Simone Hooymans - contemporary multimedia artist

Born 1974, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Lives and works in . www.simonehooymans.com member of: BKH and NBK ,Harding Puls, VISP, BONO

Education: 2004 - 2005 Postgraduate st. Joost, Breda, Fine Art, the Netherlands (MA). 1998 - 2002 Art academy HKA Arnhem, Fine Art, the Netherlands (BA). 1992 - 1996 St. Lucas Boxtel, Graphic design, the Netherlands.

Videography upcoming: 2019 / RAS, animation. Produced by Aldeles. 2018 / Beat Horn, music video for 2018 / The Quiet Beauty, music video Røyst Trio 2018 / Second animation commissioned by HealthCare organization ORO in the Netherlands.

Videography: 2017 / Meet Me There - Meet Me Then, animation video installation, with music of Terje Isungset. 2016 / Rett Ned. Experimental animation with music of Building Instrument. 2015 / Sweet Mysterious. Experimental animation with music of Mari Kvien Brunvoll. 2014 / Astrofeut. Video installation. 2014 / Unexpected Meeting. Video installation. 2012 / After Office Hours. Animation. 2008 / Broken Horizon. Animation. Commissioned by Dziga Nijmegen (workplace for video artists), NL 2008 / Planisphere. Animation. Site specific video for 4-channel video projection for the video wall#9. Commissioned by Lazy Marie Utrecht, the Netherlands (workplace for video artists). 2007/ Worlds in itself. Video installation and animation. 2005 / Saljoetsilo. Post graduation film, art academy Post St. Joost Breda, the Netherlands.

Nominations and Awards: 2017 Broken Horizon was Finalist at G2 Green Earth Film Festival, Los Angeles USA. Rett Ned was Semi finalist in competition at International Short Film Festival Kalmthout in Belgium. Rett Ned received Honorabel Mention at Kortfilmfestivalen Grimstad, Norway. Special Mention Award for Sweet Mysterious, Movie Screen Pro Film Festival. Music Video Underground, Paris, Semi Finalists Sweet Mysterious. SWEET AS Film festival Canada, nomination Best Music video Rett Ned. 2016 London IFF Film festival, Sweet Mysterious. Winner of Best Music video. TMFF Awards, Online FilmFestival, Sweet Mysterious. Winner Best Experimental Film of the Month. TMFF Awards, Online FilmFestival, Rett Ned. Nomination Best Experimental Film of the Month. Portsmouth Film Festival. Sweet Mysterious : Nomination for Best Non narrative Animation. Selby Film Festival, Great Britain, Sweet Mysterious : Nomination for best Music Video. Troyes Film Festival, France, Broken Horizon. Nomination for best Animation. 2009/ CASZUIDAS Urban screen festival prize, . Nomination for Broken Horizon 2009 / Official selection for Ars Electronica, Film festival Austria, screening Broken Horizon. 2009 / Official selection NFF, Dutch Film festival Utrecht, screening Broken Horizon.

Animations are in collection of: 2014 / Art collection of Haugesund Kunstforening, Norway. (“Broken Horizon” “After Office Hours”) 2012 / Film collection of EYE institute Amsterdam. (“Broken Horizon”)

Grants: 2017 / Travel grant for Short Film Festival Grimstad, Norway, from VestNorsk Filmsenter 2016 / Utviklingstøtte til Animasjon “Ras”, from VestNorsk Filmsenter Bergen 2016 / Travel grant for Short Film Festival Troyes, France. Norsk Film Institute. 2011 / Stipend by Norsk kulturråd for the exhibition After Office Hours in Kabuso Øystese, Norway. 2009 / Stipendium, Herad, Norway. 2009 / Individual grant by the New Brabantse Art Foundation. Province of North-Brabant, the Netherlands. 2007 / Projectgrant by Thuiskopiefonds, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. 2007 / Individual grant by the New Brabantse Art Foundation. Province of North-Brabant, the Netherlands. 2005 / Individual grant by the New Brabantse Art Foundation. Province of North-Brabant, the Netherlands. 2003 / Projectgrant by the Province of Gelderland, the Netherlands, the Netherlands.

