Sarah Vanhee (°1980, Oostende, BE)

Sarah Vanhee is an artist, performer and author. Her transdisciplinary work travels inbetween civil spaces and institutional art fields. She worked in open fields, prisons, private living rooms, theatres, on public canvases, in corporate meeting rooms, etc. Recent works include, amongst others, Mémé (stage performance), bodies of knowledge (school), undercurrents (intervention), collected screams (lecture-performance), Unforetold (stage performance), The Making of Justice (film), Oblivion (stage performance), Untitled (meetings in private houses), Lecture For Every One (series of intrusions), ...

While strongly embedded locally, Vanhee's work has been presented widely internationally in diverse contexts such as Wiener Festwochen (AT), Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), FTA (Montreal), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Festival Actoral (Marseille), PuSh Festival (Vancouver), Jihlavava IDFF, Van Abbe Museum (Eindhoven), Centre Pompidou (Metz), Short Theatre (Rome), iDans (Istanbul), Printemps de Septembre (Toulouse), Forum Alpbach, Noorderzon (Groningen), Theater Frascati (Amsterdam), Contour (Mechelen), etc. She co-published Untranslatables and wrote The Miraculous Life of Claire C and TT, as well as other texts. She regularly collaborates with CAMPO (Ghent) and Hiros (Brussels). Vanhee was founding member of Manyone vzw and BOK vzw. She holds a PHD from ARIA (Antwerp University) and KCA (Antwerp Royal Conservatory).

Vanhee is currently active on words service. At words service, a words provider freely assists everyone who wants to say or write something but cannot find the words. Meanwhile, Vanhee is developing two new creations that both engage with sexuality: a video installation with longer living people; and a stage-piece with teenagers.
  • Performing Live Akademia Network
    Contextual art practices and curatorship - learning as a movement, live talk with Silvia Bottiroli and Sarah Vanhee accompanied by Vânia Rodrigues
    05/04/23
  • Jaarverslag Frascati
    Een taal voor dat waarover gesproken moet worden, Lex Bohlmeijer
    2009
  • Forum+
    Listening to Listening, Sarah Vanhee & Flore Herman
    Autumn 2021
  • Re-Story
    We decide now: ‘this is a moment before’, Mischa Verheijden & Elke Leyman
    04/21
  • Grand Reunion, Dare to Care
    In conversation with Zornitsa Stoyanova & Sarah Vanhee, Renate Piotrowska-Auffret
    02/21
  • Alternatives Theatrales
    Sarah Vanhee nous lance des signes que nous pourrions attraper par la main, Mathilde Maillard
    22/12/20
  • Into the City, Onto the Stage
    Unlikely Collaborations with the City A Late Summer Soil Talk. Published through APAP and Bruno publishing (ed. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir), Marta Keil & Sarah Vanhee
    2020
  • DRAFF
    Suzanne Walsh and Sarah Vanhee in conversation
    22/10/19
  • Reina Sofia - Estudio
    Podcast with Manyone (first part in English)
    17/06/19
  • Die Presse
    Gut Gebrüllt, Barbara Petsch
    05/19
  • Veem House for Performance
    A conversation with Sarah Vanhee "the dark is not a place to be afraid of"
    27/12/18
  • NTR Periodismo critico
    Apuesta por ficción para revelar verdad
    2018
  • Kunstenpunt - re-framing the international
    The need for a different language, Tom Van Imschoot
    02/03/18
  • Interrupting the City
    How to dare, interrupt, intrude, fictionalize and scream for a public — Interview with Sarah Vanhee. Eds. Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven, Uitgeverij Valiz Amsterdam, Bojana Cvejic
    2016
  • Forum
    Sarah Vanhee over onderzoek in de kunstpraktijk, Tessa Overbeek & Yannick Geens
    Autumn 2016
  • Recto:Verso, Halfleeg of halfvol?
    Dubbelgesprek met Karim Bennamar
    2015
  • H ART
    De muren waar we voor kiezen, Pieter Van Bogaert
    2013
  • Een sluipende guerrilla
    Ons Erfdeel, Evelyne Coussens
    2011
  • Jaarverslag Frascati
    Een taal voor dat waarover gesproken moet worden, Lex Bohlmeijer
    2009