Theater and performance
2025 video and costume design, School of Survival, Theater Rampe, Stuttgart DE, opening piece of the season VOM OSTEN LERNEN
2025 video and stage design, Pleasure Incorporated, 100° Diaspora, Performing Exiles, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin DE
2024 video design and animation, Otello, Opera Spanga, Netherlands
2024 video and stage design, Pleasure Incorporated, English Theater, Berlin DE
2024 video design and animation, Zusammen fallen, Neukoellner Oper, Berlin DE
2023 video design and animation, Food Fight, Platypus Theater, Berlin
2023 video installation and animation, Recycle Art , Brussel
Exhibitions (selection)
2025 video sculpture, pseudo-co.: spawning alt-reality', Rathaus Center Pankow, Art Spring festival, Berlin DE
2025 video installation, Polish Art Week by Avant Art Festival, multiple locations, Berlin DE
2025 video sculpture, Inside Out, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin DE
2025 video installation,for Fries TV / Best Of, Ebertplatz, Cologne DE
2024 video installation, I need to stare at a body of water about this, Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin DE
2024 video installation, for Sigma Space [Foyer 42], Basel CH
2023 video installation, for Queer Things Take Time, Kunstraum Potsdamer Strasse, part of Berlin Art Week, Berlin DE
2023 video installation, for Foyer 42, Basel CH
2023 video installation, for Vertraeumt, Kunstraum Potsdamer Strasse, Berlin DE
2022 video installation, for einhunderthunde,Projektraum Flutgraben e.V., Berlin DE
2022 video installation, for Fries TV, Ebertplatz, Cologne DE
Film festivals (selection)
2023 Filmfest Dresden, Dresden DE
2023 Freiburger Filmforum Film Festival, Freiburg DE
2023 Videoclub, The Living Gallery, New York City USA
2022 Vierte Welle Feminist Film Festival, Berlin DE
2019 Craft Film Fest, Barcelona ES
2019 DIAMETRALE, Experimental Film Festival, Innsbruck AT
2018 Moscow Shorts, Moscow RU
2018 Berlin Short Film Festival, Berlin DE
Grants and residencies
2023 10th Expo, project grant, English Theater, Berlin DE
2023 Artistic research residency grant, Ausland, Berlin DE
2022 Mart Stam Gesellschaft, project grant, Berlin DE
Artistic assistance
2025 artistic collaborator, Men in Feminism by Flinn Works, Berlin DE/ Aarau CH
2025 artistic collaborator, Carbon Negative by Flinn Works, Berlin DE, shown at Sophiensaele Berlin, Dock 4 Kassel, Lichthof Theater Hamburg, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt
2024 artistic collaborator, No More White Money by Flinn Works, Berlin DE, nominated for The Friedrich Luft Prize, shown at Sophiensaele Berlin, Grand Theatre Groningen(NL), Theater a/d Rijn, Arnhem (NL), Frascati Amsterdam (NL):
2022 artistic assistance for multimedia artist Marianna Simnett, Berlin DE
Academic background
2026 post-MFA fellowship/Meisterschüler, Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin (completed by February 2006)
2025 MA, Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin
2019 BA, Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin
2018 Intermedia Art, College of Art Edinburgh, UK Erasmus scholarship
2013 BA, Journalism, University of Wrocław, Poland
Reviews (selection)
by Peter 't Hart for Opera Magazine NL, July 15, 2024
The second reason why this opera is remembered, is the animation (created by Maja Zagórska and two assistants). [...] It gives the performance atmosphere and content. The fact that these paintings begin to move completes the image.
https://www.operamagazine.nl/recensies/69876/otello-afwisseling-tussen-verdi-en-spanga/
by Kester Freriks for Theaterkrant NL, July 15, 2024
Inside designer De Rooij has created something truly magnificent with the help of brilliant video footage: seventeenth- and nineteenth-century paintings come to life with waves, sea monsters, moving figures,...