Moniek Toebosch

Biography

Moniek Toebosch was an artist, performer, director, and sound artist. Along with Trix Zwartjes, she was one of the actresses in the films of Frans Zwartjes in the 1970s; from the early film Dolls (1968) to the longer films Pentimento (1979) and In Extremo (1981).

Toebosch was also a teacher at both the Rijksacademie and the Rietveld Academie, and realized a number of major interdisciplinary art projects. Beginning in 2004, she was the director of the DasArts Foundation (short for ‘De Amsterdamse School/Advanced Research in Theatre and dance Studies’), which was a graduate educational programme for performing artists. Toebosch died in 2012.