Curriculum Vitae – Hester Scheurwater

Hester Scheurwater (born 1971, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, The Netherlands) studied cultural management at the Amsterdam School of  the Arts and monumental art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, where she participated in workshops with Frans Zwartjes and Nan Hoover. Scheurwater works as an artist and also as a teacher of video art at the Royal Academy.

Festivals, screenings, exhibitions – International

2010

Baby, presented by Video Data Bank, LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain

Europe Mania Festival, Incubate stage, Pécs, Hungary

Radical Adult, Forgotten Bar Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2009

Six Pack Vienna 13 Lessons, Video Performance, Vienna, Austria

Night Desire, Sleepless Night (Museumnight), City Council Bilbao, Spain

Light Industry, venue for film and electronic art, New York, USA

2008

Appelling/abseiling, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Shortly Speaking, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

AFI FEST – Los Angeles, International Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA

International Film Festival, Dresden, Germany

Athens Filmfestival, Athens, USA

Quotitian Gallery, I/O, San Francisco, USA

2007

Mama, presented by Video Data Bank, LOOP Festival, Barcelona, Spain

One Minutes Festival, Ghent, Belgium

International Bunker Film Festival, Ventimiglia, Italy

Images Festival, Toronto, Canada

2006

10^th International Short Film Festival, jubilee programme, Winterthur, Switzerland

Pulsar Festival, Caracas, Venezuela

Aarhus Festival, Aarhus, Denmark

Shortly Speaking by Holland Film, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, and the Embassy of the Netherlands, Warsaw, Poland

Usine C, Montreal, Canada

2005

Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin, France/Germany

Women in the director’s chair, 24th annual International Film Festival, Chicago, USA

Video Lisbao, Lisbon, Portugal

Festival du Noveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada

Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA

L’Alternativa, Festival of Independent Cinema, on tour, highlights programme, Barcelona, Spain

Genval, video installation, station belgium

2004

Cannes International Film Festival, Cannes, France

International Film Festival Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany

Antimatter, Underground Filmfestival, Victoria, Canada

4^th Kaoshung Film Festival, Tapei, Taiwan

28^th Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, USA

International Bunker Film Festival, Ventimiglia, Italy

8^th International Short Film Festival, Winterthur, Switzerland

Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece

Cucularos, Film festival, USA

Nova Cinema, Brussels, Belgium

2003

Chicago Filmmakers Digital Festival, Museum of Modern Art Chicago, Chicago, USA

bavf~NAF#1, New Media Art Festival, Bandung, Indonesia

Kurz Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany

Festival Tres Court, Tres d’Esprit, Paris, France

5^th International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul, Korea

‘Lisa’, ‘I Wanted You’, ‘I Must Be Beautiful Too’, broadcasted by Metropolis TVE, Spain

2002

Blanton Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Femmes d’Images, Maison de la Photographie Européenne, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France

2001

Dig.it, Festival of Digital Media, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Viper, International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Basel, Switzerland

Cultural Centre for Contemporary Art Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Estavar-Llivia Festival, International Media Art Festival, Estavar, France  (‘Heal Me’ broadcasted on national TV)

Do Not Disturb, 68 Elf, Koln, Germany

2000

Spaced Out, exchange programme between Artoteek Den Haag and Cemeti Art House and Erasmushuis, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

1999

De Schreeuw, ‘t Leerhuis, Brugge, Belgium

Rencontres Arts électroniques, Rennes, France

Festivals, screenings, exhibitions – The Netherlands

2010

Hester Scheurwater.com, (solo), Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, Zwolle

Incubate Festival, Tilburg

Summer of Love, Wallgallery, Rotterdam

Solo, Roodkapje, Rotterdam

In your face, (solo), Gallery 182a, Rotterdam

Museumnight, (wild beamen), Rotterdam

2009

Incubate Festival, Tilburg

(m)Eating, Perron 58, Tilburg

2008

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

WHOMEN, (group exhibition Kimberly Clark, Elly Strik), Gemak/Vrije Academie, The Hague

