Artist Talk: Minne Kersten
22 March 2026
Artist Minne Kersten talks about her installation There’s Always Another Twist.
Please note: this artist talk was originally scheduled for Thursday, 27 November, but has been rescheduled to Sunday, 22 March (2026). Tickets available from 21 November.
On Sunday 22 March, Minne Kersten will talk about her work and the ideas behind her exhibition There’s Always Another Twist. After the talk, the exhibition will be open to visitors.
The talk will be held in English. Minne Kersten’s exhibition will be on view at the Oude Kerk from 21 November 2025 to 6 April 2026.
About Minne Kersten
Minne Kersten (born 1993) is a Dutch visual artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and Paris. She works with installations, videos, sculptures and paintings. Her practice centres on creating fictional worlds in which architecture, memory and emotion intersect. She explores how spaces – particularly interiors – can act as vessels for personal or collective experience, and how they can bear the marks of loss, trauma or transience. Her work has been exhibited at, among others, the Bonnefanten Museum, Annet Gelink Gallery and CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux. She uses architecture as a metaphor for mental states and investigates how spaces can hold on to memories and stories.
About the exhibition
In There’s Always Another Twist, Kersten explores how both religious narratives and nineteenth-century film techniques make use of illusions, visions and hallucinations to evoke an alternative reality. In her video installation, the experience of time is stretched and perception becomes distorted. A central motif is the centuries-old spiral staircase of the Oude Kerk. Darkness, moreover, is employed not as the absence of light, but as a psychological space filled with tension and possibility.