New professor for Art and Intervention | Concept as of 1.10.: Wendelien van Oldenborgh

In a moment of changing and charged cultural relations and heavy conservative forces reacting on these changes, there is a need to focus on different modes of perception and production of narrative. The focus of my teaching for the class Art and Intervention | Concept —as it is in my artistic work—is the enabling of critical and differentiated thinking. Not only for us as makers, but enabling that possibility for a viewer through the work. Since I believe we develop this creative critical thinking whilst making, and since I believe that learning is a collective process, I view the processes of making as moments of teaching and learning for all involved.” 

wendelien van oldenborgh makes experimental film works in various forms of collaboration with those who appear on the screen which are presented within a contextualising architecture and often -events. Her practice takes a reflective approach towards method, production and viewing. In the extensive projects research plays a large role - insistently practiced through production and collaboration - whereby current social political processes and the structures that form and hinder us, are the motor for each part of the work.

Solo presentations recently include: Dance Floor as Study Room 2024/25 at YCAM, Yamaguchi (JP); unset on-set 2022/23 at MOT, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (JP); work, work, work (work) 2021 at Museum Stuki in Lodz (PL); tono lengua boca 2019-20 at CA2M Madrid (ES). In 2017, wendelien van oldenborgh represented the Netherlands with the solo presentation Cinema Olanda in the Rietveld Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. A concurrent presentation, Cinema Olanda: Platform, in the former Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam prompted the process of changing the name to Kunstinstituut Melly.

Her work was recently included in Aloha Nō, Hawaii Triennial 2025, Delinking and Relinking, collection presentation van Abbemuseum 2021-2026; Sonsbeek 20->24,, Arnhem 2021; of bread, wine, cars, security and peace… at Kunsthalle Wien, 2020; Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019, Singapore Biennial 2019. Her films Two Stones (2019), Hier. (2021), of girls (2023) and A Prelude (2025) premiered in the International Competition of FID Marseille.

Besides a broad international experience in the field of production and presentation with larger and smaller institutions, van oldenborgh has been teaching at various art schools and universities since 2002. Examples are Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Design Academy in Eindhoven, Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Masters of Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague and the Dutch Art Institute. She has been leading a Klasse of Freie Kunst at the Hochschule für Kunst in Bremen until winter 2023 and until now is a regular advisor at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.