Curriculum Vitae – Hester Scheurwater

Hester Scheurwater (1971) studied monumental art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Under the guise of self-portraits, she investigates and critiques the role of woman as a sex object. Photographs of herself posing before a mirror reflects both Scheurwater’s inner thoughts and outward appearance. “The mirrored self-images are my way of reacting on the imitated and fake media images, which are constantly calling upon our imagination, without intending to be taken too seriously, ” she explains. ” I try to deconstruct this call’s effect with my reactions by switching the ‘subject-object’ relationship, without being victimized by it.” Scheurwater’s work is sexually explicit, and therefore well known.The explicit images in her work are shocking and prompt discussion about the purported sexualisation of society. At the same time, her works also share links with international feminist art. Scheurwater’s videos were part of feminist programs and exhibitions, including those at the Brooklyn Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art in the USA.

CV Hester Scheurwater H.I. Ambacht 1971 selection

 

Education

1993-1995      Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Amsterdam, Culturele Bedrijfsvoering

Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag, Monumentale Vormgeving

1983-1989      Roncallie Scholengemeenschap Bergen op Zoom Atheneum

 

workshops

1998               summercourse videoworkshop Nan Hoover, Wassenaar

1996-1998      cine-workshops Frans Zwartjes, Vrije Academie, Den Haag

 

                       International shows and screenings

2013               Solo Broelmuseum Paardenstallen Kortrijk Belgium (upcoming)

2012               Solo Nofound Photo Fair – Paris Photo Paris France

2012               Basic Instincts on tour Istanbul, Shanghai

Burgenstocker Galery, group show Hotel l’Erotique Zurich Switzerland

2011               Basic Instincts, Villa Elisabeth Berlin

Nelson-Atkin Museum of Art in Kansas City, USA

2010               Loop Media Art Festival Madrid Barcelona for Video Data Bank

2010               Europe Mania Festival /Incubate Pecs Hungary Wild Beamen

2010               Forgotten Bar Berlin group show Radical Adult

2009               Six pack Vienna ,13 lessons video performance, (with Valie Export MarinaAbramovich Carolee Schneeman Jonh Cage etc.)

2009               Bilbao Sleepless Night (museum Night) video-installation on 9 windows City council

2009               Light Industry New York  curators Abina Manning/ Steve Reinke

2008                Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art New York,  Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art appelling/abseiling  Curated by Liz Rosenfeld and Sarah Giovanniello

Centre for Contemporary Art, SHORTLY SPEAKING (IN DUTCH),film programm on tour Warsaw Poland

2008               AFI fest Los Angeles (competition programm) (USA)

International film festival Dresden (GE)

Athene Filmfestival (USA)

International Film Festival Rotterdam (Neth)

Quotitian Gallery, I/O , San Fransisco, USA

2007               The Loop Festival Barcelona Mama presented by Video Data Bank (ES),

One Minutes Festival Ghent (BE),

Mercal Filmfestival (competion programm)  Barcelona (ES)

International Bunker Film Festival Ventimiglia(IT),

Images Festival Toronto(CA),

2006               jubilee programme Winterthur Switserland

Pulsar festival Caracas Venuzuela

Aarhus Festival, Denmark

International filmfestival Rotterdam

SHORTLY SPEAKING (IN DUTCH), by Holland Film, Center for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski  Castle Warsaw, Poland and the Embassy of the Netherlands in Warsaw.

Usine C, Montreal Canada

2005               Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin <info@art-action.org>

Women in the directors’s chair 24th annual international filmfestival

Video Lisboa 2005 Lisbon, Portugal International Competition

Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada

Ballroom Marfa, Texas USA

L’Alternativa on tour, highlights program, Barcelona Spain

Genval, video installation Station Belgium

Nova cinema, Brussels Belgium

2003               Chicago filmmakers digital festival, Chicago, USA

Festival bavf~NAF #, Bandung, Indonesia

Metropolis TVE Spanje , broadcasting Lisa, I Wanted You, I Must Be Beautiful Too

Kurz Film Festival Hamburg Duitsland

Festival Tres Court, Tres d’Esprit, Parijs Frankrijk

Musuem of Modern Art Chigago / Chicago filmmaker digital festival, USA

Women’s Film Festival in Seoul, Korea

Blanton Musem, Texas USA

 

