Curriculum Vitae

Kieke Kurstjens (b. 2003, Nijmegen, NL)
lives and works between Rotterdam and Nijmegen (NL)
     

SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS

2026 | ‘The Golden Gaze’ @ Supplement Boek, Beek-Ubbergen (NL)
2025 | ‘Still life lunch & ‘exhibition’ @ de Moraine, Beek-Ubbergen (NL)   
2022 | ‘Revealed’ @ Cult Crèche, Rotterdam (NL)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, a selection

2026 | ‘Straatgras’ @ Kunstwerkt, Schiedam (NL)
2026 | ‘De Ontdekking’ @ Fort Maarsseveen, Maarssen (NL)
2026 | ‘a few unlikely circumstances’, de Belofte #21 @ Kunstliefde, Utrecht (NL)
2026 | ‘We are Dreamers’ @ Ballon Rouge, Rotterdam (NL)
2026 | ‘KM12 x Oudhouse’ @ Oudhouse, Rotterdam (NL)
2026 | ‘Go West Atelierroute’ @ KM12, Rotterdam Delfshaven (NL)
2025 | ‘Next’ @ Galerie Helder, Den Haag (NL)
2025 | ‘Best of Graduates 2025’ @ Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 | ‘The Golden Gaze’ graduation show @ C3 Studios, Rotterdam (NL)
2024 | ‘ .zips’ @ MaMA Rotterdam (NL)
2024 | ‘.wav’ @ ‘Time is the New Space’, Rotterdam (NL)

PUBLICATIONS

2025 | ‘‘The Golden Gaze’, self-published, first edition of 50

NOMINATIONS & AWARDS

2026 | ‘ De Belofte #21, selected
2025 | ‘ RM Best of Graduates 2025’, selected

COLLECTIONS

2026 | Various private collections in NL and EU

GRANTS / STIPENDS 

2026 | Van den Ende foundation (NL), grant for the development 

EDUCATION

2021- 2025 | Photography & Fine Arts BFA, Cum Laude & Honours degree @ Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam (NL)
2024 | Internship @ Hans Bol, Ooij (NL)
2021-2022 | propedeuse BA Liberal Arts and Sciences @ Erasmus University College, Rotterdam (NL)

RESIDENCIES

2025 | Artist-in-residence @ The Moraine, Beek-Ubbergen (NL)

OTHER

2026 | foraging workshop @ Fort Maarsseveen,  Maarssen (NL)
2025 | foraged lunch @ The Moraine, Beek-Ubbergen(NL)