Photo: Joris Hilterman

Contact

︎ miriam.sentler@live.nl
︎ miriamsentler
︎ deeptimeagency@gmail.com
︎ www.deeptimeagency.com

Studio address:
Kongsberg Kunstherhuset
Landstadsgate 4
3616 Kongsberg, Norway

About

Miriam Sentler (b. 1994, DE/NL) is a contemporary artist and humanities researcher living in Kongsberg, Norway. Educated at the Maastricht Institute of Fine Arts and the University of Amsterdam, she is currently a doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo. Her projects result in long research trajectories, taking shape in different mediums like installations, performance, audio, textile, video, artist publications, and essays. Sentler's interdisciplinary work emphasizes the industrial changing of landscapes, focussing on the cultural and environmental legacy of (fossil fuel) industries and the modern era. Inspired by her family history in the coal-mining region of Germany, she deals with questions of belonging, myth-making, transformation, and sacrifice in different landscapes. Sentler founded the interdisciplinary art project Deep Time Agency together with Berlin-based artist Wouter Osterholt in 2019.

Her work is permanently represented in several museum- and private collections in the Netherlands. Recent exhibitions and collaborations include: U10 Art Space Belgrade (RS), Museum het Nieuwe Domein (NL), Museum Rijswijk (NL), Metode/ Lofoten International Art Biennale (NO), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (DE), Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL), Looiersgracht 60 Amsterdam (NL), BRUTUS Rotterdam (NL), RADIUS, Centre for Art & Ecology, Delft (NL), Textielmuseum Tilburg (NL), LVR Landesmuseum Bonn (DE), Museum Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL), MKE Barcsay Hall Budapest (HU) and Art Rotterdam (NL). She was an artist in residence at USF Verftet Bergen (NO), Knockvologan Studies (UK), RAVI Liége (BE), Parco dell’ Appia Antica Rome (IT), Jester (formerly CIAP/FLACC) Genk (BE) and Gaada Shetland (UK).

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Generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund & the Research Council of Norway (2023-2027)

Education & Fellowships

2023-27 Ph.D. Research Fellow Petroculture Studies, University of Oslo (NO)
2018-20 r.MA Artistic Research, cum laude, University of Amsterdam (NL)
2017-18 Certificate, Goldsmiths University of Arts London (UK)
2012-16 BFA Fine Arts, cum laude, Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)

Artist Residencies

2025 (upcoming) The University of Highlands and Islands, supported by the EARTH Scholarship, Orkney Islands (UK)
2023-24 Gaada, in collaboration with Pamflett Bergen (NO), Burra, Shetland Islands (UK)
2022-23 Jester (formerly: CIAP/FLACC) in collaboration with Emile van Dorenmuseum, Genk (BE)
2021 USF Verftet, The United Sardine Factory, Bergen (NO)
2021 KNOCKvologan Studies, Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Scotland (UK)
2019 Exploded View, Parco Regionale Dell’ Appia Antica, Rome (IT)
2018 RAVI, Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International, Liége (BE)
2017 70º Arctic Island Residency, La Wayaka Current, Sápmi, Sørøya, Finnmark (NO)
2016 Overgangszone, ENCI Cement Factory, Maastricht (NL)

