Katía Truijen (NL, 1990) is a media researcher, curator and musician based in Rotterdam, often taking the train. Her work is concerned with bringing people together around practices of listening, archiving, and rehearsing alternative urban, technological and ecological futures. She develops public formats – from public programmes, performances and parties to publications – always situated and in collaboration with others.

Katía is co-founder of interdisciplinary platform //\ hoekhuis with Sjaak Douma, and she is part of Loom, practice for cultural transformation.
She curates the context programme for Rewire festival, and is research tutor at the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut.

In 2022, Katía co-curated the RITUAL discourse programme for Rewire festival, the conference on MUTATION as part of FIBER Festival, and worked as co-researcher on CRAFTED, on archiving the tacit knowledge surrounding analogue audiovisual production, with the Vrije Universiteit and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.

Between 2014 and 2021, Katía developed research projects and public programmes within Het Nieuwe Instituut’s research department. She was assistant curator for Work, Body, Leisure, the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale (2018), and co-editor of Architecture of Appropriation: On Squatting as Spatial Practice (2019) and For the Record: On the Politics of Music Video Culture (2021). In 2022 she co-curated and co-organized Housing Futures, a weekend on spatial strategies for alternative forms of living.

Katía has published about digital culture, artistic research, architecture and design for among others Sonic Acts, Boekmanstichting, V2_, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Virtueel Platform, Institute of Network Cultures, IDFA DocLab, WhyNot, Frascati and FIBER. She holds an MA in New Media and Digital Cultures with her thesis Urban Dialogues (2012-2013) and graduated cum laude from the BA in Media and Culture with a Minor in Aesthetics (2008-2011) at the University of Amsterdam. She also completed the Art & Research Honours Programme at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2009-2010).

Previously, she taught at the University of Amsterdam, department of Media Studies (2013-2014), was a guest lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Design Academy Eindhoven, ArtEZ University of the Arts, de Nederlandse Filmacademie, the 25th International Philosophy Olympiad and the iMAL Urban Media Lab Symposium Brussels, and visiting critic at The Berlage Institute, Sandberg Instituut, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

Katía co-curated the Urban Summer festival (2021) and Archiweek (2020) titled Fundamental Acts together with Traumnovelle and humbble commissioned by Urban Brussels, as well as self-initiated festivals So it Goes (2019), Club Voyage (2015), Frisse Moed (2012), Het Verval (2012), and the exhibition Souvenirs at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam (Gevonden Voorwerpen, 2015).

Between 2011-2014 Katía released a series of records together with Denis Wouters, Jelle Himmelreich, Zoli Soos, Viktor Truijen, and many collaborating musicians. She joined Port of Call, with Pieter van Vliet, Tijs Kulker, Bastiaan Tichler and Edoardo Felici in 2018. Katía’s latest record Room to Stay produced with Mart Jeninga was launched in July 2020. More about Katía’s music at katia.bandcamp.com

Photo by Sjaak Douma.

CV

professional experience

  • Loom, practice for cultural transformation, partner, since 2022
    loom.ooo

  • curator context programme at Rewire festival, since 2022
    rewirefestival.nl

  • research tutor at Studio for Immediate Spaces, since 2022
    sandberg.nl

  • co-founder of //\ hoekhuis magazine, since 2021
    hoekhuismag.com

  • freelance media researcher, writer and curator
    since 2013

  • Het Nieuwe Instituut, Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Department, 2018 - 2021.

  • Het Nieuwe Instituut, Researcher, 2014 – 2018.

  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Managing Editor Design Column, 2013 – 2014.

  • University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Media Studies, Lecturer New Media, 2013 – 2014.

  • Virtueel Platform, Editor Best Practices, 2011 – 2012.

 

education

 

  • MA New Media and Digital Cultures, University of Amsterdam, 2012-2013.

    thesis Urban Dialogues. Media Interventions as Assembling Devices.

