LEVI VAN GELDER (1995) — ARTIST/WRITER
Through working in performance, writing, sculpture and video work, Levi explores fanfiction as a tool for queer resistance and counterfactual reclamation of histories and fictions. By writing, performing and making as Ötza (5300 year old mummified fanfiction entrepreneur and drag adaptation of Ötzi the Iceman) Levi creates a subversive, post-historical rendering of the Neolithic mummy, queering (pre)history in a meta-textualized account of misrepresentation, questioning and resisting claims to truth with quick-witted storytelling and playful critique. Levi lives and works in Amsterdam.
For all inquiries, please send an email to
info@levivangelder.com
EDUCATION
Resident De Ateliers — 2024-2025
MFA Design Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam — 2018-2020
BA Product/Spatial Design HKU, Utrecht — 2017-2018
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
galeria skala, Poznan — 2025
Ötza, Offshore — solo show
if/then, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted — group show
4FSB2, Goswell Road, Paris — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted (scene 1) — group show
Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted — group show
Big Fortune, Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2024
The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991) — group show
UNFAIR24, Amsterdam — 2024
Vanity UNFAIR: The Entrepreneurial Issue — art fair (with Charlotte Rohde)
Swarm, TROPEZ, Berlin — 2024
The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991) — group show
Still Making Art vol. 7, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza and the Soft Death of Shoshanna Shapiro (and other fanfictions) — group show
Post-Facism, Semester9, Loods 6, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction — group show
Mutter, Amsterdam — 2023
Mutter Halloween Biennale — group show
Mutter, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza, Ontologically Speaking — solo show
I Swear Time Passed, Graduation Show Design Department Sandberg Instituut 2020, Het Hem Zaandam — 2020
Ecce Ötzi — group show
Media Art Festival 2017, Leeuwarden — 2017
10SC WLTZ / Dab Deco: Hyperreal Figures — group show
PERFORMANCES (selection)
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw — 2025
Lecture: Happiness (finally) after 5,300 Years of Cryodesiccation
galeria skala, Poznan — 2025
Ötza in conversation with Andrzej Marzec
Brussels Ass Book Fair, KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels — 2025
Ötza reads: The Skinny Body Without Organs
The Hmm Symposium, NDSM Theater, Amsterdam — 2025
Lecture: Happiness (finally) after 5,300 Years of Cryodesiccation
DTRH x Nest ruimte voor kunst, Beuningen — 2025
Ötza reads: The Skinny Body Without Organs
De Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2025
Ötza Definitely Understands What Affect Means
Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2025
Big Celebrity Poker Night (in collaboration with Lizzy Deacon)
Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World
Still Making Art vol. 7, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World
Post-Facism, Semester9, Loods 6, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
Hypertrove ESNS, Sign Project Space, Groningen — 2024
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
W139 hosts..., W139, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza’s Spectacular Miniskirt Reveal
Ötza, Ontologically Speaking, Mutter, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza, Ontologically Speaking
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Gives A Graduation Speech
Vermeer fest, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
De Open Dag, De School, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
Perdu, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
Big DaDa, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam — 2022
Big Other Bar (in collaboration with Andoni Zamora)
Graduation Show Sandberg Instituut 2020, Het Hem Zaandam — 2020
The Wedding (in collaboration with Francisca Khamis Giacoman) — ceremony
SCREENINGS (selection)
40weekend (micropop), Kanaal40, Amsterdam — 2023
10SC WLTZ — screening
homecinema, Rialto VU, Amsterdam — 2022
Rite of Passage — screening
WYSIWYG cinema, 'A Nice Gesture', The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague — 2022
All The Crazy Details of Kylie Jenner’s 21st Birthday Party — screening
RENEENEE, Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators film program, Amsterdam — 2022
Wendy William’s Wondrous Wax Whopper — screening
