Curriculum Vitae Eva Olthof (NL, 1983)

Education
2023 - 2024 Post-Graduate Teaching Qualification Further Education Stirling University (expected)
2009 - 2011 MFA Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ Arnhem (DAI)
2004 - 2008 BFA ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design Arnhem

Tutor/Co-organiser at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
2019 Tutor Introduction course Autonomous Practices year 1
2019 Tutor Critical Studies course, Autonomous Practices year 2 Rotterdam
2017 - 2019 Co-organisor (research & production) The Autonomous Fabric Symposium

Artist publications
2023 Boekenkast Glasgow (Bookshelf Glasgow) / zine / self-published UK
2022 Biebspraak (Library Speak) series of badges and postcards i.c.w PrintRoom Rotterdam NL
2021 Public Library Of / zine series / publisher PrintRoom Rotterdam NL
2019 Dear Bieb / zine / publisher PrintRoom Rotterdam NL
2015 Return to Rightful Owner / book / publisher Onomatopee Eindhoven NL
2013 Do We Ever Know Where History Is Really Made? / collection of printed matter / publisher Knust/Extrapool Nijmegen NL
2013 El Deformes / newspaper / i.c.w CRAC Valparaíso CL
2012 Another Room / publication / i.c.w. Stefano Faoro / Schloss Ringenberg DE
2011 I Have Never Seen Volcanoes but when Travellers Tell / publication / publisher Dutch Art Institute
2010 Repeating the Archive / exhibition catalogue / Schloss Ringenberg DE

Art Residencies
2018 Research trip USA public and self-organised libraries - NYC, Washington D.C., Chicago
2017 KUNCI Study Forum & Collective Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2015 Cemeti Art House Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2015 Research trip USA Public libraries - Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Detroit
2014 Opekta Studios, Cologne DE
2013/14 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin DE
2013 CRAC Valparaíso, Chile
2012 Schloss Ringenberg DE SMAX programm

Solo exhibitions
2016 Return to Rightful Owner. Van Abbemuseum library, Eindhoven i.c.w Onomatopee / curated by Kris Dittel
2015 In der Freihand. TENT. Rotterdam / curated by Mariette Dölle
2013 El Deformes. Sala Puntángeles, Valparaíso CL / curated by CRAC Valparaíso
2012 I Write You from a Faraway Country. Schloss Ringenberg DE i.c.w Stefano Faoro
2011 At the End of the World I Exist. Etalage Derde Wal Nijmegen i.c.w with Stefano Faoro
2010 Repeating the Archive. Schloss Ringenberg on location Wesel DE curated by Lieke Wouters
2009 Terreinoverzicht. CBK Apeldoorn curated by Marije Vermeulen & Anke Land

Group exhibitions/performances (selection)
2020 Venster Zien / Window Zine PrintRoom Rotterdam
2017 SULFUR. Disclosed #4 a collaboration of Eva Olthof & Rachel Carey. Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam
2017 900 mdpl. Kaliurang, Indonesia. Curated by Mira Asriningtyas
2017 Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power. Kiosk, Ghent Belgium.
Curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Wim Waelput.
2016 From Bandung to Berlin: If all of the moons aligned. SAVVY Contemporary Berlin
Curated by Brigitta Isabella and Renan Laru-an
2016 Wandeling, Wandering. Festival de Oversteek Nijmegen, performative walk curated by Lieke Wouters
2015 Pasang Air #1. Cemeti Art House Yogyakarta
2015 Out Of The Bieb. bibliotheek Midden Brabant, Den Bosch, Cubiss & BBKC
2014 Social Image. Showroom MAMA Rotterdam curated by Gerben Willers
2014 Tijd. Paraplufabrieken Nijmegen curated by Stijn van Dorpe
2014 Prospects & Concepts. Mondriaan Fonds toont talent tijdens Art Rotterdam curated by Mirjam Westen
2013 Do We Ever Know Where History Is Really Made? Extrapool Nijmegen curated by Eva Olthof
2013 Stratos - Mad Gamble For Domination – Ruine Blanche. Maschinenhaus Essen DE curated by Christian Odzuck
2013 Don’t Be Evil. Electron Breda curated by Stichting Rosa
2013 Prospects & Concepts. Mondriaan Fonds toont talent tijdens Art Rotterdam curated by Wim Waelput
2013 Cancelled Out by Noises and Whispers. Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam
2012 Stipendiaten 2012. Schloss Ringenberg curated by Marcus Lütkemeyer & Gudrun Bott
2012 Café des Espérances Fort Vijfhuizen curated by Saskia Monshouwer

