Samantha Pellarini
Interdisciplinary Artist & Researcher
Based in Groningen, The Netherlands
Based in Groningen, The Netherlands
Research Projects
≈ HUNZE and Other Stories: There is a river under my house!
2026–ongoing
LAND Groninger Visual Arts Stipendium 2026 — Winner. Artistic research project developed in relation to the Hunze river system.
LAND Groninger Visual Arts Stipendium 2026 — Winner. Artistic research project developed in relation to the Hunze river system.
≈ Meebewegen: Principles for Living Among Waters
2025–ongoing
Supported by Stichting Stokroos. Long-term artistic research into water relations, landscape listening, and adaptation. Development of the Rhizoaquatic Methodology.
Supported by Stichting Stokroos. Long-term artistic research into water relations, landscape listening, and adaptation. Development of the Rhizoaquatic Methodology.
≈ The Non-Human Institute for Humanity
2020–ongoing
Artistic research platform founded in 2020. Exploring non-human perspectives through performance, installation, film, and collective experimentation.
Projects, Commissions & Exhibitions
2026
≈ Blowing Into The Fish Mouth
INTO NATURE Commission
De Onlanden, Netherlands
11 September – 25 October 2026
Installation and performance work.
De Onlanden, Netherlands
11 September – 25 October 2026
Installation and performance work.
≈ SCHELDE MAGIC / River Ghost
Antwerp Art Weekend
Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp, Belgium
Performance and moving image project.
≈ SCHELDE MAGIC / River Ghost
Schelde Imaginaries commission by Niel de Vries and Nina Thielemans.
April 18 2026
Staadsmagazijn (Archive & performance, collective film experiment), Antwerp, Belgium
Staadsmagazijn (Archive & performance, collective film experiment), Antwerp, Belgium
≈ IN SITU Platform 2026
Development trajectory (BASE, Milano. Italy)
Performance presentation of Meebewegen: Principles For Living Among Waters as {AQUAA BASE}.
≈ STARFISH / BARNACLE
Performance & Installation
Everything On The Table: A Club and a Shifting World
Club VHDG / Kunstruimte H47
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Everything On The Table: A Club and a Shifting World
Club VHDG / Kunstruimte H47
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2025
≈ Vida - Вода | Hydroghosts and the Murmurs We Cannot Sea
Duo exhibition with Radina Kordova
Bierumer School
Bierum, Netherlands
Bierumer School
Bierum, Netherlands
2024
≈ Floating Nostalgia
Installation & Performance
Co-Transpose Festival
Dikea Amphitheatre, Greece
Co-Transpose Festival
Dikea Amphitheatre, Greece
≈ Naiade
Performance
Co-Transpose Festival
Dikea Amphitheatre, Greece
Co-Transpose Festival
Dikea Amphitheatre, Greece
≈ Mutable Waters
Film Screening
Millennium Film Workshop
New York, USA
Millennium Film Workshop
New York, USA
≈ 17 min to MOMA
Immersive Teleperformance Installation
DIHAN #6
New York, USA / Groningen, Netherlands
DIHAN #6
New York, USA / Groningen, Netherlands
≈ Mutable Waters
Immersive Film Installation
De Loods
Groningen, Netherlands
De Loods
Groningen, Netherlands
2023
≈ DIHAN ’23: A Gesture You Can’t Help But Make
Performance
Gallery Block C
Groningen, Netherlands
Gallery Block C
Groningen, Netherlands
≈ Mutable Waters
Film
CICA Museum
Seoul, South Korea
CICA Museum
Seoul, South Korea
≈ Mutable Waters
Film
MIMESIS International Group Exhibition
LoosenArt
Rome, Italy
MIMESIS International Group Exhibition
LoosenArt
Rome, Italy
2022–2020 (Selected)
≈ MILK: Enchanted Mills
Installation & Performance
Kunst aan de Vaart
Assen, Netherlands
2022
Kunst aan de Vaart
Assen, Netherlands
2022
≈ Maison La Garra
Performance
Noorderlicht Festival
Groningen, Netherlands
2022
Noorderlicht Festival
Groningen, Netherlands
2022
≈ The Non-Human Institute for Humanity
Installation & Performance
Young Masters, Media Art Friesland
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2021
Young Masters, Media Art Friesland
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
2021
≈ Mystical Re-Enchantments
Performance with Michiel Teeuw
Collective Wandering
Bierumer School, Netherlands
2021
Collective Wandering
Bierumer School, Netherlands
2021
≈ The Non-Human Institute for Humanity
Performance
Noorderzon / Clash Festival
Groningen, Netherlands
2021
Noorderzon / Clash Festival
Groningen, Netherlands
2021
≈ Superbody Experience
Photography
Noorderlicht: Futurama Generation Z
Museum Belvédère
Heerenveen, Netherlands
2020
Noorderlicht: Futurama Generation Z
Museum Belvédère
Heerenveen, Netherlands
2020
≈ Drilling the Blue
Performance Residency & Exhibition
Het Resort
Groningen, Netherlands
2020
Het Resort
Groningen, Netherlands
2020
Residencies
≈ VHDG Residency Programme 2026
Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Development of IMAGE(IN) WATERS: POTMARGE.
Leeuwarden, Netherlands. Development of IMAGE(IN) WATERS: POTMARGE.
≈ RHIZOAQUATICS. Vlieland Residency 2025
Self-organised residency. Part of Meebewegen: Principles for Living Among Waters. Supported by Stichting Stokroos)
≈ Bierumer School & Netwerk Cultuur & Natuur 2024
Groningen, Netherlands
Groningen, Netherlands
≈ Co-Transpose: Reclaiming Spaces 2024
Dikea, Greece
Dikea, Greece
≈ Artists in Space 2021(Online Residency)
Kunsthuis SYB / VHDG
Groningen, Netherlands
Kunsthuis SYB / VHDG
Groningen, Netherlands
≈ Kunsthuis SYB 24-hour Residency 2020
≈ Drilling the Blue. Performance in Public Space (with Michiel Teeuw)2020
Het Resort
Groningen, Netherlands
Het Resort
Groningen, Netherlands
Publications & Press
2026
2026
2026
2024
≈ Bierumer School Krant
2024
Millepiani Coworking, Rome
2023
2023
TASAWORAT
2021
2021
≈ Artist in Space (book publication)
2021
≈ Graduation Shows 2020 — Academie Minerva Review
Metropolis M
2020
2020
≈ The Graduates of Minerva Academy 2020
Kunstspot
2020
2020
2018
Awards, Grants & Support
≈ LAND Groninger Visual Arts Stipendium
Winner
2026
2026
≈ Stichting Stokroos Seed Grant
2025
≈ INTO NATURE Development Trajectory
2024
≈ Culture Moves Europe / Goethe-Institut / European Union
2024
≈ Snellocket Grant — Kunstraad Groningen
2023
≈ PICTORIGHT Steunfonds
2022
≈ Luchtstipendium — Kunstpunt Groningen
2021