04 – 07/2026: Atelierhof Werenzhain, group exhibition, DE
05/2026: Atelierhof Werenzhain, performance, DE
In installation and performance, Toni Brell approaches Central European ceremonial practices through their sensory worlds, where neurodivergent listening informs how perception unfolds. The installations long for simultaneity. Through a syntax of gestures, shapes, and characters that reappear and shift over time, Brell develops a poetics of divergence – a counter-language to regimes of normativity. This approach materialises in composite sculptures, often made from ceramic, where elements are fused while seams remain visible as traces of tension between tradition and difference. These objects function as props, scores, and agents within installations, structuring actions, movements, and encounters. No single element takes precedence; instead, the work insists on a multi-temporal, intercorporeal field of attention. Since 2023 Brell teaches Narration in Space at Design Academy Eindhoven.
2021 |
MFA, Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL |
2018 |
BA, Visual Communication, Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin, DE |
2009 |
BA, Theatre and Media Studies, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, DE |
| 2025 | Mondriaan Fonds, Voucher Development, NL |
Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Stipend, NL |
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Cultuurfonds, Project Grant, NL |
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Amarte, Development Grant, NL |
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| 2024 | Mondriaan Fonds Project Grant, NL |
Stichting Stokroos, project Grant, NL |
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Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, project Grant, NL |
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| 2023 | Mondriaan Fonds, Artist Start Grant, NL |
| 2022 | TakeHeart research grant, with Kati Masami Menze and Daria Nazarenko, DE |
| 2026 |
Forthcoming: Workspace Brussels, studio residency, Brussels, BE |
| 2025 | Saari Residency, artist in residence, Mynämäki, FI |
| ALBE/KAOS, artist in residence, Kapellen, BE | |
| Est-Nord-Est, artist in residence, St-Jean-Port-Joli, CA | |
| 2024 | Platform, artist in residence, Vaasa, FI |
| BEK Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, artist in residence, Bergen, NO | |
| Maschinenhaus Essen, Tiny Tiny Residency, studio residency, with Kati Masami-Menze, Essen, DE | |
| 2023 | Saari Residency, Research Pavilion, research residency, with Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Mynämäki, FI |
| 2022 | Ando Future Studios, TAKEHEART Residency, studio residency, with Kati Masami-Menze and Daria Nazarenko, DE |
| Østfold International Theatre, studio residency, with Katrine Leth Nielsen, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez and Angeliki Tzortzakaki, NO | |
| Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Worlds that World, mentorship programme, with Katrine Leth Nielsen, Juan Felipe Amaya Gonzalez and Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Vijfhuizen, NL |
| 2026 |
Forthcoming: Augen Auf, Atelierhof Werenzhain, group, Werenzhain, DE |
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Forthcoming: Heden X Dopamine, VHDG, group, Leeuwarden, NL |
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| Relationscapes: Encounters, De Vishal, group, Haarlem, NL | |
| 2025 | Relationscapes: Framing, Herbert Read Gallery, group, Canterbury, UK |
| Toen de dieren nog spraken, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, group, Vijfhuizen, NL | |
| Veranderende Vergezichten, Kunstcentrum De Ploeg, group, Groningen, NL | |
| Prospects, Art Rotterdam, group, Rotterdam, NL | |
| 2024 | a wall a drip a trace, NEVERNEVERLAND, duo, Amsterdam, NL |
| The Spell of the sensous, Sonic Acts Biennial, W139, group, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Rocks, roughly the color of my eyes, Platform, solo, Vasa, FI | |
| 2023 | Into the Great Wide Open, group, Vlieland, NL |
| Research Pavilion #5, Augusta Gallery, group, Helsinki, FI | |
| 2021 | Roots and Wings, Het Hem, group, Zaandam, NL |
| 2026 |
Forthcoming: Partitur für eine Herde, Atelierhof Werenzhain, Werenzhain, DE |
| A Singing Bone, with Toni Steffens, TAC, Eindhoven, NL | |
| A Singing Bone, with Toni Steffens, Boring Festival, Haarlem, NL | |
| 2025 | Soundwalk for Ears and Hands, NDSM-werf, Amsterdam, NL |
| Can't hold a thrum without spilling it, with Toni Steffens, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, NL | |
| Cloudbells and Groundhorns, Kunstcentrum De Ploeg, Groningen, NL | |
| Toward an undulting present, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam | |
| 2024 | Toward an undulating present, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL |
| Rocks, roughly the color of my eyes, Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Soundwalk for 10 Flutes, Kunstcentrum De Ploeg, Groningen, NL | |
| Etude for Ears and Hands, Amsterdam BANGS Festival, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Dredged up / in the meantime, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL | |
| Dredged up / In the meantime, Radion, Amsterdam, NL | |
| ASMRcore, Bar Theo, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Etude for Pipes, Pumps, and Resistance Bands, Mime Fabriek, Amsterdam, NL | |
| A gun, a French horn and a Chupa Chups lollipop from 1996, 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam, NL | |
| A chronology of fiction, with Kati Masami Menze, Maschinenhaus Essen, Essen, DE | |
| Still Life of a Laid Table with Lecithin and Voice, with ghenwa noiré, Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Sonic Acts Biennial, W139, Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2023 | To also cradle a cow, Personeelskamer, Amsterdam, NL |
| How close is too close, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL | |
| Sipping Dunes, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Into the Great Wide Open, Vlieland, NL | |
| Drifting Nocturnes, with Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Augusta Gallery, HIAP, Helsinki, FI | |
| Sip, Steep, Sample, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Zone2Source, Amsterdam, NL | |
| A Mouthful of Whispers, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen Smith, Treehouse NDSM, Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2022 | A Dinner as Zine, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, WORM, Rotterdam, NL |
| Lore, Motto Berlin, Berlin, DE | |
| Brackish, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Catalina Reyes, KunstHub Bink, Elburg, NL | |
| Worlds that World, with Scores for Gardens, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, NL | |
| 2020 | It's dark, I lie awake again, The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL |
| 2024 | Het Verbond / Frascati, Touch as a Kind of Listening, workshop, Amsterdam, NL |
| since 2023 | Design Academy Eindhoven, Tutor for Narrative and Time-Based Media, Eindhoven, NL |
| 2023 | Maschinenhaus Essen, Exercises for Ungrounding, workshop, with Kati Masami Menze and Daria Nazarenko, Essen, DE |
| 2022 | KABK, Movement Lab, Fictions and Forecasts: Orbiting a collective body, workshop, with Scores for Gardens, Den Haag, NL |
| Sandberg Instituut, Materialising Materials, workshop, with Naomi Credé, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Weissensee Academy of Art, Digital Design, Tutor, Berlin, DE | |
| 2021/2022 | Academy of Art Leipzig, Undisciplinary Learning, Tutor, with District Berlin, Leipzig, DE |
| 2021 | Sandberg Instituut, Ghosts in the family, workshop, with Amy Suo Wu, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2016 | Antiuniversity Now, Think Twice Before You Think, workshop, with Soph Dyer, London, UK |
| 2015 | Glasgow School of Art, Inside Out School, workshop, with Soph Dyer, Thom Swann and Rosen Eveleigh, Glasgow, UK |
| 2026 | Podcast: KAOS Radio, KAOS, BE |
| 2025 | Feature: Veranderende Vergezichten, Art Department, NL |
| Podcast: Invisible Cities, FI | |
| Interview: Six Questions, Tique, NL |