I am a filmmaker and artistic archeologist based in Rotterdam (NL). I graduated with a BFA in Audio-Visual Arts from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL) in 2012 and hold a MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University (UK) in 2016.

I believe in the revealing value of long-term research. The deep dive into complex matter is an important part of my work process. With my film and video projects I want to make complex (invisible) social, political and economical issues visible. My work often arises from the question; what remains after a war and what is the impact of these remains on people and nature?
I am working as an artistic archeologist digging through our most recent history. Before it is nostalgic, before it is a story that lies generations before us. Not only to demystify, but to make the mediated and almost historicized and perhaps forgotten reality personal again.

I initiate workshops for children and youngsters and I am always interested in starting new collaborations.

Feel free to get in touch with me at
katjaverheul@gmail.com.
I have shown my work at IFFR (NL), RIFF (IS), Visions du Réel (CH), Kasseler Dokfest (DE), Short Film Festival Oberhauisen (DE), Dokufest (KS), New Wight Biennial (USA), MAXXI (IT), Yarat Contemporary Art Centre (AZ), Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), LAZNIA Center for Contemporary Art (PL), ART Rotterdam (NL), Visio at 11th edition of lo schermo dell’arte (IT) and on Dutch television.

I was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie (2018-2019), Yarat Contemporary Art Centre (2019) and a participant at FilmForward (2020-2021).

My work has been supported by: Mondriaan Fonds, Nederlands Filmfonds, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, CBK Rotterdam, Gemeente Rotterdam, Stroom Den Haag, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Josine de Bruyn Kops, Dommering Fonds, Amarte, Werktuig PPO, Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport of Kosovo and Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch fonds.