About
Zoë Sluijs (b. Netherlands) is an artist and educator with a diverse cultural and artistic practice. Working towards alternative narratives by practicing storytelling through photography, gardening, listening, foraging, and writing. As well as creating platforms for exchange in the form of workshops, walks and other events.
For three years Zoë had co-developed an artistic research collective – De Nieuwkomers – that hosted residencies and events relating to the local ecologies of the rural Netherlands where they were situated. She now continues investigating different perspectives to the interrelations within the living world more specifically to plants, fungi and animals, also questioning the boundaries of its definition e.g. concerning soil or rocks.
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EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2026 – Perfomance lecture; Women Who Plant, Centraal Museum Utrecht
2025 – Groep expositie Warme Grond, AKV Sint.Joost Breda
2025 – Perfomance lecture; Women Who Plant, Re-Nature festival Ruigoord, Amsterdam
2025 – Graduation show Master of Fine Arts, Basecamp for Tactile imaginaries (BAK) Utrecht
2025 – Performance Launch for the Remote Archivist publication, De Appel Amsterdam
2024 – Manuals and Mess (workshop+exhibition), AG, Utrecht
2024 – While Kitchening, Casco Art Institute ,Utrecht
2023 – Temporary Shock Forest Group (collaborative performance), Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
2023 – Thunder Visit (residency +exhibition), de Nieuwkomers Chaam
2022 – Expositie Binnenstebuiten, De Nieuwkomers Chaam
2021 – Earthlings Atelier Néerlandais, Paris
2020 – Graduation show, Breda
2020 – BredaPhoto, Breda
2020 – Noorderlicht, Heerenveen
2020 – Docfeed at Lab-1, Eindhoven
2019 – Unseen Bookmarket Book-launch, Amsterdam
2019 – Peers, Amsterdam
2019 – fotoasiel, Breda
2018 – Bring your own beamer, cultuurnacht Breda
2017 – Life Art Breda, Kunsthuis Breda
2016 – B*There Festival, s’ Hertogenbosch
2016 – Bosch Open Expo, Kunsthuis Boschveld s’ Hertogenbosch
2015 – Expo Artibosch (audience price), s’ Hertogenbosch
2015 – B*There Festival, s’ Hertogenbosch
EDUCATION
2025 – Master of Fine Art at Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht
2022 – Kunstprofessional in de klas at HZ University of Applied Sciences Vlissingen
2020 – Graduated bachelor Photography/Film at AKV sint-Joost
2019 – Finished internship at Annegien van Doorn
2018 – Minor (BA) Photography at Leeds Art University UK
2016 – Pixel Palace HKU (prior education, certificate)
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
2021 to present – Art Educator: Saturday course at Sint-joost School of Art and Design
2025 to present – Tour guide and educator at FOTODOK, Utrecth
2025 – Guest writer Metropolis M
2023 – Thunder Visit, Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with 8 artists
2023 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Emilia Martin
2022 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Floris Postmes
2022 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Lola Diaz Cantoni
2022 – Art Educator: “Het insectenhotel” course at primary school
2022 – co-Curator/producer – Exhibition ‘Binnenstebuiten’, Chaam
2022 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Esmeé Bruins
2022 – Art Educator: commissioned by ‘Digital Creativity’ for primary school & secondary education March
2022 – Art Educator: “De Vlechtheg” course at primary school
2022 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Joeri Boelhouwer
2022 – Organised Makers Café, Chaam
2021 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Martha Stroo
2021 – photographers assistant for Kessels Kramers shoot
2021 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Ada Popovic
2020 – Organised/participated residency: in collaboration with Dagmar Pouwelse