2007

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2006

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

Cinema Domingo, vertoning werk en vraaggesprek n.a.v. werk Miranda July, CBK Rotterdam, Rotterdam

Leids Film Festival, Leiden

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Mensbeeld, Artstore – Kunstambassade Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2005

Pek Festival, The Hague

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Festival Disorientation, New Ways of Storytelling, Rialto, Amsterdam

Beeldplaats, i.s.m. DZIGA filmvertoning en gastspreker, Lux, Nijmegen

2004

Straal, project van Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, De Balie, Amsterdam

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

Selection Erwin Houtenbrink International Film Festival Rotterdam, Lux, Nijmegen

‘Glamour Girls’ on Tour, front programme Aleksandr Sokoerovs ‘Father and Son’

Celluloid/Digitaal # 3, De Balie, Amsterdam

Solo exhibition, Artoteek, Den Haag

2003

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Rotterdams Fabrikaat, CBK Rotterdam, Rotterdam

Cultuurnacht Den Haag, public screening on Atrium Municipal Hall, The Hague

Cineboards video projected on Pathe Cinema, Rotterdam

Plaza Futura, Eindhoven

Kort Rotterdams, Rotterdam

Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Shorts!, Kriterion, Amsterdam

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2002

Stand van Zaken, Stroom HCBK, The Hague

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Stad.Als.Film., filmfestival, Schiedam

Global Attic, Film and Video Festival, Kunst en Complex, Rotterdam

Parking Den Haag, Stroom HCBK and Artoteek, Den Haag

Identity in Motion, Pand Paulus, Schiedam

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2001

World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam

Frans Zwartjes and Friends, Filmmuseum, Amsterdam/Kunstkanaal

Shorts!, Kriterion, Amsterdam

Impakt Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht

Lowlands Festival, Biddinghuizen

New Forms Festival, Het Paard op Hol, Theater aan het Spui, The Hague

De Schepping, Zeebelt Theater, The Hague

Broadcasting PARK TV, Amsterdam

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2000

Groepstentoonstelling, Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen

See me, hear me! (groepstentoonstelling), Stroom HCBK, The Hague

Solot tentoonstelling, Artoteek, The Hague

1999

Salva Mea, (groepstentoonstelling), Grote Kerk, The Hague

1998

Solo tentoonstelling, Maldoror Galerie/Korzo Theater, The Hague

Solo tentoonstelling, Artoteek, The Hague

Toussaintkade 55, Stroom HCBK, The Hague

Impakt Festival, ‘t Hoogt, Utrecht

Broadcasting PARK TV, Amsterdam

Een keuze van Frans Zwartjes, Galerie Exedra, Hilversum

De nieuwe kleren van de keizer, Pand Paulus, Schiedam

1997

Charisma, of de vensters van vrienden, Maldoror Galerie, The Hague

GAF Prijs, Fietsenstalling, The Hague

De mooiste dag voor de zeer korte film, Sandberg Instituut i.s.m. VPRO, Paradiso, Amsterdam

1996

Solo tentoonstelling, Fietsenstalling, The Hague

Initiatieven II, HCAK, The Hague

Competitions/nominations/awards

2007

New Arrivals, online platform for Short Films NPS i.s.m. International Film Festival Rotterdam, Winner Public Votes

Mercal Film Festival (competition programme), Barcelona, Spain

2005

The One Minutes Award, Amsterdam, nominated in the category: ‘Best of the World’

2001

Selected for the second round Prix de Rome, category Film en Video

Festival Vallecas Todo Cultura, Madrid, Spain, ‘Best innovator script history’ award

Festival for video and new media (Estavar/Llivia), prize Heal Me broadcasted by TV France

