Mieke de Roo











Before art academy, I studied political geography. I’ve always been interested in the relationship between spatial order and power, especially subtle forms of power; how ordering, organizing, categorizing and managing the world around us is always an excercise of power and control.

I’m fascinated by this process of establishing order through the creation of (imagined) boundaries between people and things. What are these borders made of? What if they were in a different place? What (who) exists at the margins of categories?
Who belongs and who doesn’t?

In my work I explore social separations, the overlap between them, and especially the space in between. I like to work spatially and use physical borders in space as a metaphor for abstract social divisions.

When I say I, I mean we. The boundaries between me and others are always open, or at least porous and unstable.

Without the other it doesn’t work, fortunately.

In my place - Graduation show Gerrit Rietveld Academy 2025
Thesis Gerrit Rietveld Academy - Over Grenzen / A case for boundary issues (preview)

Selection of works 2020 - 2024


Solo shows

2023:     How to be inclusive?
                  Installation of  tapestries - University of Twente

2022:     The Noise Gap
                  Collabarative sound installation - University of Amsterdam


Group shows

2024:    SiSiSpex 14, Gerrit Rietveld Academy,  Amsterdam

2022:    We are already gone, Sissi’s, Amsterdam

2021:     DOGtime 3 Exhibition, ISO Amsterdam, Amsterdam

2020:    Unfold: Nan Hoover, Writing the Light, LIMA,  Amsterdam (online)
                DOGtime 2 Exhibition, Galerie de Orangerie, Amsterdam

2019:     DOGtime 1 Exhibition, Gerrit Rietveld Academie,  Amsterdam



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