Creations
2026 These Words Are to Be Read Aloud, choreography and visual installation for four performers; dance, text, sound, and fine arts; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 Speaking Spaces and Knees, duet for music and dance with MengHan Wu (violin); De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
2025 Underneath the Cello Suites, duet for music and dance with Simon Napp (cello); Amsterdam (NL) / Frankfurt am Main (DE)
2024 Dichterspodium, site-specific performance; trio for poetry, music, and dance with Lisa van Tongeren and Ditmer Weertman; Veldwerk Festival, Zaanstad (NL)
2024 Small Episodes of Sweetness, site-specific duet with Yukino Abiko; Amsterdam (NL)
2023 Bei Mir Sein, duet for music and dance by Duo Maai, with Anouk Krüger (flute); Frankfurt am Main (DE), Amsterdam (NL), Lyon (FR)
2023 Une Composition Muette – par 3 voix, music performance for three singers and visual installation; Lyon (FR)
2023 Encore Une Fois, multimedia performance with Simon Napp (cello) and Anouk Krüger (flute); Lyon (FR)
2022 This Is a Human Era, video work for three performers; Amsterdam (NL)
2021 I.I.I.I, choreography and music for four dancers; Amsterdam (NL)
Performer
2025 Borromean Rings by Roos van Berkel Producties, in collaboration with Paul Schauenburg (recorder, music composition); Mathematic Arts Conference, Eindhoven (NL)
2024 Simultaneity, Conference Dance by Min Oh & Eugene Hannah Park; De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
2024 Disambiguation by Elisa Zuppini; Amsterdam (NL)
2024 Relay Sport by Andreas Hannes; Amsterdam (NL)
2022–2023 A Line is a Dot by DD Dorvillier; tour in France
2022–2023 Study for Valeska Gert Pavilion by Eszter Salamon; Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (FR), and tour in France
2022 L’Abo by Ashley Chen; Lyon and Paris (FR)
2021 Sluyswacht by Ioannis Mandafounis; Amsterdam (NL)
Teaching
Buitenkunst Drenthe & Randmeer (NL) — diverse dance workshops
Buitenkunst Special Week Workshop — drumming, by A.T. de Keersmaeker
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL) — dance improvisation workshop
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), Karlsruhe (DE) — workshop on composition in dance and graphic design
Other
2023–2026 Graphic designer for Filmtheater de Uitkijk; Amsterdam (NL)
2024 Residency with Dai Jian, MaiOui Danse Arts (FR)
2023 Internship with DD Dorvillier (FR)
2023 Residency at Provisional School for Nothing (PT)
2021–2023 Singer in the classical choir of CNSMDL (FR)
Education
Bachelor of Contemporary Dance
Expanded Contemporary Dance (ECD), AHK, Amsterdam (NL)
Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse (CNSMD), Lyon (FR)
Bachelor of Arts and Design
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, TXT Department, Amsterdam (NL)
Pre-Bachelor of Theatre
De Theatervooropleiding Amsterdam (DTA), Amsterdam (NL)
I often refer to choreography. Questioning choreography as a medium and its terminology by the use of different media; approaching an installation, a weave or letterpress print as such. I perceive all my work as dances, choreographies. All nuances are as well choreographic tools. Compositions on paper are small dances, or big ones. A book is a moving composition navigated through time and space. I wish to create works that ‘move’, that have a time and space element and translate directly into embodied matter. Where abstractions and systems are embodied.
Susan Sontag: “We have to cut back content in order to see the whole”
I look at the sky, see the clouds, the blue, the night, stars, sun, every day again. A holding structure, gradienting at every moment, different every day and night. It manifests itself the moment it is changing, always disappearing the moment it appears.
Bojana Cvejic: “Dance is not a metaphor.”
Maren Weertman (1998, Amsterdam) is a visual artist and dancer whose practice moves nomadically between mediums and formats, weaving across disciplines without ever settling in one. She translates mathematical, linguistic, or self-invented systems into material and embodied compositions. Through analog processes such as letterpress, etching, offset printing and drawing, she explores slowness, repetition, and care as forms of resistance against immediacy. Her practice develops through a plurality of interconnected works that revisit a theme over time and across media, that are grounded in the human touch, in gestures, imperfections, and the traces of time. In her dance and performance practice, movement becomes another way to physically embody abstraction: to give form to patterns, systems, and relations. Both her practices share a fascination with how knowledge, once abstracted, can be re-embodied and how systems can become sensorial experiences. Performances are often translated into printed forms, creating tangible outco mes that extend and archive her ephemeral work.
