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Tosca Schift is a visual artist working across video art, installation, performance and expanded cinema. Her practice explores the visceral body, spatial and temporal multiplicity and ancestral narratives, engaging with questions of identity, heritage and spirituality. Through processes of spiritual inquiry, Schift examines the complexities of her colonial family history, situating them within a broader cosmovision that connects personal memory to collective realities.

Schift completed the Master of Film: Artistic Research in and Through Cinema, following a bachelors degree in Product Design. Her hands-on praxis — rooted in material exploration and embodied making - fosters a sensitive attunement to the materiality of life. This approach shapes how she works with the camera-body, moving images, archival material and objects.

Between 2019 and 2024, Schift was part of the artist duo ANT EYE, with whom she screened and exhibited work internationally, including the Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Prague International Design Festival and The Grey Space in the Middle. In 2022, she was awarded the Talent Development Grant from the Creative Industries Fund NL. Her latest work, the cinematic performance “It’s too cold for the spirits to live here” premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2026.