Levi van Gelder

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EDUCATION

Resident De Ateliers — 2024-2025

MFA Design Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam — 2018-2020

BA Product/Spatial Design HKU, Utrecht — 2017-2018

EXHIBITIONS and SCREENINGS

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 (w/ 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

40weekend (micropop), Kanaal40, Amsterdam — 2023
10SC WLTZ — screening

Big DaDa, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam — 2022
Big Other Bar (in collaboration with Andoni Zamora) — event, performance

homecinema, Rialto VU, Amsterdam — 2022
Rite of Passage — screening

KO(o)RTS short film festival, Enschede, via Telemagic — 2022
10SC WLTZ — 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

Graduation Show Sandberg Instituut 2020, Het Hem Zaandam — 2020
The Wedding (in collaboration with Francisca Khamis Giacoman) — ceremony

I Swear Time Passed, Graduation Show Design Department Sandberg Instituut 2020, Het Hem Zaandam — 2020
Ecce Ötzi — group show

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

“Nothing To See Here”, Picnic Pavilion—Casa Punto Croce Venice (IT) — 2019
Nothing To See Here (in collaboration with Design Department) — group show

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) —2018
10SC WLTZ — screening

Media Art Festival 2017, Leeuwarden — 2017
10SC WLTZ / Dab Deco: Hyperreal Figures — group show

Graduation Show HKU 2017, Pastoe Fabriek Utrecht — 2017
10SC WLTZ / Dab Deco: Hyperreal Figures — group show

TO OWN, Salone del Mobile, Milan Design Week (IT) — 2017
Quintessentialism (in collaboration with Dorien Laan, Lena Braun, Luuk Klawer and Niene Laan) — installation, performance

TO OWN II, Academie Galerie Utrecht — 2017
Quintessentialism (in collaboration with Dorien Laan, Lena Braun, Luuk Klawer and Niene Laan) — group show

PERFORMANCES

DTRH x Nest ruimte voor kunst, Beuningen — 2025
Ötza

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

Opening Ceremony, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam — 2023
Ötza Hosts An Opening Ceremony

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)

Office for Small Decision Making, Plan B, Amsterdam — 2022
The Small Chair Auction (in collaboration with Mariana Jurado Rico, Gersande Schellinx and Carmen Gray)

Ooh it’s so good it’s so good, Tetterode Amsterdam — 2019
Excavation

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

Fakewhale LOG — 2025
"Ötza" — article

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

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 — 2020-2022
Tutor Year 2 “Ontwerpen”

FH Salzburg (AT) — 2022
Image (derogatory) (in collaboration with Charlotte Rohde)

Design Department, Sandberg, Amsterdam — 2021
Essay cut-up w/ 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)

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.