About
In parallel to a core of writing and research, my practice includes being a performer, sculptor and photographer. My work is deeply rooted in the belief and personal necessity that art can be a way to create meaning in a world devoid of it. Or at the very least meaning on an individual basis; as a way of navigating my own life and documenting its questions. The same questions I seek to address in my writing and research, the visual is informed by the textual and vice versa. Inspired by history, I want to give a voice to forgotten queer mystics. Inspired by metaphysics, I want to show that the Abyss can be a home. What unites a lot of my work is a fascination for Nothingness. Not from a place of nihilism, but from the idea that Nothing can be a productive and even beautiful notion. The calm wonder in Nothingness as absence, emptiness, the unfulfilled and the unknowable.
Inquiries / Proposals / Commissions -> tobiasmud@gmail.com
Resume
Education
2022 - 2024 Master of Philosophy. University of Amsterdam.
2021 - 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts Exchange Semester. UAL Chelsea College.
2019 - 2023 Bachelor of Art and Design. Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
2015 - 2019 Bachelor of Arts in International Studies. Leiden University.
Group Exhibitions
2024 Domanice & Kraskow Residencies Group Show. Domanice Castle, Poland.
2023 Graduation Show. Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Open Studios. Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Performer for Resident Martin Toloku.
Drag:On. Dat Bolwerck, Zutphen.
2022 No Intermission. Carré Royal Theatre, Amsterdam x Marina Abramovic Institute. Co-Performer for Yingmei Duan.
Uncut: Oceanic Imaginaries. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Like a new world. The Wrong Biennale No. 5.
Becoming: Devoted. CC Amstel, Amsterdam.
2021 In(different). Triangle, Chelsea College London.
2018 Art & Food. Royal Academy of the Arts, the Hague.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Muse Abuse. Gray Space in the Middle, the Hague.
Photo by Yi Wang.
Custom Fonts: Ouroboros by Ariel Martín Pérez, with the contribution of H·Alix Sanyas. Distributed by velvetyne.fr.