04 – 07/2026: Atelierhof Werenzhain, group exhibition, DE
Through installation and performance, Toni Brell examines the exclusions embedded in Central European ceremonial and musical traditions. Practices such as horn-blowing have historically excluded people whose bodies, identities, or positions fall outside dominant cultural frameworks. 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 materializes in composite sculptures, often made from ceramic, in which objects are fused together while seams remain visible – traces of tension between tradition and difference. The sculptures operate as props or scores that become activated through performance, structuring gestures, actions, and relations in space.
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 |
| 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: Atelierhof Werenzhain, Augen Auf, group exhibition, Werenzhain, DE |
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Forthcoming: Boring Festival, Seam, voice, and cartilage, performance, with Toni Steffens, Haarlem, NL |
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Currently: De Vishal, group exhibition, Haarlem, NL |
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| 2025 | Herbert Read Gallery, group exhibition, Canterbury, UK |
| NDSM-werf, art walk, with Lila Bullen-Smith, Megan Hadfield, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Toen de dieren nog spraken, group exhibition, performance, Vijfhuizen, NL | |
| Kunstcentrum De Ploeg, Veranderende Vergezichten, group exhibition, performance, Groningen, NL | |
| Prospects, group exhibition, Rotterdam, NL | |
| 2024 | NEVERNEVERLAND, Toward an undulating present, duo exhibition, Amsterdam, NL |
| Treehouse NDSM, Rocks, roughly the color of my eyes, performance, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Kunstcentrum De Ploeg, Soundwalk for 10 Flutes, performance, Groningen, NL | |
| Amsterdam BANGS Festival, performance, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Platform, Rocks, roughly the color of my eyes, solo exhibition, FI | |
| Onomatopee, performance, NL | |
| Radion, Dredged up / In the meantime, performance, NL | |
| Bar Theo, ASMRcore, performance, NL | |
| Mime Fabriek, Etude for Pipes, Pumps, and Resistance Bands, performance, NL | |
| Fries Museum, Seeds of Memory, performance, with Toni Steffens & Antonella Fittipaldi, NL | |
| 4bid Gallery, A gun, a French horn and a Chupa Chups lollipop from 1996, performance, NL | |
| Maschinenhaus Essen, A chronology of fiction, performance, with Kati Masami Menze, DE | |
| Sonic Acts Biennial, W139, Still Life of a Laid Table with Lecithin and Voice, performance, with ghenwa noiré, Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Personeelskamer, To also cradle a cow, performance, Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2023 | Garage Rotterdam, How close is too close, performance, Rotterdam, NL |
| Into the Great Wide Open, Sipping Dunes, installation, performance, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Vlieland, NL | |
| Augusta Gallery, HIAP, Research Pavilion, group exhibition, performance, with Angeliki Tzortzakaki, Helsinki, FI | |
| Zone2Source, Sip, Steep, Sample, performance, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Amsterdam, NL | |
| WORM, Zine Fest Rotterdam, performance, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Rotterdam, NL | |
| Treehouse NDSM, A Mouthful of Whispers, performance, installation, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen Smith, Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2022 | Motto Berlin, Affect Aliens & Revolutionary Despair, performance, Berlin, DE |
| KunstHub Bink, Brackish, performance, with Megan Hadfield, Lila Bullen-Smith, Catalina Reyes, Elburg, NL | |
| Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Worlds that World, performance, with Scores for Gardens, Vijfhuizen, NL | |
| 2021 | Het Hem, Roots and Wings, group exhibition, Zaandam, NL |
| 2020 | The Grey Space in the Middle, It's dark, I lie awake again, performance, 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 |