Nowy Teatr invites applications for a master class with Dries Verhoeven, taking place on September 20, from 12:00 to 16:00 at Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, as part of the 6th New Europe International Festival: PRETTY HARDCORE.

Anyone over the age of 18 can participate in the workshops. Those interested in participating are asked to send their CV (maximum one page) along with a brief response (maximum one page) to the following question: How could this experience influence your artistic practice?

Selected participants will be notified in writing. Prior to the workshop, attendees will be asked to complete a preparatory task assigned by Dries Verhoeven.

Participation is free of charge. The workshop will be conducted in English.

Please note that travel/accommodation expenses are not covered by the organizer.

Applications should be sent to piotr.gruszczynski@nowyteatr.org by July 20th , 2025, with a statement reading as follows:

"I consent to the processing of my personal data for the purposes of recruitment for participation in the workshop conducted by Dries Verhoeven (pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).

Read WORKSHOP REGULATIONS with DRIES VERHOEVEN pdf

Dries Verhoeven (1976, Oosterhout, Netherlands) is a Dutch artist working at the intersection of visual and performing arts. He creates installations, performances, and public interventions that critically explore themes of spectatorship, fissures in contemporary society, collective vulnerability, and the mythopoetic dimensions of crisis. By destabilizing the boundaries between observer and participant, Verhoeven creates spaces where viewers confront their complicity in systems of power, their ambivalence toward mediated realities, and the fragile threads connecting individual agency to collective responsibility. More

During the 6th International Festival New Europe. Pretty Hardcore we will show Dries Verhoeven's performance NarcoSexuals

Portrait Dries Verhoeven: Sjoerd Kelderman