Singapore Biennale: Pure intention (2025)
Collaboration with Red de Reproducción y Distribución (RRD) - Gastrogeography
Oil paintings I made for RRD Gastrogeography site specific installation in Singapore Art Museum
In October 2025, I participated as part of RRD in the Singapore Biennale 2025 ‘Pure intention’, with the project Gastrogeographya extensive research on colonial processes, especially about the Dutch, British and Spanish influence on the food culture in Mexico, Singapore and Indonesia. This Site Specific Installation included: 3D printed sculptures, oil paintings, ceramic plates, a cookbook publication and a multi-channel video. For a month I worked intensively at the Singapore Art Museum on two still life paintings. These still life paintings accentuate the bonds between Latin America and Southeast Asia through the depiction of food products in the paintings, symbolizing the Magellan trade that connected Southeast Asia to Latin America and Europe
Beneath The Shimmering It’s Dark Blue explores through painting and video how structural violence since the Cold War have influenced (inner) worlds. The two painted banners are inspired by a study of (Western) imperialist propaganda images from the Cold War until now and the visual language of several anti-colonial counter-movements, such as the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL). The focus of this research is on questioning dominant narratives and how this has shaped people's imaginations, dreams, emotions and world view. Moving on the border between past - present, subjective - objective, personal - societal, this project analyzes contemporary society with an interest in inner experiences haunted by a violent past.
In Theater Rotterdam
Motel Mozaïek x Amarte Fonds
Rotterdam, Netherlands (2025)
Operator X Vera Kersting:
Beneath the Shimmering it’s Dark Blue (2025)
Gruesome stories from my Javanese-’Indo’ grandmother about the Japanese concentration camps in Indonesia, were a source of inspiration for my project Ik moest buigen zei (I had to bow she said), that I exhibited in Contour Gallery (Rotterdam, 2025). My grandmother regularly shared memories of torture by Japanese soldiers and sometimes expressed herself in humorous anecdotes from a child’s perspective. After a lifetime of silence, she shared her memories at the end of her life. Her traumatic childhood had shaped her inner perceptions. Years after my grandmother’s death, I wrote down her stories in fragmented texts and poems, which later found their expression and form in paintings.
Painting with Taring Padi & Proppa Now for Exhibition ‘Tanah Tumpah Darah’ in the Griffith Univirsity Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia (2024)
Sharjah Biennial 16: To Carry (2025)
Rotulo painting with RRD (Red de Reproducción y Distribución)
Haz mi sueño realidad is a project in the RRD (Red de Reproducción y Distribución) KIOSK in Mexico City (2024)
In 2024 I exhibited in the RRD KIOSK with Haz mi Sueño Realidad (Make my Dream Come True). In this project, a three-meter-wide painting is displayed in a kiosk on the streets of Mexico City. Passersby can step into the work on one side, while on the other side of the kiosk, the painting was reproduced into a commercial-looking banner that can be seen by pedestrians and passing vehicles. In this work, I explore the boundary between art, and the cultural goods that circulate in everyday life culture, the so-called “High and Low culture" such as the reproduction of paintings in various media, including shirts, prints, banners, and digital images. In a Riso-printed publication that I produced together with RRD, I discuss, among other things, the takeover of physical ‘reality’ by images of it and how the simplification of (creative) digital techniques can lead to a decline in sensitivity and authenticity, but also has political consequences. Haz mi Sueño Realidad reflects on and is situated in the street scene of Mexico City and the bootleg culture (Louis Vuitton scooters, clowns, shirts, banners, posters, and more).
Painting in Kunsthal for Oxfam Novib campaign
Production by Brand New Guys
Rotterdam, Netherlands (2025)
De Zolder, Rotterdam (2022)
Lo-Fi, Amsterdam (2022)
Costume design, performance direction, audio & poetry by Vera Kersting
Sound production in collaboration with Parrish Smith
Performer: Naomi Lilith Quashi
Event production in collaboration with Semester9
Bloodsport, Amsterdam (2023)
De Zwarte Zaal, Gent (2023)
‘Pseudopodia’, De Zwarte Zaal, Gent (2022)
S/ASH GALLERY (WORM), Rotterdam (2022)
Ontsteking, Gent (2021)
De Wasserij, Rotterdam (2021)
Musis, Arnhem (2018)