Maite Vanhellemont's work often moves at the intersection of family stories and collective history. In the project “A Little Memory of The Beginning”, she reflects on her Dutch-Indonesian heritage using archive material, photography, video, drawings and text. In collaboration with publisher FW:Books (NL), she will present this project as a publication at the end of 2026.

In the spring of 2025, she was selected for the Fotodok Talent Embassy, and in 2024, the project “Zoals mij gewoon is” (As is common to me) was presented as a solo exhibition during the SPOOR Art Festival (BE), in collaboration with the Plan B Arts Platform. In 2021, she self-published “Our Silver Lining”, which was presented at various art book fairs in Europe.

In addition to her work as a visual artist, she also works as a lecturer at the Univeristy of the Arts in Utrecht (NL) and as a language volunteer at Stichting Dynamo. Maite is currently also pursuing a part-time master's degree in “Education in Arts” at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

Both as an artist and as a teacher, I want to create work and teach in a way that connects to social themes and issues. This is also reflected in my work as a language volunteer at Stichting Dynamo and the various participation projects I am involved in as an artist. Because whether it concerns my own projects or the collaborations I enter into, my work is always created in exchange with someone else.

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Education & work experience
Piet Zwart Institute
2024 - 2026 Master Education in Arts 

University of the Arts Utrecht:
Lecturer at the Photography and Image & Media Technology courses and programme committee member at AG.

Part of Good Martha
                   
Commissioned assignments as an artist as well as organisational and production work within the cultural sector. Amongst others; Amsterdam 4 and 5 May committee, The Transformers, Galerie Onrust, Onderwijsraad, Fw; Books, Depend on me and Nora Turato.

2025
Part of the Fotodok Talent Embassy

2020 - 2024
Residency/research project Plan B/Veldwerk

Coordinator of the graduation festival ‘HKU Exposure’ for the Media department of the University of The Arts Utrecht. 

2019 - 2021
Co-founder and coordinator of SALON: a platform for and by students of HKU. Expo’s, lectures, workshops, discussions and a podcast in which exchange with others is the main goal.

2022 - 2023          DIABP Newbe  
2022                     Initial qualification in didactic competence
2019 - 2022           Studio manager Nora Turato
2017 - 2022           Part of OUTLINE platform
2019                      Art & Politics course at BAK, Basis voor Actuele Kunst
2018 - 2019           Assistant to director at Annet Gelink Gallery
2018                      Artist residency at Plan B, with OUTLINE.
                             Summer school het Vijfde Seizoen.
2017 - 2018           Gallery assistant at Juliette Jongma
2014 - 2018           Bachelor in Photography, University of the Arts, Utrecht.                          
2017                     Internship at Juliette Jongma.
2016 - 2018          Student member education committee, HKU Media.
2009 - 2013          Photographic Design, Fotovakschool, Amsterdam.

Scholarships
2024                   Mondriaan Fonds voucher ontwikkeling
2023                   Werktuig PPO
2021                   Fonds Kwadraat                              
                          Ontwikkelbijdrage Stichting Amarte Fonds