Solo & Group Exhibitions

*(G) group- and (S) solo exhibitions

2025 (upcoming) Textile Biennial: Interwoven Futures: Utopia/Dystopia in Textile (G) curated by Julia Geerlings, Museum Rijswijk (NL) 2025 (upcoming) Ruins & Renewal (G) during Art Rotterdam, curated by Hannah van den Elzen, Het Archief, Rotterdam (NL)
2024-25 Mining Myths (S), Museum het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard (NL)
2024-25 Overburden: On Extractivism and The Shape of Things To Come (G), Greylight Projects, Heerlen (NL)
2024 Your Water Our Water, with DTA (G) U10 Art Space, Belgrade (RS)
2024 Your Water Our Water, with DTA (G) Art Quarter, Budapest (HU)
2024 Your Water Our Water, with DTA (G) DELPHI Art Space, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE)
2024 -162°C, 450 kg/m³, Fossil Energy, Fragile Futures (G) curator L. Reisner, Kunsthalle Willemshaven (DE)
2023-24 Secrets of Making #3 (G) curator D. Klijs, Textielmuseum, Tilburg (NL)
2023-24 The Forest Underground (G) Veldwerkers, C-Mine, Genk (BE)
2023-24 Brigdi Island (S), curator D. Clark & A. Gear, Gaada, Burra, Shetland (UK)
2023 Petromelancholia (G) curator A. Klose i.c.w. Goethe Institut, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 CAIRBAN - A Contemporary Shark Hunt (S) Hvalsalen, Universitetsmuseet Naturhistorie, Bergen (NO)
2022 Archive Event VI: The Chase - Miriam Sentler (S) Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Deep Time Agency (S) Gallery 3 - Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Nieuwe Uitzichten (G) curator J. Vossebeld, Museum Bommel van Dam & Odapark, Venlo & Venray (NL)
2022 Climate of Concern (G) curator N. Lekkerkerk & S. Rusca, RADIUS CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art & Ecology, Delft (NL)
2022 Still Waters Run Deep (G) curator M. Augustijn, Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Prospects, Art Rotterdam (G) curator J. Gustavsson, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Ancestors Rising (G) curator R. Peters, LVR Landesmuseum - Tag der Archäologie, Aussenstelle Titz (DE)
2022 Exploded View (G) curator K. Clevis, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 CAIRBAN (G) curator L. Lax, Prøverommet, METEOR Performance Festival, Kulturhuset Bergen (NO)
2020 Ecotones - Bodies in Tension (G) curator M. Lanari, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL)
2020 Objets Trouvés/Verloren Voorwerpen (G) curator B. Puype, with Nowhere collective, various locations, Bruges (BE)
2020 Letters from the South (G) with Nowhere collective, The Wrong Biennale (WW)
2019 Exploded View (G) curator K. Clevis, MACRO Museum for Contemporary Art / Ex Cartiera Latina, Rome (IT)
2019 Fairshare: Publishing as Artistic Practice (G) curator A. Melzacka, CIAP Kunstverein, Hasselt (BE)
2019 Ten is for God (G) curator P. Albuquerque, Neverneverland, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Elite 2018 (G) curator S. Maes & A. Melzacka, KRIEG Gallery, Hasselt (BE)
2018 Urban Storytelling: L'Art pour elkaar (G) curator J. Vossebeld, Bureau Europa, Maastricht (NL)
2018 Do you Read.me? (G) organised by Nowhere Collective, SB34 The Pool, Brussels (BE)
2018 Ouverture des Ateliers RAVI (G) curator F. Laixhai, RAVI, Liège (BE)
2017 Solastalgia (G) curator E. Kersten, AINSI, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Open studios (G) curator S. Iversen, La Wayaka Current Arctic Base, Sørøya (NO)
2017 Start Up: Slow Accident (G) curator P. Devens, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Marres Currents: Running Time (G) curator B. Hendrikx & B. Cueto, Marres, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Realities Revised (G) curator A. Melzacka, B32, Maastricht (NL)
2016 Young Masters (G) curator R. Boxman, Media Art Festival, Leeuwarden (NL)
2016 Fresh Cacao (G) curator J. Tullemans, de Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
2016 Change of Perspective (G) curator J. Capra, Biennale L’image Possible - Galerie des Écuries, Liège (BE)
2016 Best of graduates 2016 (G) curator R. Vana, Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Overgangszone (G) curator K. Clevis, Artistic Research on the ENCI Marl Quarry, Maastricht (NL)
2016 Graduation Show Bachelor Fine Arts (G) curator P. Devens, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2016 U Turn (G) Apprentice Master, curator A. Szabo, MKE Barcsay Hall, Budapest (HU)

Commissioned Projects

2025-27 (current) The Giants Bones, project in Limburg and Indonesia with Deep Time Agency, Odapark Venray (NL)
2025-27 (current) Underwater Palace, project with Deep Time Agency, Mediamatic, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 (current) Bog Guardians, project with Deep Time Agency i.c.w. University of Cork, Lemanaghan Bog (IE)
2023 Ruigoord: Oase van Verwondering (G) curator I. Ruigrok, Ruigoord, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Nieuwe Uitzichten (G) curator S. van Stein & J. Vossebeld, Museum Bommel van Dam & Odapark, Tegelen (NL)
2015 After Dark (S) Commissioned artwork in public space Waldeckpark, municipality of Maastricht (NL)

