Bernina Express (2024) video to HD/DCP, 10 min
Acapulco 02 (2020), miniature model, 13x60x80 cm
Arianne Olthaar (1970) is a visual artist based in The Hague, the Netherlands. She portrays and documents disappearing, hidden and fictional interiors in film, photography and miniature models. The focus is on interiors that are in some way secluded and easily overlooked - such as the interiors she remembers from her dreams, a fictional Rainer Werner Fassbinder film decor, the spacious and luxurious state hotels of the former Eastern Bloc in the 1970s and 80s, or the interiors of dining cars on long-distance trains. Olthaar’s work has been shown internationally at exhibitions and film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Film Festival, Videoex, EMAF, New York Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.
arianneo [at] dds.nl
Education / Residencies
2025
Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, CH
2022
Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, CH
2015
Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld, DE
2012
AIR laboratory, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PL
2011
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV
2007
7.Stock, Dresden, DE
1993/1994
ASP, Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, PL
1991
Escola Superior de Belas Artes, Lisbon, PT
1989-1993
Royal Academy of Art, Fine art department, The Hague, NL
Screenings / Exhibitions
2025
Abendspaziergang, Bielefeld, DE (group show)
Gir d'Air, open studios, Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, CH
2024
Lichte Momente, EMAF, Osnabrück, DE (group show)
Art Lovers #9, University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, NL
Nightlife on Film, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2023
The File on D. / Dossier D., West Den Haag, The Hague, NL (book launch)
Het Filmblik, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Transportation shorts, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte (NC), USA
Session de visionnage 50, Gran Lux, Saint Etienne, FR
Seeing sound, Researchlabs 2023, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2022
Nairs open studios, Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol (CH)
Moments Between Moving, Edge of Cinema, former bus parking depot, Europalaan, Utrecht, NL (group show)
2021
S’en sortir sans sortir, MuMaBoX, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, LE Havre, FR
W.F. Hermans on film, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Nocturama, MuMaBoX, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, FR
2020
Haagse Heritage, Heden, The Hague, NL (group show)
Abendspaziergang, Bielefeld, DE (group show)
Where did life go? A Journey in Architecture, Stuttgarter Film Winter, Stuttgart, DE
2019
Metakino #3: Environment
, WHS Teaterri Union, Helsinki, FI
Architectural Utopies - Here and Now, Goethe Institute, Rotterdam, NL
Show/no show, Filmhuis Den Haag, The Hague, NL
FEAR, Æther, Sofia, BG (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Light Cone distributors’ screening, DE
Metakino #1: Architecture, WHS Teaterri Union, Helsinki, FI
Infrastructure on Film, Anthology Film Archives, New York, US
2018
Dramaturgies du réel, MuMaBoX, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, FR
Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Motive: Disco, International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
Survival of Forms, Light Cone/Le BAL, Paris, FR
Spatial Shifting, Capri by Night//Schauspiel Köln, Cologne, DE
Rencontres Internationales, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
2017
Preview Show 2017, Light Cone, Paris, FR
Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
International Short Film Week, Regensburg, DE
Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FR
EYE on Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2016
Tanzraum f4, Artists Unlimited Galerie, Bielefeld, DE (solo)
2015
Expert’s choice: The Eye of the Beholder, Impakt, Utrecht, NL
2014
Boulev'art am Boulevard, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen, CH
glow in the dark, Ruimtevaart, The Hague, NL (group show)
Contemporary Istanbul, Video Cube (West), TR
2013
No. 11, MOLAF The Museum of Longing and Failure, Leipzig, DE (group show)
Kim? SALON, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV (group show)
Let There Be Light, Nest, The Hague, NL (group show)
2012
The Discovery of Slowness II
, Galeria HIT + Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK (group show)
Uit de collectie Lampe en Plompen, Stichting IK, Vlissingen, NL (group show)
Shortly speaking.. Dutch, films by Arianne Olthaar, Kino.Lab, Warsaw + Kino Muza, Poznan, PL
Veja Roze H 93 m, Heden, The Hague, NL (solo)
Zoomscape, EYE Filmmuseum, waiting room Amsterdam Central Station, NL
2011
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, US
