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Pleun Gremmen (NL, 1992)

I am an artist and designer researching ways to create visual narratives through a variety of media reflecting on socio-political tendencies expressed through (internet) subcultures.

My work consists of both commissioned work and autonomous research projects. I use video, graphic design (web and print), performance and installation as a means to close gaps of knowledge between netizens and citizens, and to express concerns about how digital life is shaping alt-realities by amplifying growing polarization.

Through my performance installations, VJ projects and collaborations I try to challenge and transcend the boundaries of my former graphic design practice and interact with my audience in new and direct ways.

If you would like me to design, research, talk, workshop or collaborate with you on a project don't hesitate to contact me.

studio
Time Window
Teilingerstraat 110
3032 AW Rotterdam
The Netherlands

contact
info@pleungremmen.nl or
pleungremmen@gmail.com
instagram: @pleunpleunpleun

media
digital media, moving image (animation, video), performance, installation, print (books, posters) and datavisualisation.

bio
Pleun Gremmen (NL, 1992) is an artist and designer researching ways to create narratives through a variety of media reflecting mainly on internet subculture and politics while pushing the boundaries of her practice.

She graduated in 2018 from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (Master Media Design, Experimental Publishing), and in 2014 from ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem (Bachelor Graphic Design). Since graduating in Arnhem she has been freelancing as an artist, designer and researcher and has been connecting and collaborating with artists and institutions in Rotterdam.

 The work “Alt Reality Lexicon” (2018) explores the language neologisms of the Alt-right and Manosphere subcultures, acting as a translator between realms of reality. The performance installation “R.E.S.T”(2017) explores contemporary physical and digital expressions of escapism in a politically turbulent time.

education
MA Piet Zwart Institute, Experimental Publishing (Rotterdam, NL) 2018

BA ArtEZ University of the Arts, Graphic Design (Arnhem, NL) 2014

experience
✶The Piet Zwart Institute
freelance designer (Rotterdam, NL) 2017-current
✶Hacktalk
VJ visuals (Rotterdam, NL) 2017-current
✶Tinker
freelance designer (Utrecht, NL) FEB-JUN2019
✶WORM Rotterdam
freelance designer 2017-2019 internship 2016
✶PANN
graphic design volunteer 2015-2016
✶Femke Herregraven
freelance designer, researcher
(Amsterdam, NL) 2015
✶Catalogtree
internship (Arnhem, NL) 2013

expo, performances, VJ
2020
✷JUN12-21 & JUL10-19 decor design Boundless, theater at Oerol Terschelling and Over het Ij festival, Cancelled due to COVID-19
✷MAR22 workshop and jury Kunstbende Rotterdam, Cancelled due to COVID-19
MAR20 VJ session Hacktalk, WORM Rotterdam, Cancelled due to COVID-19
✷MAR07–APR19 group exhibition Linguistic Images at SIGN Groningen
✷FEB06 & 08 performer for Kolijn Jagersmas "It's the Real Thing" at The New Current, Art Rotterdam
✷JAN25 VJ session The Performance Bar takeover at the Schouwburg, IFFR
✷JAN18 designer for conference Roadmap to Equality in the Arts, ArtEZ Arnhem, icw Delphine Bedel
✷JAN11 VJ session at The Performance Bar Rotterdam

2019
✷DEC31 performer at New Years Party at SOHO House, Amsterdam, for DOLLHOUSE
✷DEC19–20 visuals theater decor Forever K-Hole, theater piece by Diederik Kreike and Edna Azulay, at Likeminds Bedankt (Stichting Likeminds) at Dansmakers Amsterdam
✷SEPT06-OKT13 group exhibition The Image Is Our Voice, Unseen FUTURES at the Melkweg in Amsterdam
✷SEPT05–15 artist in residence with Time Window at the Brakke Grond during Amsterdam Fringe Festival
✷APR20 performance installation Can We Try To Turn It On and Off Again? icw Djuna Couvee, The Performance Bar X Motel Mozaïque, Rotterdam
✷MAR02–03 performance installation Can We Try To Turn It On and Off Again? icw Djuna Couvee, New Year New Me, Museumnacht at UBIK WORM, Rotterdam
✷JAN24–JUNE expo at Evermore, Dit is uit de kunst, Rotterdam
✷JAN15 talk at Zefir7, Stroom, The Hague

2018
✷NOV08 shrine for the “Requiem for the Avantgardistic State” at WORM Rotterdam
✷NOV17 VJ session for Dagschotel at Rotown Rotterdam
✷JUL05 talk at Graduation Expo of the Piet Zwart Institute, UBIK, WORM
✷JUL05 book launch Alt Reality Lexicon, Graduation Expo Piet Zwart Institute, Ubik, WORM Rotterdam
✷MAY25 talk at The Hmm, Het Nieuwe Instituut
✷FEB10 curator and VJ session S ∆ D & L 0 N E L Y, ~ one-day festival in WORM Rotterdam
✷JAN26 concept, performer Verkeerde Venster, Cultuurnacht, Brandpunt Breda,

2017
✷DEC09 performance installation Feminist Pornhouse, at Girls Go Boom, Roodkapje Rotterdam
✷NOV04 VJ session at MONO Rotterdam
✷SEP23 performance Braless, at Huis, curated by Jo Alexander, Rotterdam
✷JUL27-31 artist in residency at the Humberstreet Gallery, Hull England with WORM 3 iterations of WORMhull, an installation
✷APR15 VJ installation at Performance bar 1 year
✷APR07 performance installation R.E.S.T., MONO 1 year, MONO Rotterdam
✷MAR04 performance installation R.E.S.T., Museumnacht, Ubik, Worm Rotterdam
✷FEB04 VJ session at The Performance Bar icw Nao Sakamoto

2016
✷DEC31 performance installation The New State, New Years Eve, WORM Rotterdam
✷SEP10 projection mapping installation kelly+pleun, Dagschotel, Doornroosje Nijmegen
✷AUG13 projection mapping installation kelly+pleun, Dagschotel, Luxor Arnhem
✷MAR31 talk at The Wow, De Ruimte Amsterdam

collaborations, participation
✶Delphine Bedel, Catelijne de Muijnck, Els Cornelis workgroup Roadmap to Equality in the Arts in the Netherlands
✶Lot van Teylingen
animator Videoclip: Ermano – Heliosphere
✶Djuna Couvee
performance installation Can we try to turn it off and on again?
✶Kolijn Jagersma
performer It's The Real Thing
performer Baking Hamburgers
performer CTRL+ALT+LOOP
performer Walking Through A Room
✶Ko de Kok
concept, performance Verkeerde Venster
editing The Lion King NEXT LEVEL
✶Anni Puolacca
actor ᶈenetralia:
✶Anne Kolbe
performer I am an object with many echoes:
✶Roos Sparreboom
interview Thierry Baudet de voorstelling
✶Kelly van den Bosch
projection mapping installations kelly+pleun at Dagschotel
✶Femke Herregraven
image editor Sonic Acts, 2016
researcher, cartographer Liquid Citizenship

publication
✶interview Kunstspot Groningen
✶print Unseen FUTURES magazine
✶print Spreadmag #01: At the end of the light spectrum