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Education:

Free Media, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Photography, AVS Utrecht (the Netherlands)

History, University of Utrecht/Cork (The Netherlands/Ireland)

Grants/scholarships:

* Stipend by the KiK Foundation (Art in Kolderveen) to support a residency period

* Stipend to invest in artistic career for a period of 12 months by the Netherland

Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB)

* Stefan and Viera Frühauf Fund (Switzerland), monthly contribution to cover living

costs during residency in Sturovo, Slovakia

* Donations by Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts, Prins Bernhard Foundation for

Culture and VSB Foundation for New Riddles and Constellations

Residencies:

* Basement Project Space / ArtTrail Festival, Cork (IR) - 1 month

* Art Centre Messen, Ålvik (NO) - 1 month

* KiK (Art in Kolderveen), Kolderveen (NL) - 3 months

* Elsewhere, North Carolina (USA) - 2 months

* European Artists, Hällefors (Sweden) - 1 month

* Bridge Guard Residential Art/Science Centre, Sturovo (Slovakia) - 6 months

Selected exhibitions/projects:

* Group exhibition “Dhammapada Revisited”, Strathcona Press, Vancouver Island (CA)

* Solo exhibition “Relocating discovery”, Basement Project Space, Cork (IR)

* Art project & group exhibition “Tussenland”, de Pijp, Amsterdam (NL)

* 20 short video’s for 8 x Rosie Wooff, live music & dance improvisation, ZAAL 100,

Amsterdam (NL)

* Group exhibition “Work in progress”, Art Centre Messen, Ålvik (NO)

* Residency (3 months) and solo exhibition at Foundation KIK, Kolderveen (NL)

* Solo exhibition at the Skybox, Marci Panis/Amsterdam (NL)

* Solo exhibition at the living museum Elsewhere, Greensboro (USA)

* “Exercise in being here”, video presentation, Greensboro (USA)

* Group exhibition “Korte Prins”, Amsterdam (NL)

* Solo exhibition “At Home Gallery”, Samorin (Slovakia)

* Group exhibition “The Basement”, gallery W139, Amsterdam (NL)

* “The Assignment”, 8 mmfilm commissioned by the Starting from Scratch Film

festival, presented at de Balie, Amsterdam (NL)

* “Hart”, theatrical installation for project at Fortress Wierickerschans (NL)

* Group exhibition Hällefors Gallery (Sweden)

* “711 steps”, video & text, performed by the classical trio To be Sung (NL)

* New Riddles & Constellations 3, Retort Projectspace, Amsterdam (NL)

* Photoproject for Capricious (photographic magazine), Amsterdam (NL)

* Solo Exhibition “New Riddles”, City Museum, Sturovo (Slovakia)

* Duo exhibition with Albert van Veenendaal, Bridge Guard Arts/Science Centre,

Sturovo (Slovakia)

* Group exhibition at De Avond van de Langste Nacht, multidisciplinary festival,

Utrecht (NL)

* New Riddles and constellations 2, Sint Nicolaaskapel, Amsterdam (NL)

* Super8 film presentation, cinema ‘t Hoogt, Utrecht (NL)

* “New Riddles and Constellations”, Babylon Club, Amsterdam (NL)

* Group exhibition “Hoofdhonger”, Gallery Oosterkade, Groningen (NL)

* Commission for video installation on 4 big screens, Video art in Panama,

European TryTone Festival, Amsterdam (NL)

* Performances at Media Art Festival Friesland, theatre Romein (Leeuwarden)

& museum Smallingerland (Drachten) (NL)

* Group exhibition Space For Artists “Here! We go”, Amsterdam (NL)

* Group exhibition Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (NL)

* Group exhibition “Guidance”, Old Church, Amsterdam (NL)

More:

* Before she became a visual artist, Monique Besten studied medieval and cultural

history for six years in The Netherlands and Ireland. She did research and wrote

numerous articles about different historical subjects.

*Since 2004 Monique Besten organises New Riddles and Constellations: a project series

for which she invites a number of artists to work next to each other during a period of 4 to

8 weeks to develop and/or present new work. Keywords are: communication, inspiration

and experiment. During the working period guests are invited who are in some way

related to the working process of the participating artists. The working process is made

public from time to time. Every edition takes place at a different, special location and is

shaped according to the location, participants and guests.

Four editions took place so far.

* Founder of Stichting Mista’peo (www.mistapeo.nl), organising art events and projects

(a.o. 15 editions of the festival “The Evening of the Longest/Shortest Night), creating

opportunities for artists from different disciplines to develop and present new work.