Caro de Valk
B. 1997, Groningen, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam
https://carodevalk.nl/
Devalkcarolien@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/cd___v/
https://caroo.bandcamp.com/


Education
2018 - 2023 BA Fine art & Design - TXT, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2014 - 2018 Spatial design, Cibap vakschool voor verbeelding, Zwolle
2012- 2014 Graphic design, Zernike college, Groningen


Residencies
2025 Sound, sculpture, DUPLEX-Air, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 Sculpture, music and sound, PADA Studio’s, Barreiro, Portugal
2023 Sound, textile, sound, Aqtushetii, Omalo, Georgia
2021 Study Time & Space, Kuva, Helsinki, Finland
2019 Residency, Leipzich Internationales Festival Zur Designausbildung, Germany
2018 Study Sculpture, Academia di Belle di Arti, Urbino, Italy
2017 Residency EEA, Gerswalde, Germany
2017 Exchange program, Chonqing, China


Publications, collaborations
2025 Audio in mix ‘Greetings from... Seedlink City’ with Seedlink, Amsterdam
2024 Dutch Design Daily, Rotterdam
2023 Audio in mix ‘Full size run’ with Seedlink (published by Nina Protocol, NY)
2023 Live mix, Echobox Radio, Amsterdam
2023 Ouch! Collective Vol, 2 - poem, audio (published East Bay, CA)
2023 Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, exhibition publication
2022 TXT group publication
2022 Radio Radio, dj set
2021 Poem, story, Rietveld Journal
2018 Fotoseries in collaboration with Yanni Tamanzayi, Kunstblad KZ


Group shows
2025 ‘See you soon’ ArtRoom, Lisbon, Portugal
2025 ‘Speeddating’ Duplex Air, Lisbon, Portugal
2025 Ams Dessta, Chasse theater, Breda
2025 AAArchive, De Bouwput, Amsterdam
2025 KunstRAI, Amsterdam
2025 ‘Porre Poele’, Groningen
2024 ‘Buro grenzeloos’, Dordrecht
2024 PADA Studios ‘45, Barreiro, Portugal
2024 ‘Canopy’, Amsterdam Art Week, Amsterdam
2024 OBJECT Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2023 Graduationshow, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2023 Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Genieloods, Amsterdam
2022 Eight Cubic Meters, Amsterdam
2021 Kuva Tilla, Helsinki, Finland
2021 Ramses Shaffy huis, Amsterdam
2019 ‘It’s called fashion, look it up!”, Amsterdam
2018 EEA ‘Donut Disturb’, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam


Projects
2025 Textile works, Amsterdam Warehouse, Amsterdam
2025 Textile works, in collaboration with Iswanto Hartono, De Appel, Amsterdam
2024 Textile works, exhibition: Our People are Our Mountains: Instructions for Placemaking, De Appel, Amsterdam
2024 Textile works, Amsterdam Warehouse, Amsterdam
2023 Music performance ‘Organ in Situ’, het Orgelpark, Amsterdam
2022 TXT Pop up shop, Amsterdam


Internships
2025 Assisting Marie Ilse Bourlanges, production, weaving, general studio assistance, NL
2025 Assisting Iswanto Hartono for De Appel, Textile production, sculpture production, NL
2024 Assisting Marie Ilse Bourlanges, weaving, exhibition ‘Je file un fil pour ma fille’, at VU.CH x Espace Mercerie, Lausanne (CH), 2024
2023 Assisting Sijben Rosa, sculpting, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Assisting Gleb Maiboroda, weaving and audio mixing, NL
2022 Assisting Maria Roosen, build up Biennale Aardenburg, BE
2017 Product Design, JPS architecten, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Spatial design, product design, furniture, Opmaat3D, Groningen, NL
2013 Graphic design, WM Veenstra, Groningen, NL


Grants
Stichting Berlage Fonds