Judith Westerveld

Judith Westerveld (b. 1985, South Africa / Netherlands; lives between Amsterdam and Cape Town) is an audiovisual artist, filmmaker and artistic researcher whose moving‑image work engages colonial archives, oral histories and linguistic erasure. Trained at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and University of Amsterdam (MA Artistic Research, cum laude), her video-installations and film essays—distributed by LIMA and ARGOS—navigate memory, language and postcolonial transformation in works such as The Sending of the Crows and A Few Common Phrases.

Through a multilingual response to a sound recording from a man called Mukalap, in the no longer living language !ora, colonial legacies echo through.

Judith Westerveld
Netherlands 2021 15' Listening with the Other leff 2025

An audiovisual meditation of a language and culture from a colonial past, “moving through time, reflecting on the truth of the people forgotten”.

Judith Westerveld
Netherlands 2024 15' Listening with the Other leff 2025