Miriam Sentler
Photo Credits: Joris Hilterman, 2021
Contact
︎ miriam.sentler@live.nl
︎ miriamsentler
︎ deeptimeagency@gmail.com
︎ www.deeptimeagency.com
About
Miriam Sentler (b. 1994, DE, currently based in the Netherlands) is a contemporary artist and researcher. She graduated cum laude from the University of Amsterdam and the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht and received a certificate from Goldsmiths, University of Arts London. In 2020, she was awarded the Mondriaan Fund Stipendium for Emerging Artists. Sentler showed her work at (amongst others): Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL), Looiersgracht 60 Amsterdam (NL), RADIUS, Centre for Art & Ecology, Delft (NL), LVR Landesmuseum Bonn (DE), Museum Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL), MACRO Museum for Contemporary Art Rome (IT), MKE Barcsay Hall Budapest (HU) and Art Rotterdam (NL). She was artist in residence at USF Verftet Bergen (NO), Knockvologan Studies (UK), RAVI Liége (BE), Exploded View - Parco dell Appia Antica Rome (IT) and Jester (formerly CIAP/FLACC) Genk (BE).
Sentler's interdisciplinary work emphasizes the changing of landscapes, focussing on the cultural and environmental legacy of (fossil fuel) industries. In her work, she often deal with questions of belonging, myth-making and sacrifice. Through residencies and working periods, she looks for fitting mediums to highlight (dis)appearances ob objects and animals in changing landscapes. In the field, she collaborates with scientists and inhabitants next to always learning new skills affiliated with the landscape, thus embarking in a “correspondence” with human and non-human inhabitants. For example, she became a fisher and ceramist in order to replicate a fish fossil from a lignite pit for Descent into the Future (2020/2021), functioned as a hobby-ornithologist in the endangered woods of the Hambacher Forst for the Chase (2020) and explored the Atlantic Ocean as a modern-day shark hunter for Cairban (2021).
Sentler founded the interdisciplinary artistic research project Deep Time Agency together with Berlin-based visual artist Wouter Osterholt in 2020, aiming to bring back a sense of belonging to “erased” places by returning archeological finds to (post)industrial landscapes.
Education
2018-20 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)
Residencies & Working Periods
2022-23 (upcoming) On Artistic Publishing & The North Sea, Pamflett, Bergen (NO) & Gaada, Shetland Islands (UK)
2022-23 (current) Ruigoord 50 jaar, curated by Imke Ruigrok, Ruigoord, Amsterdam (NL)
2022-23 (current) FieldARTS - Transitional Waters, ASCA & Sonic Acts, Amsterdam & Ijmuiden (NL)
2022-23 The Forest Underground, Jester (formerly: CIAP/FLACC) & Emile van Dorenmuseum, Genk (BE)
2022 Nieuwe Uitzichten, Museum Bommel van Dam & Odapark, Venlo/Venray (NL)
2021 International Artist Residency, USF Verftet, The United Sardine Factory, Bergen (NO)
2021 KNOCKvologan Studies Residency, Residency, Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides (UK)
2019 Exploded View Project, Parco Regionale Dell’ Appia Antica, Rome (IT)
2018 RAVI: Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International, Liége (BE)
2017 70º Arctic Island Residency, La Wayaka Current, Sørøya, Finnmark (NO)
2016 Overgangszone, Artistic Research on the ENCI Marl Quarry, Maastricht (NL)
Exhibitions & Performances
2023-24 (upcoming) Secrets of Making #3 (G), curator D. Klijs, Textielmuseum, Tilburg (NL)
2023 (upcoming) Petromelancholia, curator A. Klose i.c.w. Goethe Institut, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 (upcoming) Ruigoord: Oase van Verwondering (G), curator I. Ruigrok, Ruigoord (NL)
2023 (upcoming) Planktos Rising during Bergen Art Book Fair, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NL)
2023 CAIRBAN - A Contemporary Shark Hunt, Hvalsalen, Universitetsmuseet Naturhistorie, Bergen (NO)
2022 Archive Event VI: The Chase - Miriam Sentler (solo) Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Deep Time Agency (solo) Gallery 3 - Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Nieuwe Uitzichten, curator S. van Stein & J. Vossebeld, Museum Bommel van Dam & Odapark, Venlo (NL)
2022 Climate of Concern, curator N. Lekkerkerk & S. Rusca, RADIUS CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art & Ecology, Delft (NL)
