Guido van der Werve

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Guido van der Werve is an Amsterdam based artist, born on the 7th of April 1977 in Papendrecht, a suburb near Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His work consists of performance based films. Van der Werve's work has been shown numerously in both the major art and film venues. He received the René Coelho Award (of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA) in 2003. He was nominated in 2004 for the NPS short film award, and in 2005 for the Prix de Rome in The Netherlands. Currently he is being represented by Gallery Olaf Stueber in Berlin, Gallery Monitor in Rome and Gallery Juliette Jongma in Amsterdam.

[edit] Education

Guido van der Werve studied art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Besides this he studied classical piano, Russian language and culture and Classical Archaeology. He is also working as a lecturer and teacher.

[edit] Works

Early video works show registrations in which the artist does performances. 35 mm films; Nummer twee, "Just because I'm standing here, doesn't mean I want to" 2003, Nummer drie, "take step fall" 2004, Nummer vier, "I don't want to get involved in this, I don't want to be part of this, talk me out of it" 2005, Nummer vijf (b), " and I live my broken dreams", Nummer zes, "Steinway grand piano, wake me up to go to sleep and all the colors of the rainbow" 2006.