Machteld Aardse is a multi-media artist based in Amsterdam working on location.
machteldaardse@gmail.com
Atelier Haarlemmer Houttuinen 167
1013 GM Amsterdam, NL
KvK. 34379678
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Machteld Aardse (Eersel 1972) is a multimedia artist based in Amsterdam. Drawing is the basis from which her work seeks out other media. She is intrigued by varying views of the world and the memory of the (urban) landscape. Most of her work is executed in the public space. After getting a Masters Degree in Art History at the University of Amsterdam, she completed a BFA in Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and an MFA in Public Art at the Dutch Art Institute. Aardse is co-founder of de Beeldvormers, and part of the Moving Academy for Performing Arts (MAPA) and Art Partner.
Among other, her work has been exhibited at the Nederlandsche Bank, the New York Islands Festival, the Women's Art Festival in Aleppo Syria, CASA Snowapple Mexico City, Museum het Rembrandthuis, the Hollandsche Schouwburg, the Amsterdam Museum, GLOW Eindhoven and the Amsterdam Light Festival.
".Machteld Aardse’s work, in all its versatility, shows a recurring fascination for the performativity of drawing. To Aardse, a drawing is always more than a depiction of the world, a drawing is an intervention in the world. By sitting down with a sheet of paper and a bunch of pencils or crayons and asking someone to strike a pose, a small, intimate theatre comes into being: the person portrayed tries out different poses, a dialogue unfolds, time passes. By means of videos, installations and performances, Aardse then explores the implications of the 'drawing scene' and what is revealed after the portrait is completed. A finished portrait always shows more than just the person portrayed and the way she wants to present herself to the world. By hanging a portrait somewhere, or by simply giving it to the person who just has been drawn, a second scene emerges. We are now not just confronted with the fantasies, desires and fears of the individual who is being subjected to the artist’s gaze, we are also being confronted with how these feelings are embedded in a concrete social context" - Yasco Horsman
EDUCATION
2005-2007 Dutch Art Institute (DAI) (MFA)
2006-2007 SAGA Writing Interactive Fiction, Academy for Film and Television, München
2005-2007 Moving Academy for Performing Arts (MAPA)
2002-2003 Academia di Belle Arti della Brera Milan IT
1999-2004 Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Fine Arts (BFA)
1992-1998 Art History & archeology, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Period 1350-1850 (MA)
1996-2007 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, internship print room
EXHIBITIONS / PRESENTATIONS (selection)
2025
Court of Amsterdam - Courtroom as a Landscape / Ode aan de Bode - exhibition with Dr. Tasniem Anwar
2024
GLOW E’hoven & Best - OUR LIGHT in the middle of the street - analogue light projections with Femke Kempkes
Court of Rotterdam - Courtroom as a Landscape - exhibition with Dr. T. Anwar, R. Talens, N. Schrader
1 and 1 is one - De Beveiligers by Simone Bennett & Machteld Aardse - www.1en1is1.nl
Loki, Pantarijn, Wageningen - light scenography
MAPA Schaufensterkunst Haarlem - Hope
Gallery Stevenson Amsterdam - Can’t We All Just Get Along? - group exhibition 10 Feb - 16 March
Studio MAPA Nederland - presentation No Estamos Todas
Willemsoord Den Helder - Dreams by the Sea #3 - Community art project with Femke Kempkes
2023
Gouda bij Kaarslicht - light projections with Jeroen Kriek
CASA Snowapple Mexico City - No Estamos Todas - light projections
Hogeschool Inholland & Art Partner - artistic research & drawings Mental health & safety
Lascaux Colours Zurich - Little Suns Project - travelling community art project
Planetary Health European Hub Convening Amsterdam - drawings
Court of Amsterdam - Courtroom as a Landscape pilot
VOUCH III - Loods 6 Amsterdam - group exhibition
Willemsoord Den Helder - Dreams by the Sea #2 - Community art project with Femke Kempkes
2022
Inholland & Art Partner, artistic research ‘Studeren met een ondersteuningsvraag’
LICHTPOST Licht tegen Eenzaamheid - light projections in 9 NS train stations
Planetary Health European Hub Convening Amsterdam - drawings
Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt, drawings for Tasniem Anwar
Groenmarktkerk Haarlem - MAPA PANIS ANGELICUS - site specific moving theatre & light projections
Beflugelt - light projection Flensburg & Symposium 'Open Space'
Willemsoord Den Helder - Dreams by the Sea #1 - Community art project with Femke Kempkes
2021
Kolding Light Festival - DREAMS, light projections
Groenmarktkerk, Haarlem - MAPA MORPHOSIS 2 / Panis Angelicus - location theatre & projections
V&D Haarlem - MAPA Morphosis 2 / Procession of Icons - location theatre & projections
Werkplaats Diepenheim - De Laatste Rit (The Last Ride) - location theatre & projections
