Toni Brell works with narrative, sound and performance as tools for relation-making. Using scripted and non-scripted elements, Brell is interested in performance as a form of seduction, while creating situations in which an audience can react and relate to what they see.
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 |
2024 |
Stichting Stokroos, project Grant, NL |
2024 |
Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, project Grant, NL |
2023 |
Mondriaan Fonds, Artist Start Grant, NL |
2022 |
TakeHeart research grant, funding for performance research, with Kati Masami Menze and Daria Nazarenko, DE |
2021 |
Project grant, Student Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL |
2017 |
Project grant, Mart Stam Stipend, Berlin, DE |
2025 |
Forthcoming: Saari Residency, artist in residence, Mynämäki, FI |
2025 |
Forthcoming: Est-Nord-Est, artist in residence, St-Jean-Port-Joli, CA |
2024 |
Forthcoming: Platform, artist in residence, Vaasa, FI |
2024 |
BEK Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, studio residency, Bergen, NO |
2024 |
Maschinenhaus Essen, Tiny Tiny Residency, studio residency, somebody@maschinenhaus, with Kati Masami Menze, Essen, DE |
2023 |
Saari Residency, Research Pavilion #5, research residency, with Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Mynämäki, FI |
2023 |
IPOP’s Queer Feedback Sessions at DAS graduate school, Amsterdam, NL |
2022 |
Ando Future Studios, research residency, with Kati Masami Menze and Daria Nazarenko, TAKEHEART Residency hosted by PACT Zollverein, DE |
2022 |
Østfold International Theatre, Norway, studio residency, with Scores for Gardens, NO |
2022 |
Worlds that World, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, mentorship programme, with Scores for Gardens, Vijfhuizen, NL |
2024 |
Onomatopee, “Dredged up / in the meantime”, performance, as part of Dreams of Dreams of Dreams finnissage and |
2024 |
Radion, “Dredged up / in the meantime”, performance, as part of SURGES, Amsterdam, NL |
2024 |
Bar Theo, “ASMRcore”, performance and listening session, as part of Weather Report, Amsterdam, NL |
2024 |
Mime Fabriek, “Etude for Pipes, Pumps, and Resistance Bands”, performance, Amsterdam, NL |
2024 |
Fries Museum, performance during finissage “Seeds of Memory”, with Toni Steffens and Antonella Fittipaldi commissioned by Mercedes Azpilicueta, Leeuwarden NL |
2024 |
4bid Gallery, “A gun, a French horn and a Chupa Chups lollipop from 1996”, performance, as part of “B.Base. A body based space”, Amsterdam, NL |
2024 |
Maschinenhaus Essen, “A chronology of fiction”, performance, with Kati Masami Menze, Essen, DE |
2024 |
Sonic Acts Biennial, W139, “Still Life of a Laid Table with Lecithin and Voice”, installation and performance, with ghenwa noiré and Brackish, Amsterdam, NL |
2023 |
Personeelskamer, “Lore or: To also cradle a cow”, as part of “Written in a kind of slang”, group-exhibition and solo-performance, work in progress, Amsterdam, NL |
2023 |
Garage Rotterdam, “Lore or: The Flower Feeder”, solo-performance, work in progress, Rotterdam, NL |
2023 |
Sipping Dunes, performance and Installation with Brackish, commissioned by Into The Great Wide Open, Vlieland, NL |
2023 |
A Mouthful of Whispers – installation and performance at Treehouse NDSM, with Brackish, Amsterdam, NL |
2023 |
Drifting Nocturnes, performance with Angeliki Tzortzakaki, at Augusta Gallery, HIAP, Helsinki, FI |
2023 |
Augusta Gallery, HIAP, Research Pavilion #5, group exhibition, commissioned by Uniarts Helsinki, Helsinki, FI |
2023 |
Zone2Source, A liquid performance tasting, curated by Simulacrum Magazine, with Brackish, Amsterdam, NL |
2022 |
Zine Fest Rotterdam, performance, with Brackish, NL |
2022 |
Affect Aliens & Revolutionary Despair, reading at Motto Berlin, curated by Lilly Markaki, DE |
2022 |
Brackish, KunstHub Bink, group exhibition and performance, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith and Catalina Reyes, NL |
2022 |
Worlds that World, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, performance with Scores for Gardens, NL |
2021 |
Roots and Wings, group exhibition, Het Hem, Zaandam, NL |
2021 |
The Plottery, installation and workshops, at Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, NL |
2020 |
It’s dark, I lie awake again, performance, at The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL |
2017 |
Declaring Reason, group exhibition, Museum Meermanno, Den Haag, NL |
2015 |
Bring out your death!, lecture performance at Verein der Gestaltung, Berlin, DE |
2024 |
Het Verbond / Frascati, Touch as a Kind of Listening, sound and performance workshop, Amsterdam, NL, |
since 2023 |
Design Academy Eindhoven, tutor for narrative and time-based media, Eindhoven, NL |
2023 |
Maschinenhaus Essen, Exercises for Ungrounding as part of “Showcase 2023”, workshop with Kati Masami Menze and Daria Nazarenko, Essen, DE |
2022 |
KABK, Fictions and Forecasts: Orbiting a collective body, workshop with Scores for Gardens, as part of movement Lab, Den Haag, NL |
2022 |
Sandberg Instituut, Materialising Materials, storytelling and writing workshop, with Naomi Credé, NL |
2022 |
Weissensee Academy of Art, tutor for digital design, Visual Communication, Berlin, DE |
2021/2022 |
Academy of Art Leipzig, tutor for experimental zine-making as part of Undisciplinary Learning, together with District Berlin, Leipzig, DE |
2021 |
Sandberg Instituut, Ghosts in the family, storytelling workshop, with Amy Suo Wu, Amsterdam, NL |
2015 |
Think Twice Before You Think, Co-organiser of the discussion and prototyping workshop on the proposition of setting up a new design school. At Antiuniversity Now, with Sophie Dyer, London, UK |
2015 |
Glasgow School of Art, Inside Out School, workshop on critical education, with Sophie Dyer, Thom Swann and Rosen Eveleigh, Glasgow, UK |