National Shows and screenings

2012               Galery Dutch Photomuseum Rotterdam Limeted Edition Shooting BAck

Frank Taal Galerie Solo book launch Shooting Back

Art Rotterdam Pavilioen Rotterdam Re: Rotterdam

2011               Nest, I Should Have Done That The Hague

Fotofestival Naarden

Twente Biennale

2010               Stedelijk Museum Zwolle

Incubate Festival Tilburg

Wallgallery Rotterdam Summer of Love

Roodkapje Rotterdam Solo

Gallery 182a In Your Face Solo

Museumnight Rotterdam Wild Beamen

2009               Incubate Festival Tilburg

(m)Eating , perron 58 Tilburg

2008               WHOMEN (groupexhibition Kimberly Clark,Elly Strik) Gemak/Vrije Academie The Hague

2007               International Filmfestival Rotterdam

2006               CBK Rotterdam, Cinema Domingo vertoning werk en vraaggesprek n.a.v. werk Miranda July

Leids Film festival

Nederlands Filmfestival Utrecht

Artsore Kunstambassade Rotterdam expositie Mensbeeld

International Film Festival Rotterdam

2005               The One Minutes Award, Amsterdam  nominated in the catergory Best of the world

Pek festival, The Hague

Nederlands Filmfestival Utrecht

Disorientation, Rialto filmtheater Amsterdam

Lux Nijmegen i.s.m DZGA film vertoning en gastspreker

2004               Straal, De balie/AFK Amsterdam

Nederlands Filmfestival Utrecht, Glamour Girls

Glamour Girls on tour, front program Father and Son , Aleksandr Sokoerovs

Celluloid/Digitaal3, De Balie Amsterdam,

Artoteek Den Haag, solo expositie

Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam

Lux Nijmegen, selection Erwin Houtenbrink International Film Festival Rotterdam

2003               Nederlands Film Festival Utrecht

CKB Rotterdam, Rotterdams Fabrikaat Rotterdam

Cultuurnacht Den Haag, public screening on Atrium

Cineboards video projected on Pathe Cinema  Rotterdam

PLaza Futura, Eindhoven

Glamour Girls, filmproject selected  Kort Rotterdams

                        Centraal Museum Utrecht –Impakt festival

Shorts!, Kriterion, Amsterdam

Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam

Stroom hcbk, stand van zaken, Den Haag

Nederlands Film Festival Utrecht

Internationaal Filmfestival/Uitmarkt Rotterdam, Calypso Rotterdam

Schiedam Stad als film, Schiedam project

Global Attick, kunst en complex Rotterdam

Parking Den Haag, Stroom hcbk en Artoteek Den Haag

Pand Paulus, Schiedam Identity in motion,

Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam

2001               World Wide Video Festival Amsterdam

Filmmuseum Amsterdam Frans Zwartjes & Friends

Kunstkanaal

Shorts! Kriterion Amsterdam

Centraal Museum Utrecht – Impakt Festival

Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam

 

Prijs/nominatie

2001                           selected for the second round Prix de Rome Film en Video

1993               aanmoedigingsprijs STROOM HCBK

Zuidhollandse Beeldende kunstprijs voor Academieverlaters (nominatie)Den Haag

 

Publicaties

Publicaties

2012               SHOOTING BACK, artist’s book Hester Scheurwater edited by Walter Keller,

publisher Gerben & Keller Zurich (upcoming)

Hester Scheurwater, Tobia Bezolla ,

2011               C Photo International Ivory Press issue Pose/Unpose (upcoming) 16 pages

European Photography december issue Privacy (upcoming)

HP/DE TIJD. “Wie mooi wil zijn moet nep worden” Isabelle Buhre december 2011

‘Variaties op oude helden’, Lucette ter Borg, NRC Handelsblad 15 september 2011

“Shooting Back Controversial artist Hester Scheurwater circumvents censorship”,

Interview Cathine Somze, ZOO Magzine#31 june 2011 16 pages

‘Eigenwijs, bekende Nederlanders over hun eigengereide aard” ,Anke Manschot, Opzij juni 2011

‘Echte vrienden Stine Jensen” , KRO Profiel tv interview, 20 april NED 2 2011

‘Waarom ik maak wat ik maak” I Talked to Aletta Blog april 2011

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

2010               ‘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,

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

november 2010Overijssels 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

aug 2010 Bright Magazine 7 vragen door Corrie Gerritzen

20 4 2010

NRC Cultuur Blog, Raymond van den Boogaard Wat mag en wat niet mag (2)

17 april 2010 , de Volkskrant Magazine Kunst in Spreidstand interview by Wim de Jong

21 maart 2010, De leeuw op Zondag, Dutch TV Nederland 1  interview by Paul de Leeuw

8 februari 2010 De scheurwater saga op facebook, Raymond van den Boogaard

2009                18 december 2009 , NRC handelsblad CS De grenzen van vriendschap verkennen, Raymond van den   Boogaard

2006               NRC Open vragen in film Zwartjes  André Waardenburg

MM2 Experimentele film in Nederland vanaf 1960,Filmbank/ de Balie

NRC Open vragen in film Zwartjes  André Waardenburg

2003               catalogus Prix de Rome film video

2001               Algemeen Dagblad interview/recensie Annemart van Rhee

Volkskrant magazine, video still

Tijdschrift Airbag,Adriaan de Regt

2000               Opzij, Riet van der Linden

2000               De Volkskrant, Erik Hagoort

1999                De Volkskrant, Sacha Bronwasser

Artoteek Den Haag    , Publicatie bij expositie 1999

1998               Haagse Courant, Roos van Put

 

Docentschap

2003-2012      Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag, docent Audiovisueel

2003- 2005     Hogeschool Rotterdam, coördinator differentiatie Media & Communicatie afdeling CMV(Culturele en Maatschappelijke Vorming)

2002-2006      Vrije Academie Den Haag, Assistent Frans Zwartjes begeleider Video

1999-2003      AV docent Haagse Hogeschool afdeling Culturele en Maatschappelijke Vorming