Guido van der Werve

Guido van der Werve (born 1977) is a Dutch filmmaker and visual artist, notable for producing works physically testing his endurance.

Van der Werve was born in Papendrecht, the Netherlands and currently lives and works in Finland and Berlin. He pursued studies in industrial design, archaeology, music composition, and Russian language and literature at several universities in the Netherlands before beginning to create his first video documented performances at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy around 2000. Van der Werve initially started out doing performances but because he disliked the live aspect, he started to film them with simple video cameras. The registrations became gradually more cinematic and professional over the years. Having a background in music Van der Werve tries to create visual art, which communicates as direct as music. In 2006 Van der Werve did a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2008 he moved to New York. From 2010 on Van der Werve has been living in the Finnish countryside and Berlin. Van der Werve is an avid runner and triathlete. He's a black T-shirt finisher in the 2012 Anniversary race of the Norseman triathlon. His PB in the Marathon is currently 2.57.06 ran in the Berlin Marathon in 2013. He also finished all of the six World Marathon Majors in under 3:15 minutes, including the terror attacked Boston Marathon of 2013. In 2011 he summited Aconcagua in Argentina, with a height of 6972 meters.

Van der Werve has created a variety of works, including a series of film and videos and a musical composition titled by number in chronological order from two to seventeen. Number ten and number fifteen being monographs each about the five years of works prior to the book.

Works include:

Nummer twee, Just because I’m standing here doesn’t mean I want to. 03’08”, 35mm, Papendrecht NL, 2003

Nummer drie, Take step fall 10’38”, 35mm, Amsterdam NL, 2004

Nummer vier, I don’t want to get involved in this. I don’t want to be part of this. Talk me out of it. 11’49”, 35mm, Zandvoort, Siitama & Enschede NL 2005

Nummer zes, Steinway grand piano, Wake me up to go to sleep, and all the colors of the rainbow. 17’09”, 35mm, Amsterdam NL, 2006

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