Vlada Predelina (1991) is an artist currently based in Rotterdam, NL. Her work looks into the meaning of a sense of place through a range of media including food, natural dyes, bioplastics and ceramics. She creates gatherings around a particular medium as a focus to bring out intimate discussions and situated histories. Current research looks into the role of tacit knowledge systems in relation to land through making, growing or gathering around food and the kitchen table.

EDUCATION
MA Fine Art, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, NL | 2021 - 2023
Alternative Art School, School of The Damned, UK | 2016 - 2017
BA(Hons) Fine Art | Kingston School of Art, London, UK | 2009 - 2012
 
SELECTED AWARDS
2024 Artist Project Grant | Mondriaan Fonds
2024 Praktijkbijdrage Grant | CBK Rotterdam

2023 Kunst en Cultuur in de Gebieden Subsidy | Gemeente Rotterdam

2022 Study Abroad Studentship | The Leverhulme Trust, UK
2021 Study Subsidy | Stichting M. C. de Visser Fonds, NL

2021 Makersloket Subsidy | Stichting Droom en Daad, Rotterdam
2021 Production, Presentation & Research Grant | CBK Rotterdam

2020 Kunst en Cultuur in de Gebieden Subsidy | Gemeente Rotterdam
2015 Shortlisted: Zealous X Visual Arts prize
2011 Won: Stanley Picker Travel Prize (courtesy of the Stanley Picker Gallery)
 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
SOLO
2024 to amplify, to strengthen | an other world project space, Rotterdam
2020 Colours of Wielewaal | Growing Space, Rotterdam
2019 3 O’Clock: Migration as an act of art, ritual as a method. | Leave of Absence Gallery, London
2019 SHOWROOM | Roodkapje, Rotterdam
GROUP
2024 Family Dinner | Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
2023 Refractions | BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
2021 South Explorer, Rotterdam
2020 Homeware for Hibernation (duo show with Jake Caleb) | LIFE, Rotterdam
2020 Publieke Werken poster exhibition around Rotterdam
2020 Off-Grid | Compiler (as part of The Wrong Digital Art Biennale), roaming locations including Banner Repeater and Tate Britain, London.
2019 Mood Ring | Roodkapje, Rotterdam
2019 It Boils Down | Pure Propaganda, Rotterdam
2019 Get Well Soon | Roodkapje, Rotterdam


2019 Club Rory: The Reality | Roodkapje, Rotterdam

2018 D.I. (Direct Input) | Muddy Yard, London, UK and  Lumby, Canada
2018 Learning about home | Elmer Projects, London
2017 Super Yonic | Copeland Gallery, Copeland Park & Bussey Building, London
2017 Intergenerational SOTD Screening | The Cube, Bristol
2017 3O/3O | thirty.works organised by 12ø collective, online
2017 SOTD | SET, London
2017 SOTD | The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2016 Brookmill Open | Deptford X Festival, London


2016 Gone Fishing | Assembly House, Leeds
2016 EBC006 | East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol
2016 Exquisite Corpse | Hotel Elephant, London
2016 SNAKE HORSE GOAT MONKEY | Guest Projects, London


SELECTED PERFORMANCES / WORKSHOPS / EVENTS
2025 La Cuina del MACBA | MACBA Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (Upcoming)

2025 Eathouse Collective | Netwerk Aalst, BE (Upcoming)
2025 Eathouse Collective | Fenix Museum, Rotterdam (Upcoming)
2024 Grafted #5 | Radio WORM | 2024 International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam

2024 Liquid Becomings | Rotterdam – A Futuring LAB @ Buitenplaats Brienenoord
2024 Home-Made (with Julija Mockuté & Parel Strik), Paviljoen aan het Water, Rotterdam
2024 Island Ears | Buitenplaats Brienenoord, Rotterdam

2024 Eathouse @ Tuinfeest | Rotterdamse Munt, Rotterdam
2024 Eathouse @ Books are Bridges | Printroom, Rotterdam

2024 Eathouse does Learning Exchanges (with Reading Room Rotterdam) | Newcastle, UK

2024 Eathouse @ Sharing continuity: Past, present and future design legacies between Indonesia and the Netherlands | Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2023 Eathouse @ My Oma | Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
2023 Eathouse @ Arts Collaboratory | Casco Art Institute, Utrecht and De Appel, Amsterdam
2023 Eathouse @ Strategies for Tactical Archives w/Sarah Schulman | Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam

2023 Eathouse @ What_iiif_ Festival | WORM, Rotterdam
2023 Eathouse does Tongue Twisting Dinners | an other world, Rotterdam

2023 Mapping Pelmeni: Presentation | Food and Body in Colonial Contexts in Pre-modern Times (1600-1900), University of Regensburg & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

