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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    The heart of a city

    Monique Besten
    · 14 Feb, 2019
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    magic in the garden

    Monique Besten
    · 13 Feb, 2019
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    A thought can change in a second

    Monique Besten
    · 11 Feb, 2019
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    Anticipation

    Monique Besten
    · 6 Feb, 2019
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    Poetry

    Monique Besten
    · 3 Feb, 2019
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    Next steps (a walk to the COP 26, 2020)

    Monique Besten
    · 3 Feb, 2019
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    Man

    Monique Besten
    · 3 Feb, 2019
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    Then approach nature

    Monique Besten
    · 28 Jan, 2019
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    Living

    Monique Besten
    · 27 Jan, 2019
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    Dreamers

    Monique Besten
    · 26 Jan, 2019
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    to bumble

    Monique Besten
    · 24 Jan, 2019
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    exercises in being here 2019-01-23 09:28:00

    Monique Besten
    · 23 Jan, 2019
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    the woman without baggage

    Monique Besten
    · 20 Jan, 2019
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    On the nature of daylight

    Monique Besten
    · 20 Jan, 2019
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    roots

    Monique Besten
    · 12 Jan, 2019
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    Art and nature

    Monique Besten
    · 11 Jan, 2019
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    Wildlife

    Monique Besten
    · 8 Jan, 2019
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    llibertat

    Monique Besten
    · 7 Jan, 2019
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    Kings and queens

    Monique Besten
    · 5 Jan, 2019
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    A happy new year!

    Monique Besten
    · 30 Dec, 2018