[ENG] Vita Soul Wilmering works as an artist, film maker, performer and musician. From 2019 - 2021 she worked as an artist in residence at De Ateliers, Amsterdam and she currently works and lives in Den Haag and has her studio at Billytown.
Starting her projects from a basis in documentary film, she considers the performative space which a camera evokes an instrument to start friendships and to communicate on an intimate level with the people she works with, by integrating the making process in the work itself.
Through the use of fictional or performative elements, she makes people shift between roles and reality, to visualize questions such as how one adresses personal and familial history, or how we deal with loss and absence.
Read here the exhibition text by Klaudija Ylaite on the exhibition The Failed Holiday at Galerie Block C, Groningen (2024).
Starting her projects from a basis in documentary film, she considers the performative space which a camera evokes an instrument to start friendships and to communicate on an intimate level with the people she works with, by integrating the making process in the work itself.
Through the use of fictional or performative elements, she makes people shift between roles and reality, to visualize questions such as how one adresses personal and familial history, or how we deal with loss and absence.
Read here the exhibition text by Klaudija Ylaite on the exhibition The Failed Holiday at Galerie Block C, Groningen (2024).
[NL] Vita Soul Wilmering werkt als kunstenaar, filmmaker, performer en muzikant. Van 2019 - 2021 werkte ze in het post-academisch instituut De Ateliers, Amsterdam en op dit moment werkt ze in Den Haag en heeft haar atelier bij Billytown.
Documentaire gebeurtenissen vormen de basis van haar praktijk en ze beschouwt de performatieve ruimte die ontstaat bij de aanwezigheid van een camera als een instrument om vriendschappen aan te gaan en op een intieme manier te communiceren met de mensen die ze filmt. Het maakproces wordt hierbij vaak onderdeel van het werk.
Door te spelen met fictieve of performatieve elementen, laat ze mensen wisselen tussen een rol en de realiteit, om vragen op te roepen zoals hoe men zich verhoudt tot persoonlijke en familiale geschiedenis, of hoe we omgaan met verlies.
Lees hier Laag voor laag, artikel Metropolis M (2022), door Nadeche Remst.
Lees hier de tentoonstellingstekst door Klaudia Ylaite over de tentoonstelling De Mislukte Vakantie in Galerie Block C, Groningen (2024).
Documentaire gebeurtenissen vormen de basis van haar praktijk en ze beschouwt de performatieve ruimte die ontstaat bij de aanwezigheid van een camera als een instrument om vriendschappen aan te gaan en op een intieme manier te communiceren met de mensen die ze filmt. Het maakproces wordt hierbij vaak onderdeel van het werk.
Door te spelen met fictieve of performatieve elementen, laat ze mensen wisselen tussen een rol en de realiteit, om vragen op te roepen zoals hoe men zich verhoudt tot persoonlijke en familiale geschiedenis, of hoe we omgaan met verlies.
Lees hier Laag voor laag, artikel Metropolis M (2022), door Nadeche Remst.
Lees hier de tentoonstellingstekst door Klaudia Ylaite over de tentoonstelling De Mislukte Vakantie in Galerie Block C, Groningen (2024).
