Curriculum Vitae Eva Olthof (NL, 1983)
Education
2009-2011 MFA Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ Arnhem (DAI)
2004-2008 BFA ArtEZ Academy of Art and Design Arnhem
Teaching/research/production at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
2020 Second Reader Graduation Theses
2019 Introduction course Autonomous Practices year 1
2019 Critical Studies course, Autonomous Practices year 2 Rotterdam
2017-2019 The Autonomous Fabric a research project of Autonomous Practices department - part of research and production team, co-organistation Symposia and events
Artist publications
2022 Biebspraak (Library Speak) series of badges and postcards icw PrintRoom Rotterdam
2021 Public Library Of zine series #1 - #5 publisher PrintRoom Rotterdam
2019 Dear Bieb publisher PrintRoom Rotterdam
2015 Return to Rightful Owner publisher Onomatopee Eindhoven
2013 Do We Ever Know Where History Is Really Made? publisher Knust/Extrapool Nijmegen
2013 El Deformes i.c.w CRAC Valparaíso, CL
2012 Another Room i.c.w. Stefano Faoro, Schloss Ringenberg
2011 I Have Never Seen Volcanoes but when Travellers Tell, publisher Dutch Art Institute
2010 Repeating the Archive Schloss Ringenberg
Art Residencies
2018 Research trip USA public and self-organised libraries - NYC, Washington D.C., Chicago
2017 KUNCI cultural studies center Yogyakarta, Indonesia (four months)
2015 Cemeti Art House Yogyakarta, Indonesia (three months)
2015 Research trip USA Public libraries - Boston, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Detroit
2014 Opekta Studios, Cologne (one month)
2013/14 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (four months)
2013 CRAC Valparaíso, Chile. (three months)
2012 Schloss Ringenberg Germany SMAX programm (six months)
Solo exhibitions
2021 Open de Bieb! window display at Temporary Take-away, PrintRoom Rotterdam
2017 SULFUR. Disclosed #4 a collaboration of Eva Olthof & Rachel Carey. Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam
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
2019 How to make an art? artist Dakota Harvard with guests at SEA Foundation Tilburg
2018 Babel Bookspace. PrintRoom at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Book exhibition
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 Nachtfoyer. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, with Christian Odzuck
2014 Prospects & Concepts. Mondriaan Fonds toont talent tijdens Art Rotterdam curated by Mirjam Westen
2013 Dubbelganger. Opekta Cologne DE
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
Publications
2022 upcoming The Autonomous Fabric Reader - editors: Simon Kentgens, Eva Olthof
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
Talks/presentations/workshops (selection)
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
2022 Workshop series zine making Verhalen uit wijk Feijenoord 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 Public Library Of / Perpustakaan Umum…
Discussion inititated by Eva Olthof & KUNCI cultural studies center with Ruma Baca Komunitas, & Audience
2017 The Autonomous Fabric: on Self-organisation and Education together with Simon Kentgens at Kunci Cultural Studies Center
2017 The Autonomous Fabric: on Self-organisation and Education together with Simon Kentgens at Rujak – center for urban studies Jakarta with Serrum Studio
2017 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
Other activities
2021/2022 Freelance / Wij zijn de Bieb! custom made workshop for the symposium Denk mee over de bibliotheek van de toekomst organised by ProBiblio
2021 Freelance / Production for project at 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 - to be published in early 2022
2018 Cluster #7 How do we organise our-selves 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
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
Grants
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
Collections
Books/publications:
- Glasgow Women's Library (Return to Rightful Owner + Public Library Of - on library controversies and library love)
- Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Library & Special Collections (Return to Rightful Owner)