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Helle Monne Huisman



b. 1997, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Audiovisual artist, filmmaker

For all enquiries, contact:
helle.huisman [at] gmail.com

Helle Monne is an audiovisual artist working primarily in film and site-specific installations. Her practice centers around themes of connection, memory, and nature, often exploring the tension between the familiar and the alien. By combining documentary elements with abstract visual language, she invites viewers into a dialogue between the known and the strange, emphasizing how these shifting perspectives shape our understanding of each other and the (natural) world around us. 

Initially studying conflict studies, her work remains informed by an interest in societal dynamics, human connection, and climate change. This foundation in the social sciences inspires her ongoing exploration of how personal and collective memories inform identity. She is especially drawn to how memory—both shared and individual—shapes interactions between people and places.

Helle Monne’s work experience extends to working in art galleries, where she developed an appreciation for the power of curation and the art of storytelling within physical spaces. Over the past two years, she has served as an executive producer on several film projects, balancing creative vision with production demands. In 2024, she produced and curated DOEK!, an art and film festival during which films where projected onto the sails of historic ships, transforming the inner city of Schiedam into a stage for visual storytelling.

Helle Monne is currently in her final year of the Master of Film at the Koninklijke
Academie van Schone Kunsten (KASK), and living and working in Ghent, Belgium.




Filmography


2024

Sonata di Paraffina e Paradossi


Avant-premiere at KASKcinema, Ghent, Belgium (2024


2023

Empty Handler


Excerpt shown at the Wrong Biennale: 06, Copenhagen,
Denmark (2024)
Shown in Packaging, Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Poland (2023-2025)

2022

Dingen die voorbij gaan


Selected for Cut To: Gent, Future Voices programme
(2023)

2021

Wolkenfabriek | Cloudfactory


Shown at KunstWerkt, Schiedam, Netherlands (2022)
Shown in EarthRise Journal, London, UK (2021)


A Story in 5 Parts


Shown at The Journey of Seeds, Brussels, Belgium (2024)
Shown at KunstWerkt, Schiedam, Netherlands (2022)


Exhibitions, productions and screenings


2024



DOEK!

programmer and producer

An art and film festival in Schiedam, Netherlands, during which films are projected onto the sails of historic ships. Based on the concept of Frans Huisman.


MAP #155: Cinematic Cascades

KASK, Ghent, Belgium

Duo-exhibition in a gallery space at KASK, Ghent, on expanded cinema and analogue film installations.


The Journey of Seeds

Centre d’art du Mont-de-Piété, Brussels, Belgium


The Wrong Biennale: 06

Copenhagen, Denmark

2023-2025

Packaging

Wissenschaftsmuseum, Bonn, Germany

A curated, travelling exhibition with artists from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, France, and the Netherlands. On the topic of packaging and global movement of goods.

Currently on show at Jaworzno Museum, Poland.

Shown at Svitavy Museum, in Svitavy, Czech Republic. At the Künstlerforumand the Wissenschaftsmuseum, in Bonn, Germany. At Art Centre Schiedam, in  Schiedam, Netherlands.

2021

Van de Appel en De Boom

KunstWerkt, Schiedam, Netherlands

Group exhibition in gallery space of the artist association KunstWerkt, in celebration of their 30th anniversary.


Work experience


2019-presentStaff member of VOF Chimaera and Galerie Chimaera, Schiedam, Netherlands
2024Producer - graduate film Wish You Were Here
KASK, Ghent, Belgium
2023Executive producer - graduate film Dingen Die We
Dragen, KASK, Ghent, Belgium
2021-2023Gallery assistant - Tank Station
Animal Tank, Ghent, Belgium



Residencies and schools


2020-presentKASK & Conservatory, 
Ghent, Belgium
BA Film
MA Film
2022In:dépendance
ETH, Furka Höhe, Switzerland2018Summer school in Cinema and Human Rights Advocacy
Venice, Italy