About

Hi, I am Noli Kat. I am a full time chronically ill and 'psychologically vulnerable' person with a nasty habit of making art about this. Most of my work are forms of autobiographical storytelling as Frida Kahlo once said: ''I paint myself because I am so often alone and I am the subject I know best"

After a burn-out due to excessive activism and childhood trauma left me bed-based for several years with the stigmatised illness ME/CFS I started creating self-portraits in order to survive the pain of my daily reality and to advocate for my community (spoiler twist: we are still being fucked over, I was just randomly lucky enough to improve a lot).

I try to use humor, glamour and vulnerability to open up topics people find it difficult to talk about such as suicidality, illness, disability, sex (and also sex and disability), capitalism, ableism, the dutch benefits system, being in a mental health institution, domestic violence, child abuse and more. 

My dream for my work is that it inspires people to find solace in each other and join the struggle for collective liberation and disability justice.

My current creative mediums are performance art, theater, film (acting, writing) and ‘lie-down’ cabaret but I have been known to dabble in a little burleske and am always open to explore my horizons and collab.

I am based in Dreamscapes, Fantasy, Cyberspace and the Netherlands.