# Mathilde ter Heijne

URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/mathilde-ter-heijne/
Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles



## Exhibitions

- [Mathilde Ter Heijne](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2007-06-mathilde-ter-heijne-mathilde-ter-heijne.md): June 23 — July 28, 2007 · Artists: Mathilde ter Heijne
- [This is not a love song](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2006-05-laura-aguilar-andrea-bowers-nicole-eisenman-this-is-not-a-love-song.md): May 20 — June 17, 2006 · Artists: Laura Aguilar, Andrea Bowers, Nicole Eisenman, Isabell Heimerdinger, Chloe Piene, Dasha Shishkin, Mathilde ter Heijne
- [Cut](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-10-laylah-ali-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-cut.md): October 15 — December 3, 2005 · Artists: Laylah Ali, Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Mark Bradford, Bjorn Copeland, Sean Duffy, Les Leveque, Wangechi Mutu, Amy Sillman, Mathilde ter Heijne
- [Mathilde Ter Heijne: Suicide Bomb](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-02-mathilde-ter-heijne-suicide-bomb.md): February 12 — March 26, 2005 · Artists: Mathilde ter Heijne

## Biography

1969 Born in Strasbourg, France  Lives and works in Berlin and New York  1992 Stadsacademie, Maastricht, Netherlands  1994 Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands

**Selected Exhibitions**

  2010 “Left Over”, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany 2009 “Mathilde ter Heijne: Long Live Matriarchy”, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  “Uit het oog maar niet uit het hart, Presentation of a Public Sculpture”, Het Gebouw, Leidsche Rijn, The Netherlands  “Red and Black, White and Silver”, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany 2008 “Women to Go”, 101 Projects, Reykjavík, Iceland 2007 “No Depression in Heaven”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA  “Mosuo Fireplace Goddess”, Currents, Beijing, China 2006 “No Depression in Heaven”, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany  “Woman To Go”, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2005 “Suicide Bomb”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA  “BASE 103”, Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany  “Forgetting”, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart, Germany 2004 “Fuck Patriarchy”, Viafarini, Milano, Italy  Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany 2003 “Qo akti?”, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2002 “Tragedy”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland  “For a better world”, Kunstbank, Berlin, Germany  “Small things end, great things endure”, Art Unlimited at Art Basel  “Number One”, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany 2000 Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany  “Mathilde, Mathilde ...”, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany  “98 00”, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands  “Suicide Bomb”, Förderkoje Art Cologne 2000, Köln, Germany 1999 “Indifference to the truth”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 1998 “On a night like this”, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands  “Life inside storage”, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany 1997 “Dutch courage”, Lasca Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1996 “Many true stories” (Met Sam Samore), Berchkerk, Deventer  “Storage of imagination”, Het glazen huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam  “Epos”, Perdu, Amsterdam 1995 “Haagmans, ter Heijne”, Galerie Ardi Poels, Maastricht  “Wherever I lay my head ...”, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond  “Shadowshow”, W139, Amsterdam 1994 “W139”, Amsterdam  “BEAM”, Nijmegen

