EXHIBITIONS
2024 Na regen komt neonlicht
curator: Kimono, Museum Arnhem
May 10 - August 18 2024
2023 De Cacaofabriek, Helmond
Eindeloos, group exhibition
from December 10, 2023 till February 15, 2024
Week-End des Arts a Faye, France
3 & 4 juin de 14h a 19h, 2023
Rozenstraat@Art Island
Forteiland IJmuiden
with Mehraneh Atashi and Lydia Schouten
26-28 of May 2023
  A Room of One’s Own
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Feb 5, 2023 - Jan 31 2024
Senior curator: Paula van den Bosch
2022/23 Tenminste houdbaar tot
Museum Arnhem
Curator: Manon Braat
May 13, 2022 - Jan 29, 2023
2022 Wild Summer of Art, Rotterdam
Artist driven Playground Brutus
Aug 06 - Sept 04 2022
  Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies
curator: Gabriele Schor, Sammlung Verbund Vienna
Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles
Photographic Festival, Arles (France)
Monday, July 4th – October, 2022
  Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies
curator: Gabriele Schor, Sammlung Verbund Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Novi Sad is European Capital of Culture 2022
May 20th - June 20th, 2022
2021/22 Female Sensibility, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
Feministische Avantgarde aus der SAMMLUNG VERBUND
Sept 24, 2021 – Jan 9, 2022
  Danse et Rituel Centre National de la Danse, Pantin, Paris, France
Sept 25 - Dec 18, 2021
curator: Guillaume Désanges
Recht op verzet Gorcums Museum
Feb 11 – Oct 3 2021 – a.o. Lydia Schouten
2020/21 Stubenhocker: Post! - Galerie Roy, Zülpich, Germany
curators: Heike Kati Barath and Ineke Wertheim, Dec 13 - Jan 30, 2020/2021
YES, there will be singing in Dark Times, Walgenbach Art & Books, Rotterdam
Dec 13 - March 21, 2020/2021
Solo  with collages and drawings by Lydia Schouten
Monument voor de BKR, 100 objects selected from the RCE-collection
Gorcums Museum, The Netherlands, Dec 12 - May 9, 2020/2021
faces - traces Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany
Dec 11 – Febr 27, 2020 / 2021
Ulrike Rosenbach, Alex Grein, Sabrina Jung, Keti Kapanadze,
Lydia Schouten and Annegret Soltau
Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, MAC – Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, September 2020 - January 2021 Postponed
Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, ICP – International Center of Photography, New York, USA, May – September 2020 Postponed
2020 The Future is Female II — Love Letters
CODA Museum Apeldoorn, March 8 till July 12, 2020
curators: Francis Boeske and Twan Janssen
Waldgeschichten, Mixed Media Installation
15 painted decors (125x265cm)
10 videos, quadrophonic soundscape, birdsounds in trees 2ch.
Soundscape: Arjan Kappers (9'40")
Vensters IV, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam October 2020 Try out
  Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, Spain, July 18 – September 1st
2018 Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, The Brno House of Arts, Brno (Czech Republic), Dec 11 2018 - March 3 2019
Art Scene at Unseen, Kasteel Oud-Rekem, Belgium, July 15 - Sept 30,
curators: Annemie Van Laethem, Erik Croux, Mat Verberkt
  Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway, June 16th – Oct 14th
Museum Gouda, Vrouwen van Museum Gouda, Hedy d’Ancona kiest 30 kunstenaressen, May15 2018 - January 27 2019
  Women House National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.,
March 9 to May 28, 2018
Punk + Dans + Kunst / Angry Movements, Schunck Heerlen, Holland,
curator: Karin Post, Jan 28 - May 13
  Cirque Divers 1977-1999, Musée des la Vie Wallonne, Liège, Belgium Febr to Aug
2017 Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, ZKM/ Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, Nov 18 2017 - April 1 2018
  Women House at la Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, Paris, France,
Oct 20 2017 to Jan 28, 2018
Curators: Camille Morineau & Luci Pesapane
  30 Years Center For Visual Arts, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, Holland
Sept 9 - Oct 21
  Grensgebieden, CBK, Emmen, Holland
from Sept 23 - Nov 26
  What’s New, Museum Arnhem, Holland, July 7th - Nov 18th
Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, MuMok – Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria, May 4th – September 10th, 2017
2016 Feministic Avantgarde from the Seventies, curator: Gabriele Schor, Sammlung Verbund, Vienna at Photographers Gallery, London, England, Oct 2016 – Jan 2017
Fe(e)st, galerie Roy in Zülpich Germany
Sept 3 - Oct 9 Curators: Ineke Wertheim | Kati Barath
DO BOOMERANGS ALWAYS COME BACK ? CASTLE OUD-REKEM, Belgium
Aug 21 - Oct 2 2016 | curators: Annemie Van Laethem | Erik Croux
  Kunstroute Plateau Margraten, Limburg, Holland
Curator: Wanda Reiff - August 27 & 28 2016
  Up Memory Lane, 30 Years Ram Gallery, Rotterdam, May 8 - June 17, 2016
