Monique Besten

Monique Besten

Award winner Marŝarto23 shortlisted
Monique Besten is a visual artist, writer and educator who focuses on slow ways of being, likes to work site-specific and researches walking as an artistic medium. She is based in the Netherlands and Spain but is mainly at home where her feet are. She is a long-term collaborator of The Dark Mountain Project, teaches Performance Art at the University of the Arts Utrecht (NL) and is a keen Natural Farmer. Walking has been an important part of her work & working process in many different ways. Since 2012 she made 8 long distance performative walks in a business suit, some over 1000 kilometres long. In 2021 her first book ”The Wanderer. A traveller born out of words” was published.

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  • Post Marŝarto23

    Why walk? A slow journey in a three-piece business suit.

    Monique Besten
    · 18 Jan, 2024
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    In a new light

    Monique Besten
    · 2 Jan, 2024
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    Today’s thoughts

    Monique Besten
    · 9 Oct, 2023
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    Polaroid dreams

    Monique Besten
    · 8 Oct, 2023
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    How to decide where to go

    Monique Besten
    · 2 Oct, 2023
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    Perceiving

    Monique Besten
    · 1 Oct, 2023
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    Weaving thoughts

    Monique Besten
    · 15 Oct, 2022
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    A random day

    Monique Besten
    · 14 Apr, 2022
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    Here now

    Monique Besten
    · 12 Feb, 2022
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    To believe

    Monique Besten
    · 14 Mar, 2020
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    Letter to a dear friend

    Monique Besten
    · 11 Jan, 2020
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    At the heart of things

    Monique Besten
    · 1 Dec, 2019
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    Morning song

    Monique Besten
    · 24 Nov, 2019
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    always the sea

    Monique Besten
    · 24 Nov, 2019
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    Birdwatching

    Monique Besten
    · 9 Sep, 2019
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    Cookie overload

    Monique Besten
    · 28 Aug, 2019
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    seeds

    Monique Besten
    · 27 Aug, 2019
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    Identifying seeds

    Monique Besten
    · 8 Aug, 2019
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    A stone protruding from the ground

    Monique Besten
    · 31 Jul, 2019
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    One way to (not) enter home

    Monique Besten
    · 25 Jul, 2019