Sonja van Kerkhoff

visual artist, video, installations, performance, reviews (visual arts), websites, The Netherlands.

My c.v.    My art    Animations + Interactive stuff    Web work

I started in art school the first time round as a painter / printmaker in 1980 in Dunedin, New Zealand. In the 1980's, while taking subjects in English literature, Art History, Linguistics, Maori Studies, and a dash of Philosophy, I started writing art reviews for the student newspaper and later a small city paper.

A 2004 look. Photo: Alexis Hunter, U.K.

I moved to the Netherlands in 1989 to continue my art studies, where I started out in the painting department and then gradually moved into other media (and departments) such as video and performance. Currently I work 3/5 time as a website designer.
This website for Arts Dialogue is my first website.

At the moment I generally participate in or coordinate art projects working with others to create environments as well as making work
for a straight gallery environment.

A few of these are:

The Living Creature, an installation and performance project involving seven artists and one child in during the Bermondsey Carnival in South-East London, U.K., May 1999. more info The continuously expanding space... 1999, video and slide projections, texts, hung objects, printed images and mirrors (a collaboration between Jacqueline, Gaudi, Sen and myself) in an old archive in the centre of The Hague.   more info

Letters of the Living, an installation of 19 flags, at the 1996 Oerol arts festival, Terschelling, The Netherlands. Approximately one kilometre long. more info

In 1998 I participated in an exhibition on the theme of contemporary religious art and in writing a statement for this found Bahá´í references in most of my work, so I turned this into a booklet about my work and its relationship to the Bahá´í Faith.   more info

Left to Right: My soul myself, drawing, 1997, First lessons in Relativity, silkscreen on cardboard, 1992, Change is a Law of nature, performance in Hull and in London, 1996, Te Koru Iwa (Nine Spirals), fire drawing as part of a festival, 1996.