Jackie Galama (Heeg, 2001) (she/they) is an artist and educator based in Groningen. In their practice, Jackie explores the body as a site of intimacy, transformation and friction. Through movement, ritual and physicality, they create performances where queerness, intimacy and sensuality come together. Their work is informed by a feminist perspective on the body and the ways in which ideas around femininity, gender and sexuality are shaped and passed on. Jackie explores how bodies can transform, unravel and relate to one another, and how the personal can shift into the collective. They are inspired by spaces at the edges of the mainstream, where alternative forms of togetherness, expression and embodiment can emerge.

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 (edited by Jens Huls)

 

A body shaped by currents and salt

A body shaped by currents and salt is a performance developed during the making of the collective exhibition Don’t mind the leaky window in KEL-30 in Haren. Drawing from a collective, leaky dream we had, and from The Odyssey, the work explores the myths of sirenes, the concept of hauntology and vocal improvisation.



2026, performance, 7 minutes

As part of Don’t Mind the Leaky Window, Kel-30, Haren.

Collaboration with Lila Veloo, Siem de Boer and Lotte D’Ailly


 

Sorrowful Mysteries, part 2

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

2025, performance, 20 min,

As part of ZOT, Groningen.

Collaboration with Jens Huls

Pictures by Una Skujina

 

Sorrowful Mysteries, part 1

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

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 and organising non-hierarchically, as an extension of my thesis.

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.

2025

Send me an email to get the pdf file. 



   

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 

2023, performance, 20 minutes.

Pictures by Rasheed Vlijter 

Resoma

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

Untitled

Exploration of space, movement and connection.

2022, performance, 10 minutes

As part of the 2nd Floor exhibition, Minerva Academy, Groningen. 

Collaboration with Sverre van der Velde

Pictures by Huba Hőnigh