Celine Daemen

Celine Daemen is a director of transdisciplinary art. Her work develops at the interface of theatre, music, visual arts and digital media.She creates immersive experiences that invite the audience on a journey inwards and take them to a place where personal associations arise in response to universal philosophical questions.

In 2018 she graduated from the directing course at the the Institute of Performative Arts Maastricht. In 2022 she founded her own studio ‘Studio Nergens’ in which she collaborates with various artists, like Art Director and tech dramaturg Aron Fels who has been involved since the beginning.

Over the past few years, Celine Daemen and her studio have garnered significant international attention with virtual reality operas, where visitors, wearing VR headsets, explore immersive musical scenes by walking. She has won several prestigious international awards. In 2022 her VR opera "Eurydice" received the Reflet D'Or for the best immersive experience at GIFF in Geneva. In 2023 her VR opera "Songs for a Passerby" received Venice Immersive Grand Prize for the best immersive experience at the Venice Biennale in 2023.

Her work has been showcased in various renowned venues around the world, ranging from theater and film festivals to concert halls and museums, like SPRING performing arts festival in Utrecht, the Eye filmmuseum, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Concerthall De Doelen in Rotterdam and The Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, Sonica Festival in Glasgow, South by South West in Austin, KFA in Kaohsiung and BIFAN in Bucheon.