OVERVIEW

Katja Verheul (b. 1988, Netherlands) is a filmmaker and researcher based in Amsterdam. She graduated with a BFA in Audio-Visual Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2012 and holds a MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University (UK) in 2016. Her research and film projects evolves around performative realities, post-truth and power structures. She has shown her work at Visions du Réel, the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg, New Wight Biennial, Arebyte gallery in London, Visio at 11th edition of lo schermo dell’arte and on Dutch television. She was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2018-2019).

Statement

In my films and video projects I question the everyday, forgotten moments of recent histories and possible future events. I often work with performers, dancers and actors. Using performing as a tool, to dream, to question and to discover hidden dreams and realities, while working with personal and collective memories. I am interested in the thin line between what is real and what is fake. What sort of stories do we tell ourselves to move on and to deal with the rut of the everyday? Which realities do we acknowledge and which do we abnegate?