Jacqueline van de
Geer
Education:
BA,1993 Willem de Kooning Art Academy, Rotterdam,The Netherlands
BA,1987 Theatre Academy, Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Selected Special Training:
• Butoh (Diego Pinon, Martine Viale)
• Creative Writing (Suzanna Cook, Split Bridges)
• Performance (Sylvie Tourangeau, Lisa Marcus, Julie Tolentino, Sylvie Cotton)
Solo Performances- a selection:
2026
Democracy now!-Clio Art Fair, New York
A bitter cake-studio 303, Montreal
Can I ask you to close your eyes?- Weggeefwinkel, Rotterdam, Netherlands & Ballhaus Tuscholsky Loitz, Germany
Tanz, a hommage a Florentina Holzinger, Le Radeau, Montreal
2025
Um bolo amargo, Goethe Institute Salvador Bahia & Museum Contemporary arts, Salvador Bahia
Democracy now!- festival FAR, Montreal
Um bolo amargo- Goethe Institute, Salvador, Bahia
Um bolo margo-Museum of Contemporary Art, salvador , Bahia
Echo Rhapsodie-Open Actions, La Chaufferie, Montreal
Democracy now!- Bettolab, Berlin
The thread of life and death- Bardo Projekt Raum, Berlin
2024
Becoming- a 6 hour durational performance, Centre PHI, Montreal
Intergenerational Tea-dance!- Centre Phi, Montreal
Wisdom woman- Cafe Concret, Montreal
Vortex- Playwright Workshop, Montreal
The Plot- Centre Clark, Montreal
2023
You are my disco-Art Souterrain, Montreal
Esmée finds love-Festival de marionettes, rue Wellington, Montreal
2022
Gathering-Cité des Hospitalieres, Montreal
What is love? ( baby, don’t hurt me)-Meet factory, Prague
A string- RIPA, Montreal
The magician-Cafe Concret, Montreal
2021
A Confinement Rhapsody- No Hay Banda festival, Salla Rosa, Montreal
Beauty up high!- festival termites, Montreal
Immer etwas zu whalen weil wir sind noch da!- Blauverschiebung Festival, Leipzig
Hysteria!-exhibition Galerie Helmut, Leipzig
2020
Possible lives- Galerie AVE, Montreal
Feeling in the blanks- Art Souterrain, Montreal
Hair, what remains...- ARC-gallery, Chicago
La femme éternelle- festival Ouff, Montreal
2019
La femme éternelle- Dada Cabaret, Montreal
Feeling in the blanks- Amerikanische Freiheit Bibliothek, Berlin, Germany, Xarkis festival, Cyprus,
studio 303, Montreal
Memories and borders- toured through Europe: Cross Attic, Prague, Czech Republic,Tante Nino, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Arsenal, Montreal
Magnify-festival Rose, Montreal
Superstition!-Art Souterrain, Montreal
2018
Silence is golden- Baobab festival,Montreal
Memories and borders- PAE, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
True- Studio Ilka Theurig, Hannover, Germany
In Transit- White cube festival, Landshut, Germany
Memory Lane- Eclectik, MAI, Montreal
You are my disco- Archipelago, Rialto, Montreal
2017
The String- Xarkis festival, Cyprus
Something is always happening- Fonderie Darling, Montreal
You are the performance- Galerie MAI, Montreal
En Transit- Vivement midi series- Art Souterrain, Montreal
The Paper-bag Queen- toured: Sanafest, Halen, Norway, Lefti festival, Montreal, Flux factory, New York
Collaborative Performances- a selection:
2026
Direction assistee- Sanaaq, Montreal
Weaving Stories- Contemporary Choreography Lab, Yerevan, Armenia
Filles de…-Le petite theatre, Rouyn Noranda
2025
Direction assistee- Brice Noeser, festival dance Bilbao
Rabee Ismail & friends- Fruhlings festival, Berlin
For everyone stuck chasing the clock- La Chapelle, Montreal
2024
Meet Joy and Glittering Gloss- Centre PHI, Montreal
Duo en Morceaux- CAM tournée Montreal
Direction assistée- CAM tournée Montreal
Direction assistée- La Rotonde, Quebec city
Où sont tes épaules quand tu donnes des coups de pied- Tangente
2023
Dada Cabaret- Festival Phenomena, Montreal
Deseo- Singulier Pluriel
Direction assistée- festival Furies, Marsouil
Où sont tes épaules quand tu donnes des coups de pied- Tangente
Old- dance video with Jos Rosier, The Netherlands
2022
For the Russian wives- in collaboration with Artivist Lab, Prague
Dammer (Blau)-Leipzig, Germany
Wahnsinn und Methode- réprise Urban Collective, Leipzig
The Plot- art video installation Emma Kate Guimond, Montreal
Direction assistee- La Chapelle, Montreal
Torpedo- touring les maisons de la Culture, Montreal
Duo en morceaux- Theatre INK, Aux Ecuries, Montreal
2021
Wahnsinn und Methode, Urban Collective, Leipzig
Breaking the waves- Collective Ménades Contemporaines, Montreal
Trajectoires- EM production, MAI, Montreal
Duo en morceaux- Theatre INK, Aux Ecuries, Montreal
Wretch- The Malicious Basement, festival Bete Noir, Montreal Fringe Festival
Nous campions loin des endroits où la mort nous attendait- Hugo Nadeau, Quebec city, Mois Multi
2019
Lévriers- Nervous Hunter, National theatre centre, Ottawa
Don Quichot- Kunstverein Montez, Frankfurt, Germany, atelier Orbit 24, Frankfurt, Germany
Foret- EM-studio, Tangente, Montreal
Hold it, squeeze it...- Rhubarb festival, Toronto, festival Phenomena, Montreal
2018
Lévriers- Nervous Hunter, MAI, Montreal
The hysteria tryptich- Odd stumble theater, Rialto, Montreal
The autism monologues- La Tigressa, Montreal Fringe
2017
Silent Disco- Art Souterrain, Montreal
Incognito- Project X, Fleur d'asphalte, Montreal
Pourquoi je n'ai pas une banane?- Mobile Home, touring Maisons de la Culture, Montreal
They- performance video, Catherine Dong, Montreal
Residencies and Mentorships:
2026
The last goodbye- ADÉLARD, Frelighsburg
2025
Residency The obsession of romance, CALQ Goethe Institute Salvador, Brazil
Art Intensive Berlin spring session 1-30 April, Berlin
What is love?-theatre Aux Ecuries, Montreal
2024
Becoming Sparkling- 6 month residency at Centre Phi, Montreal
2023
Short term residency at the MUAC, Mexico City
2022
Residency Meet Factory, The Furies, Prague, Czech Republic
2021
Barbe Blue- MIAM, Montreal
Laboratoire Chercher l’ouverture- Galerie Uqo, Outaouais
2020
3 sisters- studio 303, Montreal
Becoming/Devenir- Est Nord Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli
2019
Don Quichot- creation/research-residency, IPA, Frankfurt, Germany
Short research residency for Feeling in the blanks- Xarkis festival, Cyprus
2018
Magnify- BetOnest, Stolpe, Germany
2017
Merz!- residency le Clou, Montreal
Bodily Pitches-residency Sensorium Space, Cyprus
Paroles et manoeuvres-Exchange- SKOL Montreal and Atelier du Vent, Rennes, France