Exhibitions/screenings Upcoming 2018/2019: HardingArt, curated by Kjell Erik Ruud, Utne, , Norway. Dziga (Creative Platform for video), Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Kabuso, Museum for Modern Art, Øystese, Norway. Kunstgarasjen Bergen, Norway. Cazenovia college art gallery, New York. Gallery Nasty Alice Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Solo exhibitions/screenings: 2017 / Video installation Meet Met There - Meet Me Then, until dec 2018, for video room at Care organization ORO, Het Rijtven, the Netherlands. 2015 / Kabuso, museum for modern art, Øystese, Norway. Presentation of animation Sweet Mysterious, music/VJ performance, together with Mari Kvien Brunvoll. 2014 / Haugesund Kunstforening, Haugesund, Norway. Drawings and animations. 2013 / Galleri Puls, Norheimsund, Norway. Drawings and animations. 2012 / Foajé Kabuso, museum for modern art, Øystese, Norway. Exhibition “ After Office Hours”. Drawings and animations. 2008 / Videowall#9 Theatre Utrecht, the Netherlands. Curated exhibition of Planisphere.

Group exhibition / Filmfestivals: 2017 Kunstgarasjen, juleutstillingen, drawings. Geofimfestival and Expocinema Padua, Italy, screening Broken Horizon. Statens Høstutstillingen 2017, , Norway, screening Meet Me There - Meet Me Then. Kortfilmfestivalen Grimstad, Norway, screening Rett Ned. Vestlandsutstillingen 2017, Norway, Sweet Mysterious and Rett Ned. SWEET AS Film festival Canada, nomination Best Music video Rett Ned. Music Video Underground, Paris, Semi finalists Sweet Mysterious.

2016 Troyes Film Festival, France, screening Broken Horizon. Eco Film Festival Mexico City, screening Sweet Mysterious. International Film Festival Minikino Bali, Indonesia. Sweet Mysterious Art Fair Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Gallery Nasty Alice presentation of my animal painting series. BIFF Bergen international Filmfestival, screening Rett Ned LekArt Festival, Culemborg, the Netherlands, Rett Ned videoinstallation. Digital Art Festival Greece, screening Sweet Mysterious, Rett Ned and Planisphere Portsmouth Film Festival UK , nomination for Sweet Mysterious. Bucharest ShortCut Film Festival, Bucharest, screening Sweet Mysterious. GUKIFF Film Festival Seoul, Korea, screening Sweet Mysterious. Weston Park Museum in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Projection of Planisphere on the museum building. Ecofilm Poland, screening Broken Horizon. International Nature Film Festival, Gödöllő, Hungary. Screening Sweet Mysterious and After Office Hours. Novi Fokus, Serbia. International Architecture Film Festival. Screening Broken Horizon. Selby Film Festival, Great Britain, screening Sweet Mysterious. London IFF Filmfestival, screening Sweet Mysterious. Winner of Best Music video. Cinema B-Open, Kunsthall Bergen, screening Sweet Mysterious TMFF Awards, Online FilmFestival, screening Sweet Mysterious. January Winner Experimental Film. Los Angeles Cinefest, screening Sweet Mysterious. Bellingham Music FilmFestival, Washington DC, screening Sweet Mysterious. South London Shorts, Filmfestival London, screening Sweet Mysterious. GFFIS. Green Film Festival Seoul, Korea, screening Sweet Mysterious.

2015 POFF Filmfestival Pori, Finland, screening Broken Horizon NMNP Project Festval, , Norway, screening Sweet Mysterious. Sluice Screens 2015, London, screening Planisphere. SAIL Amsterdam, EYE film institute Amsterdam, Broken Horizon, outdoor video screening. Animation Festival Volda, Norway, screening Sweet Mysterious. Sawtooth gallery, Tasmania, screening Sweet Mysterious. Het Lentekabinet Festival, EYE film institute Amsterdam, screening Broken Horizon. Visions of Sensory Space, Gallery Voss, Düsseldorf, Germany, with Planisphere.