  Today’s Beginnings? In and Around the 1980s
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 16 th April – 2 nd October 2016
Programme Curators: Nick Aikens and Diana Franssen
2015 Ontheemden, De Meerse, Hoofddorp, Holland
curators: Ellen Witsen Elias, Isabelle Simons
Spiegeloog, Het zelfportret in de Nederlandse kunst
Museum Arnhem, Holland curator: Mirjam Westen
10 jaars Plateaukunst, Plateau Margraten, Limburg, Curator: Wanda Reiff
Architecturen, Gallery Kuub, Utrecht, Holland
curator: Mirjam Hagoort
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, USA, curator: Richard Timperio
2014 The Civilising Process, Gasworks, London, Great Britain, curator: Robert Leckie
Wanderlust, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost, Amsterdam
curator: Sasha Dees
The last Rose of Summer, Kunstroute Plateau van Margraten, Holland
curator: Wanda Reiff
2013 As Tears go by, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Holland
25+25 Duopresentations, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, Holland
Drinnen/binnen, buiten/Draussen. Kers Galerie, Amsterdam
  Drinnen/binnen, buiten/Draussen. Galerie Roy, Zülpich, Germany
Kunstroute Plateau van Margraten, Holland, curated by Wanda Reiff
Open Studios Nieuw&Meer, Amsterdam, Holland
2012 XV Biennale Donna, Violence, Art Decoding Violence
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy
curators: Silvia Cirelli and Lola G.Bonora
video-installation A Virus of Sadness
Prikkeldraad, curator: Claar Griffioen, Dek22, Rotterdam, Holland
Ben de Insanim - I am Human too, Ankara Public Art Manifestation
curated by Jerome Symons, Ankara, Turkye
2011 4 Fotografen, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Holland
2010 (in)visible, artistbooks from Seet van Hout, Helga Kos, Lydia Schouten, Balta at
Archief Synergie, Nieuw & Meer, Amsterdam, Holland
  In de Hal, Loods 6, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Holland
  Rotterdamse School?, Rotterdams Historisch Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
  Louvre in Heino, fotografie uit de collectie van Reyn van der Lugt, Kasteel het Nijenhuis, Heino, Holland
2009 Rebelle, art and feminism, 1969-2009, Museum voor moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland
2008 Malkovich Project, 8 architects, 6 artists, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, Holland
2007 Risky business, TENT, Rotterdam, Holland
  ArtAmsterdam, represented by Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Holland
  Azul Macauba, sculpture exhibition, different locations in Tiel, Holland
2006 Art from the 80's into the twentyfirst century, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Holland
2004 Galerie Graus, curator: Wanda Reiff ( together with Ton Slits & Nathalie Brand), Echt, Holland
  Dagdromen en Nachtbeelden, Art Company, curator: Wanda Reiff, Eindhoven, Holland, group exhibition
  Borey Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 Faces, Kunsthuis Theo Hubens, Maastricht, Holland
  PLanetarium/Gallery 2000, together with Gina Kranendonk, St.Petersburg, Russia
  Gallery Park Roz, together with Gina Kranendonk, Moskou, Russia
2002 De stille Getuige, Foundation Art Rock, Theater Bonheur, Rotterdam, Holland
2001 Van IJ tot Zee, artroute: 125 years Noordzeekanaal, Amsterdam, Holland
2000 Flexible 3 - Close to the Body, Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Holland
  Ich ist etwas Anderes, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Flexible 3 - Close to the body, Helmshore Textile Museums, Helmshore, Rossendale, England
Flexible 3 - Close to the body, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth im Alten Rathaus, Bayreuth, Germany
  Pastorale, Paviljoens, Almere, Holland
  Inventies, 19 duopresentaties over enthousiasme
De Lichtfabriek, Haarlem, Holland
1999 Flexible 3 - Close to the Body, Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
  Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Wroclaw, Poland
1998 SYNC (Maniacs of disappearance synchronized), Pathé Cinema, Rotterdam
Wereld van Verschil, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland
  Per Video, Künstler- video int., video-installation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  Per Video, Gallery Art nova 2, Katowice, Poland
  Mooi versus Mentaliteit, travelling exhibition trough cities of Zuid-Holland
  De Paviljoens, Almere, Holland
  De Singel 74Galerie/Darius Collectie, Rotterdam, Holland
  Art Fair Paris Photo/Flatland Gallery, Paris, France
1997 Cassétheater, Breda, Holland
  Volle Scheunen, I3 artists in I3 barns, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg organisation: IKOB, East Belgium
Sassen Galerie, Verviers, Belgium
1996 Art Space, Kampen, Holland
