Jackie Galama (Heeg, 2001) (she/they), based in Groningen

Jackie Galama is an artist and educator whose practice explores intimacy, the visceral, and the transformative. Her work questions the boundaries between individual and collective bodies, translating movement, ritual, and sensation into visual and performative forms. Through embodied experimentation, Jackie uses the body as both subject and medium to investigate sexuality, sensuality, and physicality. Her projects manifest as videos, installations, or performances.

photo by Lisa Bommerson

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Sorrowful Mysteries: Mary Magdalene, or: the Saint

‘Sorrowful Mysteries: Mary Magdalene, or: the Saint’ is a performance and performative relic developed following a temporary intimate encounter. Drawing from liturgical scoring, the rosary, and the Gospel of Mary, the work explores devotion through ritual endurance, bodily synchronization, and control. The work moves through cycles of repetition, obstruction, and collapse, unfolding as a sonic and durational exploration of collapse through ambience and deconstruction. Installed as loose-sleeved pages and partially stapled as residue, the accompanying publications operate simultaneously as a devotional object, an unstable archive, and a performance relic.

2026, performance, 45 minutes & edition of 20 performative relics 

As part of Limburgs Museum & van Bommel van Dam, Venlo

collaboration with Jens Huls

sound piece done by Willem van der Veer

pictures by Floor Janssen

video

 

Sorrowful Mysteries

Transforming the body, a fluid concept of selfhood, through the performance of ritual, repetition, BDSM, and deconstruction.

10.10.2025

performance, 20 min, at ZOT, Groningen.

collaboration with Jens Huls

pictures by Una Skujina

 

Sorrowful Mysteries

Auditive sculpture, activated by durational performance that invoke the body as belonging to the other; as sculptural material. 

28.06.2025

performance, 45 min, Pigeonfest, Groningen

collaboration with Jens Huls 

pictures by Andreaa Ion

sound by battimansouldja  

Take Care

For my graduation project I formed a collective with Cynthia Celeste, Bean, Lotte d’Ailly, Nikita Chistov and Laura Hofman. Together we created a performance, researching ways of taking care of each other, as an extension of my thesis.

14.06.2025 - 19.06.2025 

performance, 25 min, Minerva, Groningen.

pictures by Lisa Bommerson and Ri Oosting        

Graduation thesis, Art and Education, Minerva, 2024-2025

Integrated graduation research on the importance of caring, non-hierarchical organization and embodied learning in arts education contexts.

june 2025

send me an email to get the pdf file. 



   

Yügen, Het Verbond

Performing in Yügen, a work by Susanna Luurs during Het Verbond in Groningen. Togehter with Joy de Vegt and Linn Andree.

september 2024

pictures by Joy de Vegt and Indy Pierik

re-visiting the third place

An exchange of third places in the city of Groningen, inviting the public to imagine and draw details of a third place that comes to mind, exchanging it as an invitation to visit these places.

february 2024 

Performance in Transcental Sympathy / Tales of the Soil, a work by Natalija Gucheva

Had the wonderful experience of performing in a work by Natalija Gucheva. We performed this piece twice at Ruigoord, Amsterdam.

More informatie can be found on Natalija’s website https://natalijagucheva.com 

june 2023

pictures by Rasheed Vlijter 

Resoma

Performing for Susanne Luurs with the team of Alter à Go during Paradigm festival.

Performance at the 2nd Floor exhibition, Minerva Academy with Sverre van der Velde

Exploration of space, movement and connection.

06.06.2022

pictures by Huba Hőnigh