About
Katinka van Gorkum (Rotterdam, 1988) explores the idea of the house and feeling at home by making private spaces public and by challenging the very idea of the house as a stable base. She is currently doing this through the medium of writing. She undertook a research on the Rotterdam-based and openly lesbian writer Anna Blaman (1905-1960), which led, among other things, to a short story in which the main character hides in Blaman’s virtual bedroom. In the pamphlet Loving Characters Into Gas Station Snacks (Rough Trade Books, 2023), she and Sára Iványi published the un-edited conversation they had via a text-based dating app, writing to each other on a daily basis without knowing who the other person was or what they looked like. In 2023 Katinka and artist Pia Louwerens started a project on the Lesbisch Archief Leeuwarden, a queer archive that existed from 1976-2013, which has led to various performances and presentations, and the fanzine Lesbisch Archivaria.
Katinka van Gorkum completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In 2019 she completed a post-master at a.pass, Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies in Brussels, which is a platform for artistic researches. She is currently finishing a three year studies into Systemic Work, Transactional Analysis and Neuro Linguistic Programming, being trained as a coach for individuals and groups.