  • BA Media and Culture, University of Amsterdam, 2008-2011, cum laude.
    Minor in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Art and Culture
    thesis Amsterdam A-whereness. De Hybride Stad als Collectief Geheugen. 


  • Honours Programme Art & Research, Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, 2009-2010.

    final project Social Space

 

publications

 

  • All in It Together, collaborative publication by Rewire and Norient. Edited together with Philipp Rhensius.
    link

  • //\ hoekhuis zine 2022. Together with Sjaak Douma.
    link

  • //\ hoekhuis magazine, since 2021. Together with Sjaak Douma. hoekhuismag.com

  • About 40 years of archiving unstable media art, V2_, e-mail conversation with Arie Altena, December 2022.
    link

  • RITUAL, part of the discourse programme of Rewire Festival, April 2022. Edited with Jo Kali.

  • Truijen, Katía. Marina Otero Verzier and Delany Boutkan. For the Record: On the Politics of Music Video Culture. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2021. fortherecord.video

  • Truijen, Katía and Marina Otero Verzier. BURN-OUT. On Planetary Exhaustion and Alternative Public Infrastructures, Ardeth Magazine #08. 
www.ardeth.eu/magazines/burn-out 



  • Boer René, Marina Otero Verzier, Katía Truijen. Architecture of Appropriation. On Squatting as Spatial Practice. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2019. link

  • Truijen, Katía. Moving Through the Middle, Festival Why Not, 2019, themiddle.festivalwhynot.nl.
    In collaboration with Amos Ben-Tal and Gosse de Kort.

  • Truijen, Katía. “A Garden of Forking Images-Links-Objects”. Object and Image, 2020, object-image.com.

  • Verzier, Marina Otero, and Nick Axel. Work, Body, Leisure. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2018. Contributing researcher. link


  • Hermans, Laurie, and Katía Truijen. “Something Temporary: In Search of Circular Time.”
    APRIA Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 2021, pp. 21–21., doi:10.37198/apria.03.02.a2.

  • 
Freelance editor for online publications for IDFA DocLab, De Brakke Grond, FIBER, WhyNot and The Institute of Network Cultures, 2011-2020.

exbibitions

  • Archives at Risk, DDW 2022 and Het Nieuwe Instituut 2023. Contribution to the podcast about Emile Truijen, together with Viktor Truijen.

  • Designing the Social: Appropriation as Collective Resistance. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2021. Research and curation. 



  • Fundamental Acts. Urban Summer festival, July 2021, and Archiweek, October 2020. Commissioned by Urban Brussels. Co-curator with Traumnovelle and humbble.

  • Set Stage Screen: Realities of Postproduction, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2020. Research and curation.

  • G/D Thyself: Spirit Strategy on Raising Free Black Children, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2020. Research and curation.

  • Work, Body, Leisure, the Dutch contribution to the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2018. Assistant curator.

  • Architecture of Appropriation, International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo, 2017. Research and curation.

  • Architecture of Appropriation, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2017. Research and curation.

  • Souvenirs, Felix Meritis, 2015. Co-curator with Gevonden Voorwerpen collective.

 

workshops

 

  • Rewire Reflections: Writing about Listening. Rewire festival, 6-9 April 2023. Initiator and editor.

  • ACKnowledge Crafted Workshop. Co-researcher, with Whitney Stark and Alec Badenoch at The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, July 7 and August 31, 2022. link

  • Housing Futures. On Spatial Strategies for Alternative Forms of Living. 
Independent School for the City and Het Nieuwe Instituut. 
15 and 16 April 2022. Curator and moderator, with René Boer & Setareh Noorani. link

  • FIBER’s Reassemble Lab #3 Natural Intelligence on alternative internet infrastructures based on earthly dynamics. 10-13 March 2022. Programme lead. link

  • Porto Design Biennale Alter-Realities 2021, Workshop “For the Record, on the Politics of Design in Music Video” (Het Nieuwe Instituut). Casa da Arquitectura, Matosinhos, 24 July 2021. Workshop leader and moderator. link

  • Sonic Acts Academy, Critical Writing Workshop. Amsterdam, 2015 – 2022. Workshop facilitator and editor.

