is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Vienna, AT.
Her research and material-based practices take form as painting & drawing, installation, writing, performance and sound works.
Where does colour go? If we trace the use of colour ‘in-hand’ (as pigment, mineral, as a liquid medium, as a subject rather than referent) and follow its introduction into global economies, into our homes, into aesthetic hierarchies, feel with our senses where colour as light waves hold heat, we might begin to map a vast territory of relationships between the world and our selves, with the hope of extending the possibilities for communication beyond symbolic language, to attune to what might lie at the peripheries of our understanding. Can color provide a tool through which we can sing ourselves back into the world?
Helena has also been involved in the production of artist-run events, workshops, and collective arts initiatives. She has a long history of performing and writing music; most recently with Amsterdam-based performance collective Cold in Church, and experimental outfit Dagora, and spent years in North Carolina (US) and the Netherlands, curating and producing events for international and local touring musicians and film makers.
(for a comprehensive CV, please request via contact below)
MA Artistic Research
2019
Skidmore College, NY (US)
Bachelor of Science
2005
Unstable Ecologies at Oslo University Center for Environmental Humanities
Blaafarveværket Cobalt mine, Oslo, NO
2026
ROOM TONE
ListeningSensingSounding session
with Helena Dietrich
Never at Home, Vienna, AT
2026
Close But No Cigar
Group exhibition
Baracca at Hotel des Indes
the Hague, NL
2025
Kobold on the Unemployment Line
Duo exhibition with Michael Petri
PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2024
Greasing the Planets
Group exhibition
Jiuba, Amsterdam, NL
2024
BioMatters Guest Lecturer
BioLAB, AKI Academy of Art & Industry
Enschede, NL
2023, 2024
Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed
Exhibition & presentation with Daisy Madden-Wells, Lucy Cordes Engelman
Kieken Centrale, Antwerp, BE
2024
ArtLab Painting capsule course
AKI Academy of Art and Industry, Enschede, NL
2024
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Cold in Church album and album release performances
OCCII, OT301, Nieuwe Dakota, & Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, NL
2023
Whistle, and I’ll Come to You
Group Exhibition
Superweakness, the Hague, NL
2022
Studium generale lecture at ArtEZ
‘Sometimes I’m Afraid of Ruining What I Have’
on color, dyeing, and process
AKI Enschede, NL
2022
Studium generale at ArtEZ
Embodied Research writing workshop
AKI Enschede, NL
2022
And it appears to us in the dew between the thorns
Performance initiated & in collaboration with SAPLAB
ExtraCity, Antwerp, BE
2021
Reassembling what has been scattered
Collaborative performance & broadcast with Margarita Osipian
STRP Festival, Eindhoven, NL & JaJaJaNeeNeeNee radio, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Sentinels
Duo exhibition with Sissel Marie Tonn
See Lab Project Space, the Hague, NL
2020
A Stone in the Palm of the Hand & The Poetics of Space
Two collaborative performances with Margarita Osipian
W139, Amsterdam, NL & PageNotFound, the Hague, NL
2019
Better as a Chorus
KABK Artistic Research Masters exhibition curated by Shimmer, Rotterdam
Royal Academy of Art (KABK), the Hague, NL
2019
I was mostly delighted, but also a little bit afraid
Group exhibition
Quartair, the Hague, NL
2019
The On-going Conversation #5.3
Group exhibition
1646, the Hague, NL
2018
Webs of Care audio script for public artwork by Sissel Marie Tonn
the Hague, NL
2025
Production Manager (film)
Calamity’s Inn (working title) dir. Anami Schrijvers
Amsterdam, NL & Maastricht, NL
2022-2024
Second Copy Editor
Default Alpha artist book Jesse Siegel
Amsterdam, NL
2024
Team Member
W139 Artist project space
Amsterdam, NL
2017-2024
Interim Tutor BA Art History (yr 2) and BA Art Theory (yr 3)
Royal Academy of Art (KABK), the Hague, NL
2021
Research Assistant
to composer & researcher Jonathan Reus
in collaboration with Noord Nederlandse Toneel & the production of ‘Brave New World 2.0’
Groningen, NL & the Hague, NL
2019
Exhibition & Project space assistance coordinator
See Lab Project Space, the Hague, NL
2019-2024
Art Department & Props (film)
Freelance basis for Studio-B-Ams, dir. Bob Yothers
Amsterdam, NL
2018-2023
Exhibition production grant
Amsterdam, NL
2024
Stroom
PROInvest artist development grant & program
2022
Arbroath, Scotland
November, 2026
(Upcoming) The Bothy Project
Independent Residency
the Isle of Eigg, Scotland
March, 2027
Taidetila Muijala
Reila, Finland
June, 2026
Kieken Centrale
Antwerp, Belgium
2024
Penland School of Crafts
Textile & Bookbinding Residencies
2005, 2006
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