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Education / residencies
2023 ArtMéssiamé & Bandjoun Station, artist residency, Bandjoun (Cameroon) 2022 KAMEN Artist Residency, Orah (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2019 - 2021 De Ateliers, postgraduate residency programme, Amsterdam (NL) 2017 - 2018 Master of audiovisual arts, KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2014 - 2017 Bachelor of audiovisual arts, KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2012 - 2013 Preparatory course fine arts, HKU, Utrecht (NL)
Solo presentations
2024 De Mislukte Vakantie / The Failed Holiday, solo show, Galerie Block C, Groningen (NL) 2021 Lake Bottom Cinema, solo-presentation of the performative installation Lake Bottom Cinema, old village of Orah (BiH) 2021 Always Hallways, curated by Fadwa Naamna, Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
Screenings / group exhibitions
2024 Another Grand Day Out, group show with Billytown Artist Initiative, Kieken Centrale, Antwerp (BE) 2024 Eye on Art, screening Lake Bottom Cinema, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam (NL) 2024 '(un)scripted' in Prospects, Art Rotterdam (NL) 2023 'Lake Bottom Cinema', Sarajevo Film Festival, screening, Sarajevo (BiH) 2023 Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth, group show, De Ateliers, Amsterdam Art 2023 'Lake Bottom Cinema', selection Film Market, Visions du Réel, Nyon (CH) 2023 'Spiegl' screening & talk with Erik van Lieshout, Transitions Festival, Maastricht (NL) 2022 Carriers, Sybren Hellinga Art Prize (nominated), group show, curated by Titus Nouwens, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag (NL) 2022 'Spiegl', screening, Dutch Film Week Warsaw, Embassy of the Netherlands & Gutek Film, Kino Muranów, Warsaw (PL) 2022 parallel relocations // relocated parallels, duo show with Monika Zarzeczna, KC Trebinje (BiH) 2022 Limburg Biënnale #2, group show, Marres, Maastricht (NL) 2022 Out of time, group show, Helicopter artist collective, Den Haag (NL) 2022 Dakar Biennale OFF, Construire, déconstruire, reconstruire, group show, Dakar (SN) 2022 IFFR, official selection 'Spiegl', International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) 2022 RSVP, group show, Billytown, Den Haag (NL). 2021 Opera Spiegl, online live stream concert, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL). 2020 BAÄL, online radio play with Sam D.P. Hersbach, Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) 2019 Houtnacht & Houtfestival, film screenings, Haarlem (NL) 2019 De Pletterij, DocuLab, screening & talk, Haarlem (NL) 2019 ISFF, Short Film Market, Online Videolibrary, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) 2018 DocLisboa, selection Green Years section, Lisbon (PT) 2018 Sphinx cinema & KASK cinema, graduation KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2018 Radboud University, Levens//weg, screening & talk, Nijmegen (NL) 2018 Ostadetheater A'dam, performance 'Since I see myself over there', Amsterdam (NL) 2017 KASK cinema, bachelor graduation KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2017 Visions du Reél, official selection Medialibrary, Nyon (CH) 2017 Cinema_plek, screening, Ghent (BE) 2016 De Donkere Materie, exhibition, Roest, Amsterdam (NL) 2016 Het Nieuwe Dromen, screenings, ABC Architectuurcentrum, Haarlem (NL) 2015 Bewegend Beeld, screening, Brussels (BE) 2014 De Nieuwe Vide, screening 'Zonder', Haarlem (NL)
Other
