ABOUT
Trees Heil (1993, The Netherlands) makes photos, short videos and performances. The works show temporarily constructed situations in which spaces, people and their behaviors are given a new poetic context. By using materials such as plaster, jute, hair and paint, the people who are photographed are transformed into different shapes. Heil examines the fluidity of man and themes such as identity and intimacy are explored. Heil received her bachelor’s degree from the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, NL). In 2023 she received a Young Talent Working Grant from the Mondiaan Fund. In 2024 she received the Artist Project from the Mondriaan Fund.
Her work has been shown in Het Hem, Zaandam (NL), Museum Ijsselstein, Ijsselstijn (NL), Frascati Theater, Amsterdam (NL), W139, Amsterdam (NL), Marres (Maastricht, NL), Kunstliefde, Utrecht (NL), Ruis, Nijmegen (NL), Onboards Biennale, Antwerp (BE), SecondRoom Antwerp (BE), WORM, Rotterdam (NL).
In addition to her autonomous works Heil also works in commission especially within the field of fashion photography. She has shot fashion editorials for magazines including King Kong Magazine (UK), Sensitive Content Magazine (USA) and BOOT magazine (ENG) and recently shot her first campagin for fashion brand Camiel Fortgens.
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ON VIEW
26 July - 10 Nov Group exhibition, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
UPCOMING
3-6 Oct SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, Barcelona (ESP)
Oct 12th Performance, My Guides and Me & Piyoyo, OCCII, Amsterdam (NL)
Oct 18th Campaign release, Camiel Fortgens AW25, Amsterdam (NL)
End of Oct. Editorial, BOOT Magazine, issue 002 (ENG)
(Announced soon) Launch BOOT magazine + exhibition, Village bookstore Gallery, Leeds (ENG)
Fall 2024 Editorial, Sensitive Content Magazine, (USA)
March (2025) Solo exhibition, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam (NL)
3 April - 17 Aug. (2025) Group exhibition, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (NL)
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Education
2019 Likeminds Factory, theatre training programme, Amsterdam
2019 Royal Academy of Art, photography bachelor, The Hague
2017 Exchange period, KASK / School of Arts Ghent, installation art, Ghent
2016 Elective course, ethics, Leiden University
Exhibitions / performances
2024 Group exhibition, Hyphae Collective, Amsterdam, De Sering (NL)
Group exhibition, Limburg Biennale, Marres Maastricht, Maastricht (NL)
Group exhibition, Seelab, The Hague (NL)
Performance, My Guides and Me & Piyoyo, Seelab, The Hague (NL)
Group exhibition, Seelab, Group show, Jan Koos Feylbriefs Levensspiegel, The Hague (NL)
Group show, Amsterdamse Kantoor van Clifford Change / Young Collectors Circle, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition, Kiekencentrale, Antwerp (BE)
Group exhibition ‘Prospects’ / Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Butus Next Door’, Brutus, The Hague (NL)
Performance ‘Tableau Vivant 02’, during 'Come Together festival', Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 Performance ‘Tableau Vivant 01’, Kunstliefde, during 'U?' festival, Utrecht (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Hazy Horizons’, Kunstliefde, Utrecht (NL)
Performance with My Guides and Me, Museum IJsselstein, Ijsselstein (NL)
Performance ‘The Puddle’, De Personeelskamer, Amsterdam (NL)
Duo exhibition with Bernice Nauta ‘The Puddle’, Personeelskamer, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition, How small can you go summer expo’, Tiny Art Gallery, Ruis, Nijmegen (NL)
Performance ‘ASS social’, Billytown, The Hague (NL)
Duo exhibition with Bernice Nauta ‘The Puddle’, Art Bar Billytown, The Hague (NL)
Window etalage, Launch King Kong magazine issue 16, Athenaeum Bookstore, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘In Touch’, Onboards Biennale, Antwerp (BE)
