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
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Soundings
Site-specific, participatory vocal performance with Tisa Neža HerlecRobida Topoló (IT)10 Aug 2025 -
Catchphrase
Site-specific, interactive vocal performance with TiSiTi Singing Club RotterdamWasteland Festival 2025 Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)03 Jul 2025 -
The Commuters
Vocal performance with TiSiTi Singing Club RotterdamWORM Rotterdam (NL)21 Jun 2025 -
A Kind of Light
Site-specific, three hour durational performance with TiSiTi Singing Club RotterdamKunstinstituut Melly Amarte Rotterdam (NL)13 Dec 2024 -
Open Field
Site-specific vocal performance and composition with TiSiTiNEST Den Haag NL18 Oct 2024 -
Sing With Your Mouthful @Roodkapje
An absurdist, participatory performative banquet with TiSiTi Singing Club Rotterdam Eat Your FeelingsRoodkapje Rotterdam (NL)22 Jun 2024 -
Sing With Your Mouthful @WORM
An absurdist, participatory performative banquet with TiSiTi Singing Club Rotterdam Eat Your FeelingsO. Festival 2024 WORM Rotterdam (NL)26 May 2024 -
NOTATIONS 21-26.07.2023
Improvised vocal performance over 3 hours with TiSiTi Robin BeckerWOLk Rotterdam (NL)02 Dec 2023
Exhibitions
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Prospects 2026
Group exhibition hosted by Mondriaan Fonds with MondriaanProspects Art Rotterdam NL26–29 Mar 2026 -
Ladekastproject at Phoebus Gallery
Exhibition of lino printsPhoebus Gallery Rotterdam (NL)20–28 Feb 2026 -
GRAW 2025
Open studio over Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend with Maurik Stomps Jon RolphDelftsestraat 29b Rotterdam (NL)20–21 Sep 2025 -
Wild Summer of Art 2025
Group exhibition with TiSiTiBrutus Rotterdam (NL)11 Jul–24 Aug 2025 -
GRAW 2024
Open studio over Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend with Maurik Stomps Nadine GhandourDelftsestraat 29b Rotterdam (NL)21–22 Sep 2024 -
The Things That Find Us
Co-initiated group exhibitionDelftsestraat 33 Rotterdam (NL)01–03 Feb 2024 -
Pêche de Nuits
Co-initiated group exhibition and karaoke event with Ghislain AmarPeach Rotterdam (NL)18 Sep 2023 -
A Room with a View
Group exhibitionDordrechts Museum Dordrecht (NL)24 Jun 2023–14 Jan 2024 -
The Architecture of Staged Realities
Group exhibition with Benjamin EarlNieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (NL)05 Sep 2021–27 Mar 2022 -
Splintered Thoughts and Fragile Plots
Group exhibitionNoorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021 Groningen (NL)07 Aug–03 Oct 2021 -
staging-stasis
09 Apr 2026
Workshops
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Rewire Transmissions 2026
Radio making workshop with Radio WORM Rewire FestivalRewire Festival 2026 Den Haag (NL)09–12 Apr 2026 -
On Soundings
Site-specific listening and sounding workshopsRobida Topoló (IT)05–08 Aug 2025 -
Rewire Transmissions 2025
Radio making workshop with Radio WORM Rewire FestivalRewire Festival 2025 Den Haag (NL)03–05 Apr 2025 -
Shimmer: Sunday Mornings With...
Site-specific workshop and sonic installationShimmer Rotterdam (NL)17 Mar 2024
Broadcasts
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I Don't Perform For Time, Time Performs For Me
Monthly radio show with Meghan ClarkeRadio WORM Rotterdam (NL)05 Mar 2022
Residencies
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Helford River Residency
Residency focusing on lino printingHelford River Cornwall UK2025 -
Vibrato Residency
One day residency making music with Bergur Anderson Maziar AfrassiabiRib Rotterdam (NL)04 Mar 2023 -
TiSiTi Residency
Residency focusing on singing with TiSiTiRotterdam (NL)01–02 Jun 2022 -
Residency with Natalia Papaeva
Residency focusing on the (performative) voice with Natalia PapaevaWORM Rotterdam (NL)02–12 May 2022 -
WORM Sound Studio Residency
Residency focusing on synthesisers with Selu HerraizWORM Rotterdam (NL)14–18 Mar 2022 -
AqTushetii Residency
Residency focusing on the voiceAqTushetii Omalo Georgia2022 -
ROTA De la Raíz al Noise Residency
Residency focusing on an experimental performanceROTA Festival Blanca Spain08–23 Nov 2021 -
AADK Centro Negra Residency
Residency focusing on the voiceAADK Spain Blanca Spain2021 -
Staging Stasis, Rotterdam, NL
Radio residency hosted by Radio Stasis with Natalia PapaevaRadio Stasis Rotterdam (NL)2021
Tutoring
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Studio More Than One Voice
Mentoring and guiding MA studentsDesign Academy Eindhoven Eindhoven (NL)2023–2025
Collaborations
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TiSiTi
Collective of three voices and composers with Tara Reece Tisa World2022–2025 -
Radio Stasis
Experimental radio and broadcasting platform with Radio StasisRotterdam (NL)2021–2022 -
Singing Club Rotterdam
Collective singing groupRotterdam (NL)2021