2023 Amsterdam Art, conversation at Woonhuis with Kris Petrasova (Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid) 2023 Helicopter Artist Residency, management and organisation, Den Haag (NL) 2023 Artist talk @Remix Masterclass, Institute for Sound & Vision, Hilversum (NL) 2022 IVKO Week, workshops sound and film for high school students, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Carriers, Sybren Hellinga Art Prize (nominated), conversation, moderated by Titus Nouwens, ROZENSTRAAT a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Unforbidden Movement #2, workshop with Eilit Marom, Helicopter Den Haag (NL) 2022 Out of time, participating and curating group show, Helicopter artist collective, Den Haag (NL) 2021 Radio AlHara, interview during Always Hallways, Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) 2021 HKU, seminar teaching, Utrecht (NL) 2020 Lonely Planet, radio show presenting in collaboration with JaJaJaNeeNeeNee, Offspring, De Ateliers (NL) 2020 'Op zoek naar een reclamevliegtuig', live performance: sound and poetry, Haarlem (NL) 2019 DEUR, collaborative project, traveling installation, several locations in The Netherlands 2018 Internship with visual artist Tiong Ang, Amsterdam (NL) 2017 Radboud University, artist talk about 'Oyfn veg shteyt a boym', The Taboo Series: sexuality, Nijmegen (NL) 2017 LENSBOX FilmSound, live soundtrack cinema, Haarlem (NL) 2014 'WAT NU?!', permanent installation, entry school building, Stedelijk Gymnasium, Haarlem (NL)
Grants
2024 Mondriaan Fund, artist residency Atelier Holsboer, Paris 2023 Stroom Den Haag, PRO Invest 2023 Mondriaan Fund, project grant 2023 Stroom Den Haag, project grant 2022 Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, project grant 2022 Dommering Fonds, project grant 2022 Mondriaan Fund, artist start stipend 2021 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten, project funding 2021 Stichting AMMODO (via De Ateliers), grant 2020 NORMA Fund, project grant 2019 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Josine De Bruyn Kops Fonds), project grant 2019 Municipality of Haarlem, Cultuurstimuleringsfonds, grant
Press
2022 Laag voor laag, de films van Vita Soul Wilmering, by Nadeche Remst in Metropolis M (no1 2022). 2021 Knappe acrobatiek tussen docu en fictie tijdens open huis in De Ateliers in NRC Handelsblad, by Lucette ter Borg 2021 Deze jonge kunstenaars gaan hun eigen gang in De Volkskrant, by Sarah van Binsbergen 2021 De Ateliers Offspring 2021 – De gang als uitgangspunt in Metropolis M, by Lotte van Geijn
Many of my projects were realised with the kind support of the Mondriaan Fund and Stroom Den Haag.
Education / residencies
2023 ArtMéssiamé & Bandjoun Station, artist residency, Bandjoun (Cameroon) 2022 KAMEN Artist Residency, Orah (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2019 - 2021 De Ateliers, postgraduate residency programme, Amsterdam (NL) 2017 - 2018 Master of audiovisual arts, KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2014 - 2017 Bachelor of audiovisual arts, KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2012 - 2013 Preparatory course fine arts, HKU, Utrecht (NL)
Solo presentations
2024 De Mislukte Vakantie / The Failed Holiday, solo show, Galerie Block C, Groningen (NL) 2021 Lake Bottom Cinema, solo-presentation of the performative installation Lake Bottom Cinema, old village of Orah (BiH) 2021 Always Hallways, curated by Fadwa Naamna, Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL)
Screenings / group exhibitions
2024 Another Grand Day Out, group show with Billytown Artist Initiative, Kieken Centrale, Antwerp (BE) 2024 Eye on Art, screening Lake Bottom Cinema, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam (NL) 2024 '(un)scripted' in Prospects, Art Rotterdam (NL) 2023 'Lake Bottom Cinema', Sarajevo Film Festival, screening, Sarajevo (BiH) 2023 Don't Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth, group show, De Ateliers, Amsterdam Art 2023 'Lake Bottom Cinema', selection Film Market, Visions du Réel, Nyon (CH) 2023 'Spiegl' screening & talk with Erik van Lieshout, Transitions Festival, Maastricht (NL) 2022 Carriers, Sybren Hellinga Art Prize (nominated), group show, curated by Titus Nouwens, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag (NL) 2022 'Spiegl', screening, Dutch Film Week Warsaw, Embassy of the Netherlands & Gutek Film, Kino Muranów, Warsaw (PL) 2022 parallel relocations // relocated parallels, duo show with Monika Zarzeczna, KC Trebinje (BiH) 2022 Limburg Biënnale #2, group show, Marres, Maastricht (NL) 2022 Out of time, group show, Helicopter artist collective, Den Haag (NL) 2022 Dakar Biennale OFF, Construire, déconstruire, reconstruire, group show, Dakar (SN) 2022 IFFR, official selection 'Spiegl', International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) 2022 RSVP, group show, Billytown, Den Haag (NL). 