Sarah Vanhee is an artist, performer, researcher and author whose work has been presented over the past twenty years on national and international stages, as well as within the fields of visual arts, film, and literature. She is known for original artistic forms that manifest both within and beyond institutional frameworks. Her work is driven by radical imagination and social engagement. Rooted in a performative practice, Vanhee operates transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral, often through co-creation. Art is a tool for her to foreground underrepresented narratives and non-dominant voices and entities. Vanhee has worked in theatres, hospitals, libraries, community centers, prisons, private living rooms, open fields, corporate meeting rooms, and more. Recent works include Long Live Lust (video installation), The Beach (stage performance), words service (public service), bodies of knowledge (nomadic classroom), collected screams (lecture performance), The Making of Justice (film), and Oblivion (performance), among others.
While deeply rooted in local contexts, Vanheeâs oeuvre has been presented internationally in a wide range of venues and festivals, including KFDA, Festival dâAutomne, Wiener Festwochen, Festival TransAmĂ©riques, Museo Reina SofĂa, Teatre Lliure, Festival Actoral, BIT Teatergarasjen, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Frascati, Van Abbemuseum, and Centre Pompidou-Metz.
As an author, Vanhee collaborated on Untranslatables and published Lecture For Every One (APE), The Miraculous Life of Claire C (Onomatopee), and TT (Campo). She has published numerous texts in both artistic and academic contexts. In 2022, she obtained her artistic PhD at ARIA and KCA. Vanhee is active as a public speaker, guest professor, advisor, dramaturge, and mentor.
As a researcher, long-standing and recurring areas of interest include knowledge and knowledge-sharing, law and justice, corporeality and sexuality. Currently (2026-2027) Vanhee is conducting research on the artistic representation of gender-based violence.
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