CURRICULUM VITAE

LAST UPDATE 01-04-2023

LILIAN ANNELOES KLASENS (MA)

BORN IN 1997, DRENTHE, THE NETHERLANDS

CURRENTLY LIVING AND WORKING IN GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

LILIANANNELOES.COM / INSTAGRAM: @LILIANANNELOES

HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 - 2021: ART HISTORY, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART (MA),

UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

GRADUATED ON THE 15TH OF JUNE, 2021.

MAIN SUBJECT: FEMINISM, DECOLONIALISM, INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE.

THESIS: DUTCH SOLIDARITY: INCLUSIVITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY DUTCH ART

SCENE POST-#METOO

2018 - 2020: ART HISTORY, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART (PRE-MASTER, BA),

UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

GRADUATED IN MARCH-APRIL, 2020

MAIN SUBJECT: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM.

THESIS: THE GUERRILLA GIRLS: THE EFFECT OF RESEARCH STATISTICS IN ACTIVIST ART

2014 - 2018: FINE ART (BA),

MINERVA ART ACADEMY, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

GRADUATED ON THE 18TH OF JUNE, 2018

MAIN SUBJECT: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM, SOCIAL CRITIQUE.

THESIS: MANIFESTO FEMINISTO

OTHER COURSES

2019: MASTER/APPRENTICE PROJECT,

KUNSTPODIUM T, TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

2021 - 2022: PRE-PHD PILOT PROGRAMME FOR ARTISTS. ARTISTIC RESEARCH.

MINERVA ART ACADEMY, PRINCE CLAUS CONSERVATOIRE AND

GRONINGEN RESEARCH ARTS AND SOCIETY PLATFORM, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

RECENT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SEPTEMBER 2022 - NOW: TEACHER DRAWING AND CRAFTS FOR INTERNATIONAL CLASSES.

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: TEACHING ARTS AND CRAFTS FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS, INCLUDING MOSTLY REFUGEE STUDENTS, AGES 11 TO 18. TRAUMA SENSITIVE TEACHING AND CREATING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES CREATIVELY IS THUS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS APPOINTMENT.

DECEMBER 2021 - NOW: COORDINATOR ‘VERS’ YOUTH PANEL.

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: COORDINATING A PANEL OF YOUNG CREATIVES, AGES 16 TO 25, IN REGARDS TO ORGANISING EVENTS, PROGRAMS AND OTHER CONTENT FOR FORUM GRONINGEN. I HOST CREATIVE SESSIONS AND HELP ‘VERS’ YOUTH NAVIGATE THROUGH PRODUCTION, MARKETING, COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER ASPECTS CONNECTED TO ORGANISING AND HOSTING EVENTS IN A LARGE CULTURAL ESTABLISHMENT.

OKTOBER 2020 - NOW: ACTION GROUP AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL THE NETHERLANDS (TENURED, VOLUNTARY)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: LOBBYING FOR A MORE FUNCTIONAL AND REVISED VERSION OF THE SEXUAL ASSAULTS LAW IN THE NETHERLANDS, TOGETHER WITH A GROUP OF ACTIVISTS AND SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT. PERSONAL CONTRIBUTIONS CONSIST OF SPEAKING TO MEDIA OUTLETS, HELPING WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING PROGRAMS IN REGARD TO SEX AND CONSENT, ADDRESSING ISSUES IN CONVERSATION WITH THE POLICE, AND MEETINGS WITH MINISTERS.

APRIL 2023: WORKSHOP TEACHER ‘EXPO’

KUNSTBENDE, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: HELPING YOUNG ARTISTS WHO WANT TO OR ARE GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE YOUNG CREATIVE CONTEST ‘KUNSTBENDE’ TO CRITICALLY THINK AND REFLECT ON THEIR WORK, AND PRACTICE, AND GIVE THEM HELPFUL INFORMATION ON PRESENTING YOUR WORK FOR THE (SEMI)-FINALS. I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH ‘KUNSTBENDE’ AS AN ORGANISATION PREVIOUSLY AS A JURY MEMBER IN THE CATEGORIES EXPO, WRITING, AND FILM.