2022 Still Waters Run Deep, curator M. Augustijn, Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Prospects, Art Rotterdam, curator J. Gustavsson, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Ancestors Rising, curator R. Peters, LVR Landesmuseum - Tag der Archäologie, Aussenstelle Titz (DE)
2022 Exploded View, curator K. Clevis, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 CAIRBAN, curator L. Lax, PRøverommet, METEOR Performance Festival, Kulturhuset Bergen (NO)
2020 Ecotones - Bodies in Tension, curator M. Lanari, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL)
2020 Objets Trouvés/Verloren Voorwerpen, curator B. Puype, with Nowhere collective, various locations, Bruges (BE)
2020 Letters from the South, with Nowhere collective, The Wrong Biennale (WW)
2019 Exploded View, curator K. Clevis, MACRO Museum for Contemporary Art / Ex Cartiera Latina, Rome (IT)
2019 Fairshare: Publishing as Artistic Practice, curator A. Melzacka, CIAP Kunstverein, Hasselt (BE)
2019 Ten is for God, curator P. Albuquerque, Neverneverland, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Elite 2018, curator S. Maes & A. Melzacka, KRIEG Gallery, Hasselt (BE)
2018 Urban Storytelling: L'Art pour elkaar, curator J. Vossebeld, Bureau Europa, Maastricht (NL)
2018 Do you Read.me? organised by Nowhere Collective, SB34 The Pool, Brussels (BE)
2018 Ouverture des Ateliers RAVI, curator F. Laixhai, RAVI, Liège (BE)
2017 Solastalgia, curator E. Kersten, AINSI, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Open studios, curator S. Iversen, La Wayaka Current Arctic Base, Sørøya (NO)
2017 Start Up: Slow Accident, curator P. Devens, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Marres Currents: Running Time, curator B. Hendrikx & B. Cueto, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Realities Revised, curator A. Melzacka, B32, Maastricht (NL)
2016 Young Masters, curator R. Boxman, Media Art Festival, Leeuwarden (NL)
2016 Fresh Cacao, curator J. Tullemans, de Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
2016 Change of Perspective, curator J. Capra, Biennale L’image Possible - Galerie des Écuries, Liège (BE)
2016 Best of graduates 2016, curator R. Vana, Gallery Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Graduation Show Bachelor Fine Arts, curator P. Devens, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2016 Commission, Municipality of Maastricht - Artwork in Public Space Waldeckpark, Maastricht (NL)
2016 U Turn, Apprentice Master, curator A. Szabo, MKE Barcsay Hall, Budapest (HU)
Grants, Awards & Nominations
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)
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, Presentations & Teaching
2023 Guest Teaching, Marl Matters core workshop, with Elena Khurtova, ARS minor, Maastricht Institute of Art (NL)
2023 GRIP: Speculative Urban Futures, organised by Brandon LaBelle & Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Errant Bodies Press, Berlin (DE)
2023 An Afternoon Filled with Jester Artists, presenting the Forest Underground, Jester, C-Mine Genk (BE)
2022 Guest Teaching, Deep Time Agency, Minor Creative Research for Change, HKU, Utrecht (NL)
2022 Speaker, 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, 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, Artistic Research in Situ, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, UvA & Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2022 Guest Teaching, Minor: Artistic Research in Situ, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht NL)
2022 Guest Teaching, Studio Dialogues, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2021 The Chase: An Auditive Walk & Artist Talk, CIAP Kunstverein, C Mine, Genk (BE)
2021 CAIRBAN - A Contemporary Shark Hunt, KNOCKvologan Studies, Scotland (UK)
2021 Seminar, Speculative Urban Futures, Natural History Museum Bergen, University of Bergen (NO)
2021 Guest Teaching, Art & Ecology, Professional International Practice, Royal Academy of the Haque (NL)
2021 Artist Talk, ARRG: Antonis Pittas and Miriam Sentler, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA (NL)
2021 Guest Teaching, Landscape and Memory, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2020 Guest Teaching, Object, Material, Experiment, Master Art History, University of Amsterdam (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 Guest Teaching, Bricolage & Memory, 1st & 3rd year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
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 Guest Teaching, Bricolage & Memory, 1st year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Guest Teaching, Overgangszone ArtLab, Natural History Museum Maastricht (NL)
