Beftival Collaborators

My name is Olga. I design worlds - on paper, in performances and/or projects - which explore and question our feelings and imagination. With my background in the sociology of childhood and children’s...

Ine Poppe is a writer, teacher, journalist and artist. Ine is involved in several cross-media projects and part of the organisation of Beftival. 

Jin Lee (1990, KR) is an object designer currently living and working in the Netherlands who has recently graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Jin Lee’s work sits between serious...

Pleun van Dijk is a speculative artist/designer in the middle of the moving and changing world. By observing and analysing moments of transition within society she tries to generate new thoughts and...

'Nelke Mast (alias NELLY DANSEN) is a 23-year-old multidisciplinary artist currently studying for a Master of Artscience at KABK. Nelke’s practice is primarily characterised by researching erotic...

Eva Schippers [1980] graduated with her Master's in 2010 from the Dutch Art Institute [DAI], and her multidisciplinary practice revolves around the notion of EMERGENCY. Her work is recently shown at...

Sam Nemeth (Rotterdam, 1962) is a filmmaker, journalist, designer, and scientist who conducts research in the field of tangible interfaces: a tangible alternative to the mouse, keyboard, and computer...

Sally Fenaux Barleycorn is a multicultural and international screenwriter, director, educator and diversity consultant with more than a decade of professional experience in the film industry. Her...

Bebe Melkor-Kadior is a pluridisciplinary performance artist and pro-choice afro feminist author. From fire breathing to sword swallowing and adult films performances, she works with her body as to...

Annika Hagen or 'Kaatje' (b. 1997) is an artist who is based everywhere and nowhere. She wants her art to caress you, shock you, make you shiver or do all that at the same time. The College of Arts...

An original generalist from the metropolis of Rotterdam with a deep love for words and threads. She likes to play with expectations and loves strong stories. Experienced in multi-platform projects...

Vicky De Visser achieved her BA in Art History (2012) at the Catholic University of Leuven, BA in Graphic design (2016), and a Master in Audiovisual Performance Art (2018) at Sint Lucas University...

Spill Gold is a female musical duo that plays with the contrast between darkness and light, playfulness and control and uses these to make the audience move like a body and to bring them into ecstasy...

Thijske Akerboom is an artist from Amsterdam. She works with latex in a wearable and sculptural context and has a fascination for bodies and shapes and how they relate or seem to contradict.

Irma is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Rotterdam with a background in Fine Art, Scenography and Body Work. She specializes in making plaster body masks of women. Through the material and...

Lana Prins explores, questions and visualizes topics such as love, lust, gender and the female body through her photography.

Daphne Gakes is an artist and a writer with her own book and show of the same name “Ik Daphne Gakes”. Gakes is very influential in what she does and has her own podcast as well called “Between the...

Amber Rahantoknam, also known as AMBIGOU,   is a multi-disciplinary maker mixing text and image through illustration and poetry. 

Bert Sliggers was curator of Teylers Museum for much of his life and thus responsible for a large number of exhibitions and accompanying books. As guest curator he is now associated with the Museum...

Victor Engbers was born in 1970 in the south of the Netherlands and studied law before he became a journalist. Only at 40 did he decided to become an artist. His work is about changing perspectives

Clarissa Smith is Professor in Media at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research has focused on sexual media and representations and she is particularly interested in the ways in which...

Julia Schmitz (1993) is a filmmaker with a great fascination for the process of imaging and the construction of stories. In her associative films, she often explores complex subjects, such as sexual...

Yacinth Pos is a designer and cook with a practice focused on the social, political and cultural field through a research driven approach. She explores social narratives within multiple media and...

Laura van Zuylen (1988) has been working as a film journalist for, among others, De Filmkrant for almost fifteen years. Her pieces have a feminist slant and she is specifically interested in gender.

Hester Scheurwater (1971) studied monumental art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Under the guise of self-portraits, she investigates and critiques the role of a woman as a sex object.

Anna Gimbrère is a Dutch science journalist and presenter. She studied theoretical physics at the University of Amsterdam. After her studies, she became a science journalist and served as an editor...

Jinnie Ahn is a visual creator who is currently studying transformation design; Her project is loosely invested in expanding her emotional journey as a human being in an unfamiliar atmosphere. She...

Julia Leis Lap is a multidisciplinary designer with Spanish and Dutch roots, currently based in Rotterdam. With a background in illustration, she integrates absurdism in her practice to create eye

Eline Salden is a visual artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Currently studying Transformation Design, her work focuses on coming of age moments, such as intimacy, pressure from outside...

As a young artist I am on an journey where I look for moments that make me feel free. Making art and observing my surroundings is a big part of continuously rediscovering this state of elevation. The...

Susanne is.a conceptual creative, and currently studying Advertising at the Willem de Kooning Academy.  

Sexyland World is een cul­tureel club­huis voor het cre­atieve leven met door­lopende pro­gram­mer­ing. Een plek waarin gelijk­waardigheid, niet com­peti­tie de dri­jfveer is en dag en nacht elka­ars...

Melanie Bonajo exams the paradoxes inherent in our future-based ideas of comfort. Through her photographs, performances, videos and installations Bonajo examines subjects related to progress that...

Shari Klein is a voice artist, intimacy coach and founder of the Pleasure Society. 

PISSWIFE is a collective of artists, queers & feminists based in Amsterdam. They make zines, totes, prints and artworks and organise workshops, talks, parties and exhibitions. 

Mavi Veloso is a performer, singer, actress, dancer and visual artist

Noemi Calzavara is a freelance dancer artist. 

I work at night, I'm a producer at Ultrasexi. I'm passionate about Nightlife as a creative platform, laboratory for ideas & dreams, A place where diffrent expertise meet to have fun and (unconscious...

Barbara van Ittersum (1965) studied painting, graphic and audiovisual design before she decided to specialize herself in photography at the University for the Arts in Utrecht (HKU).  She has been...