Biography

Kitty Maria (Ottersum, 1992) lives and works in Amsterdam. She obtained her BA in Fine Arts at ArtEZ and her MFA at the Sandberg Institute. She received the Emerging Talent Grant from the Mondriaan Fonds and various grants from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, AFK, Gemeente Amsterdam. Kitty Maria's work consists of video performances and installations, as an ongoing investigation of the automated production site and the new labourer. In the work, she often forges friendships with companies or shops to make an intervention in places of labour or to subject herself to the production process. Next to this she has an ongoing collaborative project researching modes of non-performance as an unemployed air hostess. Her work has been shown at a.o. Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), International Design Biennial (St. Etienne, FR), Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe (Hamburg, DE), De Appel (Amsterdam, NL), TAC (Eindhoven, NL), Het Resort (Groningen, NL), Macao (Milan, IT), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam, NL), Am Ende Des Tages (Düsseldorf, DE) and Combo (Venice, IT).