Bosch Art Film, Verkade fabriek, Den Bosch, NL
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DE
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2010
Black Cat, Galeria Fundacja Atelier, Warsaw, PL (solo)
On Demand, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL (group show)
Black Cube 10, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Media City Film Festival, Windsor, CA
Sea Scrolls, Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival, US
Industrial Symphony, Strelka Institute, Moscow, RU
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DE
Filmbanktour #26, Map the Mind, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam , NL
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2009
Mikroplan, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, DE (duo/with Jamina Llobet & Louis Fernandez Pons)
Galerie West, The Hague, NL (duo/with Keiko Sato)
Ondertussen, project space Stroom, The Hague, NL
Math for the Masses, Forum Box, Helsinki, FI (group show)
Filmprikkels, Celluloid/Digitaal 8, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, de Balie, Amsterdam, NL
Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, NL
EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE
2008
Dark House, San Francisco Cinematheque, US
DOClisboa, Lisbon, PT
Black Cube 10, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Dutch Punch, St. Petersburg, NCCA, Moscow, RU
Celluloid/Digitaal 7, Cinema De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
Lost Spaces, Videoex, Zürich, CH
Filmmuseum Experimenteel, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, NL
Shorty speaking..Dutch, Kino.lab, Warsaw, PL
Tier + Mensch, Zentrale Ausstellungshalle, Nürnberg, DE
Camouflash/Das Verschwinden in der Kunst, Dresden, DE
Mediations Biennial, Poznan, PL (group show)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2007
Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, NL
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2006
Verglückt nochmal, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, DE
Attitudes, de Vleemvloer, Amsterdam, NL
Pick up the Pieces, Re:visie, Nederlands Film Festival, Centraal Museum,. Utrecht, NL
One of a group, Atelier als Supermedium #4, The Hague, NL
Romantiek(?) van de Spion, Galerie West, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2005
COURTisane, Ghent, BE
PEK Festival, FilmStad, The Hague, NL
Close Encounters Ypenburg, The Hague, NL (group show)
2004
Onion City Experimental FIlm and Video Festival, Chicago, US (group show)
International Dtour, Filmbank
Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, US
Media City 10, Cineseoul, Seoul, KR
Highlights 2003, Impakt on tour, NL
International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
Media City Film Festival, Windsor, CA
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2003
Crossing Border Festival, The Hague, NL
Impakt, Utrecht, NL
2002
Videoart from the Netherlands, the Quotadian Gallery, San Francisco, US
PEK Festival, The Hague, NL
Caviadisco, GEM museum voor actuele kunst, The Hague, NL (group show)
2001
Parking Den Haag, stroom hbck, The Hague, NL (group show)
2000
RINUS, Artoteek, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Impakt Highlights, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
Project Wzgórza, Lipnica Murowana, Kraków, PL
Docu met Wolf, Bovenkamer bij Schlemmer, The Hague, NL (artist talk/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Filminn, Filmstad, Korzo, The Hague, NL
1999
Kill Your Darlings, Filmstad, Korzo, The Hague, NL
See me, Hear me!, het Archief, Stroom, The Hague, NL (group show)
Nee, dat meen je niet!, de Hermen Molendijk Stichting, Amersfoort, NL (group show)
1998
F=4 FILM, De Melkfrabriek, Den Bosch NL (group show)
Twisted Pairs, Niggendijker, Groiningen, NL (group show)
Waar blijf je nou?, Filmstad, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
1997
Girls on Film, Impakt, Utrecht, NL
1996
A M 9 6, Voorheen het Archief, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
1995
Super 8, Luxus, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Naughty Girls, Mind the Gap, Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Naughty Girls, Mind the Gap, de Unie, Rotterdam, NL
Book
The Book Photographer / Jap Sam Books
The File on D. / Dossier D., 2023
Design: Studio Janneke Hendriks
Text: Arnon Grunberg
Jap Sam Books
32 pages, 17,4 x 24,9 cm, leporello
isbn 978-94-93329-04-1
EURO: 30,-
order: send me an email
Screenings / Exhibitions
2025
Abendspaziergang, Bielefeld, DE (group show)
Gir d'Air, open studios, Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, CH
2024
Lichte Momente, EMAF, Osnabrück, DE (group show)
Art Lovers #9, University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, NL
Nightlife on Film, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2023
