Miloushka bokma is a visual artist, mainly working in the field of Photography and video. The personal and emotional history which every man carries is the premise of her work. Memories are experiences reflected in someone's face, glance or posture. They are signals, as elusive traces in the body: manifest or suppressed. They are a staged-in-context situations, where the human capacity and inability to relate to his or her own history become visible and tangible. There appear to be, however, unsolved riddles.
Miloushka Bokma was born in 1971 in Curacao, at age 3 she moved to the Netherlands, Amsterdam. Where she still lives and work. She graduated from the Academy of Arts in Utrecht in 1995. Her work has been exhibited and screened both nationally and internationally. Including exhibitions in: Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, Soho century plaza Shanghai, Gallery of photography Dublin, Art Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam, Houston center for photography , Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, Cicterna art gallery Moscow, Fries Museum Leeuwarden, Holland Tunnel art gallery New York, photo festival Lodz, Poland.
Miloushka is represented the last 10 years by Gallery Reuten, Amsterdam. When Antoinette Reuten died in 2020 it stopped.
She is looking for a new gallery and is currently being exhibited in the WIHH Gallery.
STIPENDIA
Funding Art projects, Mondriaan Fund
Funding Art projects, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Funding Art projects Amsterdam South
Funding Art Projects Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Funding Art Projects Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Funding Art projects Amsterdam Noord
Funding Artprojects Amsterdam Oud-Zuid
Basic stipendium, Mondriaan fund
Startstipendium , Mondriaan fund
EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS
2021
- outdoor video presentation at screen Leideseplein Amsterdam
- DongGang International Photo Festival, South Korea
- New Eye selected artist presentation Eye Film Museum
- Kurzfilmfestival Oberhausen
*video Breath to Breath selected for the Eye film museum collection - Obskuur Ghent Film Festival
2020
- Photo Vogue Festival Milan
The fourth wall- group exhibition Gallery 0-68 Velp
Pool 20-Internationales TanzFilmFestival Berlin
9th international dancefilmfestival Brussel
Cinedans Festival, Eye Museum Amsterdam
2019
Human right festival Barcelona
Cinema Akil, Dubai, Dancing shorts
MOMus-State Museum of Contemporary Art Tessaloniki Greece
Duo exhibition, photo and video installation Reuten Gallery Amsterdam
Screendance Miami
2018
National center for Contemporary arts Ekaterinburg, Rusia
*Visions 2018, Nunnery Gallery London - International Photography and visual arts Festival, Braga, Portugal
- Pool International Tanzfilm Festival Berlin
- Summer Salon Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
- premiere Thuis, Home, Heimat. Cinedans Festival, Eye Amsterdam
- Video Art Miden, Greece
2017 - Pearl Artist Prize, Pool , International Tanzfilm Festival Berlin
- Museum Tot Zover, multimedia installation, Amsterdam
- Reuten Gallery, Het Portret
2016
Visions, Nunnery Gallery London
POOL 16 - INTERNATIONALES TanzFilmFestival BERLIN
*Jumping Frames/ Hong Kong - publication Vorn Magazine, 10 pages
Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, duo exhibition
Festival Miden Kalamata, Greece
60 seconds Film Festival Pakistan
Cinedans Festival, Eye Amsterdam
*Videoscreening in the public space, Zuidplein Amsterdam
2015 - 7th Cairo video festival, Cairo
- Renaissance Photography Prize, London
- Dance on screen festival, Eye film museum Amsterdam
- Reuten Gallery Amsterdam, video and photography installation
2014 - ReCulture 2014 Festival Miden/ Greece
- Art in public transport Bratislava
- An urban film map/ Athens
- International biennale of African contemporary art / Dak’Art Senegal/ video presentation
- Rapid Pulse international performance festival Chicago/ video presentation
- Art Rotterdam, Reuten gallery, Rotterdam /photo and video
2013 - Video Nomad, Tunesie/ video presentation
- Photo Bienal Tenerife
- Reuten Gallery, Installation Softly to Not, Amsterdam
- Multimedia installation at Zuid WTC Amsterdam
- Video festival Miden, Greece
- Goethe Institute Hanoi,presentation photo & videowork, Vietnam
- Cinedans, One minute dance video, Eye film institute Amsterdam
- Art Rotterdam Art fair, stant Reuten Gallery, Rotterdam
2012 - Video installation Soho century plaza Shanghai
- Solo exhibition Inkijk Gallery, art in public space Metro station Amsterdam
- 12hours TOBEPRESENT, live performance and video de Balie Amsterdam
- Groupshow 'Vriendschap en andere ongemakken' Reuten gallery
- Groushow LENSBased/ Reuten gallery Amsterdam
- 21 Rozendaal, space for contempory art Enschede
2011 - Art Amsterdam Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
- Gallery of Photography Dublin, Ireland
- Photofestival Lödz, Poland
- Video and live performance festival something Raw, Frascati Amsterdam
2010 - [email protected], Amsterdam
- Groupshow Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
- Art-Amsterdam Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
- Six window photo’s in the public space, OBA , Coenen-Lydia Amsterdam
2009 - Houston Center for Photography, Houston US
- Group expo Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
- Solo Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam
- Art Amsterdam, Rai Amsterdam
- Art amsterdam, reuten gallery, Amsterdam