  Drawing Manifestation, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, Holland
  MUKA Youth Prints- travelling exhibition trough Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Holland
  Hverdagens Helte og Heltiner, Turbinehallerne, Kopenhagen, Denmark
  Objekt:Video, OÖ Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria
I995 Himmel und Erde, Dominikaner Kloster, Frankfurt, Germany
  20 Years Galerie Grieze, Tielt, Belgium
1994 Downtown, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, Holland,
  Perspektief magazine, installation, Kunstrai, Amsterdam, Holland
1993 Tijdelijk Asiel, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland
  En Scène, WI39, Amsterdam, Holland
  Vrij Spel, installations, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, Holland
  De Sterrenwacht, Rotterdam, Holland
  Verwandtschaften, De Kunsthal, eleven artists from Düsseldorf/eleven artists from Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Holland
  KunstRai, Gallery Wanda Reiff, Amsterdam, Holland
  Public/Private, different places in Edinburough, Scotland, curator: Alain Reinaudo
  Imago, II installations, curator: René Coelho, Hara Museum ARC, Japan
  Ohne Titel, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, curator: Prof. Peter Weiermair
  Le Benefice du Doute, Optica, Centre d’Art Cont., Montréal, Canada, curator: Alain Reinaudo
  Imago, curator: René Coelho, Taipei Arts Museum, Taiwan
1992 Artfair NICAF, Gallery Wanda Reiff, Yokohama, Japan
  Imago, I3 installations, curator: René Coelho, Oporto, Portugal
  Imago, I3 installations, curator: René Coelho, World Expo, Sevilla, Spain
  Double Dutch, Sala I, Rome, Italy
1991 Galerie Wanda Reiff, together with Anette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel
  Artfair Brussels, Galerie Wanda Reiff, Belgium
  Artfair Basel, Galerie Wanda Reiff, Switzerland
  Images of Women in the eighties, Tokyo Metroplitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan
  Artfair Los Angeles, Gallery Wanda Reiff, USA
  Imago, I3 installations, Dom Umenia, Btratislava, Slowakia
  Imago, Mücsarnók, Budapest, Hungary
  Imago, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain,
  Kunstlerische Konfrontationen, Torún, Poland
1990 Imago, I3 installations, Artfair, Amsterdam, Holland
  FotoBiënnale Rotterdam, Holland, curator: Bas Vroege
1989 Galerie Kaess Weiss, Stuttgart, Germany
  25 Jahre Video-Skulptur, Kölnischer Kunstverein and DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
  25 Jahre Video-Skulptur, Kongresshalle Berlin, Germany
1988 Over fotografie, van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn Holland,
  Das gläserne U-Boot, Tabakfabrik, Krems/Stein, Austria,
  De Rotterdamse School ?, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
  Comic Iconoclasm, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain
  Comic Iconoclasm, Circulo des Belles Artes, Madrid, Spain
  Fotografia Buffa, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Great Britain
  Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Photo Gallery Cardiff, Great Britain
1987 Fotografia Buffa, Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
  Kunstraum Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
  Reflexions, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland
  Innovation and Tradition, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Holland
  Galerie De lege Ruimte, Brugge, Belgium
Fotografia Buffa, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Holland
  Comic Iconoclasm, I.C.A., London, Great Britain
  Comic Iconoclasm, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  Arts for Television, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, from oct.’87-dec.’88 travelling along the following institutes: Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Zürich, Centro Videoarte, Ferrara, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Museum v. Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate Gallery,London
  La Photographie Hollandaise, Caves Sainte-Croix, Metz, France
  Gallery Torch, Amsterdam, Holland
  Fotografia Buffa, Kunstmuseum, Erlangen, Germany
  Reflecties op de media, Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam, Holland
  Rotterdamse Kunst, I945 tot heden, Museum Boymans v. Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
1986 Gallery Torch, Amsterdam, Holland
  Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
  Artfair RAI with Gallery Torch, Amsterdam, Holland
  Dutch Photography, Photogalerie, Graz, Austria
  Innovation and Tradition, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
   Innovation and Tradition, Budapest, Hungary
  Fotobiënnale ‘86, Enschede, Holland
  Fotografia Buffa, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland
  The Self Imagined, Air Gallery, London, Great Britain
