[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 the exhibition text by Klaudija Ylaite about the exhibition The Failed Holiday at Galerie Block C, Groningen (2024): https://galerieblockc.blogspot.com/2024/05/vita-soul-wilmering-zaaltekst-door_28.html And read here the article Layer by layer by Nadeche Remst about Spiegl in MetropolisM (Nederlands): https://metropolism.com/nl/feature/laag-voor-laag-de-films-van-vita-soul-wilmering/
[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.
2024 - 2025 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, residency in Atelier Holsboer, Mondriaanfonds (FR) 2023 - 2025 MA East European Studies, University of Amsterdam (NL) 2023 ArtMéssiamé & Bandjoun Station, artist residency, Bandjoun (CM) 2022 KAMEN Artist Residency, Orah (BiH) 2019 - 2021De Ateliers, postgraduate residency programme, Amsterdam (NL) 2017 - 2018 MA audiovisual arts, KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2014 - 2017 BA audiovisual arts, KASK School of Arts, Ghent (BE) 2012 - 2013 Preparatory course fine arts, HKU, Utrecht (NL)
Solo presentations
2025The Divorce Chair, site-specific installation and performative screening, Open Sudio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR) 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
2025 Slagduif, group show at Billytown, Den Haag (NL) 2025 Building For Sale!, collaborative group installation, Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm (SE) 2025 Traveling Light, programme of film screenings curated by Semâ Bekirović, P1 Projects, Rotterdam (NL) 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) 2018 DocLisboa, official 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 Cinema_plek, screening, Ghent (BE) 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) 2022Carriers, 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) 2020Lonely 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) 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) 2014 'WAT NU?!', permanent installation, entry school building, Stedelijk Gymnasium, Haarlem (NL)
