Philips and Ani Schulze // curator: Christin Müller

AntwerpArtWeekend • AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp (BE)

The Dutch Mountain (2015) // two-channel video installation

2019

Etcetera VII • S.M.A.K., Gent (BE) // curators: Jef Declercq, Zoë Hoornaert, Adriënne van der Werf and Victor Van Wassenhove

2016

Marres Currents #3: sightseeing • Marres aan de Maas, Maastricht (NL) // curators: Agata Jaworska, Ina Hollmann, Eva Jäger and Guillemette Legrand

2015

Summer Program @ Hôtel Droog • Hôtel Droog, Amsterdam (NL)

Somewhere between cat and ruin, Graduation show Sandberg Instituut • Burgerweeshuis, Amsterdam (NL) // curator: Agata Jaworska

Disarming Design from Palestine (project by Annelys de Vet) // Measuring inequality (glass) & Relax hardly pillow (neck pillow)

2019

On the Line of the Equator • Expoplu, Nijmegen (NL) // collaborating artists: Hannah Dawn Henderson, Joyce Overheul, Julius Thissen, Eef Veldkamp and Puck Verkade

2018

Thoughts provoking december gifts • Hôtel Droog, Amsterdam (NL)

Change the system • Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) // conservator: Annemartine van Kesteren

2017

Ökorausch Festival Cologne • Design Museum Colgone, Cologne (DE)

2016

Mudam Makers Market • Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg City (LU)

2015

Design Colomn #9 - Conflicted • Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) // curator: Moniek Driesse

On the other side (2014) // one-minute video

2015

The Sandberg Series 2015, The One Minutes • Reykjavík International Film Festival (IS), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL), deBuren, Brussels (BE), Dortmunder U (DE), Drents Museum/CBK Drenthe, Assen (NL), East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (NL), Museum Hilversum (NL), Museum De Pont, Tilburg (NL), SCHUNCK*, Heerlen (NL), WOW, Amsterdam (NL), Burgerweeshuis, Amsterdam (NL)

commissions

2023

JUMP! film about the talents

2021

TAC • film about the transition • commissioned by TAC, Eindhoven (NL)

AIR Platform Brabant film about the 11 residencies • supported by Kunstloc and in collaboration with AIR Platform Brabant, Tilburg (NL)

2020

Struin door het puin • film intervention • commissioned by Annet Vermeulen, Udenhout (NL)

2019

Territory of the Beings • MINUTES: is a short film series portraying architecture through the lenses of international directors. • film about the building ‘District Water Board Brabantse Delta’ of KAAN Architecten, Breda (NL)

2018

In De Boomtak • film about the community centre • commissioned by In De Boomtak, Tilburg (NL)

grants

2024

Creative Industries Fund NL • Fresh Perspectives

2023

Tilburg Makersfonds • contribution for development film • Tilburg (NL)

2022

Creative Industries Fund NL • Regeling Architectuur • contribution for publication AgriValley

2021

Tilburg Makersfonds Plus • contribution for development • Tilburg (NL)

2020

Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds: Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fonds • contribution for publication AgriValley

Tilburg Makersfonds • contribution for development • Tilburg (NL)

Jaap Hartenfonds • contribution for publication AgriValley

Mondriaanfonds • 6 months artist in residence • TAC, Eindhoven (NL)

2019

Impulsgelden • Provincie Noord-Brabant (advice by Kunstloc Brabant)

2018 - 2019

Creative Industries Fund NL • Talent Development Grant

2016

Mondriaanfonds • Kunstenaar Project (Vrije Praktijkverdieping) • 3 months artist in residence • AIR Antwerpen, Antwerp (BE)

Creative Industries Fund NLOpen Set • Open Set Dutch Design Seoul Sessions • 2 weeks workshop • Kookmin University, Seoul (KR)

lectures & artist talks

2023

AgriValleyTrilogy: Naturally • Het Nieuwe Instituut • Rotterdam (NL)

AgriValleyBouwstof • CAST • Tilburg (NL)

AgriValley • Rotary club • Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL)

2022

ArchitectuurcaféAgriValley • Kunstlinie, Almere (NL) watch here

2021

Met kunst het verschil maken: in opdracht of op eigen initiatief? CAB-café #12, Electron, Breda (NL)// panel discussion with: Peter Dictus (Bureau Pees), Lisette Aarnink (Tante Netty) and Marcel de Buck

Territory of the Beings12 Ways to Film a Building • Thursday Night Live at Het Nieuwe Instituut, online // moderator: Brendan Cormier

AgriValley • introduction project and screening Around its own axis • Seasonal Neighbours, online

2020

AgriValley • introduction project • Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL)

AgriValley • debat • Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven (NL) cancelled

2019

‘The Scene is Here’ at DDW • MU, Eindhoven (NL) Kindly supported by Creative Industries Fund NL

2016

Lecture CA Conference - Special ‘Journey to Dutch Design’ • Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul (KR)

