Mette Sterre has exhibited work at Manifesta 14 Prishtina, Amsterdam; Museum Of Modern and Contemporary Art Changdong, Seoul; and The Watermill Center, New York, among others.

Mette Sterre is currently a resident at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York until February 2027, (made possible by the Mondriaan Fund) and is also included in the forthcoming 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France from September 19 to December 13 2026.

Featured works (in order appearance)

Black Hole Empire: after the Event Horizon

2018 

performance at Black Hole Theater, Worm, Rotterdam

duration 1 hour

filmed by MINT production

music by Matthijs van Wageningen

made possible by the generous support of CBK Rotterdam & Digital Anthropology Lab London, London College of Fashion, London

Mater Matter Materials

2023

performance at Brief Encounters, Lust Warande Tilburg

performance 25 minutes

photography G. J. van Rooijen

How to catch an octopus in a broken heart

2021 

at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

performed by Peter Cripss Clark/Rex Collins/Lasse Koemans

Parading Paradolia

2025

ceramics, cam disks, motor, pulleys, mirror platforms

kinetic installation

shown at W139, Amsterdam "Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (chilling incisions calling things that have no name) "

made possible by Mondriaan Fund

photo by Pieter Kers