1997

‘Onderste Boven Prijs’ De mooiste dag voor de zeer korte film, Sandberg Instituut i.s.m. VPRO, Paradiso, Amsterdam

1994

Nominatie K.A.B.K. voor de Europese Biënnale voor jong kunstenaars Germinations 8

1993

Nominatie Zuid-Hollandse Beeldende Kunstprijs voor Academieverlaters

Aanmoedigingsprijs STROOM hcbk

Publications

Publications

2010

‘Het jaar 2010 in 100 beelden, de keuze van de redactie’, NRC Weekblad, 31 december 2011- 6 januari 2011

‘Toiletflamberen’, Wim de Jong, Volkskrant Magazine, 4 december 2010

‘OBJECT OF DESIRE Controversial  artist Hester Scheurwater releases a book of photography’, Igor Guinau, ZOO magazine 2010/2011 nr 29

‘Waarmee provoceert de kunstenaar?’ R.E.L. AVRO kunst programma, Nederland 2, 21 november 2010

‘Kunst van OPZIJ, Nr 3 Vrouwelijke Seksualiteit ‘, OPZIJ nr.11, november 2010

Overijssels Hart, radio interview Gerson Veenstra, RTV Oost, 29 oktober 2010

‘Ongeluk van vrouwen is een eeuwig thema’,  Raymond van den Boogaard, NRC Handelsblad C.S., 25 oktober 2010

‘Beautiful Too, Hester Scheurwater’s videowork’, essay Catrien Schreuder, catalog hesterscheurwaterdotcom, Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, oktober 2010

‘De vrouw als lustobject op Facebook’, Marion Groenewoud, Stentor Zwolse Courant, 12 oktober 2011

‘Hester Scheurwater geeft zich bloot op GOGBOT festival’ , interview Marjon Kok, Twentsche Courant Tubantia, 9 september 2010

‘Mannenlichamen’, Sandra Smets, NRC Handelsblad, 3 september 2010

‘Zelfportret als aandachttrekker’, Stefan Kuiper, Vrij Nederland  21 augustus 2010

‘7 vragen’, Corrie Geritzen, Bright Magazine #35, 24 augustus 2010

‘De Grenzen van het zelfportret’,  Basje de Boer, Tubelight Extra  4 juni 2010

MOOIS tv’ interview Jack Wouters, TV Rijnmond, 7 mei 2010

‘Hester’, Roos van Put, blog Kunstbeeld, 28 april 2010

‘Wat mag en wat niet mag 2’, Raymond van den Boogaard, NRC Cultuurblog, 20 april 2010

‘Kunst in spreidstand’, Wim de Jong, Volkskrant Magazine, 17 april 2010

‘Hester Scheurwater’,  Vrouw blog door Renate Wennemars, 24 maart 2010 Telegraaf website

De Leeuw op Zondag, Vara Nederland 3, 21 maart 2010

‘De Scheurwater saga op Facebook’, Raymond van den Boogaard, NRC Cultuurblog, 8 februari 2010

2009

‘De grenzen van vriendschap verkennen’, Raymond van den Bogaard, NRC Handelsblad Cultureel Supplement,  18 december 2010

QUOTE

Carla Barger about Scheurwater’s short films distributed by Video Data Bank : In these five shorts, the Dutch video artist Hester Scheurwater sets the camera, and thus the viewer, up as a voyeur of a violent and sterile world. In each piece, we are witness to a female figure who seems almost like a grotesque doll, and whose space is continually violated by the camera. Each piece contains a solitary woman whose face is obscured partially or entirely by her hair while her body is exposed. A certain brutality has taken place or is in process by the time we enter. Scheurwater’s women are devoid of voice, devoid of identity; devoid of clothing except for sexual costume–black lingerie and/or high heels, heavy makeup that looks more like bruises than beautification, and devoid of shelter from our continual gaze and exploration. This is a powerful and macabre exploration of disconnection and isolation, and of woman as object.