Supported projects

A selection

2021

Minne Kersten (NL 1993)

Constant companion (2021). Minne Kersten has conducted in-depth research into grief, loss and the symbolism related to black birds, in painting, sculpture and film.  She makes spatial work: drawings and films recorded in sets she has built herself. This short film is about grief and loss with Raven as a mythological character.
[Photo: Egbert Dommering]

2019

Puck Verkade (NL 1987)

Plague (2019). A fly fantasizes about the extinction of humanity, a surreal analogy is drawn between the tormented psyche and the exhaustion of the earth.  All this culminates in a Kafkaesque metamorphosis of the housewife into a fly. Puck Verkade realized this video installation with a mix of self-made puppets, camera work in which she plays a role, and stop motion animation techniques.
[Photo: Zabludowicz collection]

2017

Erik van Lieshout (NL 1968)

G.O.A.T. (2017). Erik van Lieshout was invited to participate in the Kochi Muziri Biennale in India. His intention was to make a film of the public, but when he arrived the goats were still around. He set up an exhibition space as a goat stable for which he rented two goats as an alienating element to make contact. In his own chaotic way, he filmed the space, the visitors, the goats and himself to eventually produce a humorous 61-minute film that does have a head and tail, to stay in goat terms.
[Photo: the installation at Annet Gelink Gallery]

2016

Anna Hoetjes (NL 1984)

Interface 2017. Imagine that there's always a screen between your face and the outside world. Interface by Anna Hoetjes is a short science fiction film produced by VPRO Dorst, which premiered during the Netherlands Film Festival 2017, and was subsequently screened during the Imagine Film Festival in EYE.
[Photo: vpro.nl]

2016

Melanie Bonajo (NL 1978)

Night Soil #3/Nocturnal gardening (2016). Melanie Bonajo (NL 1978) creates multidisciplinary work in which she combines photography, video, performances, music and installations. In Night Soil #3  she explores indigenous land rights, off-the-grid subsistence, racism and injustice in the food system and the consequences of consumer behaviour on farm animals.
[Photo: FOAM 2016]

2013

Fiona Tan (ID 1966)

History’s Future (2015). A man called Missing Person loses his memory. He tries to get a grip on himself and the future. He travels around the world, which is filmed in different styles. The Foundation contributed to development and research for a feature length film produced in the context of De Verbeelding, a joint project of Mondriaan Fonds and Film Fonds. First shown in Rotterdam during IFFR.
[Photo Netherlands Film Festival]

Loes and Egbert Dommering were very interested in the work of young artists such as Guido van der Werve (Papendrecht 1977), Anri Sala (Tirana, Albany 1974) and Yael Bartana (Alufa, Israel, 1970). They saw the work of these artists in Galerie De Appel in Amsterdam. They were very enthusiastic and they started their video collection at the beginning of this century.

The Dommering collection. Kunstmuseum The Hague 2011
2012

Christiaan Bastiaans (NL 1951)

Specimens Slide (2013). Filmed in Van Doesburghuis in Meudon (F). Contribution to costs of four costumes. Premiered in Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.

2012

Zarina Bhimji (UG 1963)

Jangbar (2015), filmed in Kenya, looks at the layered history of Africa and the Indian Ocean. 'Jangbar' is Gujarati for the island of Zanzibar, a former maritime kingdom. The film has been screened at New Art Exchange (2015) and at Pérez Art Museum Miami, and is acquired by Tate Museum in London in 2019.