The One Minutes: Comfort and Vision (cur. by Salim Bayri) screened at; Het Nieuwe Instituut—Rotterdam (NL), Museum Hilversum, Remise Amsterdam — 2021
All The Crazy Details of Kylie Jenner’s 21st Birthday Party — screening
The One Minutes: Everything Happened So Much (cur. by Jesse Darling) screened at; Het Nieuwe Instituut—Rotterdam (NL), Reykjavík International Film Festival (IS), Kinemastik International Short Film Festival—Valetta (MT), 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE) i.a. —2020
I think If We Show This Immigration Will Immediately Give Us The Visa (in collaboration with Francisca Khamis Giacoman) — screening
The One Minutes: Martians Send Videos Home (cur. by Joseph Popper) screened at; Dortmunder U (DE), East China Normal University—Shanghai (CH), MU Eindhoven (NL), De School Amsterdam (NL) i.a. — 2019
Excavation — screening
Telemagic: 1 Euro Cinema, WORM Rotterdam (NL), Macau Design Center (MAC) KO(o)RTS short film festival, Enschede (NL) —2018
10SC WLTZ — screening
PUBLICATIONS
Woonhuis / De Ateliers Publishing — 2025
"The Skinny Body Without Organs" — publication
Do Not Research — 2024
"Ötza, Ontologically Speaking" — online publication
The Couch, het Hem — 2024
"Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World" — online publication
Outline Platform — 2024
"Ötza: Chapter 7 & 59"— online publication
PRESS
Glamcult — 2025
"Levi van Gelder for Glamcult #143" — interview
Fakewhale LOG — 2025
"Fakewhale in Dialogue with Levi van Gelder" — interview
Coeval Magazine — 2025
"The Icebound Archive: Ötza, Queer Temporalities,and the Art of Rewriting History" — article
De Groene Amsterdammer — 2025
"Een ‘thigh gap’ uit de prehistorie" — article
Artlyst — 2025
"Amsterdam Art Week 2025: The Shows/The Studios" — review group show
Metropolis M — 2025
"Of both worlds – De Ateliers OFFSPRING 2025" — review group show
Kunst is Lang — 2025
"Aflevering 321: Levi van Gelder" — podcast interview
Nasty Magazine — 2025
"Ötza" — interview
Newcoin Ecosystem — 2024
"Metaphysical Imminence, Drag and Mummification with Levi van Gelder" — interview
BAG TALK Podcast — 2024
"FANFICS + THE METHOD + WHAT WOULD SOFIA COPPOLA DO + HALLOWEEN FAILS + SPLIT PERSONALITY + IMPERSONATION" — interview
Do Not Research — 2024
"Ötza, Ontologically Speaking" — online publication
The Couch, het Hem — 2024
"Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World" — online publication
Outline Platform — 2024
"Ötza: Chapter 7 & 59"— online publication
Multifemale Megamix Podcast — 2023
"My Roman Empire"— interview
Vice NL — 2023
"IJsmummie Ötzi als hoofdpersonage in The Hunger Games en The L-Word"— interview
WORKSHOPS and TEACHING
BEAR Fine Arts, ArtEZ, Arnhem — 2025
Fanfiction as a Method (with Molly Palmer)
Design Department, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam — 2025
Fanfiction as a Method
Artistic research, KABK, The Hague — 2023
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
Design Department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam — 2023
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
UDK, Berlin (DE) — 2022
Image (derogatory) (in collaboration with Charlotte Rohde)
Bauhaus Universität, Weimar (DE) — 2022
Image (derogatory) (in collaboration with Charlotte Rohde)
Product Design, HKU, Utrecht — 2021-2023
Tutor Year 2 “Ontwerpen”
FH Salzburg (AT) — 2022
Image (derogatory) (in collaboration with Charlotte Rohde)
Design Department, Sandberg, Amsterdam — 2021
Essay cut-up (with Tina Bastajian)
RESIDENCIES
De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) — 2025
Resident
BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) — 2023
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
Workspace Brussels, Brussels (BE) — 2022
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
COLLECTIONS
Servais Family Collection, Brussels — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted
© Levi van Gelder
Designed with Lay Theme
LEVI VAN GELDER (1995) — ARTIST/WRITER
Through working in performance, writing, sculpture and video work, Levi explores fanfiction as a tool for queer resistance and counterfactual reclamation of histories and fictions. By writing, performing and making as Ötza (5300 year old mummified fanfiction entrepreneur and drag adaptation of Ötzi the Iceman) Levi creates a subversive, post-historical rendering of the Neolithic mummy, queering (pre)history in a meta-textualized account of misrepresentation, questioning and resisting claims to truth with quick-witted storytelling and playful critique. Levi lives and works in Amsterdam.