MAPA Light projection Lab - Painting with Light
City Museum Harderwijk - Muntmeesters, drawn animation
Dijkkwartier Nijmegen - Geleidelichten, design light objects (Thijs Asselbergs / Joeri van Ommeren)
2020
V&D Haarlem - MAPA Morphosis, locatietheater
Ausnahmezustand, Kuendaproductions.com - video
Amsterdam Museum - Lichtpost, Corona in de Stad
Amsterdam - Echo of Resistance, guerilla light projection
Amsterdam Zuid-Oost - Lichtpost, light projection
2019
Stadsschouwburg Nijmegen - 75 jaar Freedom, PANI light projection
ANDB - De Burcht, PANI light projection
Stadskunstkamer, Haarlem - Outer Space / Data Set - www.haarlemsbeeld.nl/stadskunstkamer
37PK - Outer Space - duo exhibition
Da Vinciplein Schalkwijk Haarlem - light projection
2018
Theater De Kampanje Den Helder - Brood uit het Water - light projection
Cacaofabriek Helmond - GUM - group exhibition
Theater De Kampanje Den Helder - O vaarwel! Vergeet mij niet. / Wervianen - light projection
2017
Alphen a/d Rijn - Eenzaamheid (Loneliness) - light projection
Het Weefhuis Zaandijk - Missing Pieces, Pomes Penyeach Project - group exhibition
Dokzaal Amsterdam - De Oorsprong Curator series - instant composing light projection
Stedelijk Museum A'dam / De Appel - Uninvited & Disenchanted come to town: a modern-day fable Nat Muller
Den Helder - O vaarwel! Vergeet mij niet. - light projection
2016
Bellamykabinet, Amsterdam - Briefrelief - light projection
AMACI - Associazione Musei d'Arte Contemporanea Italiani, In Contemporanea Chiesa Santa - Maria Nova Vimodrone, Milan (IT) 15/10, solo - De Zee (solo)
2015
Stichting Zaanse Industriecultuur - Zaandam, grootbeeld lichtprojectie, lichtprojectie
37PK Haarlem - MRI-boek, 'Het grid ontgroeid', group exhibition
2014
Rialto Cinema Amsterdam - Quitte le Pouvoir, Premiere World Cinema Festival Amsterdam,
Joods Historisch Museum - Vaarwel / Last Words - presentatie 4 May Open Joodse Huizen, A’dam
Castrum Perigrini Amsterdam - Quitte le Pouvoir (documentary) - preview & exhibition
2013
Hollandsche Schouwburg, Amsterdam Light Festival - Vaarwel / Last Words, light projection
Mijksenaar, Amsterdam Light Festival - My house your house, light projection
2011
Museum Rembrandthuis, Mn8 Amsterdam - light projection & workshop
2010
New York Island Festival / Slem - Fish - group landscape exhibition
Vrijhof Cultuurcentrum Enschede - Het Eiland - film première & exhibition
2009
De Nederlandsche Bank - What do the Fish - group exhibition
Iran Filmfestival The Best Of, De Balie Amsterdam - Iran en Route - video
2008
Women's Art Festival, Aleppo (Syria) - Samar (video) - group exhibition
RESIDENCIES / WORK EXPERIENCE (selection)
Artist at Art Partner www.art-partner.nl / Moving Academy for Performing Arts www.mapa.nl
Co-founder de Beeldvormers www.debeeldvormers.nl
2024 - Artist Residence CASA Snowapple Mexico City, Mexico / Día de los Muertos
2023 - Artist Residence CASA Snowapple Mexico City, Mexico / NO ESTAMOS TODAS
2021 - Werkplaats Diepenheim
2018 - Artist Residence, Musicality of Movement, Treasure Hill Artist Village Taipei Taiwan
2016 - Bellamy Kabinet, bord
2011 - TEDxAmsterdam / TEDx Women, reporter
2010 - Webster University, Leiden, teacher media aesthetics & creative strategies
2006 - Procession of Icons, MAPA Moving Academy for Performing Arts, Urkaine, Serbia, Macedonia
1993 - Courtroom Drawing (press)
1994-2004 Music Centre De IJsbreker, Amsterdam, allround / CEM Centrum for Electronic Music
1997-2000 Art Gallery Charles Roelofsz (old master painting), assistent
1994-2007 Excavations, Bet Shean (Israël)
PUBLICATIONS / AWARDS (selection)
2024 - Spraakmakers, Radio 1, interview ‘the Courtroom as a Landscape’
2024 - Gebruikte Stenen, NH Media, docu-serie, 25 April interview
2023 - Kunst op de Klapstoel, 11 June 2023
2021 - Tasniem Anwar, PhD rechtspraak over financiering van terrorisme, tekeningen
2018 - Lina Issa & Wayne Modest, On caring: Lina Issa at the National Museum of World Cultures, drawings
2018 - Paul Dirks, Gumboek, De Zee
2017 - James Joyce Pomes Penyeah Project, Erik Bindervoet, Robbert-Jan Kenkes, Night Piece
2016 - David Duindam, Signs of the Shoah, The Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory, UvA
2016 - Cannes Short film festival, AAFF.
2014 - Nomination Passion for Freedom Festival, London
2014 - Herdenkingsboek 4 Mei
/ Commemorative Book 4th of May
2013 - race fast safe car, Elke Mark & Machteld Aardse with Sofia Greff, der Karateschule Köln
2012 - www.oneworld.nl/lezen/5-vragen-aan/vrouw-mengt-zich-presidentsstrijd-senegal
2010 - Radio documentary (fun employment), RVU/Holland Doc 20min, interview
2010 - Heart Beat Iran, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, contribution: photo's
2010 - NRC, Iran gezien door toeristen, 24.4.2010, photo
2010 - Cat. SOLO, G O U D, pub. Kwak & Van Daalen & Ronday, Amsterdam
2010 - Cat. Here as the Center of the World, DAI Writing Interactive Fiction, Ac. for Film and Television, München
photo’s: Jolanthe Lalkens