**Group Exhibitions**

  2010 “No more bad girls?”, curated by Kathrin Becker and Claudia Marion Stemberger, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria  “100”, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany  “Hide and Seek”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2009 “Invisible Adversaries”, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland  “El Dorado, Menschenrechte zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit”, Kunsthalle Nürnberg  “VERONICA” Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont  “ZEIGEN! Eine audiotour”, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, curated by Karin Sander  “rebelle. Art and feminism 1969-2009”, Museum Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands  “Der schmerz sitzt tief“, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany  “Conflicting Tales”, Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany  “Kunst und Öffentlichkeit”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany  “On Joy, Sadness and Desire”, SMART project space, Amsterdam, Netherlands  “Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild. Das Portrait im Wandel der Zeit”, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, Austria (with Gerhard Richter, Elke Krystufek, Julian Opie, Gelitin and others) 2008 “Portrayal Betrayal”, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA  “nach/sichten. Video works from the Goetz Collection”, Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, curated by Sabine Himmelsbach and Stephan Urbaschek  “Female Trouble”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (with Monica Bonvicini, Valie Export, Nan Goldin, Nikki S. Lee, Sarah Lucas, Ana Mendieta, Pipilotti Rist, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and others) (curated by Inka Graeve Ingelmann)  “Luegen.nirgends – Zwischen Fiktion, Dokumnetation und Wirklichkeit”, Ausstelliungshalle  zeitgenoessiche Kunst Muenster, Munster, Germany, with The Atlas Group / Walid Raad, Sophie Calle, Omer fast, Corinna Schnitt and others  “Small Things End, Great Things Endure”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Jill Dawsey and Maria Del Carmen Carrion  “Under Pain of Death”, with Jonathan Horowitz, Douglas Gordon, Kendell Geers, Ken Gonzales-Day, Bigert & Bergstroem, David Hammons, Thomas Locher, Lucinda Devlin, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Mary Ellen Carroll, Andreas Serrano, Raymond Pettibon, Tarvn Simon, Dash Snow, Mathilde ter Heijne, Mark Wallinger, Artur Zmijewski, and Adam McEwen, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (curated by Gerald Matt and Abraham Orden)  “Walls in the street”, collaboration between Siemens Art Programm, Münich, and Museum of Contemporary Art (MSUB), Belgrade, Serbia, curated by Thomas Trummer, Branislava , Andjelkovic-Dimitrijevic, Marko Lulic (with Elmgreen&Gradset, Cao Fei, Rita McBride, Sarah Morris. Lawrence Weiner, and others)  “3500cm2”, Uqbar, Berlin  “Interfacing Practices”, Galerie Magnus Müller, Berlin  “Von denen die überleben”, Theaterstück with Sybille Berg, Raphael Gygax, Schauspielhaus together with Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switerland  “SEE History 2008, Kreative Visions“, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (with Georges Adèagbo, Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Jimmie Durham, Anna Jermolaewa, Annika Larsson, Boris Mikhailov, Bojan Šarčević, and others) 2007 “Talking Pictures - Theatralität in zeitgenössischen Fim- und Videoarbeiten/Theatricality in Contemporary Film- and Videoworks”, with Keren Cytter, Catherine Sullivan, Gillian Wearing, T.J. Wilcox, Yang Fudong, curated by Dr. Doris Krystof, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf, Germany  “Body Double”, Luckman Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Julie Joyce  “An Archeology”, Zabludowicz collection, 176 Project Space, London  “Caution! Blasting operations!”, NGBK, Berlin  “Made in Germany”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover  “Schmerz” (Pain), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin  “Erika Hoffman”, RAI, Rijksacademie, Amsterdam  “Look@Me”, Institut fur Kulturmanagement der Freien Universitat, Berlin  “Wir sind Paula”, Kunstlehause Worpswede  “Dealing with Reality”, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem  “Sprengstoff”, NGBK, Berlin  “Romantischer Konzeptualismus”, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, curated by Joerg Heiser  “Imagination becomes reality”, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe  “Body Check”, Fellbach Triennale, Fellbach 2006 “Shanghai Biennial”, Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai  “Seoul International Media Art Biennial”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul  “Classification: alternative forms of knowledge”, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami  “It’s Time for Action (There’s No Option)”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich  “Haunted States”, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO  “Six Degrees of Separation”, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York  “It’s Time for Action: (There’s No Option) About Feminism”, Migros Museum, Zurich  “Ruby Satellite”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, curated by Ciara Ennis, with Marc Bijl, Paul Chan, Thomas Dworzak, Kota Ezawa, Wei Guanquin, Nicole van Harskamp, Janice Kerbel, Annika Larsson, Adam McEwen, Yoshua Okon, and Christine Tarkowski, traveling to California Museum of Photography, Riverside  “This not a Love