  4 Keuzen, former library, Rotterdam, Holland, curator: Wim Crouwel
1984 Exhibition of Galleries, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Holland
  Rotterdammers, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
  The touring exhibitionists, a multi-media extravaganza Brighton-London-Bristol-Rochdale-Nottingham-Newcastle, Great Britain
Foto 84, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, Holland
  The luminous Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, curator: Dorien Mignot
  Grenzüberschreitungen, die neue Tat, Aachen, Germany
  Videoase, Concordia, Enschede, Holland
  Vindsulor Kalejdoskop, Kunsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden
Talking back to the media, Aorta, Amsterdam, Holland
1983 Berlijn-Amsterdam, Kunstambt, Berlin, Germany
  Französisch-Deutschen Jugendgesellschaft, Bonn, Germany & Marseille,France
  9 Artists from Rotterdam, Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull, Great Britain
  Reginale, NL-Centrum, Amsterdam, Holland
  Fotografische Zelfbespiegeling, Nijmeegs Museum, Nijmegen, Holland
I982 Salon v.d. Maassteden, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Holland
  Zomertentoonstelling, Stedelijk Museum, Gouda, Holland
  Verdeelde Beelden, Kruithuis, Den Bosch, Holland
I98I Not Waving, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
I980 Zelfbeeld, N.K.S., travelling exhibition, Holland
I979 Emancipatie-aspekten, N.K.S., travelling exhibition, Holland
I978-1979 Feministische Kunst Internationaal, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and De Appel, Amsterdam, curators: Liesbeth Brandt Corstius, Josine de Bruyn Kops, Wies Smals
I976 Debuut, De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Yes, there will be singing in dark times. Solo with different installations and videos by Lydia Schouten.
ROZENSTRAAT - A rose is a rose, Amsterdam. May 10 - July 7
2021 Solo  with collages and drawings by Lydia Schouten, Walgenbach Art & Books, Rotterdam. December 13, 2020 - March 7 2021
2019 Waldgeschichten, Mixed Media Installation
15 painted decors (125x265cm)
10 videos, quadrophonic soundscape, birdsounds in trees 2ch.
Soundscape: Arjan Kappers (9'40")
Vensters IV, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam October 2019
2015 A Song for Mannahata, Witteveen Visual Arts Center, Amsterdam. Holland
mixed media-installation and mixed media drawings
Too much News: Installation with Soundscape
De Witte Arena, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, Holland
2014 We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Galerie Hugo Boogaard, Amsterdam, Holland
2010 Instituto Buena Bista, mixed media drawings, Willemstad, Curaçao,
  Le Jardin secret, video-installation, photographs, drawings, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland
  Transatlantische Dwaalgasten, mixed media drawing, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Holland
  Frozen Fountain, photographs, Amsterdam, Holland,
2009 De Willem3, Vlissingen, Holland, mixed media drawings, photographs
with Ton Slits
2008 Le Jardin secret, video-installation, De Willem 3, Vlissingen, Holland
2007 Le Jardin secret, video-installation, MKgalerie.nl, Rotterdam, Holland
2006 Le Jardin secret, video-installation, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2005 RAM Gallery, drawingroom, Rotterdam, Holland
2003 Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, Holland (together with Lisa Holden)
1999 From Lilac to Blue, P.S.1
Hotel New York, curator: Jeanne van Heeswijk, New York, USA
I998 Het Kunststation, Leerdam, Holland
  Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Holland
Flatland Galerie, Utrecht, Holland
I997 La Bonbonniere, curator: Wanda Reiff, Maastricht, Holland,
Songs of Innocence, video-installation, Montevideo, Amsterdam, Holland
I994 Galerie Wanda Reiff, Maastricht, Holland
  Artist in Exile, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
  Houston Center for Photography, Houston, USA
  Kulturhuset Toldkammeret, Helsingor, Denmark
  Retrospective I980-I994, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
Städtische Ausstellungshalle Am Hawerkamp, Münster, Germany
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, USA
Il Ponte Gallery, Rome, Italy
I993 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA
  Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA
  Gallery Wanda Reiff, Amsterdam, Holland
I99I Galerie Verplancke-Van Bavel, Brugge, Belgium
I990 Galerie Wanda Reiff, Maastricht, Holland
  Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam, Holland (together with Pink)
  Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Holland
I989 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia (together with Jeremy Welsh)
P.S.I, Institute of contemporary Art, New York, USA.
