2025
4 poems
Karate Klub
Scream in Summer
1x winner Best Greman short film – 3x winner Best Cinematography – 2x best score composer
2024
Commissions and sales
Entering the Zone
winner Best thriller short
Sleep among Wolves
winner Best Narrative short -winner Best short film
2024 05 visit Berlin/Brandenburg
2023
Prizes new Strehmann-Heerdink short films
Some Didn’t Make It – winner Best Actor: LA Independent Film Channel Festival, USA (Sept. 2023) & Cannes Arts Film Fest, France (Nov. 2023)
winner Original Score: Sydney Indie Short Festival, Australia (Nov. 2023) & Berlin Shorts Award, Germany (Nov. 2023)
Cage of Memories – winner Best Composer: Vegas Shorts Festival 18th edition & winner Best Cinematography: Florida Shorts Festival (Summer 2023)
Am I the only one? – winner Best Cinematography: Vegas Shorts Festival, USA (18th edit) & California Indies, USA (aug 2023)
Best International Narrative Short: L.A. Sun Film Fest, USA (2023)
A Closer Look Inside Maurice Heerdink – 12 part series in which Maurice discusses his works. In VIDEOS
Commissions and sales
2022
The start of Strehmann-Heerdink short films
The Price Of Art – winner Best Cinematography: Canadian Couch Film Festival (2022).
The Pyramid Dogma – winner Best Horror Film: Canadian Cinematography Awards (dec 2022)
Property For Sale – winner Original Score: Venice L.A. Festival, USA 2023 & Best Actress: San Diego International Film Awards, USA (winter 2022)
Commissions and sales
2021
New recording facillities for Maurice Magic Stories
Strehmann music-video by Strehmann Heerdink
2020
Start of Maurice Magic Stories on YouTube – Short stories written, read and illustrated by Maurice Heerdink
Start political illustrations for the magazine Pensioenbelangen
Interview with DDR painter Harald Schulze (in German)
spring:
2020 02 20 – Start of a new chapter.
2019
March:
New Maurice Heerdink website by Strehmann-Heerdink
Radio guest in “Uit De Kast,” Maurice talks about his career and working with Strehmann. Listen here. (in Dutch)
2018
Authumn:
Exhibition “De Gouden Eeuw van de Vliet” (Museum Swaensteyn Voorburg)
Summer:
Group exhibition “Art With Pride” – Zandvoort’s Museum
June:
Pink Terrorists Radio interview about “Art With Pride” expo & Strehmann – listen here (in Dutch)
Start of the creative cooperation with Ronny Strehmann
Spring:
Travel to Mexico
2017
August / November:
Lecture in “Sociëteit De Witte” / Jury member in “Sociëteit De Witte”
Several work publications,
Film commissions: theatre and music promos
Spring:
Travel to Malta – checking out the largest Caravaggio painting
2016
Contribution to the Mathilde Willink book by Lisette de Zoete
september 2016 – january 2017
Maurice Heerdink show in Museum Soest (more on the video page)
New projects & new techniques
Spring:
Travel to Andalusia
2015
Autumn:
Travel to Barcelona
(click to listen, in Dutch)
Spring:
Travel to BRNO and Auschwitz
2014
Great international book reviews
Publication of the book THE ART OF MAURICE HEERDINK
Autumn:
Travel to Papua New Guinea and the Gororka Sing Sing Dance Festival
Workshops and some new projects
Travel to Berlin
Spring:
Travel to Turkey
2013
Autumn:
Travel to Peru
Just funny:
When my friend Peter Devers tried to get Liza Minnelli to sign a photo of a very old portrait I made of her she signed a studio photo of herself and confiscated my portrait for her scrapbook! Doesn’t the woman have taste.
Spring:
Travel to Switzerland
2012
A personal year.
2011
Travel to Egypt
2010
Since June 2010 I am no longer a resident of The Hague but live very close by. All in all, after 34 years, it was a intense happening, but pleasing.
Childrens book week
2009
Travel to Istanbul and to Mexico-Belize-Guatemala
2008
A very busy year personally with funny commissions, new works and Asia travel.
2007
Some very interesting sales to the States, several commissions and workshops.
2006
Aug 12th – Sept 17th:
Second exhibition Westfries Museum in Hoorn
IN HET LICHT VAN DE SCHIJNWERPER (In The Spotlight)
Opening: Sasha Bulthuis – Guest of honor: Ellen Vogel
June:
Lecture on “Why are there no drawings by Carravaggio, Vermeer and Van Hals?”
January – February:
Several workshops
2005
Sept 3rd – Oct 16th:
First exhibition at Westfries Museum in Hoorn, FOREIGN CULTURES AND VOC
Painting more THEATER CELEBRITIES:
Johnny Kraaijkamp sr, Willem Nijholt, Aus Greidanus jr
April:
Checking out a real master: Caravaggio at the National Gallery in London.
2004
Started the series DUTCH THEATER CELEBRITIES portraying Ellen Vogel and Jenny Arean.
Opening exhibition of the Sandberg Gallery (quite a messy experience)
2003
Lectures on painting and drawing
2002
Several of my works were shown in MATHILDE WILLINK SUPERPOES. A documentary by Jasmina Fekovic and Eddie van der Velden (shown at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam and on television: Uur van de Wolf)
French book cover
2001
Working on The Falconer (New York commission) and Prometheus
2000
Collaboration talks with filmdirector / -critic of Vrij Nederland Ab van Ieperen about his upcoming movie drama (project cancelled)
1999
Groupexhibition: The Jesus Mystery – Travel to Curaçao
1998
TV-documentary: The Playful Eroticism of Maurice Heerdink
Exhibition in Amsterdam during Gay Games
1996–1997
Joop van Loon’s Mathilde Willink book presentation in Studio Ans Markus
f.l.t.r: Painter Adrian Stahlecker, Pistolen Paultje, Painter Astrid Engels, Chanteuse Marjol Flore, Theo Sijthoff, Painter Ans Markus and Maurice Heerdink round his painting “Mathilde” in Studio Ans Markus. Amsterdam 14-6-1997 (photo: uitgeverij De Vleermuis)
1996
First business-commission: Portrait of 27 board members
1995
1994
1993
Short film: 25 Years Houses – a comedy
1992
Role as a gangsterboss in the short movie “Dick Bos komt los”
1990–1997
Illustrating over 80 books and 15 magazines
1989
1987
Two month travelling through Central America checking out La Routa Maya
1986
1985
Travels to Canada and Paris
1984–1986
Performances with Bertold Brecht songs
1978–1989
Five short movies (with Ed van der Kooy):
a) Love Story, comedy
b) Angst, psychological drama
c) Tryptich, three horrorstories
c) Lost in Horrorland, four horrorstories
d) Garbage, horror
1981
1977
Art Academy filmproject: Terschelling
1976
1973
First newspaper publication
1955
Born August the 12th in the Netherlands