Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025)

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits
papier-mâché sculpture
300 x 200 cm
2025

Why I Want to Fingerbang Hegel
paper booklet
20 x 30 cmx
2025

Ötza's (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction
multimedia installation
2024


Installation assistants: Matteo Rattini and Inne Feenstra
Soundscape by Thessa Thorsing (Upsammy)

(multimedia installation)

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

Why I Want To Fingerbang Hegel (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Why I Want To Fingerbang Hegel” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Ötza's (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025)

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits
papier-mâché sculpture
300 x 200 cm
2025

Why I Want to Fingerbang Hegel
paper booklet
20 x 30 cmx
2025

Ötza's (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction
multimedia installation
2024


Installation assistants: Matteo Rattini and Inne Feenstra
Soundscape by Thessa Thorsing (Upsammy)

(multimedia installation)

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

Why I Want To Fingerbang Hegel (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Why I Want To Fingerbang Hegel” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

Burial of the Primitive Double: Wim Hof Doing the Splits (2025) Ötza / Levi van Gelder

“Ötza's (posthu-) Man Cave of Theory-Fiction” at Offspring 2025, De Ateliers, curated by Eliel Jones (2025) — Photographed by Giovanni Salice

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.
Levi van Gelder