2021 Opera Spiegl, online live stream concert, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL). 2020 BAÄL, online radio play with Sam D.P. Hersbach, Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) 2019 Houtnacht & Houtfestival, film screenings, Haarlem (NL) 2019 De Pletterij, DocuLab, screening & talk, Haarlem (NL) 2019 ISFF, Short Film Market, Online Videolibrary, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) 2018 DocLisboa, selection Green Years section, Lisbon (PT) 2018 Sphinx cinema & KASK cinema, graduation KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2018 Radboud University, Levens//weg, screening & talk, Nijmegen (NL) 2018 Ostadetheater A'dam, performance 'Since I see myself over there', Amsterdam (NL) 2017 KASK cinema, bachelor graduation KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2017 Visions du Reél, official selection Medialibrary, Nyon (CH) 2017 Cinema_plek, screening, Ghent (BE) 2016 De Donkere Materie, exhibition, Roest, Amsterdam (NL) 2016 Het Nieuwe Dromen, screenings, ABC Architectuurcentrum, Haarlem (NL) 2015 Bewegend Beeld, screening, Brussels (BE) 2014 De Nieuwe Vide, screening 'Zonder', Haarlem (NL)
Other
2023 Amsterdam Art, conversation at Woonhuis with Kris Petrasova (Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid) 2023 Helicopter Artist Residency, management and organisation, Den Haag (NL) 2023 Artist talk @Remix Masterclass, Institute for Sound & Vision, Hilversum (NL) 2022 IVKO Week, workshops sound and film for high school students, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Carriers, Sybren Hellinga Art Prize (nominated), conversation, moderated by Titus Nouwens, ROZENSTRAAT a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (NL) 2022 Unforbidden Movement #2, workshop with Eilit Marom, Helicopter Den Haag (NL) 2022 Out of time, participating and curating group show, Helicopter artist collective, Den Haag (NL) 2021 Radio AlHara, interview during Always Hallways, Offspring, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) 2021 HKU, seminar teaching, Utrecht (NL) 2020 Lonely Planet, radio show presenting in collaboration with JaJaJaNeeNeeNee, Offspring, De Ateliers (NL) 2020 'Op zoek naar een reclamevliegtuig', live performance: sound and poetry, Haarlem (NL) 2019 DEUR, collaborative project, traveling installation, several locations in The Netherlands 2018 Internship with visual artist Tiong Ang, Amsterdam (NL) 2017 Radboud University, artist talk about 'Oyfn veg shteyt a boym', The Taboo Series: sexuality, Nijmegen (NL) 2017 LENSBOX FilmSound, live soundtrack cinema, Haarlem (NL) 2014 'WAT NU?!', permanent installation, entry school building, Stedelijk Gymnasium, Haarlem (NL)
Grants
2024 Mondriaan Fund, artist residency Atelier Holsboer, Paris 2023 Stroom Den Haag, PRO Invest 2023 Mondriaan Fund, project grant 2023 Stroom Den Haag, project grant 2022 Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, project grant 2022 Dommering Fonds, project grant 2022 Mondriaan Fund, artist start stipend 2021 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten, project funding 2021 Stichting AMMODO (via De Ateliers), grant 2020 NORMA Fund, project grant 2019 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Josine De Bruyn Kops Fonds), project grant 2019 Municipality of Haarlem, Cultuurstimuleringsfonds, grant
Press
2022 Laag voor laag, de films van Vita Soul Wilmering, by Nadeche Remst in Metropolis M (no1 2022). 2021 Knappe acrobatiek tussen docu en fictie tijdens open huis in De Ateliers in NRC Handelsblad, by Lucette ter Borg 2021 Deze jonge kunstenaars gaan hun eigen gang in De Volkskrant, by Sarah van Binsbergen 2021 De Ateliers Offspring 2021 – De gang als uitgangspunt in Metropolis M, by Lotte van Geijn
Many of my projects were realised with the kind support of the Mondriaan Fund and Stroom Den Haag.
