Toni Brell is a visual artist working with scenography, performance and narrative as tools for relation-making. Hosting rather than presenting, Brell likes to create situations, in which an audience can react and relate to what they see. For this, Brell often uses landscapes as a stage or container where this exploration unfolds.
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 |
2023 |
Mondriaan Fonds, Artist Start Grant |
2022 |
Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, for the realisation of three events with Brackish, 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 |
2020 |
Project grant, Student Council, Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL |
2017 |
Project grant, Mart Stam Stipend, Berlin, DE |
2024 |
Upcoming: Platform, Artist in Residence, Vaasa, FI |
2023 |
Research Pavilion #5 at Saari Residency, with Angeliki Tzortzakaki, FI |
2023 |
Participant of In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities (IPOP), Queer Performance Pedagogy and 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, Artist in residence, with Scores for Gardens, NO |
2022 |
Worlds that World, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Mentorship programme, with Scores for Gardens, Vijfhuizen, NL |
2023 |
Garage Rotterdam, Lore / How close is too close, 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 |
2023 |
Design Academy Eindhoven, Fundamentals Tutor, NL |
2023 |
Maschinenhaus Essen, Exercises for Ungrounding as part of “Showcase 2023”, workshop with Kati Masami Menze and Daria Nazarenko, Essen, DE |
2022 |
Fictions and Forecasts: Orbiting a collective body—Workshop with Scores for Gardens, Movement Lab, KABK, Den Haag, NL |
2022 |
Materialising Materials—Storytelling and writing workshop on materiality with Naomi Credé, Sandberg Instituut, NL |
2022 |
Tutor for digital design in the Visual Communication Department, Weissensee Academy of Art, Berlin, DE |
2021/2022 |
Tutor for experimental zine-making for the course Undisciplinary Learning, with District Berlin, Academy of Art Leipzig, Leipzig, DE |
2021 |
Ghosts in the family—Storytelling workshop—with Amy Suo Wu, Sandberg Instituut, 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 |
Inside Out School, workshop on critical education at the Glasgow School of Art, with Sophie Dyer, Thom Swann and Rosen Eveleigh, Glasgow, UK |