Private & Public Collections

2024 Museum het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard (NL)
2023 Fine Art & Design Library KMD, Bergen (NO)
2022 R. Lekkerkerk/ RADIUS, Centre for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft (NL)

Grants, Awards & Nominations

2023-27 Research fellowship University of Oslo, funded by the Research Council of Norway (NO)
2023-27 Artist Basic Grant (FKA Stipendium for Established Artists), Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam (NL)
2024-25 EARTH Scholarship, British Council Scotland and the Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities (SGSAH), (UK)
2024-25 Project Grant, new work The Moving Energy Theatre Shetland, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam (NL)
2024-25 Project Grant, new work Bog Guardians with Deep Time Agency, Iona Stichting, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 Project Grant, Stichting Stokroos, Hanzenfonds & BRUTUS Rotterdam for Mining Myths tapestry, Rotterdam (NL)
2022-23 Project Grant, Onderzoeks & Ontwikkelingssubsidie for the Forest Underground, CBK Rotterdam (NL)
2022-23 Project Grant, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, childrenbook Planktos Rising, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Project Grant for Deep Time Agency - Nieuwe Instituut, Iona Stichting, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Nomination C.o.C.A. Foundation Award, curated by Imke Ruigrok, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Project Grant, Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Concrete Reef - Deep Time Agency, Dordrecht (NL)
2022 Project Grant, BBK Neustart, Ancestors Rising - Deep Time Agency, Berlin (BE)
2021 Project Grant, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds/ Tijl Fonds - new work at TextielMuseum, Tilburg (NL)
2021 Project Grant, Stichting Stokroos - new work at TextielMuseum, Tilburg (NL)
2021 Project Grant, Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds - Knockvologan Studies Residency, Scotland (UK)
2020-21 Stipendium for Emerging Artists, Mondriaanfonds, mentorship with Justin Bennet, Rotterdam (NL)
2016 Nomination Young Blood Award - Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Nomination Henriëtte Hustinx Award - Faculty Prize Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2016 Nomination Young Master Award - Media Art Festival Friesland & AADK Spain (NL, ES)

Artist Talks & Other Presentations

2024 Presentation, Deep Time Agency, FenScan archaeology conference, Hyytiälä Forest Station, Finland (FI)
2024 Presentation, How to Act on Oil, Metode #3, ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo (NO)
2024 Conference, Translatability of Oil (TOIL) conference, presentation at University of Oslo (NL)
2024 Panel Speaker, Tales of the North Sea Oil City, Panel speaker at Petrocultures Conference, Los Angeles (USA)
2024 Presentation, Reclaiming Myth, Creative Practice Research Group, Nordic Black Theatre, Oslo (NO)
2023 Artist Talk & Walk, On Solastalgia and Lakes, BALATORIUM Ecological & Cultural Weekend, Örvényes (HU)
2023 Workshop, A Bridge between Basking Sharks and Plankton Blooms, workshop, Gaada, Isle of Burra, Shetland (UK)
2023 Artist Talk, Deep Time Agency in relation to the Viking windmills, artist talk, Gaada, Isle of Burra, Shetland (UK)
2023 Round table presentation & artist talk, Planktos Rising, during Bergen Art Book Fair, Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
2023 Presentation, GRIP: Speculative Urban Futures, org. Brandon LaBelle & Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Errant Bodies Press, Berlin (DE)
2023 Artist Talk, An Afternoon Filled with Jester Artists, presenting the Forest Underground, Jester, C-Mine Genk (BE)
2022 Panel Speaker, symposium The History, Present & Future of the Environmental Humanities, ASCA & NICA VOXPOP Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Presentation, geSCHICHTEN Rheinisches Revier, LVR Landesmuseum, Abtei Brauweiler (DE)
2022 Presentation, Ancestors Rising, Tag der Archäeologie, LVR Aussenstelle Titz (DE)
2022 Symposium, Sink or Swim, Vrije Universiteit, Environmental Humanities Center, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Conference presentation, Strukturwandel im Rheinischen Revier, Presentation, LVR- Kulturkonferenz, Brauweiler (DE)
2022 Artist Talk, Pilgrimage & Art on the Via Appia, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)
2022 Keynote presentation, Artistic Research in Situ, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, UvA & Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2021 Presentation, The Chase: An Auditive Walk & Artist Talk, CIAP Kunstverein, C Mine, Genk (BE)
2021 Presentation, CAIRBAN - A Contemporary Shark Hunt, KNOCKvologan Studies, Scotland (UK)
2021 Seminar, Speculative Urban Futures, Natural History Museum Bergen, University of Bergen (NO)
2021 Artist Talk, ARRG: Antonis Pittas and Miriam Sentler, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA (NL)
2019 Artist Talk, Printing Plant Art Book Fair: with curator Mariam Zulfiqar, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 Artist Talk, Exploded View, Janus Walk, MACRO, Museum for Contemporary Art, Rome (IT)
2019 Seminar, The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place, LCIR, University of Oxford (UK)
2019 Artist Talk, Fairshare: Building an Archive of a Disappearing Landscape, CIAP Kunstverein Hasselt (BE)
2018 Artist Talk, Artistic Research on the Via Appia Antica, Ex Cartiera Latina, Rome (IT)
2018 Artist Talk, Artistic Research & Archaeology, VU Archaeology, CLUE+, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Artist Talk, Marres Currents #4: Running time, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL)