2022 Pelmeni: A Cooking Conversation | Bottleneck by Katerina Sidorova | West Den Haag

2022 Eathouse cooks at Pakghor Kitchen | Britto Arts Trust, documenta fifteen, Kassel


2022 Pelmeni: A Conversation Cookbook launch | A shop called LIFE, Rotterdam 

2022 MELLY x Eathouse SESSIONS | Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
2021 Eathouse does LIVE FEED  | Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam

2021 Eathouse does LIVE FEED | Attent, Rotterdam

2021 Eathouse does LIVE FEED | PEACH, Rotterdam

2021 Eathouse does LIVE FEED | Paviljoen aan het Water | and South Explorer, Rotterdam
2021 Missing Hour Hour (with Jake Caleb) | RAAR, from A shop called LIFE kitchen, Rotterdam
2020 Extra hour hour (with Jake Caleb) | RAAR, from A shop called LIFE, Rotterdam 
2020 drop by dip dye | Growing Space Wielewaal, Rotterdam

2020 Eathouse cooks Summer Season at Paviljoen aan het Water, Rotterdam
2019 15 Hours | during Schnittserie by Leonor Faber-Jonker | HOK Gallery, The Hague
2019 Ceramic Stories | Roodkapje, Rotterdam
2019 Pelmeni | Roodkapje, Rotterdam
 

COLLECTIVE / COLLABORATION
[] Eathouse | an artist cooking collective exploring the potential of food as an artistic method and ways that the culinary informs the social (with Jake Caleb, Merve Kılıçer and Ulufer Çelik)
[] Island Ears | a collective research and artistic intervention project with Clara Harmssen, Ishtar Bakhtali and Maurice Specht at the Brienenoord Island. Thinking about being together with the man-made island through eating, observing, feeling and listening in order to find ways to amplify its voice with the long term aim to give it its legal rights as a nature park.
[] Tuinlab | a garden project outside of Atelier Borneveld 169 building in collaboration with artists, neighbours, and children, exploring the possibilities of connecting through art, research, nature, embodied knowledge, getting hands dirty, and learning about the origins of food.
 

RESIDENCIES
2025 Residency | Taidetila Muijala, Reila, Finland (Upcoming)
2025 Research Project | Can Serrat, Catalonia (Upcoming)

2025 Residency | Buitenplaats Brienenoord, Rotterdam
2024 Residency | an other world Project Space, Rotterdam
2024 Eathouse Residency | Can Serrat, Catalonia
2022 Eathouse residency | Lemon House - documenta fifteen, Kassel
2019 HCA Residency | Roodkapje, Rotterdam
2018 Residency | Elmer Projects, London
2016 SOTD group residency | Hotel Elephant, London
 

PUBLICATIONS / PRESS
§ take from the table, bring to the table,  ‘Graduation Shows 2023 – HKU MA Fine Arts’, Exhibition review article by Rosa Wevers, Metropolis M
§ Eten is eigenlijk geschiedenis (Eating is actually history): Interview with Vlada Predelina, Article online, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht website
§ The Game of Knives: Writings and illustrations on protest, geopolitics and biopower, Publication, West Den Haag, Katerina Sidorova and Yannik Güldner
§ Pelmeni: A Conversation Cookbook, Self-published with PrintRoom, Rotterdam
§ Productie, Presentatie en Research: Tijdelijke Werkbijdrage 2020/2021, CBK Rotterdam


SELECTED WRITING

§ Cooking, sharing and meeting – Underdeveloped at Garage Rotterdam, Review online, Metropolis M 
§ Things are allowed to ferment, pickle and bubble up – Slavs and Tartars Pickle Bar at West Den Haag, Review online, Metropolis M

§ Excessive devouring, banana passports and hunger strikes: discussing ‘At the Table’ at Garage Rotterdam, Feature article online, Metropolis M
§ Over het DAVRA collectief in Kassel (About the DAVRA collective in Kassel), Printed article, Metropolis M, Issue No.6 2022/23 Dec/Jan
§ Creating circles, but not for the sake of the circle - an interview with DAVRA collective, Feature article online, Metropolis M

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2025 Installation Assistant, TENT, Rotterdam, NL
2023 Guest lecturer, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, NL
2022 - 2025 Hospitality and Bookshop Assistant, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
2021 Artist Assistant, Rory Pilgrim
2020 Artist Assistant, Daniel Mullen
2019 Artist Assistant, Jeanne van Heeswijk for Trainings for the Not-Yet, at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht
2018 Gallery Assistant and Bookshop Supervisor, South London Gallery, London
2017 Co-organiser and curator (with Natalie Mitchell), Super Yonic festival, Copeland Park & Bussey Building, London

2017 Festival Assistant / Volunteer Co-ordinator, DeptfordX, London
2015 Gallery Assistant, The Art Movement Gallery, London

2014 Assistant at Frieze London art fair

2012 Exhibition Assistant, Exchanges Around Construction, Derwent London Gallery (curated by Andrew Bick)