Song”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, with Andrea Bowers, Nicole Eisenman, Chloe Piene, Dasha Shishkin, Laura Aguilar, and Isabell Heimerdinger  “Urban Creatures”, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finnland  “Le Mépris”, Mediamatic, Amsterdam  “Disclosure”, Reuten gallerie, Amsterdam 2005 "Cut", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City  “BASE 103”, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany  “Greater New York”, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York  “Wonder Women”, Frac Lorraine, Metz  “Temporary Import – DAAD, Bethanien et al”, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin  “Realität”, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Germany  “Morir de amor”, MUCA (Museo Nacional de Ciencias y Artes), México City  “Getting rid of Madonna”, Kunsthaus Dresden  “Bremer Freiheit”, Kunsthalle Bremen  “Figure it out”, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY  “Imagination becomes reality”, Sammlung Goetz, München 2004 “Das Böse”, Guardini Galerie, Berlin  “Selbstporträt/Identität”, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg  “Ingrid Calame, Mathilde ter Heijne, Jörg Wagner”, Kunstverein, Hannover  “Narcissus”, CRAC Alsace, France  “Slip Role”, Castlefields Gallery, Manchester  “Panic Room”, Schloss Ringendorf, Hamminkeln  “Innocence and Violence”, Arge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano  “Lacoon devoured”, ARTIUM,Basque Centre of Contemporary Art, Victoria-Gasteiz  “L’air du Temps”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich  “Silent screams, Difficult dreams”, Burusan Centre for Culture & Arts, Istanbul  “The Ten Commandments”, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden  “Duo Track”, Argos Institute, Brüssel, Belgien 2003 “M_ARS - Kunst und Krieg”, Neuen Galerie, Landesmuseum, Joanneum, Graz  “Turbulence. Contemporary Dutch artists”, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kiev  “Turbulence.” Museum voor moderne Kunst, Arnhem  “Taktiken des Ego”, Wilhelm Lehmbruch Museum, Duisburg  “Der Rest der Welt”, Neuffer am Park, Pirmasens  “Narcissus”, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Alsace  “Silent screams, Difficult dreams”, Galerie Arndt&Partner, Berlin  “Tekeningen”, Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam  “Love”, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein  “Memory sticks”, Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam 2002 “She knows”, Mama Cash, Rotterdam  “Collective Unconsciousness”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich  “The Berlin Files”, Gallery de Chiara, New York  “Prin temps de Septembre”, Les Jacobins, Toulouse  “Ter Heijne et Mathieu Pernot”, Espace Caviole, Cahors  “Junge Kunst”, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen  “Realities und histoire d’amour”, Kunstverein, Ulm 2001 “Hrillershow”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht  “Neue Modelle”, Trafo, Budapest  “I am someone else”, de Kapel, Amsterdam  “Teil von ...?”, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien  “Futureland”, Museum Abteilberg, Mönchengladbach, Museum Bommel van Dam, Venlo  “Prodigal Prodigy”, White Box, New York  “The people's art”, Witte de With, Rotterdam  “Hemorrhaging of States”, TENT, Rotterdam  “A Arte do Povo”, Central Electrico do Freixo, Porto  “Double Trouble”, Burusan Centre for Culture & Arts, Istanbul  “The Big Nothing”, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden  “Get that Balance”, Kampnagel K3, Hamburg 2000 “Viatico”, Home abroad e.V, Frankfurt am Main  “Vanessa Beecroft, Mathilde ter Heijne”, Gallery Mario Seguiera, Braga  “Buren”, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven  “On the spot, Work in progress”, Bern  “real/unreal perception”, Change Studio d'Arte Contemporana, Rom  “[RE: songlines]”, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg  “Heimat Kunst”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin  “Glück & Casino”, Kunst Haus, Dresden  “Samenscholing”, Bonnenfantenmuseum, Maastricht 1999 “Alucinations”, B+D Gallery, Milano  “City Pity”, Workhouse, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool  “Subreal”, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles  “Buitenlandse ateliers”, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam  “Hirschhorn, ter Heijne, Leandowsky, Turcot”, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin  “Collectie altena/boswinkwel”, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam  “Come in and find out, Vol 2”, Podewil, Berlin  “City Pity”, DAAD Galerie, Berlin 1998 “Mobil 2000”, Berlin Biennale, Berlin  “Transparantie”, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam  “Plastische Ideen”, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main  “One step forward”, Liste ‘98, Art Basel  “Mutatis Mutandis”, Broerskerk, Zwolle 1997 “Hora est, Stedelijk Museum, Sittard  “Eté ’97”, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Genève  “Camping”, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen  “Germinations 9”, Chateau de Bourglinster, Tutesall  “PRIX NI”, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag  “Heb ik iets van je aan?”, Begane Grond, Utrecht 1996 “Chosen”, Startstipendia, RAI, Amsterdam  “Drawings”, Rijksacademie, Amsterdam  “PrixNI”, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag  “La Valise du Célibataire”, Railway Station, Maastricht 1995 “Caravan Serail”, W139, Amsterdam  “Collectie OCE”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht  “Germinations 9”, Villa Arson, Nice  “Peiling”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