  • UrgentCity: Towards a New Vocabulary of Terms, by Amateur Cities. Firenze, Italy, 11 and 12 November 2016. Participant and speaker.

 

talks and lectures

 

  • ArtEZ Zwolle Zomerlab 2023 Troubling Time(s): Oefeningen in de Tijd, opening lecture at the Laurenskerk in Zwolle, 26 June 2023.

  • ArtEZ Studium Generale, Learning community: How do we ‘practice' time differently?, AKI Enschede, 26 April 2023. Guest speaker, with Laure van den Hout.

  • STRP festival, STRP Scenario #20: The Sound of Many Tomorrows, 13 April 2023. Moderator.

  • Rewire festival Inter/relations, context programme, 6-9 April, 2023. Curator and moderator.

  • Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, Seminar With and Beyond Music by Heloisa Amaral, 20 February 2023. Guest lecturer.

  • V2_ x Operator Radio, About 40 years of archiving unstable art, 8 December 2023. Guest speaker.

  • FIBER Festival conference MUTATION, Likeminds, Amsterdam, 16-19 June, 2022. Co-curator with Jarl Schulp and moderator with Abdelrahman (Abdo) Hassan.

  • Sandberg Instituut, Studio for Immediate Spaces (SIS), Graduation Show, June 7-8, 2022. Guest critic.

  • RITUAL, part of Rewire’s discourse programme, Page Not Found, The Hague, April 8-10, 2022. Curator and moderator with Jo Kali.

  • Ritual and Performance. Design Academy Eindhoven, 5 April 2022. Guest lecturer with Amos Ben-Tal.

  • Archiving the Social: De Digitale Stad, 17 Feburary, 2022. Moderator.

  • Archiving Tactics, Het Nieuwe Instituut, 3 Feburary, 2022. Curator and moderator with René Boer and Setareh Noorani.

  • FIBER Festival sessions Mutant Making (Saša Spačal & Orit Halpern), If This Is Our End, What Then? (Thomas D. Moynihan & Alison Sperling), There’s No Such Thing As Nature (Leanne Wijnsma & Grow Your Own Cloud). 28-30 October 2021. Moderator.

  • Moving Through the Middle. Introduction to Interval by Amos Ben-Tal & Gosse de Kort. October 2021 - January 2022. Writer and lecturer.

  • For the Record. On the Politics of Music Video Culture. Launch webpublication. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 23 September 2021. Curator and moderator with Delany Boutkan.

  • ‘Capture/Display’ Seminar.
 Sandberg Instituut, Studio for Immediate Spaces. 20 October, 2021. Visiting tutor.



  • Remote Reading Room: A Black Gaze with Tina Campt.
    Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2 September 2021. Curator and moderator.

  • For the Record: The Politics of Design in Music Video with Sara Graça, Vasco Mendes, Maria Reis and Sreya. Porto Design Biennale 2021, Maus Hábitos Porto, 23 July 2021. Curator and moderator.

  • Remote Reading Room: Wild Things with Jack Halberstam. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 3 June 2021. Curator and moderator.

  • For the Record: In Another Setting. Rewire festival and Het Nieuwe Instituut, 7 May 2021. Co-curator and moderator with Jo Kali.

  • ‘Space, Television, and Architecture’ Seminar.
 The Berlage, TU Delft, 17 June 2020. Visiting critic.

  • MA Critical Inquiry Lab. Design Academy Eindhoven, 13 February 2020. Visiting tutor.

  • For the Record: Rendering Climate. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 19 December 2019. Curator and moderator.

  • Frames of Resistance Symposium.
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, 6 September 2019. Speaker.

