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News solo exhibition
On Wednesday 25th of September we will present our Catastrophic Structures installation at LTK4 in Cologne, Germany. It is pretty exciting as the installation will cover four floors. Come by in case you are around! You can find more info here. 23 september 2024 screening
On Tuesday 24th of September at 19h, our film While The Pile of Rubble Grows Towards the Sky will be screened in Amsterdam at Lab 111. Would be great to see you there. You can find more info here. 17 september 2024 review
Joke de Wolf wrote a nice article for De Groene Amsterdammer about our film 'Het Hoogt en Het Laagt'. You can read it here. 26 augustus 2024 short film
Together with Kristina Benjocki I've made a new short film for Welcome Stranger. We will screen 'Het Hoogt en Het Laagt' on the 1st of June. Other screenings will be on July 27, July 31 and August 31. Join us on one of these special occassions. You can find more info here. 24 mei 2024 cinematic installation
Our four-channel film installation Catastrophic Structures will be on view on the 22nd of March at V2_ in Rotterdam. 'Catastrophic Structures: listening to the hum of distant machinery' is the first presentation of Numina Gneisspecker's long-term audiovisual research into catastrophic structures and their immanent slow violence. For V2_, they've developed a new multi-channel audiovisual installation to draw 'attention to catastrophic acts that are low in instant spectacle but high in long-term effects' (Nixon). Come join us on this special occasion! More info can be found on V2_'s website. 4 maart 2024 film and exhibition
The two-channel film installation While the Pile of Rubble Grows Towards the Sky will feature in Kristina Benjocki's exhibition The Warp and Weft of History at Looiersgracht 60 in Amsterdam, opening on the 12th of October. More info can be found here. 1 oktober 2023 review
Great review by Annosh Urbanke about Kristina Benjocki's exhibition Portrait of a Mountain and our film While the Pile of Rubble Grows Towards the Sky can be read here. 7 augustus 2023 film and exhibition
Pleased to announce a new, two-channel film installation: While the Pile of Rubble Grows Towards the Sky will premiere in Kristina Benjocki's exhibition Portrait of a Mountain at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Belgrade, opening on the 9th of June. More info can be found here. 1 juni 2023 audio visual installation
Together with Sjoerd Leijten, I have been working on an audio-visual installation called Catastrophic Structures. We've recently received funding from Nederlands Filmfonds and Stimuleringsfonds, which means we can continue developing this work. All funded projects can be found here. The first presentation will happen in the Spring of 2024. 25 mei 2023 exhibition
Pleased to announce my video Open water will be part of the exhibition Horizon, Interrupted at Garage Rotterdam, curated by Fadwa Naamna. Other artists are Lana Čmajčanin, Jan Dibbets, Xandra van der Eijk, Manal Mahamid, Josef Schulz and Giuditta Vendrame. The opening is Friday 2nd of September, 19.00h. More info here. 26 augustus 2022 review
"A masterpiece of a wakeup call." Maya Merberg wrote a great review of our film and album A RATIONAL WORLD. You can find it here. 24 augustus 2022 tape
The unofficial soundtrack of our short film Ansage Ende has arrived! A RATIONAL WORLD is a beautiful tape with improvised music by Verena Barie, Gerri Jäger and Sjoerd Leijten, mixed with field recordings by Malu Peeters, Sjoerd Leijten and Stijn Verhoeff, combined with climate activist statements by Andreas Malm and other activists. It is a fierce, joyful and poetic call to arms in times of ecological collapse. You can see, listen to and buy it here! 31 mei 2022 short film screenings and concert
The 4th and 5th of September our film ANSAGE ENDE will be screening. On Saturday in Cologne, Germany and on Sunday in Amsterdam at De Ruimte. Musicians Verena Barie, Gerri Jäger and Sjoerd Leijten, who feature in the film, will perform live. Come join us. More info can be found here. 27 augustus 2021 short film screening
Our film ANSAGE ENDE will be screening the 1st of May at Lichtturm, Solingen, Germany. More info can be found here. 24 april 2021 nomination best experimental award
We are pleased to announce our short film 'The seas are rising' is nominated for the Best Experimental Award at Shortcutz Amsterdam. The ceremony will be held on Sunday the 14th of March at www.shortcutzamsterdam.com 8 maart 2021 short stories
I'm currently writing a series of short stories: on wild fires, civil disobedience, climate justice and other topics. More to be shared during the course of the year.. 1 januari 2021 short film screenings
Now that the first wave of corona is behind us, we can slowly see films in cinemas again. Shortcutz Amsterdam will present The Seas Are Rising on the 6th of October. ANSAGE ENDE will screen at Klimaatfestival Antwerpen, October 17, 2020. 1 augustus 2020 cinema verde