2017 Artist Talk, Marres Currents #4: Running time, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL)
2023 GRIP: Speculative Urban Futures, organised by Brandon LaBelle & Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Errant Bodies Press, Berlin (DE)
2023 An Afternoon Filled with Jester Artists, presenting the Forest Underground, Jester, C-Mine Genk (BE)
2022 Guest Teaching, Deep Time Agency, Minor Creative Research for Change, HKU, Utrecht (NL)
2022 Speaker, 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, 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, Artistic Research in Situ, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, UvA & Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2022 Guest Teaching, Minor: Artistic Research in Situ, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht NL)
2022 Guest Teaching, Studio Dialogues, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2021 The Chase: An Auditive Walk & Artist Talk, CIAP Kunstverein, C Mine, Genk (BE)
2021 CAIRBAN - A Contemporary Shark Hunt, KNOCKvologan Studies, Scotland (UK)
2021 Seminar, Speculative Urban Futures, Natural History Museum Bergen, University of Bergen (NO)
2021 Guest Teaching, Art & Ecology, Professional International Practice, Royal Academy of the Haque (NL)
2021 Artist Talk, ARRG: Antonis Pittas and Miriam Sentler, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA (NL)
2021 Guest Teaching, Landscape and Memory, 4th year Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Maastricht (NL)
2020 Guest Teaching, Object, Material, Experiment, Master Art History, University of Amsterdam (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 Guest Teaching, Bricolage & Memory, 1st & 3rd year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
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 Guest Teaching, Bricolage & Memory, 1st year Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (NL)
2017 Guest Teaching, Overgangszone ArtLab, Natural History Museum Maastricht (NL)
2017 Artist Talk, Marres Currents #4: Running time, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht (NL)
Selected Press & Publications
2023 (forthcoming) Field Arts Field Docket, published by Sonic Acts Press, edited by J. Diamanti & F. Carter, 300 copies, print
2023 Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Until we Meet Again: 10 Years of Currents, print
2023 See All This Magazine, Pretty Brilliant Women in the Arts: Bernard Cultuurfonds presents, print
2022 MATER Platform, Miriam Sentler: Deep Time Agency, edited by Madie Rose Hills, online
2022 Jester & FLACC, Exploring the Underground Forest, interview with Alicja Melzacka, 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 Hurrikan Press Glasgow, Publication, WAVE Zine, curated by Anna Tudos, print
2021 CLUE+, Publication, Exploded View: Art and Research on Layered Landscapes, edited by Gert-Jan Burgers & Krien Clevis, 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
Selected Essays & Academic Publications
2023 (forthcoming) FieldARTS Brackish Waters. Cosmogrammatics Podcast, edited by J. Diamanti & M. Büsse, online, Zürich (CH)
2021 The Art of Swimming with Sharks. The Outdoor Swimming Society, October Edition, edited by Beth Pearson, London (UK)
2021 Exploded View: Art and Research on Layered Landscapes, CLUE+ Publication, print and online, Amsterdam (NL) and Rome (IT)
2020 A Loveletter to Untilled by Pierre Huyghe. Love Letter to an Artwork, 24th of November 2020, online, Zurich (CH)
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 Reading of Matter in Andrej Tarkovsky´s Solaris (1972) and Stalker (1979). Acardemia, online, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 De 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, online and print, Amsterdam (NL)
Miscellaneous
2020-present Founding member and director Deep Time Agency - www.deeptimeagency.com
2018-2021 Fundraising, researching and writing for various artists, creative companies and art institutions
2018-2021 Guiding tours, fundraising and developing new public programs for Garage Rotterdam
2017-2020 Co-founder artist collective Now/here, with Emile Hermans, Alicja Melzacka, Cira Huwald, Eline Kersten.
2016-2017 Tourguiding and storytelling in the City of London, UK
2014-2016 Volunteer at Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL
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