I988 Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Holland
  Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam, Holland
  Galerie Junod, Lausanne, Switzerland
1987 Städtisches Museum in der alten Post, Mülheim, Germany
  Appendix Galerie, Wuppertal, Germany
I986 Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn, Germany
I985 Split Seconds of Magnificence, video-installation, Danceteria, New York, USA
    Academie van Bouwkunst, Rotterdam, Holland
    Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
   Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
I984 Stedelijk Museum, Gouda, Holland
   Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam, Holland
  Galerie Images Nouvelles, Bordeaux, France
I983 Passionata IBK, Nijmegen, Holland
   Galerie Paladijn, Amsterdam, Holland
I982 't Hoogt, Utrecht, Holland
VIDEOPRESENTATIONS
2024 She-Wolves - Screening @over_the real,
curator: Laura Leuzzi
Auditorium, San Micheletto, Lucca, Italy
September 24 2024
  Down the Rabbit Hole Festival, Groene Heuvels, Beuningen
Curator; Julius Thissen, filmprogram from the collection of Museum Arnhem
July 5 - July 7 2024
  RE EXHIBIT 4 - online exhibitiom (videos)
She Wolves Erotism Love Body Curator Dr Laura Leuzzi
featuring: a.o. Lydia Schouten
May 30 - August 30
  De Vleeshal, Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Middelburg.
From Lilac to Blue, 1999, Animal Space, 1981, I feel like boiled Milk, 1980, will be shown April 12, 13 and 14.
  Museum Arnhem, Media Arts Festival, 12/03/24 - 01/04/24
Exhibition Less - Beauty becomes the Beast (1985)
  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - showing at first floor
Split Seconds of Magnificence (1984) video (15')
01/12/23 - 01/04/24
2023 Tell me a story
Video club Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
19-11-23,Lydia Schouten, Split Seconds of Magnificence (1984)
Q&A between Janna Houwen and Lydia Schouten
Transit Filmfest Regensburg, Germany
Nov 8-15
video: Echoes of Death/Forever Young
  Rozenstraat@Art Island
Forteiland IJmuiden, June 3&4
with Mehraneh Atashi and Lydia Schouten
2021 Odorama 46, Feminism and Odeur
curator Frank Bloem
Nov 18 2021 at Mediamatic Amsterdam
LIMA Presents: Representation, Gender and the Body
Q&A with Aynouk Tan
Oct 27, 8pm at LAB111 Amsterdam
The City as Performative Object, workshop by PolakVanBekkum
June 23 - July 1 2021, LIMA, Amsterdam, screening Animal Space
2020 Echoes of Death / Forever Young
Screening Cinema CITY 46, May 13 2020, Bremen, Germany
2019 Mediakunst Festival Arnhem, Focus Filmtheater, nov 24 2019
lecture and screening of 5 early videos
European Women's Video Art in the 70s and 80s
at the Women's Library in Glasgow.
The video Romeo is bleeding will be shown at the exhibition.
  Echoes of Death / Forever Young as part of Video Box / IMAI, at the University of Düsseldorf
2018 Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale at the International Filmfestival Rotterdam, Holland
a film / roadmovie by Lydia Schouten and Gina Kranendonk , 65', 2001
part of Rotterdams Fabricaat
  Espacio P at: Museum of Contemporary Art of Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
June 28 - September 30
2017 Espacio P. 1981 – 1997, curator Karin Ohlenschläger, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Museum Madrid, Spain
2016 Self/portraits: Relating Narratives, Visual Research Centre, Centrespace, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, December 9th
Curators: Laura Leuzzi, Giulia Casalini and Diana Georgiou
  Heldinnen, videopresentation at Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne, Germany curator: Dr. Renate Buschmann, July 8
Heldinnen, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
curator: Dr. Renate Buschmann
  Today’s Beginnings? In and Around the 1980s
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, April 16 – October 2
Curators: Nick Aikens and Diana Franssen
2015 Feminisms, Nordstern Videoart Center, Gelsenkirchen, Germany, curators: Marius Babias and Kathrin Becker from Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
2014 Lydia Schouten: early video works , Suburban Videolounge Rotterdam
2013 Our Darkness, curator: Viktor Neumann, 5th edition of the Grassomania-Festival at the Kolonia Artystów/Gdansk City Gallery, Poland,
  Int. Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund, Germany
Dutch Protest Museum, ArtPlay Center, Moskou, Russia
2012 Le Jardin secret, video-installation, Inter Media Art Institute/Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany, curator: Dr. Renate Buschmann,
2011 Our Darkness, curator: Viktor Neumann, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
'SHE ME', Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, Holland
2009 40 Years of N.B.K., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
  Split Seconds of Magnificence, Universiteit Twente, Zwolle, Holland
  Rotterdam, een ongemakkelijk Sprookje, Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam, Holland
  WG/3ZI/K/BAR, Düsseldorf, Germany, ein Haus für Künstler, Gäste, Freunde, curators: Markus Ambach/Birgit Jensen
2007 Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, presentation of INFERMENTAL 1-10
  Acciona, Montevideoprogram at Observatorifestival, Museo de las Ciencias Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, a film by Gina Kranendonk & Lydia Schouten, 65 min. at Risky Business, TENT, Rotterdam, Holland
  Split Seconds of Magnificence, Universiteit, Amsterdam, Holland
  Machine-RAUM, electronic arts festival, Vejle, Denmark, presentation of INFERMENTAL 1-10
2006 Le Vent du Nord, La Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
2004 A Virus of Sadness, video-installation, Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