Performance ‘The Horseday performance II’, Springboard Art Fair in Utrecht, Utrecht (NL)
Springboard Art Fair, Werkspoorkathedraal, Utrecht (NL)
Performance ‘The secret performance II’, De Apotheek, Amsterdam (NL)
Performance ‘The Horseday performance I’, SecondRoom Antwerpen, Antwerpen (BE)
Solo exhibition ‘Horseday’, SecondRoom Antwerpen, Antwerpen (BE)
Group exhibition ‘Buy My Darlings’, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Jam session, MAGIC, Project Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam (NL)
Performance with JD and Tracy, Garden of Stars III, The Hague (NL)
Performance with Ambre Solaire, Jazzcafe Dizzy, Rotterdam (NL)
Performance ‘The secret performance I’, Het Hem//2Walls, Zaandam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Limburg Biënnale 2#’, Marres Maastricht (NL)
Solo exhibition ‘Amor(ph) II’, Het HEM, 2Walls//, Zaandam (NL)
Performance with Ambre Solaire, W139, Amsterdam (NL)
Fundraiser/tentoonstelling ‘Milk is Murder’ with Gijsje Heemskerk en Shani Leseman, W139, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 Solo exhibition ‘Tuned in Melodies II’, Atelier Oh Nee, The Hague (NL)
Solo exhibition ‘Tuned in Melodies I’, Art Bar Kippy, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Fashionclash’, In collaboration with SKHSS, Maastricht (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Rite de Passage / Home Fountain Special’, Rotterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘The Hague Koninginnedag expositie’, Hgtomi Rosa, The Hague (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Tiny Art Gallery II’, The Hague (NL)
2020 Performance ‘Toe, val’, Frascati, Amsterdam (NL)
Performance ‘Amor(ph) I’, DYAD, Amsterdam (NL)
Duo exhibition with Toto Stoffels, Like me Like this, DYAD, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Garden of Stars’, in collaboration with Bas Kaufmann, The Hague (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Murf/Murw in de H.U.T.’, Theater De Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg (NL)
2019 Performance with Ambre Solaire, Submarine Festival, Grey Space in The Middle, The Hague (NL)
Performance with Ambre Solaire, Itchy Tongue Royal Music Festival, De Besturing, The Hague (NL)
Performance ‘Hermit Kingdom’, Likeminds Bedankt! theatre festival, De VerbroerderIJ, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Murf/Murw I’, Pand P, Eindhoven (NL)
Graduation show ‘Period Pride’, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Push it to the limit’, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Performance ‘Technostress performance’, WORM, New year new me, Rotterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Stray Dogs Walk the Red Carpet’, Sexyland, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘What about a group portrait’, Nutshuis, The Hague (NL)
2017 Group exhibition ‘Second hand’, Franse Vaart, Ghent (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Second hand’, Second hand shop Bruse Poort, Ghent (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Een kleptomaan neemt de dingen letterlijk’, KASK / School of Arts Ghent, Ghent (BE)
Solo exhibition ‘Rust en onrust / Dag van de filosofie’, Zwarte Zaal KASK, Ghent (BE)
2016 Group exhibition ‘Fabulous Failures’, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Baobab magazine’, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL)
Solo exhibition ‘Men from the hotel’, Studio K, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition, Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (ENFF), Filmhouse The Hague, The Hague (NL)
Group exhibition, ‘Stray Dogs Walk the Red Carpet’, Akademija Likovnih Umjetnosti, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)
2015 Group exhibition, Revival of captured scènes, Arti Et Amicea, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition ‘Breaking Walls festival’, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Group exhibition ‘The king and I’, Theater aan het Spui, The Hague (NL)