APRIL - OCTOBER 2022: ‘ART AND CARE’ PROJECT

COORDINATED BY ANKE COUMANS AND INGRID STUFFELERS,

GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED: VISUALISING THE EXPERIENCES OF CARE WORKERS, WHICH WERE VERBALLY SHARED IN GROUP COACHING SESSIONS. THE, OFTEN METAPHORICAL, VISUALISATION OF THEIR STORIES AND EXPERIENCES THUS HELPED COACHES, COLLEAGUES AND OTHERS TO GAIN A BETTER INSIGHT INTO THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF NURSES WORKING WITH ELDERY PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA OR OTHERWISE PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY LIMITED ELDERLY.

2018 SINGLE LECTURE: ‘WHY I REFUSE TO PERCEIVE MY RAPIST AS A MONSTER’,

UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

CREATIONS/

EXHIBITIONS

COMING UP:

JUNE 2023: 'DE BUURVROUW IS EEN KUTWIJF' AT 'HALFROND', HOOGHOUSE, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

3-7 MAY 2023: KUNSTRAI, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

2019-2023: ‘DE BUURVROUW IS EEN KUTWIJF’, DOCUMENTARY FILM

> ‘DE BUURVROUW IS EEN KUTWIJF’ WAS INHERENTLY A PROJECT IN WHICH I ACTIVELY CHALLENGED MY PERSONAL, FEMINIST AND ACTIVIST VIEWS. IT WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO CREATE A DEEPER LAYER FOR MY PRACTICE TO BE EMBEDDED IN, BUT WAS ALSO A REBELLION AGAINST THE ‘FEMINIST’ LABEL MY PRACTICE OFTEN GOT SUBSUMED UNDER, AS THAT SPECIFIC LABEL RELATED ME TO RADICAL VIEWPOINTS I DID NOT ALWAYS SHARE.

UPON SUBMERGING MYSELF INTO THE LIVES OF THESE WHITE, CIS MEN I DID NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH OR RELATE TO, I QUICKLY REALISED THAT PUTTING THEIR LIVES ON DISPLAY LIKE I DID, SOMEHOW RESEMBLED BRECHTIAN THEATRE: THE ACCIDENT AROUND THE CORNER IS THE PERFORMANCE. THE REAL LIVES OF THESE MEN WAS THE ‘PERFORMANCE’: READY FOR A PUBLIC TO DISCUSS, HAVE OPINIONS AND FEEL SOME KIND OF WAY ABOUT. EVEN THOUGH THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION WAS CREATED WITH FULL CONSENT AND PARTICIPATION OF THE BOYS, THIS REALISATION DID POSE INTERESTING QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO ETHICS IN COMBINATION WITH THE DISPLAY OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES.

AS THE AIM OF THE DOCUMENTARY ALWAYS WAS TO IMPACT AND INFLUENCE THE FIELD OF BOTH FEMINISM AND ANTI-FEMINISM, THE REACTIONS TO THE DOCUMENTARY SCREENINGS SO FAR HAVE BOTH SURPRISED AND FLATTERED ME. I HEARD OF BOYFRIENDS WHO JOINED THE PREMIERE RELUCTANTLY, ONLY TO TELL THEIR ENTIRE FOOTBALL TEAM THEY ‘SHOULD REALLY SPEAK UP ABOUT THEIR EMOTIONS MORE OFTEN’, THE IMMEDIATE DAY AFTER. I SPOKE WITH WOMEN WHO DIDN’T THINK THEY WERE FEMINISTS, ONLY TO CORRECT THEMSELVES AFTER HAVING SEEN THE DOCUMENTARY, FRIEND GROUPS WHO HAD DISCUSSED ITS CONTENTS FOR HOURS AFTER, ET CETERA. THIS ONCE AGAIN NOT ONLY UNDERLINES THE IMPORTANCE OF ACTUAL MULTI-VOCALITY WITHIN FEMINIST DISCOURSE, BUT ALSO SHOWS THE IMPORTANCE OF RECOGNISABILITY AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES IN ART.

BESIDE, HAVING ALMOST NO BUDGET AND NO CREW, AND OVERHEADING THE ENTIRE CORONA-CRISIS, THIS PROJECT CALLED ON MY PERSEVERANCE AND PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITIES MORE THAN ANY OTHER PROJECT. A PROCESS WHICH HAS TAUGHT ME A LOT OF VALUABLE LESSONS ABOUT THE WAY I WANT TO GIVE SHAPE TO MY ART PRACTICE IN THE FUTURE.

PRODUCTION: 2019 - 2021.

POST PRODUCTION: 2021-2022.

