A solo show by Vita Soul Wilmering - opening during Hoogtij: 29 May, 19:00-23:00

In Mixed Feelings, Vita Soul Wilmering (1996) plays with the boundary between documentary and fiction filmmaking. Through this particular mode of storytelling—at times playful, at times disorienting—she offers a through-line of memory and present experiences; of imagination and raw intimacy; of reminiscing and re-enactment. Mixed Feelings approaches entangled relationships (the familial, romantic, estranged and friendly) with honesty—investigating loss and absence, as well as family history, love and affection.

For this exhibition, Vita Soul Wilmering has created a spatial collage of shifting film scenes, centred around themes of intimacy, memory and re-enactment. The six-channel video installation features fragments of the artist’s earlier films, current work in progress, and never-before-shown footage from Wilmering’s own archive. Mixed Feelings includes fragments from the films (un)scripted (2024), The failed holiday: episode 10 (2021), Spiegl (2021), Insomnia (2026), Dear Athanase (in progress) and Zonder (2014).

Side programme and guest talks

Alongside the exhibition, Vita Soul Wilmering invited three people to give a talk about their work. Coming from fields as diverse as medicine, poetry, and historical research, each speaker engages with intimate or deeply personal themes at the heart of their work. In different ways, their talks echo the themes of the exhibition. The talks will be held in English.

5 June, 18:00 - The matter of solidarity; solidarity matters - Sudha Rajagopalan

When is a cup of tea not merely a beverage? Sudha Rajagopalan is a historian and digital media scholar. She works in the field of cultural studies with an interest in the former Soviet region and the Global South.

13 June, 14:00 - Rethinking illness through art, science and experience - Vera Liselotte Broek

Vera Liselotte Broek is a biomedical scientist and violist and sees the world through a lens of creativity. She reimagines boundaries between art and medicine, placing lived experience at the centre of her work.

20 June, 16:00 - Queer poetics of trust - Parel Joy

Parel Joy is a poet, zinemaker and translator who works to spread lesbian poetics to the masses and write about love through myth and the fantastical.