working perspective

working perspective

I create a situation or environment which suggest the possibility of an action. These installations are brought to life with a performance. Connecting to the experience culture of today, I involve the viewer in my work. Because of this interaction the viewer becomes part of it all.
My work is socially engaged; from an ironic perspective I picture the society we try to live in. By offering alternatives on excisting situations, i criticise in a positive way.
And yet it's about small things, sentimental and interhuman aspects, to offer some resistance to the mtv and hollywood utopia's. I'm part of the system, being guilty of society as well, it's self critique.
It's the paradox that makes it interesting.

MetteSterre@gmail.com 0031614203622

Curriculum Vitae

 Curricullum Vitae
                                                                                      Personal Details
Mette Sterre
Banierstraat 33C1
3032 PB Rotterdam
phonenumber: +31 6 14203622
website: www.mettesterre.com
                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                           Education
    Fine arts, Willem de Kooning Academie, Cum Laude 2002-2006
                                                          Selection of Exhibitions and performances 
     2011
  • "Palace Party", Kunsthalle Charlottenbourg, Copenhagen (DA) (performance event)
  • "Pop up Show", Kers gallery, Amsterdam (group exhibition/performance with Anouk Griffioen, Camille Smeets, Thomas Raemeckers)
  • "Dolf Henkes Ceremonial Price Award festivity", Tent, Rotterdam (performance)
  • "Woodmill Sags", Woodmill, London (UK) (group exhibition)
  • "Ongekend", Roodkapje (group exhibition/performance, art auction), Rotterdam
  • "Winterwolven", Roodkapje, Rotterdam (performance event)
  • "Onthullen, verhullen", Theater de Veste, Delft (performance)
     2010
  • "F.A.R.T.", Hotel Quartier Du Point, Rotterdam  (group exhibtion/performance)
  • "Ongekend", Club Container, Rotterdam (group exhibition & artauction)
  • "Portret Pavilion: facebook avant la lettre", Kasteel Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten  
    (group exhibition/performance, curators, gallerist and musuem directors presented their favorite portraits in the context of collection of Kasteel Duivenvoorden
  • "Shaved or Naturual", Gallery 182, Rotterdam  (group exhibition)
  • "Opzien aan het spoor", Wesd, Delft (performance in installation of Kamiel Verschuren)                                                                                                                           2009
  • "Non-stop music planet", Futur en Seine, Parijs (FR) (internetperformance i.c.w. Spartacus Chetwynd)
  • "Museumnacht", Goethe Institituut, Rotterdam (group exhibition/performance)
  • "Spinoza", Rozentheater, Amsterdam (group exhibition)
  • "Obscene", de Kade, Zaandam (performance i.c.w. De Poppekastkrakers)
  • "Transmediale", Planet Art, C-base, Berlijn (DE) (group exhibition/performance i.c.w. De Poppekastkrakers ) 
  • "Ongekend", Young Masters@Auction, Amsterdam  (group exhibition/performance)
  • "Phantom der nacht", Delftse cultuurnacht, Cicionina, Delft   (group exhibition​/performance) starring Doris Denekamp, Toine Claassen, Samantha Thole and others
  • "Riders on the Worm", Worm, Rotterdam (group exhibition/performance)
         2008
  • "OP = OP" self initiated gallery, Eindhoven (group exhibition)
  • "Hideaway", Heden, DenHaag (performance i.c.w. Rosalie Monod de Froideville during her solo exhibition)
  • "Dan zeg ik niet wat ik heb gezien", het Langhuis, Zwolle (duo exhibition with Reinier Kranendonk)
  • "D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette sessie: id-crisis", Pluto, Enschede (solo exhibition)
  • "Art Id" , sideshow of Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (group exhibition)
    with Sabrina Basten, Marie Civikov, Efrat Zehavi and others
  • "Depression Promotion Center/Rotterdamse zomertentoonstelling", WDW63, Rotterdam (groupexhibition)                                                                                                                                   
    2007
  • "De symfonie van psychotische handen", Buro Dijkstra, Rotterdam (duo exhibition with Olaf Mooij/performance)
  • "Today's Art festival", Villa Nuts, Den Haag (group exhibition, i.c.w. Dennis de Bel)
  • "Peephow", Zeebelttheater, Uitmarkt, Den Haag (performance)
  • "Vurige nachten", Blaak 10, Museumnacht, Rotterdam (performance)
  • "Layla en Majnun", Tropentheater, Amsterdam (performance)
  • “Helden”, Wereld van de Witte de With, Rotterdam (performance)
  • “999,99 euro show”, Buro Dijkstra, Rotterdam (group exhibition
    with Olaf Mooij, Jan Bokma, Eric Jan van de Geer a.o.
  • "Antinu", stichting Silo, Offmes, Enschede (group exhibition, video-installation)
  • "Balenfestival", stichting Silo, Enschede (group exhibition, video-installation)