SCREENING DATES:

18 FEBRUARI 2023: PREMIERE, FORUM, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

12 MARCH 2023: IFA, DE NIEUWE KOLK, ASSEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

13TH OF APRIL 2023: USVA, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

JUNE 2023: ‘HALFROND’, HOOGHOUSE, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

CURRENTLY IN HANDS OF DUTCH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (HENCE THE COURSE OF THE DOCUMENTARY AFTER JUNE 2023 REMAINS UNCLEAR).

OKTOBER 2022: ‘LIMITATION’, DIHAN (DOES IT HAVE A NAME),

SLEGTE STUDIOS & ANTIQUARAAT BERGER & DE VRIES, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

SEPTEMBER 2022: ‘LUCHT 2.0’,

AKERK, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

SEPTEMBER 2021: ‘I TRIED TO DISAPPEAR BUT NOBODY NOTICED’,

NOORDERLICHT BOX, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2021: ‘KUNSTRAI’, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS.

OCT-NOVEMBER 2021: ‘ART IN REBELLION’,

GALLERY FORMA AKTUA, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

& MUSEUM HEEREVEEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

2020: ‘EMOTIONAL SUICIDE’. COVID GOT THE BEST OF ME.

DEC 2019 - 2020: WILDVANG/HENDRIK DE VRIESSTIPEND, CBK, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

MAY 2019: ‘GIVE ME SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTO’,

RUIS, NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

APRIL - JULY 2019: ‘ONS GELUK’,

KUNSTHUIS SECRETARIE, MEPPEL, THE NETHERLANDS

OCTOBER 2018: ‘SPREAD’ ZINEFEST,

SIGN GALLERY, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2018: ‘ART NORD’, MUSEUM BELVÉDÈRE,

HEERENVEEN, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2018: ‘ART ON PAPER’, WESTERGASFABRIEK, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2018: ‘DESTILLAAT #20’, EXTRAPOOL,

NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

JUNE 2018: ‘HEADLINERS’ GRADUATION SHOW,

OUDE SUIKERUNIE, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

FEBRUARI 2018: #BREAKTHEINTERNET,

RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN, NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

FEBRUARI 2018: ‘IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU’,

ZUHAUSE, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2017: ‘ONKRUID’

NOORDELIJK FILMFESTIVAL, DE HARMONIE, LEEUWARDEN, THE NETHERLANDS

MAY 2017: ‘LEFTOVERS’,

MAYDAYS, OOST, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

FEBRUARI 2017: ‘JANUARY EXPO’,

ACADEMY MINERVA, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

OCTOBER 2016: ‘WP 150’,

VAN BERENSTEYN, VEENDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2016: THE STUDIOS,

GRONINGER MUSEUM, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

APRIL 2016: ‘DE NIEUWELINGEN’,

GALLERY DE SMEDERIJ, SAPPEMEER, THE NETHERLANDS

FEBRUARI 2016: ‘ART 15/20’,

STICHTING WEP, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

JUNE 2015: KUNSTBENDE FINALS,

WESTERGASFABRIEK, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

AUGUST 2013: KUNSTBENDE FINALS,

MELKWEG, AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2013: KUNSTBENDE PRE-FINALS,

SIMPLON, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

EXCHANGES/

RESIDENCIES

MAY - AUGUST 2022: ‘HOOGHOUSE’, ARTIST IN RESIDENCE,

HOOGHOUSE, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS.

SEPTEMBER - JUNE 2019: MASTER/APPRENTICE PROJECT,

KUNSTPODIUM T, TILBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2018: ‘DESTILLAAT’, RESIDENCY,

EXTRAPOOL, NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

JULI 2016: YOUNG ARTIST RESIDENCE WEEK,

VILLANOVA FESTIVAL + KUNSTBENDE, ANTWERP, BELGIUM

AWARDS/

GRANTS/FUNDS

AUGUST 2022: ‘LUCHT 2.0’,

KUNSTPUNT, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

JANUARY 2020: 'DE BUURVROUW IS EEN KUTWIJF’

KUNSTRAAD, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

DECEMBER 2019: AUDIENCE AWARD FOR 'DE BUURVROUW IS EEN KUTWIJF’

HENDRIK DE VRIESSTIPEND, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

JUNE 2018: NOMINATION ‘KLAAS DIJKSTRAPRIJS’,

ACADEMY MINERVA, GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS

SEPTEMBER 2017: BEST YOUNG TALENT (GROOTSTE JONG TALENT) ‘NOORDERKROON’ AWARD,

NOORDELIJK FILMFESTIVAL, LEEUWARDEN, THE NETHERLANDS