Born in 1990, Blaricum,The Netherlands. Graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2014 & MA Artistic Research through Cinema, Cum Laude,The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam. Lives and works in Sevilla, Spain. Founder of artist in residence program LA CASA CUADRADA and the foundation DESCUADRE in El Coronil, Sevilla.
I’m Lisa Marie Vlietstra, an artist and visual activist specializing in film and photography.
Dutch (Amsterdam) living in Andalusia for six years. With a degree in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam) and a master’s degree in experimental film from the Netherlands Film Academy. (Amsterdam)
After finishing my master’s degree, I came to Andalusia, to a rural town near Seville (El Coronil),
to start the art residency ̈La Casa Cuadrada ̈ with a focus on audiovisuals and social participation.
With the house as a hub, she started the ̈ Descuadre ̈ foundation focused particularly on female artists who seek connection with women and girls in the area.
Through my personal artistic practice I aspire to (self)reflection on “showing” oneself and all the ways women choose to do so. I invite women to collectively rethink the way we are conditioned to see and show ourselves.
Licenses and awards
2015-2017 MA Artistic Research through Cinema, Cum Laude,The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam. 2010-2014 BA Photography, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. 2013 Honoursprogram ‘Cracking Cobra’, A collaboration between the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
2014 Start Point Prize award DOX Center for Contemporary Art Prague (Prize For Emerging Artists)
2014 Public Prize award Ron Mandos Best Of Graduates (Public’s Favorite)
2014 Nomination Steenbergen Stipendium (Prize For Photography Talent)
exhibitions
2024 – art today oficial – empower her art forum, cairo, egypt
2022 – cluster photography and print, london, england
2022 – fair saturday festival 2022, huelva, huelva, spain
2021 – fair saturday festival 2021, huelva, huelva, spain
2021 – mudi in arte 2021, salerno, italy
2021 – the holy art, momentum, london, england
2021 – round lemon zest hall body, london, england
2020 – winterexhibition2020, pachamama collective, london, england
2020 – online fair saturday festival, huelva, huelva, spain
2020 – its pink! budapest art week, charbon art café, budapest, hungary
2017 – master of film artistic research week, framing traces, eye filmmuseum, amsterdam, netherlands
2016 – the archive as a place to play, eye filmmuseum, amsterdam, netherlands
2015 – started 2015 residents of startpoint prize, gavucheb, cheb, czech republic
2015 – ‘ensayo para una exposición’, combo, córdoba, spain
2015 – ‘lo consultamos durmiendo’, la fragua the forge a.i.r., belalcázar, córdoba, spain
2015 – open studio’s 33oc, officina creativa a.i.r., toffia, rieti, italy
2015 – its liquid group, liquid rooms the labyrinth, palazzo ca’ zanardi, venice art house gallery, venice, italy
2014 – screening #toff the online film festival, netherlands
2014 – screening short of the month online film festival, netherlands
2014 – booklaunch gup new talent 2015, art l’hotel, 5&33 gallery, claire / lisa-marie vlietstra & jannemarein renout, amsterdam, netherlands
2014 – grid fotoweek fotoflash expo, basisbureau tolstraat, amsterdam, claire / lisa-marie vlietstra & jannemarein renout
2014 – cbk fotofestival schiedam, schiedam, netherlands
2014 – start point prize, dox center for contemporary art, prague, czech republic
2014 – steenbergen stipendium, het nederlands fotomuseum, rotterdam, netherlands
2014 – best of graduates gallerie ron mandos, amsterdam, netherlands
2014 – graduation show 2014, gerrit rietveld academie, amsterdam, netherlands
2014 – constant companion, rietveld in the old church, claire / lisa-marie vlietstra & jannemarein renout, amsterdam, netherlands
2013 – overal/avral part ii, butcher’s tears, amsterdam, netherlands
2013 – overal/avral in collaboration with fotodepartament, chetvert, saint petersburg, russia
2013 – untersicht, die hochschule für bildende künste hamburg (hfbk), hamburg, germany
2013 – ‘cracking cobra’, a collaboration with the cobra museum, amstelveen, netherlands
2013 – manifestation #1, de slang, amsterdam, netherlands
2013 – playing with reality, vetterstraat 66, amsterdam, netherlands
2012 – rietveld uncut ‘the making of’, vlaams cultuurhuis de brakke grond, claire / lisa-marie vlietstra & jannemarein renout, amsterdam, netherlands
2012 – pop-up bookstore, galerie de schans, amsterdam, netherlands
2012 – foto expositie, galerie de schans, amsterdam, netherlands
FOUNDATION DESCUADRE
I, Lisa, founder of The Square House, photographer, filmmaker and undeniably a woman, arrived in El Coronil with the purpose of creating a creative space, a cultural and social pillar in a small municipality. The objective: to provide a breath of fresh air and open up a conversation on (in my eyes) important social issues. I wanted to provide a stage for talent and creativity in this particular rural area, where we all know, it is less viable to dedicate oneself solely to the arts as a full-time profession, and where certain themes continue being taboo.
The culture shock I experienced between the culture from a young woman living in Amsterdam trying to integrate in El Coronil was overwhelming with one fundamental consequence: I had never been so aware of being a woman, and what that could mean for better or worse in my path as an entrepreneur, artist and individual.
That feeling became my motivation to develop my personal artistic practice and focus La Casa Cuadrada on the well-being of women, contributing to the community of girls and women in El Coronil. With this goal five strong and creative women founded the foundation Descuadre (not level) with The Square House as our home base. Our organization tries to level the playing field of the presentation of women in the arts as opposed to the representation of male artists in the art world.
With Descuadre we seek female artistic intervention in rural areas of Seville, Andalusia working exclusively with women. Each artist will address a topic that negatively or positively influences the well-being of women today.
With our specialized residency program ¨Mujer Magenta¨ (Magenta Woman) we encourage them to reflect on their current artistic practice in relation to the following possible topics: feminism, sexism, misogynistic culture, sexuality, pornography, body dysmorphia, pre-menstrual disorders, emotional well being, coaching in assertiveness. Education on social media, self-esteem, authenticity, security, the history of value of women over time, biology of the female body, personal and professional development.
In addition to developing their research and creating an artwork as a posible outcome, we give each artist the responsibility of developing and hosting a workshop and to organize a preferably interactive exhibition. This initiative will seek to ensure the participation and involvement of the female community in the region, focusing on young women, adolescents, and young adults, depending on the project, the reflection of each artist and their imagined demographic.
