My name is Sarah Rose Guitian Nederlof (1993). I was born and raised in Madrid by a Spanish father and a Dutch mother. In 2012 I moved to Rotterdam, where I currently live and work. The longer I live in the Netherlands, the stronger I tend to keep my Spanish side alive; simultaneously experiencing that my home is not entirely in Spain either. This feeling of in betweenness and alienation has influenced how I look at the world and has become fuel for my artistic practice.
I collect discarded materials. These materials (plastic bags, napkins, packaging materials and abandoned textiles) carry traces of personal use (status, identity, memory, hierarchy, value), and systems (mass-consumption, abundance, capitalism). I am interested in the transformative potential of these ordinary materials and their relationship to the human body. 
Throughout my practice the mediums I work with have in the past years evolved from photography to video, observation to sculpture, sound to text, video performance to live performance. Through this evolving multidisciplinary approach, I create spatial assemblages and live works that explore the intimate, fragile and the unnoticed in our daily lives. Since 2021 I have integrated my own body in my works. I approach the act of making as performative and have translated this work method to live performance, giving my work a new physicality.
My process is slow, exploratory and intuitive. Each project arises from a long-term research that starts finds its origin in an observation, a feeling, an unintended encounter in public space. It is usually an autobiographical experience that I link, through my work, to universal themes, such as loss, belongingness, identity, biculturalism, social pressure and vulnerability. I make work to share my considerations and concerns on these themes in the hope to foster more awareness and solidarity.

get in touch if you want to collaborate, know more about my practice or visit my studio!
Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
2025        Collective performance presentation, TicTac Art, Brussels, BE (G)
2025        Instead I met you, De Aanschouw, Rotterdam, NL (S)
2025        Nothing and All Happen at Once, Het Archief, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2025        Nothing and All Happen at Once, Dansateliers, Rotterdam, NL (S)
2024        Limburg Biënnale, Marres, NL (G)
2024       The Things That Find Us, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2023        Open Studio, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, NL (S)
2023        The Manifest of Remembrance, Tiny Art Gallery x Fig Sofia, Sofia, BG (G)
2022        La Sobremesa, Witte Rook x Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda, NL (S)
2022        An Unforeseen Encounter, Wild Summer of Art BRUTUS, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2022        An Unforeseen Encounter, Offscreen x PPR CBK, WORM, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2022        An Unforeseen Encounter, The Orchid and the Wasp, NDSM, Amsterdam, NL (S)
2022        Prospects and Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2021        Raam Expo NE Studio, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2021        Sensory Threshold LAB, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL (G)
2021        An Unforeseen Encounter, Daily Practice, Rotterdam, NL (S)
2021        Publieke Werken, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2021        Open Studio, AADK Blanca, Murcia, ES (G)
2021        Welkom, De Vitrine Cultuur Werkplaats Tarwewijk, Rotterdam, NL (S)
2020        The Right Orange, M_M Art Space, Kattendijke, NL (G)
2020        The Right Orange, Raam Maar, Rotterdam, NL (S)
2020        The Right Orange, The Tiny Art Gallery, The Hague, NL (G)
2019        Presentation research project on distance, De Zure Bom, Rotterdam, NL (S)
2019        #wheredoyoucomefrom, The Orchid and the Wasp, NDSM, Amsterdam, NL (S)
2019        Museum night, AADK Blanca, Murcia, ES (G)
2019        Open Studios Borgerstraat during Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2018        KIOSK, Galerie Lecq, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2018        OMWTTGS, Final show Bcademie, Garage, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2018        BAF Banier Art Festival, Bcademie, Rotterdam, NL
2018        On Ownership, The Orchid and the Wasp, Amsterdam, NL (D)
2017        The First Show, Bcademie, 18th Street Gallery, Los Angeles, US (G)
2017        Unnoticed Art performance, Platform Projects Athens, Athens, GR (G)
2016        Retina #4 during Libros Mutantes, La Casa encendida, Madrid, ES (G)
2016        Retina #3 OT301, Amsterdam, NL (G)
2016        Hoboken Apocalypse, Hoboken, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2016        Graduation show, WDKA Finals, Rotterdam, NL (G)
2015        Instagram Favourties Der Greif, Wandering Bears Collective, London, GB (G)

Artist in Residency / Workshops
2025        Workshop 'Heart on your sleeve' by Curious Orange, TicTacArtcentre, Brussel (BE)
2024        Expanded Spaces, Nea Livera (GR)
2021        AADK Blanca, Murcia (ES)
2019        AADK Blanca, Murcia (ES)


Grants / Prices
2025       Voucher Ontwikkeling, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2025        Praktijkbijdrage CBK Rotterdam, NL
2024        Praktijkbijdrage CBK Rotterdam, NL
2024        Voucher Ontwikkeling, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
2023        Praktijkbijdrage CBK Rotterdam, NL
2023        Stichting Stokroos, NL
2023        Het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, NL
2022        Stipendium 01, Stichting KLEIO, NL
2021        Makersloket, Stichting Droom en Daad, NL
2021        PPR, CBK Rotterdam, NL
2020        Stipendium for Emerging Artists, Mondriaan Fonds, NL
Artist talk / Interview / Publication
2023        'Een plastic tasje als danspartner' interview by Alex de Vries, Mister Motley, NL
2022        'Een ode aan het servet (…)' interview by Puck Kroon, Witte Rook Online, NL
2022        'Nostalgic Pills’, Mood, The Art of Today, online magazine
2022        'Ode aan de servet' interview in newspaper BN De Stem, NL
2022         Atelier Geluiden podcast interview with Rizoom, NL
2022        Film screening and interview, Offscreen x PPR CBK, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
2022        Artist Talk Vuelta//Arte, Stedelijk Museum Breda in collaboration with Witte Rook, NL
2022        'De Prospects van Art Rotterdam' featured in Mister Motley, NL
2022        Groot Nederlands Kunstkalender, NL
2021        ENOUGH magazine (commissioned still lifes), NL
2020        The Right Orange self published card set
2020        PAPA newspaper (featured photos and text), NL
2020        Open Studio Borgerstraat artist publication, NL
2018        ‘The Tower of Babel’ interview by Mila Stolk, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, NL
Commissions / Collaborations
2025        Photo documentation, Wijkcollectie, Rotterdam, NL
2025        Photo documentation, Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam, NL
2025       Videograppher, Tent, Rotterdam, NL
2025        Photo documentation, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL
2024        Photo documentation, Nieuw Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2023        Videographer, Bouwkeet, Rotterdam, NL
2023        Videographer, STORE Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Education
2016-2017        Bcademie, Rotterdam, NL
2012-2016        BA Arts, Willem de Kooning, Rotterdam, NL

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