About

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Short bio

Ceola Tunstall-Behrens is a multidisciplinary artist, vocalist, performer, moderator and educator based in Rotterdam. Working across mediums, she creates artworks, installations, experimental vocal performances, workshops, and radio broadcasts.

Long bio

Ceola Tunstall-Behrens is a multidisciplinary artist, vocalist, performer, moderator and educator based in Rotterdam. In her research-based artistic practice, she is interested in the capturing, archiving and reconstruction of personal memories and the ‘essence’ of individuals. Her transdisciplinary, ‘polyphonic’ research delves into the dual aspects of what remains and what is lost, exploring the grief of losing and the potential for reconstructing something new.

Through mediums and materials such as installation, sound, voice, and AI technologies, Ceola explores these themes alongside collective projects and graphic work including lino printing and pinprick drawing. She shares her work through exhibitions, workshops, performances and radio broadcasts, recently experienced at Brutus, Kunstinstituut Melly, Nest, SHIMMER, Dordrechts Museum, Roodkapje and WORM.

Contact

ceolatb@gmail.com

About this website

This website was created in collaboration with designer and web developer Kirsten Spruit. It is approached as an extensive interconnected archive, highlighting the often rather time-specific and ephemeral nature of much of Ceola’s practice. It uses Kirby CMS and the typeface Neue Montreal.

Curriculum Vitae

Performances

  • Soundings

    Site-specific, participatory vocal performance with Tisa Neža Herlec
    Robida Topoló (IT)
    10 Aug 2025
  • Catchphrase

    Site-specific, interactive vocal performance with TiSiTi Singing Club Rotterdam
    Wasteland Festival 2025 Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)
    03 Jul 2025
  • The Commuters

    Vocal performance with TiSiTi Singing Club Rotterdam
    WORM Rotterdam (NL)
    21 Jun 2025
  • A Kind of Light

    Site-specific, three hour durational performance with TiSiTi Singing Club Rotterdam
    Kunstinstituut Melly Amarte Rotterdam (NL)
    13 Dec 2024
  • Open Field

    Site-specific vocal performance and composition with TiSiTi
    NEST Den Haag NL
    18 Oct 2024
  • Sing With Your Mouthful @Roodkapje

    An absurdist, participatory performative banquet with TiSiTi Singing Club Rotterdam Eat Your Feelings
    Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL)
    22 Jun 2024
  • Sing With Your Mouthful @WORM

    An absurdist, participatory performative banquet with TiSiTi Singing Club Rotterdam Eat Your Feelings
    O. Festival 2024 WORM Rotterdam (NL)
    26 May 2024
  • NOTATIONS 21-26.07.2023

    Improvised vocal performance over 3 hours with TiSiTi Robin Becker
    WOLk Rotterdam (NL)
    02 Dec 2023

Exhibitions

  • Prospects 2026

    Group exhibition hosted by Mondriaan Fonds with Mondriaan
    Prospects Art Rotterdam NL
    26–29 Mar 2026
  • Ladekastproject at Phoebus Gallery

    Exhibition of lino prints
    Phoebus Gallery Rotterdam (NL)
    20–28 Feb 2026
  • GRAW 2025

    Open studio over Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend with Maurik Stomps Jon Rolph
    Delftsestraat 29b Rotterdam (NL)
    20–21 Sep 2025
  • Wild Summer of Art 2025

    Group exhibition with TiSiTi
    Brutus Rotterdam (NL)
    11 Jul–24 Aug 2025
  • GRAW 2024

    Open studio over Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend with Maurik Stomps Nadine Ghandour
    Delftsestraat 29b Rotterdam (NL)
    21–22 Sep 2024
  • The Things That Find Us

    Co-initiated group exhibition
    Delftsestraat 33 Rotterdam (NL)
    01–03 Feb 2024
  • Pêche de Nuits

    Co-initiated group exhibition and karaoke event with Ghislain Amar
    Peach Rotterdam (NL)
    18 Sep 2023
  • A Room with a View

    Group exhibition
    Dordrechts Museum Dordrecht (NL)
    24 Jun 2023–14 Jan 2024
  • The Architecture of Staged Realities

    Group exhibition with Benjamin Earl
    Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)
    05 Sep 2021–27 Mar 2022
  • Splintered Thoughts and Fragile Plots

    Group exhibition
    Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021 Groningen (NL)
    07 Aug–03 Oct 2021
  • staging-stasis

    09 Apr 2026

Workshops

  • Rewire Transmissions 2026

    Radio making workshop with Radio WORM Rewire Festival
    Rewire Festival 2026 Den Haag (NL)
    09–12 Apr 2026
  • On Soundings

    Site-specific listening and sounding workshops
    Robida Topoló (IT)
    05–08 Aug 2025
  • Rewire Transmissions 2025

    Radio making workshop with Radio WORM Rewire Festival
    Rewire Festival 2025 Den Haag (NL)
    03–05 Apr 2025
  • Shimmer: Sunday Mornings With...

    Site-specific workshop and sonic installation
    Shimmer Rotterdam (NL)
    17 Mar 2024

Broadcasts

  • I Don't Perform For Time, Time Performs For Me

    Monthly radio show with Meghan Clarke
    Radio WORM Rotterdam (NL)
    05 Mar 2022

Residencies

  • Helford River Residency

    Residency focusing on lino printing
    Helford River Cornwall UK
    2025
  • Vibrato Residency

    One day residency making music with Bergur Anderson Maziar Afrassiabi
    Rib Rotterdam (NL)
    04 Mar 2023
  • TiSiTi Residency

    Residency focusing on singing with TiSiTi
    Rotterdam (NL)
    01–02 Jun 2022
  • Residency with Natalia Papaeva

    Residency focusing on the (performative) voice with Natalia Papaeva
    WORM Rotterdam (NL)
    02–12 May 2022
  • WORM Sound Studio Residency

    Residency focusing on synthesisers with Selu Herraiz
    WORM Rotterdam (NL)
    14–18 Mar 2022
  • AqTushetii Residency

    Residency focusing on the voice
    AqTushetii Omalo Georgia
    2022
  • ROTA De la Raíz al Noise Residency

    Residency focusing on an experimental performance
    ROTA Festival Blanca Spain
    08–23 Nov 2021
  • AADK Centro Negra Residency

    Residency focusing on the voice
    AADK Spain Blanca Spain
    2021
  • Staging Stasis, Rotterdam, NL

    Radio residency hosted by Radio Stasis with Natalia Papaeva
    Radio Stasis Rotterdam (NL)
    2021

Tutoring

  • Studio More Than One Voice

    Mentoring and guiding MA students
    Design Academy Eindhoven Eindhoven (NL)
    2023–2025

Collaborations

  • TiSiTi

    Collective of three voices and composers with Tara Reece Tisa World
    2022–2025
  • Radio Stasis

    Experimental radio and broadcasting platform with Radio Stasis
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2021–2022
  • Singing Club Rotterdam

    Collective singing group
    Rotterdam (NL)
    2021