  30 years Dutch Video Art, travelling exhibition along the cities:
St.Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Moscow, Niznii Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk/NCCA, Russia (till October 2005),
  Outline, Amsterdam, Holland
  Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
2003 Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
  30 Years Dutch Video Art, Planetarium, St. Petersburg, Russia
  Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam, Holland
  Film Lounge- Films of Dutch photographers: Cinema De Balie Amsterdam, Chassé Cinema , Breda, Filmhuis Den Haag, Filmhuis de Keizer, Deventer, Plaza Futura Eindhoven, Lux, Nijmegen, Filmfoyer Tilburg
2002 Territories, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Film Lounge, Films of Dutch photographers, Nederlands Foto Instituut Rotterdam
2001 Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, International Filmfestival Rotterdam, Holland
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, Calypso, Rotterdam, Holland
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, Filmfestival Antalya, Turkye
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, Hotel New York bijeenkomst vrouwennetwerk
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, Off screen, De Unie Rotterdam, Holland
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, Summer Film school Uherske Czech Republic
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, Women make Waves, Tapei , Taiwan
  Rotterdam, an uneasy Tale, Lantaren /Venster , van Nelle fabriek, Rotterdam
2000 International Filmfestival Rotterdam, Holland, Impaktfestival, Utrecht, Holland
  Smart Project Space, Tokyo/Japan Tour, Japan
1999 International Filmfestival, Rotterdam, Holland
  European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
  Festival Internacional de Video Cidade de Vigo, VIII Edicion, Spain, 1st price.
  Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, Holland
  Rotterdams Fabrikaat, Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam, Holland
  4ieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montréal, Canada
  VIPER, International Festival for Film and Video, New Media, Luzern, Switzerland
Nederlands Filmfestival, Utrecht, Holland
1988 Studio Bellevue, Lausanne, Switzerland
  1e Mostra int. de realizadores de videocreacio, Valencia, Spain
  Copenhagen Film + Videoworkshop Festival ‘88, Denmark
  17th Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montréal, Canada, Videonale, Bonn, Germany
  Recent Video Art from The Netherlands: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The University of Texas at Arlington, Dallas, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, The American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, WPA, Washington, Hallwalls, Buffalo, Cornel University, Ithaca, N.Y., Webster University Film Society, St. Louis, MO, Kansas City Contemporary Art Centre, MO, Centre Cont. Art, Santa Fe, NM, Arizona Media Arts, Tucson, AZ
  Visies in Video, Peristiel, Amsterdam, Holland
  Monitor ‘88, Videoband Festival, Frlunda, Kulturhus, Sweden
1987 Tour along 5 cities in Canada, organized by SAW Gallery, Toronto
  Tine Side Cinema, New Castle, Great Britain
  Academie De Kopse Hof, Deventer, Holland
  Exposito, Madrid, Spain
  Cycloop, Eindhoven, Holland
  Espacio P, Madrid, Spain
  SCAN, Tokyo, Japan
  Ons Welzijn, Den Helder, Holland
  Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Worldwide Videofestival, Het Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland
  Dekadentiefestival, Nijmegen, Holland
  10 jaar SVBK, Leiden, Holland
  Festival of exp. Cinema, Montréal, Canada
  2ème Semaine international de Video, Genf, Switzerland
1986 Videofestival, Kopenhagen, Denmark
  Video Start, Bologna, Italy
  Exp. Filmfestival, Oberhausen, Germany(retrospective)
  Videonale, Bonn, Germany, Film- and Videofestival, Osnabrück, Germany
  Videofestival, Sydney, Australia
  Worldwide Videofestival, Het Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland
  II Festival Nacional Video, Madrid, Spain
  Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
  Release of INFERMENTAL V, The Hague, Cologne, München-Gladbach, Oberhausen, Dortmund, Osnabrück, Melbourne, Sydney, Budapest, Aarhus, Berlin, London, Vancouver, Tokyo, Buffalo
1985 Release of INFERMENTAL -extra-ausgabe, magazine on videocassettes: Berlin, Zürich, Stuttgart, Videofestival, Bologna, Italy, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, The Kitchen, New York, USA, Institut Neérlandais, Paris, France, Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
  Film- and Videofestival, Montréal, Canada
  Videofestival, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
  Videofestival, Kopenhagen, Denmark
  Videofestival, Stockholm, Sweden
1984 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  Film- and Videofestival, Berlin, Germany
  Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
  Film- and Videofestival Montréal, Canada
  Danskunstacademie, Kopenhagen, Denmark
1983 Art Video, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
  Worldwide Videofestival, Het Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland
  Film- and Videofestival, Montréal,Canada
Film- and Videofestival, San Sebastian, Spain
Videofestival, Locarno, Italy
  Dutch videotapes in Greece, travelling exhibition
1982 Worldwide Videofestival, Het Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland
1981 Video Maart, Jan van Eyckacademie, Maastricht, Holland
VIDEOGRAPHY
2020 / 21 Waldgeschichten, Mixed Media Installation
15 painted decors (125x265cm)
10 videos, quadrophonic soundscape, birdsounds in trees 2ch.