  • Mercurial Algorithms. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 27 June 2019. Co-curator and moderator with Anastasia Kubrak.

  • Remote Reading Room: The Mushroom at the End of the World with Anna Tsing. Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2 May 2019. Curator and moderator.

  • Screen Spaces: a Geography of Moving Image. Anthology Film Archives, New York City, 1 December 2018. Speaker.

  • A/Z NIGHT #7 – The Future of Work. 
Z33, Hasselt, 9 October 2018. Speaker.

  • The Body and Borders with WhyNot, Arcam, Amsterdam, September 30, 2018. Speaker, with Marina Otero Verzier.

  • Architecture of Appropriation. ICAM Conference. Copenhagen, 10 September 2018. Speaker, with Marina Otero Verzier.

  • About: blank for The Hmm, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, 25 April 2018. Speaker.

  • Automated Environments. Feminist Futures.
 Royal Academy of Arts, London, 5 March 2018. Speaker, with Marina Otero Verzier.

  • Work, Body, Leisure. MA Interior Architecture. ArtEZ University of the Arts, Zwolle, 14 January 2018. Guest lecturer.

  • Architecture of Appropriation: on documenting collective, precarious, and criminalised urban practices. Seminar, International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo. 4 – 7 November 2017. Speaker, with René Boer and Marina Otero Verzier.

  • Architecture of Appropriation, MuseumNext Conference. De Doelen, Rotterdam, 27 June 2017. Speaker, with Marina Otero Verzier.

  • Squatting as Spatial Practice. MA Urban History. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2 November 2017. Guest lecturer.

  • Architecture of Appropriation. The 25th International Philosophy Olympiad. Rotterdam, 27 May 2017. Speaker.

  • Archiving Tactics, Sandberg Forum.
 Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, 16 June 2016. Speaker.

  • Modern Love, The Life Fair. Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, 15 April 2016. Speaker. 


  • Urban Dialogues. Urban Media Lab Symposium. IMAL, Brussels, 13-14 June 2014. Speaker.

  • Online Stories. De Nederlandse Filmacademie, Amsterdam, 14 February 2014. Guest lecturer.

music

  • Katía, since 2004
, link

    • Sights, album (2011)

    • Part of the Plan, EP (2012)

    • Fall/Awake, EP (2012)

    • Hide the House, EP (2013)

    • Boats to Go, EP (2014)

    • Room to Stay, EP (2020)

    • days have no numbers (2022)

  • Port of Call, since 2018, link


    • The Breeze, album (2022)


  • Analogue Dear
, link

    • Feel the Same (2021), featuring artist

selection and advisory committees

  • WdKA Research Award 2023. Jury member.

  • Doctoral defense Katharina Smets Between You and Me, University of Antwerp, 20 May 2023. Jury member.

  • WdKA Research Award 2022. Jury member.

  • Sandberg Institute, Studio for Immediate Spaces Graduation Show, June 7-8, 2022. Guest critic.

  • Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, advisory committee 1-2 year activities programme, festivals and public presentations, and professionalisation, since 2022.

  • Research Residency ‘For the Record: the Politics of Design in Music Video and TV’ Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Het Nieuwe Instituut, November 2020. Member of the selection committee.

  • Open Archief Residency, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2019. Member of the selection committee.

  • Annual Call for Fellows, Het Nieuwe Instituut. Pre-selection team and chair Jury meeting, 2016-2021

 

other positions

 

  • Kobranie. Board member, since 2022

  • Creative Coding Utrecht. Board member, 2020-2022

  • Amateur Cities. Board member, 2021-2023

 

internships

 

  • Virtueel Platform, Internship as web editor, 2011.

  • CJP, Internship as editor for CJP Magazine and Volkskrant CJP/Parade, 2009.

  • HUMAN / NPS Cultura, Internship editor OBA Live for NPS Cultura, 2009.