The File on D. / Dossier D., West Den Haag, The Hague, NL (book launch)
Het Filmblik, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Transportation shorts, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte (NC), USA
Session de visionnage 50, Gran Lux, Saint Etienne, FR
Seeing sound, Researchlabs 2023, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2022
Nairs open studios, Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol (CH)
Moments Between Moving, Edge of Cinema, former bus parking depot, Europalaan, Utrecht, NL (group show)
2021
S’en sortir sans sortir, MuMaBoX, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, LE Havre, FR
W.F. Hermans on film, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Nocturama, MuMaBoX, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, FR
2020
Haagse Heritage, Heden, The Hague, NL (group show)
Abendspaziergang, Bielefeld, DE (group show)
Where did life go? A Journey in Architecture, Stuttgarter Film Winter, Stuttgart, DE
2019
Metakino #3: Environment
, WHS Teaterri Union, Helsinki, FI
Architectural Utopies - Here and Now, Goethe Institute, Rotterdam, NL
Show/no show, Filmhuis Den Haag, The Hague, NL
FEAR, Æther, Sofia, BG (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Light Cone distributors’ screening, DE
Metakino #1: Architecture, WHS Teaterri Union, Helsinki, FI
Infrastructure on Film, Anthology Film Archives, New York, US
2018
Dramaturgies du réel, MuMaBoX, Musée d’art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, FR
Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Motive: Disco, International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
Survival of Forms, Light Cone/Le BAL, Paris, FR
Spatial Shifting, Capri by Night//Schauspiel Köln, Cologne, DE
Rencontres Internationales, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
2017
Preview Show 2017, Light Cone, Paris, FR
Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
International Short Film Week, Regensburg, DE
Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FR
EYE on Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2016
Tanzraum f4, Artists Unlimited Galerie, Bielefeld, DE (solo)
2015
Expert’s choice: The Eye of the Beholder, Impakt, Utrecht, NL
2014
Boulev'art am Boulevard, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen, CH
glow in the dark, Ruimtevaart, The Hague, NL (group show)
Contemporary Istanbul, Video Cube (West), TR
2013
No. 11, MOLAF The Museum of Longing and Failure, Leipzig, DE (group show)
Kim? SALON, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, LV (group show)
Let There Be Light, Nest, The Hague, NL (group show)
2012
The Discovery of Slowness II
, Galeria HIT + Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK (group show)
Uit de collectie Lampe en Plompen, Stichting IK, Vlissingen, NL (group show)
Shortly speaking.. Dutch, films by Arianne Olthaar, Kino.Lab, Warsaw + Kino Muza, Poznan, PL
Veja Roze H 93 m, Heden, The Hague, NL (solo)
Zoomscape, EYE Filmmuseum, waiting room Amsterdam Central Station, NL
2011
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, US
Bosch Art Film, Verkade fabriek, Den Bosch, NL
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DE
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2010
Black Cat, Galeria Fundacja Atelier, Warsaw, PL (solo)
On Demand, tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL (group show)
Black Cube 10, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Media City Film Festival, Windsor, CA
Sea Scrolls, Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival, US
Industrial Symphony, Strelka Institute, Moscow, RU
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DE
Filmbanktour #26, Map the Mind, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam , NL
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2009
Mikroplan, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, DE (duo/with Jamina Llobet & Louis Fernandez Pons)
Galerie West, The Hague, NL (duo/with Keiko Sato)
Ondertussen, project space Stroom, The Hague, NL
Math for the Masses, Forum Box, Helsinki, FI (group show)
Filmprikkels, Celluloid/Digitaal 8, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, de Balie, Amsterdam, NL
Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, NL
EMAF European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, DE
2008
Dark House, San Francisco Cinematheque, US
DOClisboa, Lisbon, PT
Black Cube 10, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Dutch Punch, St. Petersburg, NCCA, Moscow, RU
Celluloid/Digitaal 7, Cinema De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
Lost Spaces, Videoex, Zürich, CH
Filmmuseum Experimenteel, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, NL
Shorty speaking..Dutch, Kino.lab, Warsaw, PL
Tier + Mensch, Zentrale Ausstellungshalle, Nürnberg, DE
