Verena Blok
Verena Blok has a deep interest for personal histories and narrative storytelling. Intrigued by the way cultural and political factors influence one’s life; she uses her lens-based practice to shed light on inner life and everyday “reality” in intimate settings. The encounter with the subject is the core of and the fuel for her work. As a Dutch-Polish dual citizen raised in The Netherlands and The United States, Blok maintains a keen awareness of her positioning between East and West. By coming close to her subjects and embedding herself for stretches of time, she uses these locations as a studio, a backdrop to the narratives that both her and her subjects become part of.
Background
Verena Blok (1990, NL) lives and works in The Hague and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten 2020-2021 in Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Dutch museum for Photography, Rotterdam; Utrecht Central Station and Galeria Fotografii PF in Poznań, Poland. Her video work Robota (2018) has been acquired by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam for its permanent collection.
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![Unfair Amsterdam - Verena blok, robota [installatie], 2018](https://unfair.nl/content20/uploads/2020/02/Verena-Blok_Robota_2018_Copyright-Peter-Tijhuis_install-SMA-2018-1-1536x1024.jpg)
Verena Blok – Robota (2018) Installation view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 12:30 min, one channel video and sound installation (photo by Peter Tijhuis)
Available works by Verena Blok
Emil, March 2020, Gdańsk, Poland (2020)




Robota (2018)
Still from video
![Unfair Amsterdam - Verena blok, robota [still 1], 2018](https://unfair.nl/content20/uploads/works/AA_Verena-Blok_Robota_2018_still-1-1-scaled-1536x863.jpg)
![Unfair Amsterdam - Verena blok, robota [still 4], 2018](https://unfair.nl/content20/uploads/2020/02/Verena-Blok_Robota_2018_still-4-1-1536x856.jpg)
Robota (2018)
Installation view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 12:30 min, one channel video and sound installation
Photo by Peter Tijhuis
![Unfair Amsterdam - Verena blok, robota [installatie], 2018](https://unfair.nl/content20/uploads/2020/02/Verena-Blok_Robota_2018_Copyright-Peter-Tijhuis_install-SMA-2018-1-1536x1024.jpg)