b. 1962, Rotterdam, Netherlands; lives and works in Berlin
wendelien van oldenborgh — originally from Rotterdam, and now based in Berlin — develops works, whereby the cinematic format is used as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation, collaborating with participants in different scenarios, to co-produce the script. With these works, always shown in specially developed architectural settings, she shows widely in the art and museum context.
Recent solo presentations include: unset on-set at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) 2022/23, tono lengua boca at CA2M Madrid 2019–20, and Cinema Olanda at the Dutch Pavilion in the 57th Venice Biennial 2017. Her work was recently included in Not Either Or, But And at das weisse haus in Vienna 2023, Sonsbeek 20->24, Arnhem 2021; of bread, wine, cars, security and peace… at Kunsthalle Wien, 2020; Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019; and Singapore Biennial 2019. Her films Two Stones (2019), Hier. (2021), and of girls (2023) premiered in the International Competition of FID Marseille.
van oldenborgh is a member of the (Dutch) Society for Arts and a recipient of the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art (2014).