Wendelien develops works that employ the cinematic format as a methodology for production and as the basic language for various forms of presentation. She often uses public film shoots to collaborate with participants in different scenarios, and to co-produce a script and orientate the work towards its final outcome. Many of these works explore repressed, incomplete and unresolved histories, which allow multiple perspectives and voices to coexist. In 2014, Van Oldenborgh was awarded the prestigious Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art and received a DAAD stipend for the Berliner Künstlerprogram residency. Recent exhibitions include From Left To Night, The Showroom (2015); School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial (2015); Berlinale Forum Expanded (2015, 2013, and 2011); Confessions of the Imperfect, 1848–1989–Today, Van Abbemuseum (2014); Dead Reckoning: Whorled Explorations, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014); 12th Biennale of Cuenca, Ecuador (2014); and Art Turning Left: How Values Changed Making 1789–2013, Tate Liverpool (2014).