Solo exhibition, Atelier Oosterbosch, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition, Rozentheater, Amsterdam (NL)
Talks / presentations
2024 Artist tour, Photogaphy students KABK, ‘Prospects’ / Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam (NL)
2023 Artist talk, Kunstliefde, Group show Hazy Horizons, Utrecht (NL)
Recedencies
2023 Performing Arts Forum, Reims (FR)
2020 Stichting de Vrolijkheid, Amsterdam (NL)
2017 Self initiated residency in second hand shop Brugse Poort, Ghent (BE)
2017 Summerschool, Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder (NL)
Grants
2024 Voucher Development, Mondriaan Fund
2024 Kunstenaar Project, Mondriaan Fund
2023 Stipendium for Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fund
2023 U! festival
Collections
Various private collections
Teaching
ongoing Tiener Nova College, photo workshops, Dordrecht (NL)
2020 Vinse School, photo workshop 'My (Secret) Garden', Amsterdam (NL)
2022 Portfolio reviews KABK, The Hague (NL)
2019 Jurylid Cultuurschakel, The Hague (NL)
Selfpublished / editions
2023 Postcard edition Sunflower Shower, published by SecondROOM Antwerpen
2023 Horseday Sticker Edition + Horseday notes
2023 Horsepower Elixir
2022 Milk is Murder, Magazine, in collaboration with Shani Leseman and Gijsje Heemskerk
2021 Poster edition, (My) Bonnie came over from Poland, 2021
2019 Thesis, Short stops / A search for the relationship between freedom and direction
2019 Poster, Period Pride
2017 Photo publication, Technostress
2016 Photo publication, The Wedding Book
Campaigns
(coming) Camiel Fortgens AW25, Amsterdam (NL)
Editorials
(coming) Editorial, BOOT Magazine, issue 002
(coming) Editorial, Sensitive Content Magazine (USA)
2024 Editorial, King Kong magazine issue 17 (UK)
2023 Editorial, King Kong magazine issue 15 (UK)
Commissions
2023 Press work, Unemployed Air Hostesses, Kitty Maria (NL) and Elise Ehry (FR)
2022 Press work, Portraits for Jan Dirk Adams and Dimitri van den Wittenboer
2022 Press work, Simon Keizer 'What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods'
2022 Lookbook, Lotte de Jager, Rietveld graduation show, Centrale Markthal
2021 BTC fashion reportage, Ninamounah, , Amsterdam
2021 Press work, Avé Eva
2020 Poster campaign, Majon the Mountainclimber
2020 Law firm Allen and Overy, Art photography
2020 Likeminds, Portraits, Amsterdam
2018 Video, Jon, Ton and the Paperthief, Het Nutshuis, The Hague
2017 De Correspondent, ‘Deelfietsen veroorzaken nu veel overlast in grote steden. Zo kan het wél’
2016 Circusbende, Amsterdam
2016 Album cover, Bring you back, Eleonor Coco
2015 De Condomerie, Amsterdam
2015 Stoere Vrouwen, My ntural Beautycase, Amsterdam
2009 Het Rozentheater, Amsterdam
Publications
2024 Pigeon Publication + Lauch at Page Not Found, The Hague (NL)
2024 Yes The Void, Online feature (NL)
2022 Frute N7 magagzine (IT)
2021 Fashion reportage Ninamounah BTC, Glamcult (NL)
2021 Wxtch Craft zine, edition II (NL)
2021 Murf Murfw magazine (NL)
2021 Cherryboy magazine, online feature (ENG)
2018 Murf Murfw magazine (NL)
2017 4 Magazine textile and fashion department (NL)
2017 Baobab magazine (NL)
2016 Stray dogs walk the red carpet (NL)
2015 Survival Guide of the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire (NL)
2014 Banter Magazine, 'This is not a travel guide' (NL)
Press
2024 Interview, AVROTROS - 'de spontaniteit en intimiteit van Trees Heil', written by Robin Bosch
Article, Damn magazine 86 - 'Sighting the Imaginary', written by James Dyer
Recensie, Metropolis M - Prospects
Online publication, Yes The Void - Mating Frogs
2023 Inverview, Art Forever
Interview, Het Parool - 'Ik wil laten zien hoeveel plezier je enkel met je lijf kunt hebben'
Interview, Tique, ‘Six Questions’
Publication, Het Parool
Recensie, Trendbeheer - Solo exhibition 'Horseday', SECONDroom Antwerp
Interview with Wull Magazine
2022 Interview with Lizan Vermeulen