For all inquiries, please send an email to
info@levivangelder.com
EDUCATION
Resident De Ateliers — 2024-2025
MFA Design Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam — 2018-2020
BA Product/Spatial Design HKU, Utrecht — 2017-2018
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
galeria skala, Poznan — 2025
Ötza, Offshore — solo show
if/then, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted — group show
4FSB2, Goswell Road, Paris — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted (scene 1) — group show
Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted — group show
Big Fortune, Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2024
The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991) — group show
UNFAIR24, Amsterdam — 2024
Vanity UNFAIR: The Entrepreneurial Issue — art fair (with Charlotte Rohde)
Swarm, TROPEZ, Berlin — 2024
The Physical Impersonation of Fraud in the Mind of Someone ASMR Roleplaying (1991) — group show
Still Making Art vol. 7, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza and the Soft Death of Shoshanna Shapiro (and other fanfictions) — group show
Post-Facism, Semester9, Loods 6, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza’s (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction — group show
Mutter, Amsterdam — 2023
Mutter Halloween Biennale — group show
Mutter, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza, Ontologically Speaking — solo show
I Swear Time Passed, Graduation Show Design Department Sandberg Instituut 2020, Het Hem Zaandam — 2020
Ecce Ötzi — group show
Media Art Festival 2017, Leeuwarden — 2017
10SC WLTZ / Dab Deco: Hyperreal Figures — group show
PERFORMANCES (selection)
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw — 2025
Lecture: Happiness (finally) after 5,300 Years of Cryodesiccation
galeria skala, Poznan — 2025
Ötza in conversation with Andrzej Marzec
Brussels Ass Book Fair, KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels — 2025
Ötza reads: The Skinny Body Without Organs
The Hmm Symposium, NDSM Theater, Amsterdam — 2025
Lecture: Happiness (finally) after 5,300 Years of Cryodesiccation
DTRH x Nest ruimte voor kunst, Beuningen — 2025
Ötza reads: The Skinny Body Without Organs
De Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2025
Ötza Definitely Understands What Affect Means
Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2025
Big Celebrity Poker Night (in collaboration with Lizzy Deacon)
Woonhuis Ateliers, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World
Still Making Art vol. 7, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World
Post-Facism, Semester9, Loods 6, Amsterdam — 2024
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
Hypertrove ESNS, Sign Project Space, Groningen — 2024
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
W139 hosts..., W139, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza’s Spectacular Miniskirt Reveal
Ötza, Ontologically Speaking, Mutter, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza, Ontologically Speaking
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Gives A Graduation Speech
Vermeer fest, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
De Open Dag, De School, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
Perdu, Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Writes Fanfiction
Big DaDa, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam — 2022
Big Other Bar (in collaboration with Andoni Zamora)
Graduation Show Sandberg Instituut 2020, Het Hem Zaandam — 2020
The Wedding (in collaboration with Francisca Khamis Giacoman) — ceremony
SCREENINGS (selection)
40weekend (micropop), Kanaal40, Amsterdam — 2023
10SC WLTZ — screening
homecinema, Rialto VU, Amsterdam — 2022
Rite of Passage — screening
WYSIWYG cinema, 'A Nice Gesture', The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague — 2022
All The Crazy Details of Kylie Jenner’s 21st Birthday Party — screening
