Resume Emily Kocken

Emily Kocken is a Dutch writer and artist. She was born in New York on February 5, 1963.

Wallestein 18
3632 WL Loenen aan de Vecht
The Netherlands

M +31 (0)6 36 13 57 74
E [email protected]
W emilykocken.nl

Literary Publications

2024

Adoptica (non-fiction) — Querido

2023

B ≈ B (On Le Livre by Stéphane Mallarmé) — West, The Hague

2022

How to make sculpture move — Jap Sam Books

2021

100 Years Beuys — De Gids (guest editor)
Lalalanding (novel) — Querido

2020

The Bear, Jour Mother! (stories) — De Gids
Everything sounds soft and hopeful (story) — De Revisor

2019

A letter of Sol leWitt (essay) — Tubelight
Huh? aha! duh (essay) — IKK, West, RUG
Don’t Shoot the Pianist (essay) — De Gids

2018

Hello Darkness (essay) — De Gids, NAP
Sleeping with rabbits (essay) — De Gids

2017

The Cure (novel) — Querido
Fictional bloodshed (essay) — De Revisor

2016

Stewart (story) — De Revisor

2013

O San Francisco (column) — The Optimist
White Flag (novel) — Querido

Exhibitions

2024–24

1 en 1 is 1 project Jos Houweling — Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

2023

Shapes of Being — De Hoop, Loenen aan de Vecht
Le Livre — Alphabetum, West

2022

Here / hear (audio) — M Museum, Leuven
How to make sculpture move (with Ruta Butkute) — Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam

2021

Sacred Emily (monologue print) — Alphabetum, West
Here / hear (audio) — Arti et Amicitiae / /
Direct me to the centre of gravity — with Ruta Butkute, Arti et Amitiae, Amsterdam

2020

De wind kust je overal (audio) — De Appel (Broedplaats Lely), Amsterdam
Spheres — Lauwer, The Hague

2018

Cello Girls — C&H gallery, Amsterdam

2017

Ben ik een dier? — Museum De Domijnen, Sittard – Group

2015

Come-Go-Stay — West, The Hague – Solo

2013

Anonyme Zeichner — Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin – Group
The Maiden Element — photography, drawings / C&H art space, Amsterdam – Solo

Performances & Lectures

2022

How to make sculpture move, Reading video performance (met Ruta Butkute) — Wiels Art Book Fair, Brussels, BE, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Reading Room, Vilnius, LT, Rijksacademy, Amsterdam, Public Programme plus Artist Talks

2021

Art is Open-minded (lecture performance) — Direct me to the centre of gravity (with Ruta Butkute), public program, Arti et Amicitiae

2020

Think what you write (performance) — Museum Arnhem
Voordracht, Outsider Art Gallery, Amsterdam
Podcast De gids — Je moeder! read by Emily Kocken
Lezing, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam
Voordracht Bird Bath, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Lezing Het manifest, Philos, Groningen — Online via Filosofisch Café Nederland Live

2019

Minilecture Talking about art met Thijs Lijster — Noorderzon Festival for Performance Arts, Groningen

2018

Cello Girls — record release tour, Concerto, Amsterdam
The Swan — performance, The Ballroom, Amsterdam-Zuidoost
Woordnacht — Literary festival, Rotterdam
Point of No Return — curator and performer, Huis de Pinto, Amsterdam

2017

Book tour De kuur — various book stores and cultural venues in the Netherlands

2016

Reflections/Encounters at Art Rotterdam 2016 — Emily Kocken & K. Schippers (moderated by Judith Vrancken)
Cello performance, part of ‘Now is forever lasting constant in the mind’ — an evening curated by Padraic E. Moore, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Club Debuut — Literair Productiehuis Wintertuin & Nederlands Letterenfonds, Nijmegen/Groningen
Shut Up & Write — Van Rossum bookshop, Amsterdam

2015

Read-in Cinema — meerdagse performance, uitvoering en regie, Het Veem Theater, Amsterdam

2014

Lecture on Witte vlag — National Day of the Park, Rembrandtpark, Amsterdam

2011

Call of the Wild — Performance with dogs, Rhizomatic, Amsterdam
Hello, I shot this with my plastic Holga — Lecture on photography, Kunstlinie, Almere

2010

Artist Talk, Collecting Evidence — C&H Art & Design, Amsterdam

Commissions & Collections

2020

De omhelzing, instructiepoëzie — TAAK, Amsterdam

2019

Waves — benefit, private collection

2018

Unknown is this body — text for performance installation, Newbody, Astrit Ismaili, Kunstverein/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Basel