**Bibliography**

  2010 “Mathilde Ter Heijne: Fake Female Artist Life”, INPUT, Iteration #2: Me Myself and I (Conversations with Oneself), Spring 2010, p. 298 - 312 2009 Ingeborg Ruthe, “Im rätselhaften Reich der Mosuo”, Berliner Zeitung, 10.03 2008 Beuscher, Maren, “Neuer Feminismus im alten Kleid”, 3 Sat Kulturzeit, December 12  O’Sullivan, Michael, “The Female Eye Turned Inward”, The Washington Post, July 4  Durr, Anke, Ulrike Knofel and Claudia Voigt, “Weder Muse noch Madonna”, Der Spiegel, June 28  Johnson, Ken, “Sanctioned Killings, and the very Many That Aren’t”, New York Times, February 1, 2008  Harmanci, Reyhan, “Small Things End, Great Things Endure’: New look for feminism”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 17  Helweg, Claudine, “Parallelle werelden”, Museumtijdschrift, Dec-Jan  Collina, Judith, “Sculpture Today”, Phaidon Press 2007 Munter, Ulrike, “Jorinde Voigt und die Partitur”, Kunstzeitung, November  Schwyzer, Elizabeth, “Body as Canvas”, Santa Barbara Independent, October 25  Holte, Michael Ned, “Mathilde ter Heijne”, Artforum, October  Myers, Holly, “Through a lens starkly”, Los Angeles Times, September 12  Pagel, David, “Mathilde ter Heijne has a lot to say but doesn’t quite complete the thought at Susanne  Vielmetter”, Los Angeles Times, July 13  “The empire of Women: not a fairytale”, Culture Exchange, vol. 105, July (pp 30-32)  Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art”, LA Weekly, June 27  Qian, Mu, “Moving house”, China Daily, May 15  “Ruby Satellite at California Museum of Photography”, artdaily.org, May 1  Dawsey, Jill, “Mathilde, Mathilde: The Artist and Her Double”, Art Papers, May/June  Frank, Peter, “Ruby Satellite”, art on paper, March/April  Ryan, Jeffrey, “Ruby Satellite”, frieze, March  Lorch, Catrin, Gun-fights, doppelgängers, feminist tales, songs and films, Frieze, March  Haentzschel, Joerg, “Clever und Smart”, Feuilleton, Issue 48, p. 11, February 27  Malewski, Nick, “Haunted States”, Review Magazine, February  Taubman, Lara, “Forms of Classification”, Artforum, January  Meissner, Christiane, Neues aus Berliner Galerien, Berliner Morgenpost, 22 January  Heiser, Joerg, “Romantischer Knonzeptualisms”, Kunsthalle Nurnberg (catalogue)  Krystof, Doris, “Talking pictures”, Kunstsammlung NRW, K21, Dusseldorf 2006 Thorson, Alice, “A Crisis of Self”, Kansas City Star, December 3  Otten Purucker, Justin, “Dual Exhibits Debut at UCR Museum”, Highlander, October 31  O’Brien, Pat, “Thought-Provoking works debut at UCR museum”, The Press-Enterprise, October 28  Dea, Cynthia, “Troubled minds, compelling matters”, Los Angeles Times  Gygax, Raphael, “Mathilde ter Heijne”, contemporary 21, issue 85  Fajardo Hill, Cecilia, “Forms of Classification”, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami  Yiyon, Wang, catalogue essay in Hyperdesign: Shanghai Biennial, Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai  Nentwig, Janina, “Woman to Go” exhibition brochure, Jetzt/now/8, Berlinische galerie, Berlin  Ennis, Ciara, “Ruby Satellite” exhibition brochure, Hydepark Art Center; 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Klaas, Heiko, “Puppe trifft Fleckenteufel”, Nordsee Zeitung, July 21  Rieger, Birgit, “Mathilde sprengt sich in die Luft”, Der Tagesspiegel, December 14 2003 Schütte, Christoph, “Was tun?”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No.138, June  “Love”, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “Taktiken des Egos”, Stiftung Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Kerber-Verlag (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “Stuff it, the video essay in the digital age”, edited by Ursula Biemann, Institute for Art and Design, Zürich  Urbaschek, Stephan, “Fast Forward, Media Art Sammlung Goetz”, München (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  Friedl, Peter, “The burning question”, in the catalogue Tragedy, Migros Museum, Zürich  Munder, Heike, “Tragedy is calling for love in Kat”, in the catalogue Tragedy, Migros Museum, Zürich  Verwoerd, Jan, “Fatal repetitions”, in the catalogue Tragedy, Migros Museum, Zürich 2002 Verwoerd, Jan, “The Collective Unconsciousness”, Frieze, Vol. 68, June-August  Ploeger, Albert K. 