Education

09/2011 - 07/2013 Master Artistic Research (cum laude), Universiteit van Amsterdam
09/2005 - 06/2011 Bachelor of Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
09/2008 - 01/2009Bachelor of Fine Art, exchange program, Konstfack University College of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

Solo exhibitions

2024 The Crow Messengers, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam (forthcoming)
2018 The Dream of a Common Language, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam

Group exhibitions

2023 What to Expect: Our Glimpse into 2024, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam (current)
Fragments of the Cape, AG, Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht
Between borders, Museum Arnhem
Spier Light Art, Stellenbosch
2022 Returning the Gaze, Sites of Memory, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Middelburg
2020 Untitled (Spirit of Changing Times), Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam            
2019 Far Away Close By (exercises in the translocal), Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
That's What She Said, Constitutional Hill, Johannesburg
Mukalap, performance during Borderwalk, organized by Borderlands Public Art Project, Cape Town
Prospects&Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam Lumen Travo, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek
2018 Live Art Festival, Institute for Creative Arts, Cape Town
Language is the only homeland, Nest, The Hague
Floraphilia. Plants as archives, Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne
The Last Reader, Annex M, Megaron’s Garden, Athens
A Week of Womxn, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town
2017 A Global Table, De Hallen/Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Womxn, Afrovibes, De Balie, Amsterdam
2016 Re(as)sisting Narratives, District Six Museum, Cape Town
Hesitation, Lumen Travo gallery, Amsterdam
Re(as)sisting Narratives, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Q-U-I-J-T, Beelden voor de radio, Torenkamer Festival, Amsterdam
2013 Stories from the Ripple Pool, SMBA, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam

Film screenings

2023 Message from Mukalap, Transitions, Maastricht
2022 Message from Mukalap, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
2021 Message from Mukalap, 25th Ji.Hlava, International Documentary Film Festival
Message from Mukalap, 21st NEMAF, Seoul International ALT Cinema & Media Festival
Message from Mukalap, 50th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Kulimatji, Symposium Om te behoort, University of Amsterdam in collaboration with Gent University and Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam
2019 Kulimatji, Symposium on Words and Music, SOAS University of London
Writing back to history, Media Kunst Festival Arnhem, Filmtheater FOCUS
A few common phrases, AT5 RietveldTV, tv broadcast
Writing back to history, Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, The Hague
       Writing back to history, Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
       A few common phrases, 48th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
       The Remnant, Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway
2018 Sida Îtse, IZIKO South African Museum, Cape Town
Writing back to history, The Hague Contemporary, The Hague
The Remnant, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF
2017 The Remnant, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival, Johannesburg & Cape Town
The Remnant, Southern Summer School, BAK, Utrecht
The Remnant, LIMA Presents New Work, Amsterdam
The Remnant, Short Highlights Program IFFR, EYE Film Museum Amsterdam, GroningerForum, Natlab Eindhoven, Chassé Cinema Breda, Cinema Middelburg
The Remnant, 46th IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
2016 Still not at ease, Archives Matter Conference, Center for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University, London
2014 Still not at ease & Foreclosure, ‘Nothing to see, Nothing to hide’, puntWG, Amsterdam

Artist Talks

2023 Cape X Utrecht, AG, Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht
Uncomfortable Monuments, Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
Presentation for Fine Art students, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2021 Presentation for ARRG, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam
Kulimatji, Symposium Om te behoort, University of Amsterdam, Gent University and Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam
2020 Kulimatji, Kalahari Basin Network, online
Get a Grant Event, Mondriaan Fonds, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2019 Symposium on Words and Music, SOAS University London
That's What She Said, Bag Factory, Johannesburg
Mukalap, Zuid-Afrikahuis, Amsterdam
Someone’s mother tongue, 24 uur Noord, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
2017 The Human Library, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
2016 Re(as)sisting Narratives in Context, District Six Museum, Cape Town
Re(as)sisting Narratives in Context, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
Archives Matter Conference, Centre for Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University, London
2013 Experiences in Artistic Research, Master Artistic Research, KABK, Den Haag