         2006-2004
  • "Kleur van de nacht", o.l.v. Soheila Najand Sonsbeekpark, Arnhem (performance)
  • "Orde en Chaos",  Kunstambassade, Rotterdam (group exhibition)
  • "Open werkplek", Pictura, Dordrecht (group exhibition)
  • "Part of my art", the Player, Rotterdam (performance)
  • "HD, de helpdesk", Cucosa, Rotterdam (group exhibition/performance
  • "Charly Charly, dirty sales man", cultuurraad gemeente Schiedam, stadhuis, Schiedam
  • "Met en co", Stoma, Delft (solo exhibition)
                                                                                                      Assignments
  • “KunstprojectKleinpolder”, Commissioned by Woonstad Rotterdam 2010
    Development and production of the television serie "D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette Spacekadettes Timecapsule".
    A 4 episodes long television serie, researching history, present and future of the life of the inhabitants in a post-war neighbourhood undergoing urban development.
    D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette Spacekadette was send back in time on a mission by her spacedaddy (henri van zanten) to gather information for her timecapsule.
    Each episode has it own subject; Changing Overschie, Politics, Leasure and the future of Overschie. Items within the program: portraits at home of the inhabitants, where they're asked to contribute an item to the timecapsule, streetinterviews about subjects and their future, and a wisdomlesson from the future by d.o.k.t.e.r. Mette.
  • "Slapen aan het spoor", commissioned by Wesd, Hotel Coen, Delft 2009
    Developping an installation in a 4 star hotel room, reacting to the environment and the coming of a new traintunnel. The Installation consist of skybed with slideprojections of landscapes. A trainbench on a rails, installed on a platform so you can look out from the window and follow the always changing construction side
    The Room is available to book and stay in and is semi-permanent.
  • "I Bridge You and You", Rotterdam Zuidplein, Rotterdam commissioned by “i bridge you project” 2009
    D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette interviewing young adolescents, concerning their world and issues involved. What and how they'd like to change things? During the 4 day project “I bridge You”, iniated by the Observatorium, Yourcity and Chantal van Heeswijk, recordings were made in a walk-in-mini-studio, a private one-on-one inquiry.
  •                                                                                                                                                                  Performances for other performers
  • "Openingsperformance", Art Rotterdam  (performance Abner Preis, 2010)
  • "Nudist Barbeque", S
  • "Play", van Abbenmuseum, Eindhoven (performance Spartacus Chetwynd, 2010)
  • outh London Cultural Center, London (GB)   (performance Spartacacus Chetwynd, 2009)
  • “Moralitiy part 1”, Witte de With, Rotterdam (performance Spartacus Chetwynd, 2009)
  • "Wereld van de Witte de With", TENT, Rotterdam (performance Toine Horvers, 2007)
  • "Cross fading lights", Deliplein, Rotterdam (performance Toine Horvers, 2007)
  • "Beautiful City", Munster Skulptur Projekte, Munster (DE) (performance Maria Pask, 2007)
  • "The game of questions",de Nachten, de Singel, Antwerpen (BE) (peformance Dora Garcia Lopez, 2007)
  • "Banketje design", Polski gallery, Rotterdam (performance Harriet van Reek en Geerten ten Bosch, 2007)

                                                                                                                                 Publications
  • “Resovision TV”, during London Frieze Art Fair, 2 time appearance and interview, London (GB) 2010
  • “Rotterdam TV”, broadcasting 4 episodes of the tv program "D.o.k.t.e.r. Mette Spacekadette's Timecapsule", 2010
  • “Ketel tv”, Portretteketete in working space 2009
  • "Zooi TV", item about "d.o.k.t.e.r. Mette" at Museumnacht 2007
  • “Blend special magazin”, Tetem kunstruimte, Special, 2010
  • “BuroDijkstra ArtGallery 2005~2008 Part I”, artbook, 2009
  • “Rozentheater magazine”, article on exhibition “Spinoza”, 2009
  • "Beelden” article about the "Kunstambassade Rotterdam", 2006
  • "Artstore, kunstambassade Rotterdam" catalogue, 2006
  • "Snag", Either/Or uitgeverij, artbook i.c.w. Maartje van den Noort, Arti Suhkai, 2006 
  • “Noordatlantisch licht”, Stichting Bep, Willem de Kooning jaar, catalogue 2005







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