Teaching & Education

2025 Nature & Ecology: Noticing in the Field, ARiS Workshop, 2nd & 3rd year iArts/ Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2023 Marl Matters core workshop, guest teaching with Elena Khurtova, ARiS minor, 3rd year Fine Arts Maastricht Institute of Art (NL)
2022 Deep Time Agency, Minor Creative Research for Change, 3rd year, HKU, Utrecht (NL)
2022 Minor: Artistic Research in Situ, 3rd year Fine Arts & Design, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht NL)
2022 Studio Dialogues, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2018-2022 Guided tours and education for school classes and private groups at Garage Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Art & Ecology, Professional International Practice, 4th year, Royal Academy of the Haque (NL)
2021 Landscape and Memory, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2020 Object, Material, Experiment, Master Art History, 1st year, University of Amsterdam (NL)
2017-2018 Tour guide, London Bicycle Tour Company, London (UK)
2018 Bricolage & Memory, 1st & 3rd year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Bricolage & Memory, 1st year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Overgangszone ArtLab, Natural History Museum Maastricht (NL)

Essays & Research Dissimination

2025 “How to Act on Oil” in METODE #3 Currents, Metode i.c.w. Lofoten International Art Festival, feb. 2025, Oslo (NO)
2025 “Burn-Up the Oil Dragon”, Interview, Good Evening Shetland, 13.02.2025, BBC Radio Shetland, Lerwick (UK)
2025 “Oil and Island Culture in Shetland: A Conversation w/ Miriam Sentler”, TOIL research blog, jan. 2025, University of Oslo (NL)
2025 “Oil Encounters in Shetland”, TOIL research blog, jan. 2025, University of Oslo (NL)
2023 Field Arts - Field Docket, Sonic Acts Press, edited by J. Diamanti & F. Carter, print, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 Exploded View: Art and Research on Layered Landscapes, CLUE+ Publication, print and online, Amsterdam (NL) and Rome (IT)
2020 Shifting Earth Archivers - Human and Non-Human Memory, Activism and Archiving in Relation to North-Rhine Westphalian Lignite Industry. Master Thesis, supervised by M. van Rijsingen and P. Albuquerque, 17.477 words, University of Amsterdam (NL)
2020 A Loveletter to Untilled by Pierre Huyghe. Love Letter to an Artwork, 24th of November 2020, online, Zurich (CH)
2019 Overgang van Dorpen naar Meren. Tubelight Magazine 111, edited by Brenda Tempelaar, online and print, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 Exploded View, Artistic Research on Layered Landscapes. Roma Aeterna Magazine, Vol. 10.II, print, Amsterdam (NL)