2014 Het Filmhuisje in Bos en Lommer, Amsterdam, screening After Office Hours. Art calender curated by Joanneke Meester exhibition at the Nederlandse Bank Amsterdam. Art calender curated by Joanneke Meester exhibition at the library Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Publication of Art calender in the Netherlands, with Stuck IIII drawing. Chinese Whisperes at Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Chinese Whisperes at Gallery Karin Jansen, London, UK. Cinema B-Open Bergen, Norway, curator Jeremy Welsh, screening After Office Hours SPARTNIC, Ostrale 014, centre of contemporary art, Dresden, Germany. Black, Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

2013 Groupexhibition A-line, at gallery Judy Straten, Horst, the Netherlands. Groupexhibition WOW at Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Groupexhibition Wrapped ‘n packed, Art collective Casco Apeldoorn, screening After Office Hours. Hardanger Filmfestival Norway, screening After Office Hours. HiH, Holland in Hardanger, group exhibition at Hardanger Folkemuseum, Utne Norway. Jubileum Utstilling Glød Harding Puls at Kabuso, museum for modern art, Øystese, Norway. Portraits, groupexhibition at gallery Judy Straten, Horst, the Netherlands.

2012 Hardanger Open, Hardanger folkemuseum Utne, Norway. Performance“skrelle poteter med bestemor”, ORD-Kunstvandring Fykse, performance “Heime er der Bestemor er”, Fykse Norway. Europetour with CosyMo’s solar cinema, screening After Office Hours CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain, ViVa collection, screening Campsite Hortus. Voss kunstlag, Voss Norway. Exhibition with my drawings.

2011 Casco Film screening Broken Horizon, filmtheater Gigant, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Big filmscreen Tilburg, the Netherlands, screening Broken Horizon. Casco Re-destination exhibition Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Screening Broken Horizon and book presentation of "Dra- wings and animations". Oddstream festival Nijmegen, the Netherlands, screening Broken Horizon. Expoesia festival, Spain, screening Campsite Hortus.

2010 Hardanger filmfestival, Norway, screening Broken Horizon. Gastgastgeber festival Bochum, Germany, screening Broken Horizon MOCA Seoul Korea filmfestival, screening Campsite Hortus. Gallery ATH Ulvenhout, the Netherlands, drawings. Animayo festival Gran canaria, screening Broken Horizon. Europetour with CosyMo’s solar cinema screening Broken Horizon. FilmbankTV, the Netherlands, screening Broken Horizon. Victoria Film festival, Canada. Screening Broken Horizon.

2009 NFF, Dutch filmfestival Utrecht (NL), screening Broken Horizon. CasZuidas urbanscreen filmfestival Amsterdam (NL), screening Broken Horizon. Museum Gouda (NL), expo NL 2, installation Worlds in itself, drawings, Saljoetsilo Ars elektronica, Human nature. Filmfestival Austria (NL), screening Broken Horizon. P.art of your life, Zwolle (NL), installation Worlds in itself, drawings, Saljoetsilo. Future shorts Filmfestival, Amsterdam (NL), screening Broken Horizon.

2008 Verkadefabriek Den Bosch (NL), Screening animation Broken Horizon during Filmbanktour. Filmhouse Lux, Nijmegen (NL). Screening animation Broken Horizon, Dziga Kinoglaz, Nijmegen Exhibition at CBK, centre of contemporary art, Nijmegen (NL), animation installation ‘Worlds in itself’ Exibition, Mono no aware installation at Judy Straten gallery, Horst (NL). Viva filmfestival, MOca Shanghai China, screening “Campsite Hortus” Viva filmfestival, Hara museum Tokyo Japan, screening “Campsite Hortus” Groupexhibition Gallery Judy Straten, Horst (NL), animation installation ‘Worlds in itself’ Kunstvlaai Amsterdam, art festival (NL), screening Saljoetsilo.

2007 VIVA filmfestival Spain, screening animation Campsite Hortus. Jong Land, groupexhibition, Annapaulowna (NL) , animation installation Worlds in itself and drawings. Zapping, Grafic studio Eindhoven, (NL) Working period with presentation of the installation Mono no aware Telling tale, CBK Den Bosch (NL), animation installation Worlds in itself W139 gallery Amsterdam (NL). "One; & the other painting", animation installation Worlds in itself.

2006 Art festival Kunstvlaai 06, Amsterdam. Performance “Earthpower" , short film title: Saljoetsilo. VIVA festival, Hara Museum of contemporary art, Tokyo Screening Noorderparkfestival, Am- sterdam, the Netherlands. installation Tablecircuit, a community art project with the music-composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven. Kunstvlaai 06, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. "Performance “Earthpower" VIVA-festival Huelva, Spain, Screening short film, title: Saljoetsilo.