RENEENEE, Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators film program, Amsterdam — 2022
Wendy William’s Wondrous Wax Whopper — screening
The One Minutes: Comfort and Vision (cur. by Salim Bayri) screened at; Het Nieuwe Instituut—Rotterdam (NL), Museum Hilversum, Remise Amsterdam — 2021
All The Crazy Details of Kylie Jenner’s 21st Birthday Party — screening
The One Minutes: Everything Happened So Much (cur. by Jesse Darling) screened at; Het Nieuwe Instituut—Rotterdam (NL), Reykjavík International Film Festival (IS), Kinemastik International Short Film Festival—Valetta (MT), 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (DE) i.a. —2020
I think If We Show This Immigration Will Immediately Give Us The Visa (in collaboration with Francisca Khamis Giacoman) — screening
The One Minutes: Martians Send Videos Home (cur. by Joseph Popper) screened at; Dortmunder U (DE), East China Normal University—Shanghai (CH), MU Eindhoven (NL), De School Amsterdam (NL) i.a. — 2019
Excavation — screening
Telemagic: 1 Euro Cinema, WORM Rotterdam (NL), Macau Design Center (MAC) KO(o)RTS short film festival, Enschede (NL) —2018
10SC WLTZ — screening
PUBLICATIONS
Woonhuis / De Ateliers Publishing — 2025
"The Skinny Body Without Organs" — publication
Do Not Research — 2024
"Ötza, Ontologically Speaking" — online publication
The Couch, het Hem — 2024
"Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World" — online publication
Outline Platform — 2024
"Ötza: Chapter 7 & 59"— online publication
PRESS
Glamcult — 2025
"Levi van Gelder for Glamcult #143" — interview
Fakewhale LOG — 2025
"Fakewhale in Dialogue with Levi van Gelder" — interview
Coeval Magazine — 2025
"The Icebound Archive: Ötza, Queer Temporalities,and the Art of Rewriting History" — article
De Groene Amsterdammer — 2025
"Een ‘thigh gap’ uit de prehistorie" — article
Artlyst — 2025
"Amsterdam Art Week 2025: The Shows/The Studios" — review group show
Metropolis M — 2025
"Of both worlds – De Ateliers OFFSPRING 2025" — review group show
Kunst is Lang — 2025
"Aflevering 321: Levi van Gelder" — podcast interview
Nasty Magazine — 2025
"Ötza" — interview
Newcoin Ecosystem — 2024
"Metaphysical Imminence, Drag and Mummification with Levi van Gelder" — interview
BAG TALK Podcast — 2024
"FANFICS + THE METHOD + WHAT WOULD SOFIA COPPOLA DO + HALLOWEEN FAILS + SPLIT PERSONALITY + IMPERSONATION" — interview
Do Not Research — 2024
"Ötza, Ontologically Speaking" — online publication
The Couch, het Hem — 2024
"Ötza and the Open-Ended Becoming of the World" — online publication
Outline Platform — 2024
"Ötza: Chapter 7 & 59"— online publication
Multifemale Megamix Podcast — 2023
"My Roman Empire"— interview
Vice NL — 2023
"IJsmummie Ötzi als hoofdpersonage in The Hunger Games en The L-Word"— interview
WORKSHOPS and TEACHING
BEAR Fine Arts, ArtEZ, Arnhem — 2025
Fanfiction as a Method (with Molly Palmer)
Design Department, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam — 2025
Fanfiction as a Method
Artistic research, KABK, The Hague — 2023
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
Design Department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam — 2023
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
UDK, Berlin (DE) — 2022
Image (derogatory) (in collaboration with Charlotte Rohde)
Bauhaus Universität, Weimar (DE) — 2022
Image (derogatory) (in collaboration with Charlotte Rohde)
Product Design, HKU, Utrecht — 2021-2023
Tutor Year 2 “Ontwerpen”
FH Salzburg (AT) — 2022
Image (derogatory) (in collaboration with Charlotte Rohde)
Design Department, Sandberg, Amsterdam — 2021
Essay cut-up (with Tina Bastajian)
RESIDENCIES
De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) — 2025
Resident
BUDA, Kortrijk (BE) — 2023
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
Workspace Brussels, Brussels (BE) — 2022
CCC (in collaboration with Heleen Mineur)
COLLECTIONS
Servais Family Collection, Brussels — 2025
Ötza, Uninterrupted
© Levi van Gelder
Designed with Lay Theme