Selected Art Press

2025 Collectiebijdrage Nieuwe Aanwinsten Musea 2025: Het Nieuwe Domein, written by Arent Boon, Metropolis M, online and print
2024 Deep Time Matters with Miriam Sentler and Paulina Blaeslid, MATER Podcast hosted by curator Maddie Rose Hills, online
2024 NDR Kultur, report, Wilhelmshaven: Fossile Energie Auf der Bühne und in der Kunsthalle, Jutta Przygoda, online, TV, radio
2023 Mister Motley, column, ‘Een zwarte drug: over hoe aardolie dwars door ons heen gaat, online & print
2023 Trouw, reportage, (...) ‘Petromelancholia’ toont de schoonheid en horror van het olietijdperk, online & print
2023 Marres House for Contemporary Culture, publication, Until we Meet Again: 10 Years of Currents, print
2023 See All This Magazine, reportage, Pretty Brilliant Women in the Arts: Bernard Cultuurfonds presents, print
2022 MATER Platform, feature, Miriam Sentler: Deep Time Agency, edited by Madie Rose Hills, online
2022 Jester & FLACC, interview, Exploring the Underground Forest, online
2022 Metropolis M, review, Activistisch zijn zonder activistisch te ogen - een bezoek aan Radius, by Domeniek Ruyters, print
2022 Trouw, review, Van Vermeer-fans tot Shell-personeel: de doelgroep van het klimaatmuseum is breed, by Frank Straver, print
2022 Mondriaanfonds, Prospects 2022, catalogue, by Sarah van Binsbergen, print and online
2022 Lost Painters, review, Prospects - 2022, by Niek Hendrikx, online
2022 Kunstblijfteenraadsel, review, Prospects 2022 - Art Rotterdam, by Paul Voors, online
2022 Metropolis M, review, van groot naar klein: Prospects - Art Rotterdam 2022, by Joris van den Einden, online and print
2022 Trendbeheer, Review, Prospects 2022, by Niels Post, online
2022 Trendbeheer, Feature, Studio visit: Het Atelier van Miriam Sentler, by Najiba Brakkee, online
2022 Het Parool, Review, De geschiedenis afgraven met de blik van een kunstenaar, by Edo Dijksterhuis, online and print
2021 The Art of Swimming with Sharks. The Outdoor Swimming Society, October Edition, edited by Beth Pearson, London (UK)
2021 Hurrikan Press Glasgow, Publication, WAVE Zine, curated by Anna Tudos, print
2021 CLUE+, Publication, Exploded View: Art and Research on Layered Landscapes, ed. Gert-Jan Burgers, print
2020 Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender 2020, Publication, Trichis Books Breda, print
2019 Roma Aeterna Magazine, Publication, Exploded View, print
2019 Tubelight Magazine 111, Feature, De Overgang van Dorpen naar Meren, edited by Brenda Tempelaar, online and print
2019 Kunstblijfteenraadsel, Review, Op atelierbezoek bij Miriam Sentler, written by Paul Voors, online
2019 Metropolis M, Feature, Micro Art Initiatives #22: Nowhere, written by Lotte van Geijn, online and print
2018 Exhibition cataloque, Residences Ateliers Vivegnis International 2018, print
2018 RTC Tele Liége, TV Report, Portes Ouvertes Résidences Ateliers Ravi, online and tv
2017 Tique Art Paper, Feature, The Horrific History of Erik Thorvaldsson, edited by Welmer Keesmaat, online
2017 D!ng Art Magazine London, Feature, Four-year Anniversary Issue, curated by Jolien Dirix, online and print
2017 Exhibition cataloque, Marres Currents Running Time, written by Bas Hendrikx & Barbara Cueto, Marres Maastricht, print
2017 RTV Maastricht, K.i.M TV Report, B32: Realities Revised, online and tv
2016 SSBA Salon, Review, Ron Mandos: Best of Graduates 2016, written by Jorik Amit Galama, online
2016 Lost Painters, Review, Ron Mandos; Best of Graduates, written by Niek Hendrikx, online
2016 Lost Painters, Eindexamen expo ABK Maastricht, written by Niek Hendrikx, online
2015 GUP Magazine, Publication, New Dutch Photography Talent 2015, print

Miscellaneous

2025-present Member Kongsberg Kunstforening (NO)
2024-present Member Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH)(NO)
2023-present Member Translatability of Oil Project, University of Oslo (NO)
2020-present Founding member and director Deep Time Agency - www.deeptimeagency.com