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Peeters Press, Leuven, p. 121  Gilli, Martha, Catalogue essay in Fragilités, Printemps du Septembre, Toulouse  “Mathilde ter Heijne”, Wilhelm Hauck Museum, Ludwigshafen (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  Höfchen, Heinz, “Mathilde ter Heijne”, Saar Ferngas Förderpreis  “Futureland”, Städtisches Museum Abteilberg, Möchengladbach (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “The People’s Art”, Witte de With, Rotterdam  Affentranger-Kirchrath, Angelika, “Neue Züricher Zeitung, April 25  Julliard, Nicholas, “Les Tragédies intimes de Mathilde Ter Heijne à Zürich, Le Temps, April 25  Zwez, Annelise, “Dem Selbstmord auf die Spur gekommen”, Aargauer Zeitung, April 19  Zürcher, Barbara, “Weibliche Selbstmordrituale”, Tagesanzeiger, April 15  Ohnemus, Melanie, “Mathilde ter Heijne: Tragedy”, Springerin, Band 8, February, pg 79  Ruthe, Ingeborg, “Das neue Ende einer alten Geschichte", Berliner Zietung, May/June  Legget, Mike, “For a better World”, Leonardo Digital Reviews, June  Schindler, Anna, “Mathilde ter Heijne”, Artforum Picks, Artforum, June  Affentranger-Kichtrath, Angelika, “Vom Selbstmord zum Opfertod”, Neue Züricher Zeitung, April  Spinelli, Claudia, “Die Küenstlerin als exzentrische Selbstmörderin”, Kunst-Bulletin, April, p. 16-21  Müller, Katrin Bettina, “Generation Gewinner”, TAZ, January 15 2001 Mouktar, Esma, “For a better world”, in the catalogue 19th World Wide Videofestival, Amsterdam  Spinelli, Claudia, Catalogue essay in Mathilde ter Heijne, Mama Cash, Amsterdam  “For a better world”, CD-rom, Griffelkunstvereinigung, Hamburg  “Mathilde ter Heijne”, Mama Cash, Amsterdam  “The Big Nothing”, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Verlag Walther König, Köln (with an essay by Diana Ebster (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “M_ARS, Kunst und Krieg”, Neue Galerie Graz, Hatje Cantz (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “Prodigal Prodigy”, White Box, new York (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “The people’s art” Witte de With, Rotterdam (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  Gohlke, Gerrit, “Looking Away”, mediomatic 10, no.3  Groot, Paul, “A Digital Palimpsest”, mediomatic 10, no.3  Altena, Arie, “An inescapable sense of confinement”, mediamatic 10, no.3  Ebster, Diana, “Mathilde ter Heijne”, in the catalogue Big Nothing Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden 2000 Munder, Heike in “[re:songlines]”, Lüneburg (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “Mathilde ter Heijne 98-00”, Artimo, Amsterdam (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  Ebeling, Knut, “Heimat Kunst” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “Buren”, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  “Glück & Casino”, Kunsthaus Dresden (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  Wallner, Klara in: “Come in and find out, vol 2”, Berlin (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)  Berg, Ronald, “Wer bin ich und wenn ja, wie viele?”, Der Tagespiegel, May 27  Hagoort, Eric, “Mathilde Ter Heijne”, BE Magazine, September, pgs 75-78  Perra, Daniele, “Scatole Nomadi, Mathilde ter Heijne”, Kult, pg 152  den Hartog Jager, Hans. “Mathilde Ter Heijne”, NRC Handelsblad 7  Heiser, Jörg, “Meine Schuld, dein Opfer”, in the catalogue Mathilde ter Heijne 98 00, Artimo, Amsterdam  Rabinowitz, Cay Sophie, “Displaced Delivery”, in the catalogue Mathilde ter Heijne 98 00, Artimo, Amsterdam  Munder, Heike, Catalogue essay in [re:songlines], Lüneburg 1999 Pontzen, Rutger and Schutter, Xandra. “Vijf Kunstenaars aan een tafel”, Vrij Nederland, November 6  Ebeling, Knut, “Spaces where you can enter”, in Indifference to the truth, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 1998 Hagoort, Eric, “Lichamen in Levende Kijkadoos”, De Volkskrant, February 11  van der Beek, Wim, Catalogue essay in Mutatis Mutandis, Zwolle  “Transparantie in de oude kerk in Amsterdam”, Waarders uigevers, Zwolle 1997 Stevensz, Bert, “Mathilde ter Heijne” in the catalogue Dutch Courage, Amsterdam  “Het eigen gezicht”, Museum beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen 1996 Pieters, Din, “Mathilde Ter Heijne”, NRC Handelsblad, November 29  van den Berg, Mariska, “Mathilde ter Heijne”, Metropolis M, nr 1, p. 48-49  Stevensz, Bert, “Het Circus van Jaroen Bosch”, Metropolis M, nr 4, p. 34-49  “Peiling 5”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam  van den Berg, Els. “Many true stories” in the catalogue Endless (Many true stories), Berchkerk, Deventer 1995 Hoenjet, Frank, “Feestgedruis op de jongste dag” in the catalogue Wherever I lay my head..., Museum, Helmond