Soundscape: Arjan Kappers (9'40")
copyright 2020: Lydia Schouten & Arjan Kappers
2015 A Song for Mannahata, mixed media installation with 3 screens, 2 monitors, 7 LCD screens, objects, drawings. Soundscape (5 channels): Arjan Kappers, 14 min.
2006 / 07 Le Jardin Secret, Interactive video-installation, 5x5m/4screens Sound/music: Arjan Kappers
2001 Rotterdam, een ongemakkelijk Sprookje, 65min., color,sound: Sander Wissing, copyright: Lydia Schouten & Gina Kranendonk
1999 From Lilac to Blue, color, 28 min., sound: Cees van der Knaap
1998 Leerdam, 19 min, color, sound: Cees van der Knaap
1997 Songs of innocence, 27 min. color, sound: Charly van Rest
Blue, color, 5 min
1987 A Civilization without Secrets, 15 min., color, music: Sander Wissing
1986 Echoes of death/ forever young, 15 min, color, music Sander Wissing
1985 Beauty becomes Beast, 9 min, color, music: Sander Wissing
1984 Split seconds of magnificence, 15 min color, music: Sander Wissing
1983 Covered with cold sweat, 8 min, music Sander Wissing
1982 The lone Ranger lost in the jungle of erotic desire, 18 min
color, music: PIL, Burundi Black.
   Romeo is bleeding, 11 min. color, music: Sander Wissing
1981 Animal space, 30 min., color
1980 I feel like boiled milk, 15 min, bl/w
   Whipping red, Whipping blue, 2 videos 20 min. color
1979 Sexobject, 30 min. bl/w
1978 Love is every girls dream, 30 min. bl/w,
  Breaking through the Circle, 15 min bl/w
  Cage, 30 min. bl/w
PERFORMANCES
2002 Weird Sister Machinery, multimedia performance together with Miriam Reeders, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, Holland
40th edition of Polyphonix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 
1978-'81 Stedelijk Museum Gouda, Holland, Galerie Alto, Rotterdam, Holland, Neue Galerie Aachen, Germany, Galerie De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland, De Melkweg, Amsterdam, Holland, Symposium d'Art Performance, Lyon, France, Galerie Felison, Velsen, Holland, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Germany, Medical Faculty, University of Rotterdam, Holland, Cultural Centre, Tilburg, Holland, Cirque Divers, Liége, Belgium, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, Mixage International, Caen, France, Plan K, Brussels, Belgium, Eindhoven University of Technology, Holland, Art Aujourd'hui, Strassbourg, France, Galerie Diagonale, Paris, France, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, American Centre, Paris, France, Performance Festival, Almada, Portugal, Polyphonix, Milan, Italy
COMMISSIONS
2009 Monument for 117 lost villages in Zeeland, Colijnsplaat, Noord-Beveland, Holland
2003 Hebban Olla Vogula Nestas Higunan
Hanging installation, City Library, Zutphen, Holland
2002 110 mtr light installation with text plus 4x5m painting for Tippelzone (Red Light District) Rotterdam, Holland
2000 delivery of the glass entrance of a building, Osdorp, Holland
material: cibachrome photography on glass
  Routing through 2 buildings from the Zeeuws Archive Middelburg, Holland
1998 videowall of 16 monitors at Technical University, Enschede
1996 260 m wall along incinerator factory, Rotterdam, material:
silkscreened roses on red acrylate
1993 Entrance of Technical University, Enschede, mixed media wall, 4x5m
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2023 Tell me a story 19/11/2023. Q&A between Lydia Schouten and Janna Houwen at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
  Q&A between L:ydia Schouten and Prof. Renée Römkens about womens rights at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht 12/11/23
2019 One day program of highlights of the video/media arthistory at filmtheater Focus, Arnhem. Presentation of my videos from the eighties plus my choice of an other artist from the videocollection of Museum Arnhem, Holland
2016 Lecture at the Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
2011 Lecturing at the New World School of Arts, Visual Arts Department, Miami, USA
2009 Presentation at WG/3ZI/K/Bar at ein Haus für Künstler, Gäste, Freunde, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Presentation of a personal choice out of the film- and videocollection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
Co-organizer of The search for Gold II, two evenings; engagement and inspiration in art, together with Semna van Ooy, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden, Holland