Camouflash/Das Verschwinden in der Kunst, Dresden, DE
Mediations Biennial, Poznan, PL (group show)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2007
Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Amsterdam, NL
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2006
Verglückt nochmal, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, DE
Attitudes, de Vleemvloer, Amsterdam, NL
Pick up the Pieces, Re:visie, Nederlands Film Festival, Centraal Museum,. Utrecht, NL
One of a group, Atelier als Supermedium #4, The Hague, NL
Romantiek(?) van de Spion, Galerie West, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, NL
2005
COURTisane, Ghent, BE
PEK Festival, FilmStad, The Hague, NL
Close Encounters Ypenburg, The Hague, NL (group show)
2004
Onion City Experimental FIlm and Video Festival, Chicago, US (group show)
International Dtour, Filmbank
Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, US
Media City 10, Cineseoul, Seoul, KR
Highlights 2003, Impakt on tour, NL
International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
Media City Film Festival, Windsor, CA
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DE
International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
2003
Crossing Border Festival, The Hague, NL
Impakt, Utrecht, NL
2002
Videoart from the Netherlands, the Quotadian Gallery, San Francisco, US
PEK Festival, The Hague, NL
Caviadisco, GEM museum voor actuele kunst, The Hague, NL (group show)
2001
Parking Den Haag, stroom hbck, The Hague, NL (group show)
2000
RINUS, Artoteek, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Impakt Highlights, Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
Project Wzgórza, Lipnica Murowana, Kraków, PL
Docu met Wolf, Bovenkamer bij Schlemmer, The Hague, NL (artist talk/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Filminn, Filmstad, Korzo, The Hague, NL
1999
Kill Your Darlings, Filmstad, Korzo, The Hague, NL
See me, Hear me!, het Archief, Stroom, The Hague, NL (group show)
Nee, dat meen je niet!, de Hermen Molendijk Stichting, Amersfoort, NL (group show)
1998
F=4 FILM, De Melkfrabriek, Den Bosch NL (group show)
Twisted Pairs, Niggendijker, Groiningen, NL (group show)
Waar blijf je nou?, Filmstad, Filmhuis Den Haag, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
1997
Girls on Film, Impakt, Utrecht, NL
1996
A M 9 6, Voorheen het Archief, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
1995
Super 8, Luxus, The Hague, NL (duo/with Marjolijn van der Meij)
Naughty Girls, Mind the Gap, Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Naughty Girls, Mind the Gap, de Unie, Rotterdam, NL
Grants / Prizes
2024
Voucher Development, Mondriaan Fund
2023
Jaap Harten Fonds
2022
Stichting Stokroos
2021
PRO research grant, Stroom Den Haag
2021
Corona Bridging Grant, Mondriaan Fund
2021
Tijlfonds/Cultuurfonds
2020
PRO research grant, Stroom Den Haag
2018
PRO project grant, Stroom Den Haag
2018
PRO research grant, Stroom Den Haag
2017
research grant, The Netherlands Film Fund
2016
Tijlfonds/Cultuurfonds
2015
PRO project grant, Stroom Den Haag
2015
realisation grant, The Netherlands Film Fund
2014
research grant, The Netherlands Film Fund
2011
Stimulansprijs, The Netherlands Film Fund
2010
PRO Premium, Stroom Den Haag
2009
realisation grant, The Netherlands Film Fund
2008
realisation grant, The Netherlands Film Fund
2008
Basic stipend, Fonds FBKVB
2007
realisation grant, The Netherlands Film Fund
2004
realisation grant, The Netherlands Film Fund
2004
Top Prize, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Chicago, US
2001
Basic stipend, Fonds FBKVB
1998
Basic stipend, Fonds FBKVB
1996
Basic stipend, Fonds FBKVB
1995
Starter stipend, Fonds FBKVB
1993
NUFFIC bursary
1992
Starter Prize, Stroom Den Haag
1991
Erasmus scholarship
Publications
2023
De mensen hebben ons genoeg teleurgesteld, nu is het aan robots om ons teleur te stellen, column Arnon Grunberg, de Volkskrant
The File on D. / Dossier D. (artist book), Jap Sam Books (ISBN 978-94-93329-04-1)
2019
Blinkvideo, online platform for media works
2013
Warsaw calling, DH/// magazine, Stroom Den Haag, text by Laurie Cluitmans
2012
Luxe 1972-1987 (artist book), Heden (ISBN: 978-90-78203-24-7)
Stroom Premium, text by Paul Breschuk, Stroom Den Haag (ISBN: 978-90-7379974-5)
2010
Tegendraads en ´out of the box´, text by Dana Linssen, NRC
The 16th Media City: International Festival of Film and Video, Senses of Cinema.com, text by Paul Breschuk (online)
Filmstad aan Zee, DH // magazine, Stroom Den Haag, text by Albert Wulffers
West, annual 02 , (ISBN 978-90-79917-03-7)
Film3 [kyü-bik film], EYE Film Institute Netherlands (ISBN 978-90-8964-199-1)
2009
Haarlakstijl, VPRO TV guide + Avondlog, text by Wim Noordhoek
2005
Het onder-gewone, Stroom Den Haag, text by Maurits van de Laar
2004
mm2, Experimentele film in Nederland vanaf 1960, Filmbank/de Balie, text by Edwin Carels