mieke kooistra (she, her) worked as an international journalist and writer before she started applying narrative power to research based art projects
through storytelling using video, image, sound, text, performance and small interventions in public space kooistra creates narratives and social commentary. which often start from personal experience and show a deep interconnectedness between life and art. her artistic output consistently returns to themes around care and love.
mieke is a global nomad with a base in bangkok and brussels
Exhibitions and Public events
2024
Family Ties -Video Edition with Ebba Jahn Mopomoso TV YouTube September 2024
The Wrong Biennial - Video Embassy: November 2023 to March 2024 with Ebba Jahn In London, Duisburg, Berlin.
2023
Dingen Die Niet Verkopen - group show December 7-24, Antwerp 2023.
Teleworking Sound installation RHoK, Brussels 2023
Pity/No Pity, De Vitrine, Recyclart, Brussels 2023
Moving Furniture at Art and Culture Exhibition RHoK 2023
2022
Love, Pain, Family - Official Selection TheOneMinutes China Dragon TV Shanghai 2022
Performance The Executive- Etterbeek Brussels 2022
Performance Five Star Beach Kochi Beach - Kerala India 2022
2021
Beginning, Surveillance and Forked Tongue at L’Enfant Sauvage, Brussels 2021
Fluxus Performance Series at the PAVILLION, Brussels 2021
Kanal Centre Pompidou - ‘Beginnings Marathon’ with Vlatka Horvat Brussels 2021
Beginning, TheOneMinutes collection 2021 The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Surveillance, Maelbeek Community Centre, Brussels 2021
2020
Longest Night - Light Festival Brussels 2020
Workshops and residencies
STANTON 158 - NY Residency, July 2024
POMENA CROATIA Residency May/June 2024
RECYCLART Residency Brussels, May 2023
WHY IS THE RIVER LAUGHING? Bangkok Design Week International Workshop 2023
Sound Image Culture (SIC) Film Masterclasses with Avi Mograbi , Andrea Luka Zimmerman Brussels 2023 and 2024,
Workshop/Symposium Rethinking Residencies - Vera List Center for Art and Politics,- NY 2022
Three Scenes,Sarah Lederman workshop at RHoK - Brussels 2021
Publications
Geld, Geloof, gehoorzaamheid, Arbeiderspers 1998, Amsterdam
Indonesia: Regional Conflict and State Terror, MGI, 2001 London
Art in Colombo, Art Asia Pacific, 2011 New York
The Anti Monumental Visitors Guide - Art Narratives in Fort Kochi - Kochi Biennial Kerala 2022-23
In Between Experiences - with Moke Koshiba 2024 Brussels/Bangkok
Awards
Trash hold threshold Contemporary Award 2022
Enduring Hardship of Womanhood Award -Lifetime Achievement
Funny Walks Department Award - to be awarded in 2047
Education
2020 visual & audiovisual art RhoK art academy Brussels, BE
1984 Journalism and Anthropology, Utrecht University NL
other courses:
Playwriting Masterclasses with Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Ola Animashawun -London- Geneva
Creativity for Scriptwriters with Philip Shelley - London
Earlier stuff
1988- 1995 Foreign Correspondent in East Asia
1998- 2005 Media Consulting based in Jakarta Indonesia
2006- 2011 Gallerist, curator and art project coordinator at kOOii Colombo, Sri Lanka