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; CA Museum of Photography

“Armory Show Report: Day 5”, artinfo.com, March 13

Janina Nentwig in exhibition leaflet: Woman to go, Jetzt/now/8, Berlinische galerie, Berlin, 2006

Kuhn, Nicola, Die Überlebenskünstlerin, Der tagespiegel, 12 May, 2006

Joerdens, Thoman, Denkmal der vergessenen Frauen, Chemnitzer Morgenpost, 14 May, 2006

Huijsmans, Linda, Was wirklich wichtig ist, Berliner Zeitung, 13/14 May, 2006

2005

Urbaschek, Stephan, “Ich bin die Künstlerin, die sich selbst in die Luft sprengt” in the catalogue Imagination Becomes Reality, Part 1, Expanded Paint Tools, Sammlung Goetz, München

Müller, Helmut, “Befreiung”, Sell the shadow to support the substance, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart (for the exhibition “Mathilde ter Heijne – Forgetting”)

“Horizon”, Serge Onnen for J&L books, Atlanta

“Greater New York”, PS1 Centre for Contemporary Art, New York (Ausstellungskatalog/ exhibition catalogue)

“52 Questions”, Experience, Memory, re-enactment, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam

“Reading Material”, Art Papers, November/December

Klaas, Heiko, “Nasser Tod”, Art Nr. 7, July, pg 81

Karcher, Eva, “Welten unter Vollgas”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 25-26

Dattenberger, Simone, “Bavarias Büstenhalter”, Münchner Merkur, June 24

Sonna, Birgit, “Gegenwartskunst ist gesellschaftsfähig geworden”, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 14

Müller, Katrin Bettina, “I want to be good”, Tipp, April 25

Finch, Charlie, “More, More, More”, Artnet, March 7

Myers, Holly, “Artists at play in the world”, Los Angeles Times, February 25

2004

Rüther, Tobias, “Denn wir wissen nicht, was sie tun”, Monopol, No. 2, June/July, pgs 74-76

Scardi, Gabi, “About love”, in the catalogue Mathilde ter Heijne, Viafarini, Milano

Ebeling, Knut, Catalogue essay in Silent Screams Difficult Dreams, Borusan Centre for Culture & Arts, Istanbul

Gamper, Sabine, Catalogue essay in Innocence and Violence, Arge Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano

“Ingrid Calame, Mathilde ter Heijne, Jörg Wagner”, Kunstverein Hannover (exhibition catalogue)

“Laocoon Devorado”, Artium, Salamanca (exhibition catalogue)

“Die Zehn Gebote”, Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, Hatje Cantz (exhibition catalogue)

Weichardt, Jürgen, “Beschwörung des Abwesenden”, Nordwest Zeitung, July 31

Glanz, Alexandra, “Schattenraume aus Wirlichkeiten und Erinnerungen”, Gottinger Tageblatt, July 17

Radio Flora, “Furorum”, Das Kulturmagazine, July 14

“Junge Künstler zu Gast im Kunstverein”, Hannoversches Wochenblatt, July 14

Zimmer, Klaus, “Spuren auf Bürgersteigen warden zu Kunst”, Cellesche Zeitung, July 16

Zimmer, Klaus, “Anspielungsreicher Parcours ins Unbekannte”, Dewezet, July 13

Glanz, Alexandra, “Konzept: Kunst”, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, July 9

Ruther, Tobias, Monopol, No. 2, June/July, pg.74-76

Büsing, Nicole; 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. Dare we observe? 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