ANSAGE ENDE will open the Cinema Verde International Environmental Film and Arts Festival in Gainsville, Florida, US. The festival will run from February 13 - 16, 2020. 28 december 2019 trashlinie podcast
For the radioprogram Trashkot at Radio Centraal in Antwerpen, and together with Sjoerd Leijten from Trashlinie I made a podcast about the recent streetoccupation of Extinction Rebellion in Amsterdam. The episode is the 3rd of Trashlinie's episodes called 'De klimaatblokkade van Extinction Rebellion in Amsterdam' and can be listened to here. 26 oktober 2019 ansage ende official sound track
We are currently working on our ANSAGE ENDE music album. The LP fuses experimental music (by Verena Barie, Gerri Jäger and Sjoerd Leijten) with field recordings of the animal world and acts of activism. More info soon. 11 oktober 2019 uncertainty seminars
Today we will screen our film ANSAGE ENDE at artspace Stroom in The Hague. We are part of a two-day programme called Uncertainty Seminars. More info can be found at their website. 13 september 2019 best experimental film award
!!! ANSAGE ENDE won the Best Experimental Award at the Rome Independent Cinema Festival !!! 10 september 2019 moddergat
After a productive ánd emotional 2018 we are currently finishing the film In Search of the Future (working title). The edit is done, the only things we still have to do is finalizing the sound and designing the end credits. Also, we yet have to make the final decision on the title. Very very soon there will be more to share from us. 9 januari 2019 lûd
The audio installation De toekomst ligt in zee is currently featuring in the outdoor exhibition Lûd. With audio works by amongst others Dora Garcia, Matt Mullican and Falke Pisano. From August 15 till October 15, 2018. 20 augustus 2018 oerol
Documentation of our audio installation Seinsters at Oerol Theater Festival will come soon. Here a first picture by Robin Alysha Clemens: 30 juni 2018 trashkot
Sunday 8th of April, from 15.00h to 16.30h, I'll be making radio with Sjoerd Leijten at Radio Centraal, Antwerp. 8 april 2018 meeting the aleph*
‘Time turns metaphors into things’ 1 april 2018 lûd
The audio installation De toekomst ligt in zee will feature in the outdoor exhibition Lûd. With audio works by amongst others Maria Barnas, Dora Garcia, Matt Mullican and Falke Pisano. 1 march 2018 oerol
Together with Olle Kruijt and Sjoerd Leijten, I am currently working on a sound installation for Oerol Theater Festival. On view from June 16th to June 24th, 2018. 26 feb 2018 meeting the aleph*
‘I was thinking to prepare something raw and something cooked and use the meal as a prompt to introduce ideas around experimental processes, unconscious cognition, plants, networks and alternative modes of living. What do you think?’ 11 feb 2018 meeting the aleph*
...‘so now’, she said, ‘you must really start to tell me about yourself.’ 17 dec 2017 open call
In het voorjaar van 2018 zullen componist/muzikant Sjoerd Leijten en kunstenaar/schrijver Stijn Verhoeff resident zijn bij Kunsthuis SYB. www.kunsthuissyb.nl 22 nov 2017 meeting the aleph*
...‘so now’, he said, ‘you must really start to tell me about yourself.’ 12 nov 2017 open studio Dear Friend, 30 sept 2017 socratic dialogues
Dear Friend, 27 aug 2017 |
Films film installation in progress 2024 short film 2024 film installation 2023 short film 2019 short film 2014 film with live narration 2011 short film 2007 short film 2006 |
Books book of short stories In progress, 2020 - ... book of short stories Galerie van Gelder, 2016 artists’ book Gneisspecker and tijdschrift Terras, edition of 300, 2013 novel Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, unlimited edition, 2012 artists’ book Jan van Eyck Academie, edition of 300, 2010 |
Exhibitions exhibition Oerol, Terschelling, 2018 exhibition Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, 2016 exhibition New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen, 2014 exhibition W139, Amsterdam, 2010 exhibition FOAM, Amsterdam, 2007 |
STIJN VERHOEFF is an artist and writer.
He makes films, books, audio works and exhibitions.
Solo-exhibitions included Foam Amsterdam, W139 Amsterdam,
New Shelter Plan Copenhague and Galerie van Gelder Amsterdam,
group shows at amongst others Garage Rotterdam and Oerol
Theatre Festival.
Texts have been published with amongst others Tijdschrift Terras,
De Internet Gids, Amsterdam Alternative and Metropolis M.
Short films featured at film festivals such as International Film
Festival Rotterdam and Cinema Verde Florida. His short film Ansage
Ende (End of Announcement) was awarded the Best Experimental
Award 2019 at Rome Independent Cinema Festival and the Climate
Award 2020 at Cinema Verde, International Environmental Film
and Arts Festival, Florida.
Next to his individual projects Stijn Verhoeff often collaborates with
other artists, writers, musicians and activists; since 2022 he is
Board Member of Fossil Free Culture and Advisor to the Student
Council of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Institute.
Stijn Verhoeff is part of Numina Gneisspecker
Design and code by Karoline Swiezynski
svff[at]protonmail.com