• Projects by years
  • 2024
  • das Bier in meinen Adern
  • 2023
  • re-c(O)unting I. self-exploring bodies, stories, laboratories
  • 2022
  • Ωma
  • Ĭichti@
  • fl0wr@liå
  • 2021
  • lunȧticå
  • ặnim@
  • compositions of unbroken flows
  • entangled bodies
  • 2020
  • I don’t want to tell you in front of the camera
  • 2019
  • 1n1t1@t10n
  • Dépaysment
  • a second skin
  • 2018
  • german structuralism



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about me

ella hebendanz (they/them) is a lens-based observer who weaves visual, virtual and linguistic bodies into transmedia poetry. Their work centers the corporeal, carnal, visceral, instinctive; questioning the boundaries of our individual and collective bodies. Inspired by the rhythms of movement and ritualistic practices, they use the camera and other technologies as extended mediums to capture and translate sexuality/sensuality/physicality. ella continuously gazes with one eye to the past and with the other to the future; zooming in/out on the positionality and context of their work. ella’s projects manifest as videos, installations, performances, or hybrid forms of these.


In 2021, they graduated from the BA Interactive/Media/Design at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. During their studies, they co-founded the cyber-feminist collective sWitches and explored the intersection of witchcraft and technology. ella has an ongoing collaborative practice with pamela varela, and in 2023, they won the BAD Award for their artistic-scientific research project re-c(O)unting.  So far, they have exhibited their work at diverse exhibition spaces and festivals across Europe and have their Latin American debut this winter.

 

education

2017-21, ­  B.A. Interactive / Media / Design,

Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL

2020, Exchange, Screenbased Arts,

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, ISR

 

exhibitions, performances, screenings

2024, re-c(O)unting I.,

Putópicas, Mexico City, MX (upcoming)

2024, re-c(O)unting I.,

Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MX (upcoming)

2024 lichti@,

Presentation at Mesh Festival Basel, CH

2024, re-c(O)unting I.,

Berlin Porn Film Festival, DE

2024, re-c(O)unting I.,

 Casting a Spell, SomoS, Berlin, DE

2024 Ωma,

MNMT Festival, NOR

2024, re-c(O)unting I.,

Post P_rn Arts Fest Warsaw, PL

2024, re-c(O)unting I.,

  Art Laboratory, Berlin, DE

2023-24, re-c(O)unting I.,

Bio Art & Design Award + MU, Eindhoven, NL

2023, Ωma,

Synergy Festival Amsterdam, NL;

2023, Ωma,

La Nature Festival, BE

2023, Ωma,

Joy Space, Berlin, DE

2023, milieu #05 (by Theresa Schubert),

soil conversations, Galerie im Körnerpark, DE

2022, lichti@,

Come Alive, Muntgebouw Utrecht, NL

2022, fl0wraliå,

every moment a junction, Nest, The Hague, NL

2022, composition of unbroken flows,

The New Current, Art Rotterdam, NL

2022, Ωmą,

STONEORGY Earth Rave, MU Eindhoven, NL

2021, sīîren@,

Fluid Festival Showcase, HÖR Berlin, DE

2021, lun@ticå,

Jam-Pod, Sign Project Space, Groningen, NL

2021, ănim@,

Gogbot Festival 2021, Enschede, NL

2021, composition of unbroken flows,

Graduation Festival, Royal Academy of Art, NL

2021, entangled bodies,

Intermezzo, DYAD Amsterdam, NL

2019, 1n1t1@t10n,

Life after the Warmup, The Grey Space, NL

2019, Dépaysment,

Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, NL

2018+19, Lucitopia Rural Design Challenge,

Zixi County, CHN

 

workshop facilitation

2023, Spirit Creature Rituals,

De Studio, Antwerp, BE

2022, Sonic tECkhnO-craft workshop,

iii - instrumentors inventors initiative, The Hague, NL

 

grants + awards,

2024, Research Grant,

Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, NL

2024, Travel Grant,

Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, NL

2024, Documentation Grant,

Stroom Den Haag, NL

2023, Award Winner,

Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award, NL

2022, Digital Culture Grant,

Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, NL

2021, Nomination Department Prize,

Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL

2021, Special Mention,

Young Blood Award, Gogbot Festival, Enschede, NL

2019, Holland Scholarship,

Dutch Ministry of Education and Culture

 

Publications, Podcasts

2022, Day 18, 21 Days Self - Pleasure Calendar Vol. II

Podcast episode, Skinship Berlin, DE

2021, ManifestX by sWitches,

KABK Wxtchcraft Studium Generale, NL

2021, Witchcraft & Technological Reappropriation by sWitches

Podcast episode, Black Brick Podcast, NL

2021, ặnim@ by sWitches

Podcast episode, Mushroom Radio, NL

2021, entangled bodies, ella hebendanz,

Bachelor thesis, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

 

Press

2024, Kunstcollectief sWitches: ‘We moeten technologie hacken om er zeggenschap over terug te krijgen’

by Kaat van Spaendonck in Red Pers, NL

2023, Meet the BAD Awards winners of 2023

by Redactie in Next Nature, NL

2023, ella hebendanz, pamela varela & Joris Koene - rec(O)unting

by BAD Award & MU Hybrid Art House, NL

2022, Tentoonstelling in Nest: ‘every moment a junction’

by Redactie in Konkreet Nieuws, NL

2021, KABK Graduation Show: The Female Gaze cannot be overlooked

by Dagmar Foest in Jegens & Tevens, NL

 

Photo by Leander Von Thien