The Offering - A Meditation
Made with Catherine Henegan and Erik Hobijn, May 2008


CV of Ritsaert ten Cate (1938, Almelo - 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Solo Exhibitions
Murcia, Spain, Vespers Installation in Murcia Cathedral, 1986
Reuten Galerie, Amsterdam, 1996
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, 1996
Festival desArts, Brussel, 1998
Galerie Reuten, Amsterdam, 1998
Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, October / November 2001
Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, November/ December 2001
La Mama La Galleria, New York February / March 2002
Galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, March / April, 2002
Gallery Reuten, Amsterdam, 2002
Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Presentation 4 Studio Spaces 2003
Mediamatic, Amsterdam, Presentation Book "Just About Now" with an installation based on
my work by Catherine Hennegan, September 2003
Alle Dagen Feest, Window Gallery Walter van Beirendonck, Antwerp, 2003
Traders Pop Gallery, Maastricht, 2004
De Beyerd, Breda, "Crash Course", 2004
Adenhauer Stiftung Berlijn, "Pax", 2004
Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, 2004
Art Fair, Gallerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, 2004
Het Torentje, Almelo, "Pax & Peace and Etc.", 2005
Museum van Nagsael, Rotterdam, 2005
Galerie Reuten, Amsterdam, 2006

Group Shows
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1997
Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, 1997
Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1998
Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, 2001/2002
PS1 / Moma, Clocktower, New York, 2002
Exit Art, New York, January 26 / March 30 2002
Stadsgallerij Heerlen, November 2001 / January 2002
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, November 2001/January 2002
Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, with Erzsebet Baerveldt
Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, with Ine Lamers 2003
Cargo, Almere with Bik vander Pol, Ronald van Tienhoven, Joke Robaart,
Joost Grootens, july/august 2003
Window Gallery Walter van Beirendonck, Antwerp sept/nov 2003
Bak, Centrum voor beeldende Kunst, World Question Centre (Reloaded), 2003
Artwalk, Amsterdam, Images of Desire 3, 2003
Open Dagen, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2003
De Lustwarande, Tilburg, 2004
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/TBA, Channel Zero, Amsterdam, 2004
Tent./Witte de With, Tracer, Rotterdam, 2004
Memory Sticks!, Galerie Reuten, Amsterdam, 2004
At years end, rethinking The Family of Man, De Appel, Amsterdam, 2004
Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, "Me, myself and I", 2005
Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 2005

Curated Shows
Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Tent./Witte de With, Tracer, Rotterdam, 2004
De Appel, Amsterdam, At years end, rethinking The Family of Man, 2004

Grants
Scholarship, Fonds voor de Beeldende Kunsten Vormgeving en Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, 2000
Scholarship, Rijksakademie Trustfund, Amsterdam, 2002


CONDENSED LIST OF ROLES

As a Founder/Artistic Director
Mickery Loenersloot/Amsterdam
From December 1965 to June 1991

As a Director
1975 Fairground (with Rob van der Linden and Annemarie Pijlman)
1976 Folter Follies
1977 Vox Populi Vox Dei (a Holland Festival co-production)
1977 Cloud Cuckooland (with Shuji Teryama)
1981 Beauty and the Beast (with Pip Simmons)
1983 For The Sake of Argument Letís Suppose its 4th of May
1983 Half My Fathers Age
1985 Rembrandt and Hitler or Me
1986 Vespers

As a Designer
1971 Bloodwedding
1975 Fairground (with Rob van der Linden and Annemarie Pijlman)
1976 Folter Follies
1977 Vox Populi Vox Dei (a Holland Festival co-production)
1977 Masque of the Red Death
1980 I Used to Like This Place Before They Started all these Renovations
1981 Beauty and the Beast
1982 Sweet Dreams
1983 For the Sake of Argument Letís Suppose its 4th of May
1983 Half my Fathers age
1984 The Ballista (with Pip Simmons)
1984 Fairground in í84
1985 Rembrandt and Hitler or Me
1986 Vespers
1989 History of Theatre (part II)

As a Scriptwriter
1975 Fairground (with Rob van der Linden and Annemarie Pijlman)
1976 Folter Follies
1977 Cloud Cuckooland (with Shuji Teryama)
1981 Beauty and the Beast
1985 Rembrandt & Hitler or Me
1986 Vespers
1989 History of Theatre (part 2) with Jan Zoet

As a Creative Producer
Some hundred international productions and co-productions; not listed.

As a Film Scriptwriter
Man Alleen, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, NPS
De Val, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, NPS

As a Galerist
Mickery, Loenersloot
Seriaal, Amsterdam (with Wies Smals and Mia Visser)

As Keynote-speaker/Lecturer ( a selection)
Het Theaterfestival, The Hague
Technische Universiteit, Delft
Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany (100 Days 100 Guests Program)
International Summer Academy Bochum, Germany
IETM Lisbon, Portugal
IETM Bergen ,Norway
Federatie van Kunstenaars, Amsterdam
IETM Hamburg, Germany
ELIA Berlin, Germany
Vereniging van Theaterdirecteuren Nederland, Utrecht
LIFT London International Festival, London

As a Recipient of Prizes/Honors
Staalkaart Prize, VARA Radio Cultural programs
National Theatre Critics Prize
National Theatre Critics Prize (with Steve Austen)
EEC Culture Prize (Honoureable Mention)
Sandberg Prize, Amsterdam
Sphinx Prize, Maastricht
Bannink Cock Medal, Amsterdam
Royal Honors (Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nasau)
Fonds Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving, Bouwkunst,( Scholarship for PS1/MoMA International Visiting Artists Studio Program)
Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (Scholarship as Participant)

As an Actor
Co-production Need Company Brussels/ Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt: Anthony & Cleopatra (Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Salzburg, Vienna, Brussels)
Need Company, Brussels, Snakesong Trilogy, (Karlsruhe, Hamburg, Berlin, Brussels, New York)

As a Founder/Artistic Director of DasArts
The National Post Academic Program for Theatre Making
1993 till summer 2000

As a Publisher
Cloud Cuckooland (part II) with Tenjo Sajiki Tokio and Instituut voor Theaterwetenschappen, Amsterdam
Balshazar (Drawing Legin)
Towards a Nuclear Future (with Pip Simmons Group, London)
Mickery in Amsterdam, 1 and 2
Masque of the Red Death (with Pip Simmons Group, London)
Mickery Mouth (later joined publication with Toneel Teatraal)
Two & Two Magazine
Mickery Pictorial 1 & 2 (25 Years of Program in Mickery)
DasArts (A Book About the First Seven Years)

Publications
Man Looking for Words (by the Theater Institute Netherlands) author Ritsaert ten Cate
Ritsaert ten Cate Now (by Sphinx, Maastricht) author Gary Schwartz
Just About Know author Ritsaert ten Cate. Sponsored by Fonds Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst

Concepts
Touch Time (not a Festival, Amsterdam)
Houten Camera (Stimulerings Fonds Nederlandse Omroep Produkties)
Conference The Academy of the Future (Minerva 200.0, Groningen)
The Other Cheek (Marine Establishment den Helder and International Art Students)

Boardmemberships/ Advisor
Holland Festival
Museum Boymans van Beuningen Rotterdam
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten
Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Welfare State International
Foundation Netherlands Texas
Founding Member IETM