2015

Ohio (essay) — Catalogue text show Nanette Kraaikamp, Stedelijk Museum Vianen
Opheliade — drawings, private purchase

2014

All to hide (illustration) — Poetry Centre, Gent
Cut/Tuc — essay, catalogue solo show Kasper Sonne, Galerie West, Den Haag

2013

The Maiden Element — drawings, private purchase
Sign of the times — essay, show Jeannet Klement, Grote Kerk, Oosthuizen
Witte vlag — Book Lovers Project, collection artist’s novels, MHKA, Antwerpen

2012

Zoekende reiziger — translation (NL to EN) of essay dr. Stan Petrusa, catalogue Adriaan Rees
The Godforsaken Grandness of the Deadly Dame — essay, show Josien Vogelaar, C&H art space, Amsterdam

2010

Binnenzee (feuilleton) — IJmuider Courant

Prizes/Nominations/Grants

2022

Mondriaan Foundation, Jaap Harten Foundation, AFK — Project Grant How to make sculpture move met Ruta Butkute, Jap Sam Books

2021

Dutch Foundation of Literature — Project grant, Adoptica, Querido
Dutch Foundation for Literature — Development grant, podcast Lalalanding

2019

Dutch Foundation for Literature — Travel grant, writers residency Paris

2018

Dutch Foundation for Literature — Work grant third novel, Lalalanding, Querido
Nomination Halewijn Prize for Literature — The Cure, Querido

2017

Dutch Foundation for Literature — Development Grant, radio play, Whistle in the Dark, AvroTros

2015

Dutch Foundation for Literature — Work grant, second novel De kuur, Querido

2014

Dutch Foundation for Literature — Travel grant, writersretraite Davos
Longlist Academica Prize for Literature — Debut novel White Flag, Querido

Reviews & Interviews selection

2021

Lalalanding magisch web — Recensie in Trouw door Yolanda Entius

2020

Filosofie Magazine — The moment
Schrijven Magazine — The specialist (interview)
Photography book Moe (2008) reviewed in Mister Motley — Article by Iris van der Zee for art mag Mister Motley https://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/slapen-een-wereld-zonder-wekker / / /

2017

Nooit Meer Slapen — VPRO radio

2015

In the Spirit of Gertrude Stein — Erik Quint on Come-Go-Stay, Den Haag Centraal
Dog Show — Pia Louwerens on Come-Go-Stay, Tubelight
Showdogs — George Vermij on Come-Go-Stay, Metropolis M

2013

Opium — Critic Kees ’t Hart about Emily Kocken, AVRO Radio 1
Beste boek van 2013 — André Keikers about Witte vlag, Leeuwarder Courant
VPRO radio, De Avonden — live interview, Jeroen van Kan
Boek van de week — Kees ’t Hart about Witte vlag, De Groene Amsterdammer
Welbespraakte kunstenaarsvrouw — Arjan Peters about Witte vlag, De Volkskrant
What you have missed — Daniel Gould about The Maiden Element, Gould’s 3D List

2011

De Hond zag ons in Rheine — in De Revisor Jaarboek, Bart Temme, TZUM

Extracurricular Activities

2022–24

Jury President Hendrik de Vries Stipend — Groningen

2021

Teacher writing — Sensual Havoc II, Subbacultcha, Amsterdam
Writing Professor — At Project Space Goleb, Amsterdam, 1-15 February 2021

2020–now

Lid Programmeringscommissie Arti

2019–now

Cellodocent Vrije Muziekschool Amsterdam

2016

Workgroup on performance and dance policy — led by Sarah van Lamsweerde

2015

Artists’ activities workgroup — Kunstinitiatief Retort, Amsterdam

2014–now

Advisor private artists

2013

Moderator — Project Women and Music

2012–now

Cello teacher — Amsterdam

2010

Curator — Binnenzee group show, RC De Ruimte, IJmuiden

Education

2000–02

Prose, poetry, script writing — Schrijversvakschool, Amsterdam

1996

Film — School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1990–94

Philosophy — Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

1981–89

Violoncello & music education — Brabants Conservatorium, Tilburg

Residencies

2019

Lalalanding writersresidency — Paris

2011

Rhizomatic — slides, drawings, performance, Amsterdam

2010

RC De Ruimte — Binnenzee, IJmuiden

2009

Uqbar Berlin — Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome, Palanga, Lithuania

1986

Académie Musicale de Morges — cello masterclass, Morges, Switzerland