Wendelien van Oldenborgh

Wendelien van Oldenborgh (1962, NL) develops works for which the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation. She often uses the format of a public film shoot, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome. Recent presentations include ‘.As for the future.’ (2017) solo At DAAD gallery, Berlin; ‘Prologue: Squat/Anti-Squat’ at The Jerusalem Show, Palestine Biennial East Jerusalem (2016); ‘Form Left to Nigh’ (2015), solo at The Showroom London; ‘Beauty and the Right to the Ugly’ (2014) in ‘Confessions of the Imperfect’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2014). Van Oldenborgh has participated in School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial 2015, the Biennial of Kochi-Muziris 2014, the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2011, the 4th Moscow Biennial 2011, the 29e Bienal de Sao Paulo 2010 and at the 11th Istanbul Biennial 2009 at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2010, Images festival Toronto 2010 and Berlinale Forum Expanded 2011 and 2013. More exhibitions include: the Tate Liverpool; Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Museum Sztuki, Lodz; Tranzitdisplay, Prague; Casco, Utrecht; and Muhka in Antwerp. She has won the prestigious Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2014 and is a member of the national Society of Arts since 2015.