BIOGRAPHY RODERICK HIETBRINK
BiographyRoderick Hietbrink (b. 1975 Gorssel, the Netherlands) received his BA in 1999 from
the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda and his MFA in 2002 from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
His audiovisual installations and photography fuse elements of architecture and the cinematic, drawing on the history of film, modernism and urban landscapes. His work frequently introduces external or foreign elements into everyday scenarios, challenging the perceptions of his audience and highlighting processes of interpretation.
His work is shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions such as Delay / Oponthoud at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam (2004), Corner Corone at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (2004), Vivarium at Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney (2007) and Field work part 2 at SMART Amsterdam (2008). He is an active member of the artist initiative foundation B.a.d and teaches sound and media installation at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
Hietbrink has received grants from the Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, the Dutch Film Fund and other institutions. In 2006 he won the Workspace 06 award for Mise En Scène, a site-specific video and sound installation at the Filmhuis Den Haag in The Hague. His work is held in private and corporate collections in Belgium and the Netherlands, including the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Achmea Kunstcollectie and the Caldic Collection in Rotterdam.
Over the past years he has taken part in residencies at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Platform Garanti in Istanbul and Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney. From July until December 2010 he will be artist in residence at The Institute for Provocation in Beijing. In January 2011 he started his two-year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.