Commissions/collections: 2018 / Animation for Terje Isungset 2018 / Animation for Røyst Trio 2017/ Video installation (animation Meet Me There) for Care organisation ORO in The Netherlands. 2016 / Animation for Building Instrument 2016 / Privat art collection Norway. (Painting) 2014 / Privat art collection London. (drawing) 2014 / Art collection of Haugesund Kunstforening, Norway. (Animations) 2014 / Privat collection, the Netherlands. (drawing) 2013 / Privat collection, Norway. (drawing) 2012 / Privat collection, the Netherlands. (drawing) 2012 / Film collection of EYE institute Amsterdam. (Animations) 2011 / Art collection of Kvam Herad, Norway. (drawings) 2008 / Commission from Dziga, for Broken Horizon animation 2007 / Commission from Lazy Marie Utrecht of a large 4- channel videoprojection for the videowall#9. 2006 / Young Designers&Industry, Amsterdam, concept for art in public space, Amsterdam. 2006 / Installation in the Noorderpark in Amsterdam, tablecircuit. 2006 / Youththeatre Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Video installation in the youth theatre, an assignment of, Dziga Nijmegen. 2005 / Short film, with music of composer Arjan Eldering. 2003 / Short film, with poem ´Transformer´ of Tjitse Hofman, Dziga, the Netherlands.

Publications 2017 / Publication catalogue and NBK Billedkunst, Høstutstillingen. 2017 / Klassekampen, article about Høstutstillingen. 2017 / folkeblad, article about Vestlandsutstillingen 17 at Kabuso Øystese, Norway. 2016 / Publication catalogue of International Film Festival Minikino, Bali Indonesia. 2016 / Publication catalogue of Green Film Festival Seoul, Korea. 2016 / Publication catalogue of International Nature Film Festival, Gödöllő, Hungary. 2015 / Publication DVD of POFF Film Festival, Pori, Finland. 2014 / Mission 014, catalogue for Ostrale Dresden. Published by Spartnic, Weightless Artists Association. 2014 / Art Calen- der, curated by Joanneke Meester 2014 / Klassenkampen, photo of solo exhibition at Haugesund Billedgalleri. 2013 / Hordaland folkeblad, review solo exhibition at Galleri Puls. 2012 / Gelderlander, The Netherlands. Article about the performance Skrelle poteter med bestemor. 2012 / Gelderlander, The Netherlands. Spreadsheet article about performance Bestemor. 2012 / Hordaland folkeblad, Norway. Frontpage article about Fykse kunstvandring with my performance Bestemor. 2011/ Hordaland folkeblad, Norway. Article about the solo exhibition in Hardanger Kunstsenter Norheimsund. 2010/ Hordaland folkeblad, Norway. Article about winning the golden apple during the Hardanger Filmfestival. 2009/ Catalogue NFF Utrecht with “Broken Horizon”. 2008/ Catalogue Holland animation festival with “Broken Horizon”. 2007/ 8weekly.nl review “Planisphere”. 2007/ Sapsite.nl review “Planisphere”. 2007/ AD newspaper, Artikel Videowall “Planisphere”. 2007/ Utrechts newspaper, Artikel Videowall “Planisphere”. 2007/ NRC, newspaper Videowall “Planisphere” Utrecht. 2006 / Publication Young designers&Industry, Amsterdam

2006/ Publication Kunstenaars&co Amsterdam.

Other 2017 / VJ (with animations) for Building Instrument. Hordaland school project. 2016 / VJ (with animations) for Mari Kvien Brunvoll and Building Instrument. (Kabuso, Kjøtt og Østre, Bergen) 2016 - present Barneverksted Kabuso, Øystese. Norway. 2015 - present Studio Hooymans, graphic- and webdesign studio 2015 - 2016 Teacher Kulturskule, Kunstnarhuset Messen, Norway. 2015 / Guestteacher Photography at HAKU Hardanger Art school, Norheimsund, Norway. 2014 -2015 Smack - Graphic design duo. Div. commissions. 2014 / Guestteacher Wordpress at HAKU Hardanger Art school, Norheimsund, Norway. 2014 / Guestteacher Animation at HAKU Hardanger Art school, Norheimsund, Norway. 2013 / Guestteacher Animation at HAKU Hardanger Art school, Norheimsund, Norway. 2012 / Drawing workshop for pupils of the dutch school in Bergen, at Messen Ålvik, Norway. 2011/ Animation workshop for pupils of primary school Wijchen, the Netherlands. 2012 - present Active in the workgroup of Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik