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.

UPCOMING
13/09/25 – 11/10/25
4FSB2 (Goswell Road, Paris)

3/10/25 – 2/2/26
if/then (CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw)

31/10/25
The Best Version of Yourself Symposium #2 (The Hmm, Amsterdam)

29/11/25
Brussels Ass Book Fair, (KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels)

6/12/25 – 30/1/26
Ötza, Offshore (Skala, Poznan)
Levi van Gelder