KATJA VERHEUL

Katja Verheul is a filmmaker and artistic archeologist based in Rotterdam (NL). She graduated with a BFA in Audio-Visual Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2012 and a MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University (UK) in 2016. She believes in the revealing value of long-term research. The deep dive into complex matter is an important part of her work process. With her films she wants to make complex (invisible) social, political and economical issues visible. Her work often arises from the question; what remains after a war and what is the impact of these remains on people and nature? She works as an artistic archeologist digging through our most recent history. Before it is nostalgic, before it is a story that lies generations before us. Not only to demystify, but to make the mediated and almost historicized and perhaps forgotten reality personal again. She was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2018-2019), Visio - European Program on Artists Moving Images (2018), Film Forward (2020-2021) and Rotterdam Writers' Rooms (2024). Her films have been shown at IFFR, Visions du Réel, Eye Filmmuseum, Kasseler Dokfest, Dokufest, Ji.hlava IDFF, LeGuessWho?, Sharjah Art Foundation, Nederlands Film Festival, Art Rotterdam, MAXXI Museum and on Dutch television, among others.