**Catalogues**

  2009 Rebelle, Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum for Modern Art, Arnheim, NL  Veronica, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College 2008 If It’s me, it’s not me, Hantje Cantz  Sculpture Today, Judith Collina, Phaidon Press  Walls in the street, Siemens Art Programm, Münich, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSUB), Belgrade, Serbia 2007 Caution! Blasting operations!, NGBK, Berlin  Romantischer Konzeptualismus, Kunsthalle Nürnberg  It’s time for action, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst  Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hannover  Body check, Fellbachtrienale 2006 Urban Creatures, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finnland  Le Mépris, Mediamatic, Amsterdam  Dual Realities, Media Biennial, Media City Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art 2005 Fast Forward, videocollection sammlung Goetz  The Eternal Body, Catharijnen Convent, Utrecht  Experience, Memory. Re-emactment, Pit Zwart Institute, Rotterdam  Greater New York, PS1 Contemporary Art Center 2004 Mathilde ter Heijne, Viafarini, Milano  Ingrid Calame, Mathilde ter Heijne, Jörg Wagner, Kunstverein Hannover  Laocoon Devorado, Artium, Salamanca  Die Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, Hatje Cantz 2003 Love, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein  Taktiken des Egos, Stiftung Wilhelm-Lehmbruck Museum, Kerber-Verlag 2002 Futureland, Städtisches Museum Abteilberg, Möchengladbach  Mathilde ter Heijne, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen  The People’s Art, Witte de With, Rotterdam  Tragedy, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich 2001 Prodigal Prodigy, White Box, New York  The Big Nothing, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Verlag Walther König, Köln  M_ARS, Kunst und krieg, Neue Galerie Graz, Hatje Cantz  Mathilde ter Heijne, Mama Cash, Amsterdam 2000 Buren, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven  Glück & Casino, Kunsthaus Dresden  Mathilde ter Heijne 98-00, Artimo, Amsterdam 1998 Transparantie in de oude kerk in Amsterdam, Waarders uigevers, Zwolle 1997 Het eigen gezicht, Museum beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen 1996 Peiling 5, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam  Endless True Stories, Berchkerk, Deventer 1995 Wherever I lay my head, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond

**Performances, Video Presentations, CD-ROMs, and Artist Books**

  2010 “Double Action”, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany 2009 “7th European Feminist Research Conference”, Faculty of Humanities, Universiteit Utrecht  “Love me Gender – Gender”, Gunda-Werner-Institut für Feminismus und Geschlechterdemokratie  in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung  “SHE DEVIL”, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest  “China Mode”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2008 “Von denen die überleben”, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Switzerland  “The Driller Killer”, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany  “Art is a man's name”, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany 2007 “The Empire of Women: Not a Fairytale” (artist book), Currents, Beijing  Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk  “Internationaler Tag der Frauenvideos”, videobar in Kino Babylon 2006 “Art video lounge”, ArtBasel Miami  “Melancholie”, Neue National Galerie, Berlin 2005 “Politics of Belief”, Badischen Kunstverein, Karlsruhe  Kurzfilmfestival, Oberhausen  La Casa Encendida, Madrid  “Sell the shadow to support the substance” (artist book), Hospitalhof, Stuttgart 2004 “Experience, Memory, re-enactment”, Piet Zwart instituut ,Rotterdam  “Het eeuwige Lichaam”, Instituto Olandese, Rome 2003 “La nuit art video”, Maillon-Wacken / Théâtre de Strasbourg  “49˚N6˚E”, Frac Lorraine, Metz 2002 “Video-Zone”, Center for Contemporary Art, Herzeliya, Israel 2001 “Berlin-London-2001”, ICA, London  World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam  Mediamatic Salon, ITFA, Amsterdam  “For a better world” (CD-ROM), Griffelkunstvereinigung, Hamburg 2000 “Combinazione!”, Video festival, Musée Art Contemporaine, Lyon  “No-site-specific”, Lux gallery, London  World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam 1999 “Film und Arc”, Medien & Architecture Biennale, Steierische Herbst, Graz  “Indifference to the Truth” (CD-ROM), Künstlerhaus Bethaniёn, Berlin 1997 “On a night like this” (artist book), Rijksacademie, Amsterdam 1993 “Kijkgaten” (artist book), Rijksacademie, Amsterdam

**Public Projects**

   “Ritual Disposition”, in: Sculpture Park Leidsche Rijn, Bureau Beyond, Utrecht, the Netherlands

**Public Collections**

   Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich  Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht  Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin  Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem  Sammlung Goetz, München  Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami  Zabludowicz Collection, London  Julia Stoshek Collection, Dusseldorf

**Awards, Grants and Fellowships**

  2010 Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme, Helsinki, Finland  2010 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, San Francisco, CA  Stipendium Platform Garanti, Istanbul 2007 Currents Residency, Peking 2004 PS1 Stipend, New York 2002 Saar-Ferngas-Förderpreis Junge Kunst, Ludwigshafen 2001 Mama Cash Kunstprijs, Amsterdam 2000 Arbeitsstipendium, Senatsverwaltung für W, F und K, Berlin 1999 Stipendium Podewill, Berlin 1998 Stipendium Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Fonds voor BKVB, Amsterdam 1992 Hustinxsprijs, Maastricht