Marres Dialogues: The paradox of objective representation • Intro in Situ, Maastricht (NL) // Philippine Hoegen moderates: Paula van den Bosch, Chris Keulemans, Agata Jaworska and Guillemette Legrand

2015

Artist Talks Marres Currents #3: Sightseeing • Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL)

2014

Ronde Tafel Gesprek Design Colomn #9 - Conflicted • Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) // table discussion with: Moniek Driesse, Annelys de Vet, Ali Aldeek, Isaura San, Polina Medvedeva and Mark Jan van Tellingen

workshops & teaching

2017

Present your Portfolio (Internship and Portfolioday) • New Design & Attitudes (Grafisch- Ruimtelijk Ontwerp), St. Joost School of Art & Design, 4th year, Breda (NL)

2016

The One Minutes Workshop Trainer • Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Instituut, 1st year, Amsterdam (NL)

The One Minutes Workshop Trainer • Reinventing Daily Life, Sandberg Instituut, 1st year, Amsterdam (NL)

2015

Virtual / physical friendship • in collaboration with Hein van Duppen • Northgo College, vwo-5, Noordwijk (NL)

press & interviews

2023

taz„Wenn wir Wasser digitalisieren, sind wir tot“ • 20.10.2023 • read here

De GelderlanderDe handelingen van machines hebben vaak iets weg van een dans • COLUMN Willem Claassen • 16.05.2023 • read here

MESTmagTalenthub jump! zorgt voor ontmoeting, inzicht in eigen werkpraktijk en verbinden • by Simone Vos • read here

Brabants DagbladTotaal in de ban van landbouwsnufjes • by Simone Vos • 09.05.2023 • read here

Eindhovens DagbladVideokunstenaar Mirte van Duppen vangt futuristisch beeld van landbouw in boekvorm • by Simone Vos • 28.04.2023 • read here

Kunstkrachtread here

2022

De onbekende wereld achter gesloten schuurdeurenread here

De rol van kunstenaars bij de discussies rondom Brabantse landbouwread here

Hoe kunst je laat nadenken over landbouwread here

2021

Makers in Beeld • Kunstloc Brabants serie • by Sturmfrei Filmswatch here

GrensGeluiden • interview with Yvonne Ton • 14.11.2021 • listen here

Eindhovens DagbladTalent-expositie Jump! in De Cacaofabriek knettertread here

Met kunst het verschil maken: in opdracht of op eigen initiatief? CAB-café #12 read here

architectenwebKAAN Architecten presenteert eerste film op platform Minutesread here

de filmkrantArchitecten­bureau als op­dracht­gever voor twaalf film­makersread here

METALOCUSNueva percepción de la Arquitectura. MINUTES. serie de cortometrajes por KAAN Architectenread here

2020

Stadsnieuws • De IJzeren Boomgaard: een sprookje • 10.12.2020 • Tilburg (NL) • read here

2019

Creative Industries Fund NL • interview with Tamar Shafrir • read here

2018

Kunstenfestival PLAN B [catalogue] • interview with Vincent Focquet • read here

2017

De Groene Amsterdammer, Beeldspraak • Ontwapenend ontwerp • Amsterdam (NL) • read here

2016

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung • Sat., 03.12.2016 • Andere Städte, gleiche Nöte • Frankfurt (DE)

CA Magazine ISSUE #221 • Open Set: Dutch Design Seoul Session • (KR)

Marres Currents #3: sightseeing | Video 4watch here

publications

2023

AgriValley [book idea, compilation, images, concept and design: Mirte van Duppen] • Text and art contributions: Bernke Klein Zandvoort (poet and essayist), Joost Oomen (poet and writer), Hein van Duppen (spatial designer and visual artist), Willem Claassen (writer and journalist) and Corinne Heyrman (theatre maker), and a conversation with Floris Alkemade (architect and former Chief Government Architect) • Publisher: Jap Sam Books • For sale at Jap Sam Books, NAi Booksellers, Idea Books, Athenaeum Boekhandel, Gianotten Mutsaerts, bol.com, Bruna // Kindly supported by Impulsgelden Provincie Noord-Brabant, Kunstloc, Jaap Harten Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds / Elisabeth Vermaat Müller Fonds, Architecture Grant Scheme / Creative Industries Fund NL

2019

Het Sporenkabinet [contribution: Mirte van Duppen] • published by: AIR Antwerpen en Art Paper Editions

2016

A Sustainist Lexicon [design: Mirte van Duppen] • author: Michiel Schwarz • for sale at: NAi Booksellers (NL), Architectura & Natura (NL), Stedelijk Museum Bookshop (NL), Athenaeum (NL), The American Book Center, Idea Books

State of the City [catalogue] [catalogue group expo] • with the work VIEW of the/from the WATERSIDE • published by: basis e.V.

2015

Dutch Mountain: Landscape of Fictions, Memories and Desires [writer: Mirte van Duppen] • read here

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programming Gijs de Heij