Talks/presentations/workshops (selection)
2023 The Volunteering Zines / zine workshops for volunteers on volunteering / Glasgow Women’s Library
2022 Workshop Manifest der Biebgebruikers (Manifest of Library Users) - Symposium Denk mee over de toekomst van de bibliotheek Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam commissioned by ProBiblio
2022 Launch Public Library Of / 5 zines on Library Controversies and Library Love - PrintRoom Rotterdam / invited guests Joke van der Zwaard, Frans Ari Prasetyo & Agent OH
2022 Verhalen uit wijk Feijenoord / workshops zine making Feijenoord Neighbourhood stories / De Dam, Feijenoord, R'dam
2019 TAAK Rotterdam - conversation/interview for their research Vrije Ruimte in de Stad
2019 Brown Bag Lunch Boijmans van Beuningen Museum invited by the Education Department
to talk about Public Library Of project
2019 Public Library Of presentation at PrintRoom Rotterdam
2018 Workshop Public Library Of, Autonomous Practices year 3, Willem de Kooning Academy
2018 Visit the artist, organised by CBK R'dam, artist talk on residency Indonesia
2018 Public Library Of, Conversas Rotterdam
2018 Artist Talk, Cultural Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2017 Discussion / Public Library Of Perpustakaan Umum…
inititated by Eva Olthof & KUNCI Study Forum & Collective with Ruma Baca Komunitas, & Audience
2017 Talk / The Autonomous Fabric: on Self-organisation and Education together with Simon Kentgens at Kunci Cultural Studies Center & at Rujak – Center for urban studies Jakarta with Serrum Studio
2017 Workshop / The Autonomous Fabric: on Self-organisation and Education together with Simon Kentgens during Kelas Sore at Institut Kesenian Jakarta in the class of Asep Topan
2016 Artist Talk and visiting lecturer BA Fine Art Arnhem ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design Arnhem
2016 Artist Talk, Cultural Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2012 Workshop with Lauren Alexander What is it that you do? make a publication in a day - Dutch Art Institute for bachelor students ArtEZ


Selected reviews/Interviews

31/07/2019 Weg met de artwashing! Sandra Smets, NRC, trendstuk
20/07/2017 Ontwerpen voor Ontheemden. Sandra Smets, NRC, recensie
2017 Eva Olthof: Return to Rightful Owner – zin en onzin van historisch onderzoek door kunstenaars by Saskia Monshouwer published on http://www.monshouwereditions.nl
2016 Tubelight Onbegrensde Bibliotheken by Floor van Luijk - review Return to Rightful Owner
2015 BE MAGAZINE Künstlerhaus Bethanien - text by Alexandra Landré
2014 Social Image Showroom MAMA / interview
08/08/2013 The Clinic, critical and satirical Magazine, Chile / interview
05/07/2013 Ciudadinvisible.cl
5/11/2012 Tubelight Schemeroorlog: Café des Espérances: over de hard -en software van oorlog by George Verweij / recensie

Work featured in other publications
2019 A propos art, CBK R’dam
2018 Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling, CBK Rotterdam
2016 Unfold - online contribution - guest curated by Kris Dittel
2015 Out Of The Bieb, bibliotheek Midden Brabant, Den Bosch, Cubiss & BBKC
2014 Prospects & Concepts, Mondriaan Fund exhibition catalogue
2013 The Ivens Magazine, artist contribution, nr 18. December 2013
2013 Dubbelganger/Doppelgänger, Opekta Cologne & Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam
2013 Stratos - Mad Gamble For Domination – Ruine Blanche, artist contribution, Rheinverlag Düsseldorf
2013 Extra Annex Newspaper, artist contribution, Extrapool & ODA PROJESI
2013 SMAX#03, Magazine Schloss Ringenberg
2013 Tijdschrift TERRAS, online contribution
2012 When The Night Falls... , exhibition catalogue, Kik Kolderveen
2010 SMAX#01, Magazine Schloss Ringenberg
2009 Between Time Between Space, exhibition catalogue Paraplufabriek Nijmegen

Grants
2023 Mondriaan Fonds Project
2021 Droom & Daad makersloket
2020 Ontwikkeling- en Onderzoekssubsidie, Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK), Rotterdam
2018 Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent Mondriaan Fonds
2018 Ontwikkeling- en Onderzoekssubsidie, Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK), Rotterdam
2017 Ontwikkeling- en Onderzoekssubsidie, Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK), Rotterdam (residency KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogya IND)
2015 Ontwikkeling- en Onderzoekssubsidie, Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK), Rotterdam (residency Cemeti Art House, Yogya IND)
2015 Reisbeurs Travel grant Eastern US - Bibliotheken Den Bosch en Midden-Brabant, bkkc en Cubiss
2014 Ontwikkeling- en Onderzoekssubsidie, Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK), Rotterdam (for www.archiveresonance.net)
2013 Buitenlandatelier Mondriaan Fonds (Künstlerhaus Bethanien)
2013 Tijdelijk buitenland atelier Mondriaan Fonds (CRAC Valparaíso, CL)
2012 Startstipendium Mondriaan Fonds
2011 Startstipendium Mondriaan Fonds
Other activities (selection)
2021 Freelance / Project producer for PrintRoom Rotterdam. Projects: Protest Banner Lending Library by artist Aram han Sifuentes; 14 Trees of Rotterdam city walk & book presentation by artist Alice Ladenburg; Moedertaal/Beeldverhaal a workshop by artists Ulufer Çelik & Alaa Abu Asad

2021 Freelance / production publication The Autonomous Fabric Reader - to be published in early 2022

2018 Cluster #7 How do we organise ourselves together, member of reading group, Platform BK

2018 – Freelance / co-organisation discussion at Short Cut Tarwewijk - a project by Belgian artist Stijn Van Dorpe

2016 Freelance / Research assistant Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Rotterdam

2016 - 2018 Chairwoman board Foundation het Wilde Weten (Honorary)

2014 Freelance / Photography commission Sonsbeek Foundation Arnhem - book: De Collectie Sonsbeek

2014 Meester-gezel regeling with Steven ten Thije (Mondriaan Fonds)

2013 Freelance / Guestcurator of Gastpost #1 Extrapool Nijmegen

2012-2016 Member residency committee Het Wilde Weten (hosting and facilitating residents) (Honorary)

2012- 2018 Member artist initiative Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam

2008 Intern and assistant of Wendelien van Oldenborgh

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