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Curriculum Vitae

Education

2016 – 2018 Master of Film (artistic research), Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam (graduated)
2009 – 2013 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Amsterdam (graduated)
2012 – 2013 Exchange, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, professor: Toon Verhoe

Residencies

2026 GinDS De Batterij deel van de Stelling van Amsterdam, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands (upcoming)
2025 Guest Studio De Vindplaats, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 
2023 Residency Project, KUBUS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017 Residency Arteventura, Huelva, Spain

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2026 GinDS, The Familiar prt. II,Hoofddorp, the Netherlands (upcoming)

2025 Guest Studio De Vindplaats, The Familiar prt. I, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2024 Open studio, House of Looking, Ithaca NY
2024 MK Open Art Research Station #3 Close-up, Amsterdam
2024 Open-Air Exhibition, In Plain View #2, Oosterpark, Amsterdam
2023 Open-Air Exhibition, In Plain View #1, Wertheimpark, Amsterdam
2023 MK Open Art Research Station #2 Inside Nature, Outside the Square v2: Poetics of Distance, Amsterdam
2023 Project DUS: neighbourhood project, video: Gesture of the High Noon, Amsterdam
2023 Project-KUBUS, Afternoon Figure, Amsterdam
2019 Open Art Research Station #1 A Life in a Day, a Day in a Life, NDSM loods, Amsterdam
2018 EYE Filmmuseum, Audiovisual installation: Inside Nature, Outside the Square, Amsterdam
2017 Kriterion Cinema, video installation: A Potential Still to Be Filmed, Amsterdam
2016 Kriterion Cinema, video shorts for art programming, Amsterdam
2015 Open Ateliers Centrum Oost, Open studio, Amsterdam

2013 Studio Sumatrastraat 138 – Intermittence (Part 2), Amsterdam
2013 Kriterion Cinema – Intermittence (Part 1), Amsterdam
2013 De Ruimte – Shmestafette, Amsterdam
2012 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Graduation Residency Exhibition, Karlsruhe

 

 

Group Exhibitions and Projects

 

2024 MK Station 23, Group exhibition of the art collective, Amsterdam
2024 Opsmuk art collective – Anniversary group exhibition, Amsterdam
2024 Sound installation for AIR Exhibition Excreme @ GinDS by Lieve de Vrede, Hoofddorp
2019 NDSM group exhibition with art collective: Goesting, Amsterdam
2016 Galerie Circa..dit, Arnhem
2016 Kriterion Cinema – Audio collage (with Joppe Harinck), Amsterdam
2015 TOON – Art Night, Amsterdam
2015 Galerie Bart Invites – Platform Platvorm, Amsterdam
2015 GetFEDARTfair, Arnhem
2015 Galerie Tuur – Grenzeloos, Venlo 
2014 MECA Mediterráneo Centro Artistico – Borderbody Mixing Identities, Almería (Spain) – link
2014 Palazzo Barone Ferrara – Borderbody Mixing Identities, Bari (Italy) – link
2014 EYE Filmmuseum – Fragmentation and Feedback Loops, Amsterdam – link  
2014 OT301 – ReVersed Poetry Film Festival, Amsterdam
2013 Art Warehouse – BlownAway (with Harpo ’t Hart), Rotterdam
2013 PAKGistel – CONCORDIA competition for young talent, Belgium
2013 KANTOR – A Music, Performance and Art Weekend (with Harpo ’t Hart), Amsterdam
2013 Galerie Ron Mandos – Best of Graduates 2013, Amsterdam
Nominated and received special mention for the Young Blood Award 2013
2013 Gerrit Rietveld Academie – Graduation Show, Amsterdam
2013 De Oude Kerk – Beyond Babylon, Amsterdam
2012 Retort Art Space – 6 People, 5 Canvases and a Dialogue, Amsterdam
2012 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste – Sommerausstellung, Karlsruhe
2012 De Kring – Art Exchange Group Exhibition, Amsterdam
2011 Heesterveld – Storage Space Exhibition #2, Amsterdam
2011 Heesterveld – Storage Space Exhibition #1, Amsterdam
2011 De Balie – Generatie IK, Amsterdam
2010 Basisburo – Sound and Space, Amsterdam
2010 Kriterion – Premiere Exit Through The Gift Shop, Amsterdam
2009 De Oude Kerk, IJmuiden

 

 

Presentations

 

2023 Research project presentation – Art Teachers Education Program AHK
2022 Research project presentation – Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
2021 Audiovisual work presentation: A Day in a Life, a Life in a Day – Het Spinoza Lyceum, Amsterdam
2013 Presentation – Ignite #29 at Mediametic, Amsterdam
2013 Presentation and lecture – The Image, the Body and the Spectator at EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam

Publications

2024 Research publication website: www.david-wasch.com
2018 Master of Film research publication – www.visitoroffthescreen.xyz(currently offline)

 

In the press
2018 MetropolisM review Inside Nature Outside the Square
2014 Drawings for Het Land 32, by Daan Heerma van Voss, Publisher: De Bezige Bij
2014 Interview International Artexpo Itsliquid
2014 AT5 Interview – link
2014 Stadsschouwburg Salon review (ssba-salon) – link
2014 VICE review: Een passage uit De Vergeting – link
2013 PupMagazine commission, David Wasch for Stedelijk Museum
2013 Drawings for De Vergeting,, by Daan Heerma van Voss, Publisher: De Bezige Bij
2013 Mediametic presentation on work in progress – link
2013 Kunstbeeld visual report: Graduates 2013, Gerrit Rietveld Academie – link
2013 MetropolisM: Visual report – link

Part-time Projects

2023 – Present Founder and participant of process-based art collective MK Station 23
2022 – Present The Beach, Art workshops for children aged 6 to 12, Amsterdam
2015 – 2024 Board member and treasurer of artist association Werk- en Woongemeenschap BAP
2014 – Present Member of artist association Werk- en Woongemeenschap de BAP
2013 Project leader and initiator of a sixty-meter-long painting on construction boards, made by young artists from Amsterdam art academies, in collaboration with children and local residents

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I am currently a guest artist at residency GinDS (https://ginds.org/) from April to July 2026:

On April 1, I began a residency at GinDS, located in a former bunker. Here, I continue The Familiar, an artistic investigation into how the sense of “home” emerges and shifts. I depart from the idea of the familiar: that which seems known, but can never be fully fixed, and becomes tangible precisely through its shifts, and at times, its turning points.

The first chapter of The Familiar developed through a collective process with children. Through conversations, drawings, and shared constructions, we explored what “home” can be: a place, a memory, a language, or a group of people. When one of the children suddenly moved away, his absence became immediately perceptible. What was missing began to shape what remained, and emptiness functioned as a kind of shadow against which everything else took on form.

In this second chapter, I work in isolation. The bunker does not function as a backdrop, but as a research instrument: a space in which absence is already embedded in the material itself, and where the unknown takes precedence over the familiar. Time slows down, withdraws, and at times seems to come to a standstill. The absence of daylight and the enclosed structure demand a different mode of perception, in which presence reveals itself precisely through what is missing.

In this context, I explore how a place gradually becomes one’s own through being there, remaining, and looking.

This research is supported by the AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts).

© 2024 by David Wasch. All rights reserved.

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