2005 Co-organizer of The search for Gold, an evening about the necessity of the autonomic artwork, together with Semna van Ooy and Eva Meyer, Amsterdam, Holland
2000 Co-organizer of On the Spot, art and reality, together with Wanda Reiff, result: educative video, 19 min., director: Lydia Schouten
1999  Co-organizer of The Scream/De Schreeuw, Galerie Het Leerhuys, Brugge, Belgium
together with Wanda Reiff
1998  Curator of Trapdoor 2, 7 young artists from the Rijksacademie at the MK-gallery, Rotterdam, Holland
1997  Curator of Trapdoor 1, 5 young artists from the Rijksacademie at the MK-gallery, Rotterdam Holland
1994 Co-organizer of American drawing exhibition: Can you always believe your eyes?’ together with Rob Perrée
De Beyerd, Breda Holland
1992 Co-organizer of Erotic Desire in Photography in 5 galleries in Rotterdam, Holland, together with Rob Perrée
1986 Co-organization of Reflections, exhibition of video-installations, installations, sculptures and paintings, together with Rob Perrée
Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland
1985 Co-editor of INFERMENTAL 5, the Dutch edition of the first magazine produced on cassettes together with Rob Perrée and Leonie Bodeving
1984 Organization of Con Rumore, manifestation of video, film, photographs, installations, Gallery Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, Holland
1979-84 Co-editor of MODERN DENKEN, magazine on video, film, installations, photography
1980 Co-organizer of MIXAGE international, festival of performance, expanded cinema, installations, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Breda, Holland
STUDY AND RESIDENCIES
2009 Artist in Residence at Instituto Bueno Bista, Curacao Center for Contemporary Art, Curaçao
1995 Artist in Residence at MUKA Studio, Auckland, New Zealand
I994 Artist in Residence, Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
I989-'90 Artist in Residence at P.S.I, Institute of contemporary Art, New York, USA
I985 Artist in Residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
I985 Artist in Residence at the Satellite Video Exchange Society, Vancouver, Canada
I982 Travel grant to New York, Ministry of Cultural Affairs
I98I Travel grant to New York, Ministry of Cultural Affairs
I975 Maaskant Award of the city of Rotterdam
I97I-'76 Study at the Academy of Visual Arts, Sculpturedepartment, Rotterdam, Holland
I967-'7I Study at the Free Academy of Visual Arts, The Hague, Holland
TEACHING
2012 photography workshop together with Diana Blok at Free Academy, Den Haag, Holland
2011 lecturer/guest artist at the New World School of the Arts, the college of arts at Florida International University/Miami-Dade College, USA
2009 temporary tutor at Instituto Buena Bista, Willemstad, Curaçao
2002 - 09 tutor at photography department Koninklijke Academie Den Haag, Holland, bachelor
1995 - 98 tutor at Piet Zwart Instituut, Rotterdam, master
1993 tutor at Stadsacademie Maastricht, Holland, bachelor
tutor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, dep: V.A.V.
1992 - 93 tutor at Koninklijke Academie Den Haag, master
1990 lecturer/guest artist at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway
1989 lecturer/guest artist at: School of the Art Institute Chicago, photography department, USA
1988 tutor at Artez Arnhem, Holland, bachelor
Performance- and Videoworkshops
2002 Academie Minerva, Groningen, together with Miriam Reeders
2001 Toneelacademie Maastricht
2000 Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, together with Miriam Reeders
1980 Lecturer and performanceworkshop at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
LECTURES
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Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Studium Generale | AKV/St.Joost Avans Hogeschool, Breda
Early video works | Suburban Videolounge, Rotterdam
Galerie Oranjerie, Amsterdam
Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada
Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
The Royal College of Art, London, Great Britain
Town Hall Tokyo, Japan
Appendix Galerie, Wuppertal, Germany
Australian National University / School of Art, Canberra, Australia
Satellite Video Exchange Society, Vancouver, Canada
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