Curriculum Vitae

AKI, academy for autonomous art & design, Enschede
Fashion design (BA)

Researcher Fine Art at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Basic stipend from the Mondriaanfonds

Researcher Fine Art at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
Residency grant together with artist initiative ADA, Fonds BKVB, Air Berlin Alexanderplatz

Residency with the Goethe Institute in Dresden, Germany
Residency organised by IAAB and Kaus Australis in Basel, Switzerland

Project grant from Fonds BKVB
O&O Project grant from CBK Rotterdam

Basic stipend from the Mondriaanfonds | view

Residency at Altes Spital, Solothurn, Switzerland

_This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time,_AUB art galleries, Beirut LB

_Open Studios Year 2013,_Van Eyck, Maastricht
_Tijd, Subject en Ruimte,_De Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen
_In Search of the Horizon,_Latvian Railway History Museum, Riga LV
_This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time,_SMBA, Amsterdam

_What Belongs to the Present,_Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
_Momart presents all,_Project space Momart, Amsterdam

Theatre of Thought, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht. Curated by Kris Dittel.
Cobra, andere tijden, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen. Curated by Hilde de Bruijn.
Guido Reddersen & Esmé Valk, Kunsthaus Raskolnikow, Dresden.

6 Künstler aus Basel x2, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel. Curated by Sandra Bradvic, Roos Gortzak and Adam Szymczyk.
5X5Castelló11 Premi Internacional d’art contemporani EACC, Castelló, Spain.
This place would be so much better if only it had an ocean view, Guest Room, Rotterdam (solo).

Lustrum Galerie Jochem, Sanquin, Amsterdam.
New Graffiti, Old Revolutions, MK Galerie, Rotterdam. Curated by Jason Coburn.
Showcasing Today’s Essentials, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam. Curated by Hilde de Bruijn (solo).
Showcasing Today’s Essentials , RAAMTE, ADA, Rotterdam (solo).
Cabin Fever, Tupajumi, Co-prosperity, Chicago.

Winter Garden, Florida, collective ADA in 't Gemaal, Rotterdam.
Blurrr, TENT., Rotterdam. Curated by Mariette Dölle.
BEyond, Duende Rotterdam. Curated by Teresa Iannotta.

Mondriaan Download, Biagotti Progetto Arte, Florence. Curated by Andrea Bruciati.
My Travels with Barry, TENT., Rotterdam. Curated by Jan Verwoert and Bernd Krauss.
City Choreographies, the Nunnery, London. Curated by Tracey Warr.
Kunstvlaai, Westerpark, de Gashouder, Amsterdam.
Art Amsterdam, Mart House, stand 46, Amsterdam.

To an other commonplace, Mart House, Amsterdam.
Esmé Valk, Kim Rikken, Anne Walk, Mart House, Amsterdam.
Exposorium 1967 – 2007, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
This is how it must feel to be there, Pakhuismeesteren, Rotterdam.
Exploring new identities, W139, Amsterdam. Organised by Art Partner.
Tupajumi White Edition, W139, Amsterdam.
Choreography for the Selfish Herd, Galerie SO, Solothurn (solo).

Ball of Fame, Umspannwerk, Berlin.
Jeroen Kuster en Esmé Valk, Sanquin, Amsterdam.
Absolut Invasion, CBK, Rotterdam.
In transit, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.

Anonymous art expo, Kattenbak, Amsterdam.
Rotterdam fashion city, CBK, Rotterdam.
Art for sail, Loods 6, Amsterdam. Organised by Art Partner.
Happy garden, Hang, Amsterdam.
Alles van waarde moet weg, Cacaofabriek, Helmond.

Tupajumi, the Cable factory, Helsinki.
Scenario 2020, Vrije universiteit, Amsterdam.

_Artist Talk,_Studium Generale, Willem de Koning Academie, Rotterdam

_All About These … Ladies and Gentlemen_touring filmscreening, Milan, Istanbul, Tirana, Cologne.

Artist talk at the symposium Artistic Research and Daily Life, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag.
Performative guided tour, part of the installation The Imporantce of the Composed Domain, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen.
Conversation with Eva González-Sancho and Mariette Dölle about my work, ARCO, Madrid.
Movement, roles and positions on the open stage, Public lecture at Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.

Performative lecture Dancing on the Carpet at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
Artist Talk at Guest Corner, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel, Switzerland.
Artist Talk at Be my Guest, IAAB evening, Oslo 10, Basel, Switzerland.
Artist Talk, Geh 8, Dresden, Germany.
Notities, private lecture at the HKU, Utrecht.

The square; bodies in formation, public talk in TENT., Rotterdam. Part of the Guided Tours organised by ADA.
Artist Talk by Tamara Kuselman & Esmé Valk, public talk in SMART Project Space, Amsterdam.
Films by Charles and Ray Eames, introduction and screening in ADA, Rotterdam.
Commonplace Book, private lecture at the HKU, Utrecht.

Zicht op Zalmhaven public lecture at the Multi-avond: Out-of-the-box, TENT., Rotterdam.
Notities, private lecture at the HKU, Utrecht.
Art and Artifacts, a short history on gatherings, public talk at ADA, Rotterdam.

Methodologies, public lecture at TENT., Rotterdam.
Notities, private lecture at the HKU, Utrecht.
Public lecture, organised by the KABK, Den Haag.

Initiative and organisation of the video lecture Interior Arcadias by Mark Pimlott. Screened during the Winter Garden in ‘t Gemaal, Rotterdam.
Organisation and concept of the project Zicht op Zalmhaven.

Coordinating editor of the publication Small Talk with the Janitor

Co-organiser of the exhibition This is how it must feel to be there.

Art Partner of Krans & van Hilten Advocaten
Co-initiator and organisor of the exhibition in Transit.

Curator and organisor of the exhibition Happy Garden.
Initiator and founder of an artist workgroup.