Publications

04/2020 Artist contribution of the film Message from Mukalap, in Simulacrum Jrg. 28 #3bzzzzzzzzzsjoeeffff….fffieeeeeeeewtttttzzzzzhzhhhooonggggggggggg
12/2018 Publication of the photocollage series Echolocation in Karin Amatmoekrim's article ‘Angst is de rode draad in alle verzwegen geschiedenissen’
published by De Correspondent in the series ‘Verzwegen geschiedenis’.
https://decorrespondent.nl/9059/angst-is-de-rode-draad-in-alle-verzwegen-geschiedenissen/3377321844820-6e9bc6ee
10/2017 Publication of the photo collage series Echolocation in a special issue of ZAM Magazine ‘Between Bitter Almonds and Good Hope’, in
collaboration with journalist Evelyn Groenink.
https://specials.zammagazine.com
06/2017 Co-editor (with Rini Hurkmans and Jeroen Boomgaard) of the book Compassion, A Paradox in Art and Society, Valiz, Amsterdam
06/2017 Publication of the essay ‘Compassion, Do We Take Care of Ourselves?’ in Compassion, A Paradox in Art and Society, Valiz, Amsterdam
06/2017 Publication of an interview with Susan Neiman on Morality and Art, ‘The World As It Is and The World As It Ought To Be’, in
Compassion, A Paradox in Art and Society, Valiz, Amsterdam
06/2012 Publication of the essay ‘The Relevance of Collective Autonomy’ in At Work: The Autonomy Project-Newspaper 3, Onomatopee, Eindhoven
05/2012 Publication of the work The Fragility of Coherence in ‘Versal Ten: the literary & arts journal out of Amsterdam’, wordsinhere, Amsterdam

Grans, Residencies and Prizes

2023 - 2024 Project grant Amarte Fonds
2023 - 2024 Project subsidy Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
2019-2023 Artist Basic grant Mondriaan Fund
2021 Artist Project grant Mondriaan Fund
2019 Printmaking residency at Print Media department University of Cape Town
2018 Printmaking residency at AGA LAB, Amsterdam
2017-2018 Artist Start grant Mondriaan Fund
2015 Residency at De Torenkamer, Opium op 4, Radio 4 AVROTROS, Amsterdam
2012 Nomination AIAS Prix D'Honeur

Press

2020 19/08: Voertaal.nu, ‘Kleine schelpjes herinneren Nederland koppig aan het slavernijverleden’, Interview conducted by Ingrid Glorie
https://voertaal.nu/kleine-schelpjes-herinneren-nederland-koppig-aan-het-slavernijverleden/
26/06: Gallery Viewer Magazine, review group exhibition Untitled (Spirit of Changing Times)
https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/317/lumen-travo-untitled-spirit-of-changing-times
30/04: Metropolis M, article about the exhibition Floraphilia, Plants as Archives, ‘Het verborgen verleden van de botanische tuin’,
with special mention of the film The Remnant and the collage series Echolocation.
2019 10/05: Voertaal.nu, Interview conducted by Ingrid Glorie
https://voertaal.nu/judith-westerveld-doordat-ik-in-nederland-en-zuid-afrika-ben-opgegroeid-voel-ik-me-altijd-zowel-insider-als-outsider/
2018 22/10: Metropolis M, review of the group exhibition Language is the only homeland, ‘Hoe kunstenaars opkomen voor met uitsterven bedreigde
talen’ by Nadeche Remst with special mention of the audio installation Mukalap.
https://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/36523_language_nest
19/10: Mister Motley, review of the group exhibition Language is the only homeland, ‘De Ogenschijnlijke Objectieve Taal - Een bezoek aan
Nest, Den Haag’ by Janneke Korsten with special mention of the film Kulimatji and audio installation Mukalap.
http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/de-ogenschijnlijke-objectieve-taal-een-bezoek-aan-nest-den-haag
28/09: De Volkskrant, review of the group exhibition Language is the only homeland, ‘Universele Taal, by Merel Bem,
with special mention of mention of the film Kulimatji.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/taal-is-ook-kijken-wordt-duidelijk-in-deze-groepstentoonstelling~b665dacd/
8/6: De Volkskrant, review of the solo exhibition The Dream of a Common Language, ‘Khoekhoegowabs, Vreemde Taal’ by Merel Bem
https://blendle.com/i/de-volkskrant/khoekhoegowabs-vreemde-taal/bnl-vkn-20180608-9720247
8/6: Het Parool, review of the solo exhibition The Dream of a Common Language, ‘Wie Spreekt er nog Khoekhoegowab?’ by Kees Keijer
https://blendle.com/i/het-parool/wie-spreekt-nog-khoekhoegowab/bnl-par-20180608-9723857
2017 23/10: De Volkskrant, review of the group exhibition A Global Table, ‘Bezoek de dubbeltentoonstelling over ons slavernijverleden’
by Sacha Bronwasser, with special mention of the film The Remnant.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-media/bezoek-de-dubbeltentoonstelling-over-ons-slavernijverleden~b22729d2/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F