Anne Schoemaker (001) is a Dutch artist currently based in Belgium. After completing her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, she pursued her long-standing ambition of becoming a film director. This led her to Ghent, where she is currently studying Film at KASK School of Arts. Alongside her artistic practice, she is actively involved in curating and coordinating cultural programs and events.
CONTACT
anne (dot) schoemaker0905 (at) gmail (dot) com
+32 456663045
CURATION / PROJECTS
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen - Guest Curator, 2024
With the program In My Language, inspired by neurodivergent blogger Mel Baggs,
I curated a selection of films that explore sensory perception and non-verbal communication
through the embodied experience of sound, light, time and space.
Stichting Hibernation, Arnhem - Co-Founder & Program Curator, 2021–2024
Hibernation is a collective that questions the values and public image associated
with contemporary artistic practice, as well as the rethinking of art education as
offered by art academies in the Netherlands.
Hibernation events:
2023 Mind The Gap! reading group based around Complaint! by Sara Ahmed
Rozet, Arnhem, NL
2022 You Are What You Eat And We're Serving Noise; performance dinner
BIEB3000, Arnhem, NL
2022 Dig a hole, (slide in), Wake me up later, 3 month residency programme
Visalibons, SP
2021 Sunday Open Kino: You Fear No Inferno When You Are Born Amidst Flames
Sonsbeek 20>24 Force Times Distance, Arnhem, NL
2021 Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss; a very dramatic dinner party
BIEB3000, Arnhem, NL
Asian Movie Night is a cultural community project presenting curated Asian films,
accompanied by thematic screenings and post-movie sessions to encourage dialogue.
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
2024 - present Jan Goderis Design Lab, Personal Assistant, Ghent, BE
2024 Go Short, roundtable discussion moderator, professionals’ program, Nijmegen, NL
2021 Kunstpodium T, Apprentice Master project, Tilburg, NL
EXHIBITIONS
Past
2022 Unlimited Systems, Streitfeld, Münich, DE
2022 Unlimited Systems, Digital Art Space, Münich, DE
2022 Kijkdoos, Zutphen, NL
2021 Media Arts Festival Arnhem, Focus Filmtheater X Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
2021 Journals of Fiction, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL
2021 ALL INN, Het HEM, Zaandam, NL
2020 De Uitspraak, Vitrine Expo Stichting Plaatsmaken, Arnhem, NL
2020 Something Where There Should Be Nothing, Studio Omstand, Arnhem, NL
2020 Wouldn’t it be a lovely headline, Stichting Plaatsmaken, Arnhem, NL
2020 ARC Open Studios, Cittadelarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT
2019 Octopus Dreaming, Circa Dit…, Arnhem, NL
2019 As Big As A Door, ArtEZ, Arnhem, NL
2017 A Mild Obsession, Boka, Arnhem, NL
2017 Rebirth, The Vasim, Nijmegen, NL
EDUCATION
Bachelor Film, 2023–present
KASK & Conservatorium, Ghent, BE
Bachelor Fine Art (Honour's Program), 2016–2020
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, NL
Erasmus programme, 2018–2019
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Preparatory course, 2015–2016
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, NL
Website design: Kai Udema
