Born in the wilds of Austin, Texas and raised in the lowlands of North Carolina, Helena Sanders has a Bachelors of Science in Visual Arts (Painting & Fiber Arts) from Skidmore College in upstate New York. She spent the years following graduation in North Carolina and Chicago keeping the company of other artists, mad scientists, musicians, anarchist community groups, and independent curators, pursuing her own painting and installation practice and collaborative performance work.

Now based in Amsterdam, Helena’s arts practice continues to investigate the fluid transference of identities along physical and social borders, exploring the fine line between the human and non-human, and an investigation of the history and mythologies of color through painting and performance. Helena also curates a monthly experimental video and music performance evening under the name A/V Club, and works from collectively-run studio GA in Amsterdam.

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Some past and present collaborators and commissions:

Dagora (band, Amsterdam, NL)
Roro (musician, Amsterdam, NL)
*Anarchist Black Cross" (organization, Amsterdam, NL)
Typewriter Distro (book distro, Arnhem, NL)
De Mallemoere Eetcafe (vegan cafe, Arnhem, NL)
Zegota (band, Greensboro, North Carolina USA)
Ross Wilbanks (film maker, musician, Charlotte, North Carolina USA)
From the Depths (band, Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA)
Dirt & Cheese (publication, Portland, Oregon USA)
Jason Crumer (musician, Oakland, California USA)
Chris Fox (writer, Greensboro, North Carolina USA)
Landverraad (band, Amsterdam, NL)

AUGUST 5 // Den Haag // Baklust // Always happy to support these great folks and their vegetarian cooking. New drawings up here through August and September!

AUGUST 24 & 25 // Mysteryland Festival // Amsterdam // I'll be creating an outdoor installation for the weekend at the huge Mysteryland festival, as well as performing as Ti Femme on Saturday, 25th

SEPTEMBER 7 // de Valreep // Amsterdam // Doing another installation for the infamous bands Dagora and the FKNBSTRDS this night!

SEPTEMBER 8 - 16 // Incubate Festival // Open Source Exhibition // Tilburg // Ambitious and enormous, Incubate festival's Open Source Exhibition will be open for a few weeks in September. It was open to all and any artist, and I'll have a piece in there as well. Support!

GO-GO 24 installation at AWA Gallery
(April 17th) was a success! thanks to everyone,
photos up!
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I was featured in the special drawing issue of new Amsterdam arts/culture/music magazine HoopDoop!
check out the full issue & images by clicking HERE
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So our performance // installation at the Maarten Luther Kerk in Amsterdam on Wednesday the 26th turned out epic to say the least. Photos from the installation & performance now up.
Thanks again to guest musicians Alfredo Genovesi, and John Dikeman with Tabula Rasa for setting up the show.
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AUGUST Photos up from the inflatable spaces I built for PQ & MENUZUM's performance at de OCCII in Amsterdam, August 20th

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Here's a great little piece on the exhibition/installation I did at de Kortsluiting from de Weekkrant Amsterdam
Kunstenaars en publiek moeten deelnemen in elkaars werelden
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