Bea de Visser is recognized for her film art, installation work and sound performances. In her work, she questions different perspectives and ways of vision. The stranger, the more deviating the other vision is to our (human) cultural priority vision, the more interesting. These stories form a picture of a world of diversity, inclusivity and multi perspectives. All viewpoints are different, but essentially the same. Animals are a recurring motif in her work. Her work seduces the onlooker by a rich cinematographic language, that is poetic in nature, and told by alternative narrative form.
Bea de Visser attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1993-1995). Prior she pursues her studies painting with a study electroacoustic sound. She initially began her career as a sound and performance artist in the trendy club scene and artist’s spaces early 1980-ies. With her installation work, she was asked for international exhibitions in museums, art spaces, and galleries, including MoMA
New York, National Museum Prague, Madrid, Pittsburgh, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her films are screened at international film festivals, museums and gallery’s worldwide.
Bea de Visser leads to date the independent studio Anotherfilm that nowadays works as a platform for scenario and film development.
Bea de Visser is a lecturer at the University of the Arts, Utrecht at the departments Audio Visual Media and Writing for Performance. She is a buddy for Master students of the department MA Scenography. She works as an art consultant for the corporate art collection of the Bravis hospital, NL. Bea de Visser advises as a member of the jury of “De Scheffer Award” for Dordrechts Museum, NL and for several International Film Festivals.
films: A Breath Hush (1996, short), Another Another (1999, short), The Barren Land (2001, short), Roses and Fall (2006, short), The Second Memory (2004, short), Just a Minute Yoko (2004, short), Mama Superfreak (2009, short), Chairs Missing (2011, short) The animal that therefore I am / l’Animal que donc je suis (2019, short).
Installations include: The Skipping Mind (1994, art installation), Blink (1997, art video),Vanya (2005, art video, 8-channel), Blowup (2002, art video, single screen), 7-Days (2000-2001, permanent installation, commissioned work), I-love-you (1998, 16mm film/ sound instalation), Modest Doubt cycle (2013, series performances), FLUX (1998, video/ sound installation), Nijinsky a life in a jump, a string about to snap (2005, video scenery, dance theatre), Catastrophes (2006, video scenery, dance theatre), Waterlanders (2001, video scenery, dance theatre).
Short films VIMEO.com/beadevisser, album: short films
If you want to see the entire film instead of a fragment, please contact me
Installations, performances, video scenery: VIMEO.com/beadevisser, album: installations
If you want to see the entire film instead of a fragment, please contact me.
The animal that therefore I am 