Thijs Biersteker
Awarness artist to create sustainable digital work on topics of climate change, pollution and nature

exhibitions & press OLD

 

EXHIBITIONS, TALKS AND AWARDS

PRESS

TED Talk

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Upcoming

  • Extended Nature at new museum by Junya Ishigami at Bailuwan Town (CH), from October 2022 onwards

  • TedX Talk, Den Helder (NL), October 2022

  • Wither at Barbican Centre London (UK), May 2022

  • Flow, permanent installation at Groote Museumt (NL), May 2022

  • Plant Intelligence, permanent installation at Groote Museum (NL), May 2022

  • Voice of Nature at Museum Arnhem (NL), May 2022

  • We Harvest Wind at Design Museum Gent (BE), April 2022

Current exhibitions

  • Pee Privacy at ARCAM, March 2022

  • Econtinuum at NXT museum Amsterdam (NL)

  • Wither at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Children’s Biennale at the Japanese Pavilion (DE) 18 Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

2021

  • Wither at IUCN World Conservation Congress as part of the exhibition Biocenosis21 in collaboration with Unesco x LVMH (FR)

  • We Harvest wind Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), October 2021 in collab with Polestar

  • Wither at RE-Nature in Den Bosch (NL), 8 - 31 October 2021

  • Talk at DDW 22 Okt.

  • Feature in NRC Newspaper (pdf)

  • Econtinuum at NXT museum Amsterdam (NL)

  • Wither at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Children’s Biennale at the Japanese Pavilion (DE) 18 Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

2020

  • Vice Creative Fridays speaker

2019

  • Guest lecturer at Willem de Kooning Academy

  • Nomination Starts Prize 2019 Voice of Nature

  • Voice of Nature : Ars Electronics 2019- Starts prize

  • Voice of Nature - Berkeley University (US)

  • Wither at Paris Fashion week in collaboration with Daily Paper (FR)

  • Pollutive Ends at Beijing Riverside Museum (CH)

  • Plastic Reflectic at Scientific Centre Kuwait (KW)

  • Keynote speaker - Sustainable Brands, Copenhagen

  • Art Room Gallery- First place exhibition (US)

  • Volverium at Paris Fashion week in collaboration with Daily Paper



2017

  • Plastic Reflectic at Todays Art Museum, Beijing ( CN)

  • Award - Winner Lumenprize 2017 gold, Plastic Reflectic

  • Panel - What Design Can Do (NL), Circular economy brand design

  • Keynote Speaker - Israel Innovation Week

  • Keynote speaker The next web - Provoking thought

  • SXSW Festival – Plastic Reflectic, Austin Texas, US

  • Fluid Matters – Plastic Reflectic, MU artspace, Eindhoven, NL

Highlights


2018

  • Plastic Reflectic at International Festival Of Technology (NL)

  • Clavilux Neue at International Festival Of Technology (NL)

  • Volverium at International Festival Of Technology (NL)

  • Keynote speaker Kyoorius Design Yatra (India )

  • Mind Over Matter, NewWerktheater, Amsterdam, NL

  • Volverium at Dutch Design Week 2018 (NL)

  • Keynote speaker at playgrounds (NL)

  • Voice of Nature at Light Up Bashu, Chengdu (CH)

  • Artist in Residence - Delft Technical University

  • Keynote speaker - Creative Mornings, Amsterdam

  • Keynote speaker - Dare Conference

2016

  • Plastic Reflectic at Mu Gallery (NL),

  • Creative Press Challenge Briefing , Amsterdam, NL

  • Line of Thought at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL),

  • Down the Rabbithole exhibition

Biersteker’s work has been widely published, including features in The Guardian, Wired, Le Monde, China Daily, Fast Company, VICE, Architectural Digest, A+U, Dezeen & Domus.
A selection of publications:

Corriere Della Sera- July 2019

Corriere Della Sera- July 2019

‘Dazzling dark matter display previews online.’
European Space Agency (ESA)

‘Another gem is a collaboration by botanist Stefano Mancuso and artist Thijs Biersteker in the gallery’s garden.’
New Scientist

‘Biersteker underlined how the dialogue between art and science can become fluid and immediate.’
Art Tribune

’Thijs Biersteker, in collaboration with botanist Stefano Mancuso, offers a salve, wiring two trees in the Fondation’s extensive garden to scientific visualisations to help us empathise with what trees are sensing in real time.’
Financial Times

‘Technisch grensverleggend is Symbiosia dat de Nederlander Thijs Biersteker maakte samen met de bekende Italiaanse plantenonderzoeker Stefano Mancuso.’
NRC Handelsblad

‘Digital artwork called Symbiosia depicts effect of climate change on trees in Paris’
Dezeen

‘Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker worked with design studio Moore to create The Cover That Judges You.’
Wired

‘It is an impressive showcase of the tree’s sensitivity and indicative of the environmental impact on the trees surrounding us.’
Geographical

‘Thijs Biersteker's Plastic Reflectic installation provokes a conscious response’
Designboom

’Take a (careful) look at the facial-recognition book cover that won’t open if you’re sporting a judgmental expression’
The Guardian

‘The punching bag was created to give people an active way to help at a time when it’s common to feel helpless.’
Fastcompany

’Thijs Biersteker is many “things.” A visionary, certainly, and, just as certainly, a great artist and an (interactive) designer. But he is also a poet. And, without a shadow of doubt, a modern warrior. ‘
Salone del Mobile

’For example, the botanist Stefano Mancuso, a pioneer of plant neurobiology and advocate of the concept of plant intelligence, has collaborated with artist Thijs Biersteker to create an installation that seeks to make the invisible, visible. using sensors, Mancuso and biersteker reveal plants’ reaction to the environment and pollution, as well as the phenomenon of photosynthesis, root communication, and the idea of plant memory.’
Design Boom


’Dutch Artist Thijs Biersteker Gives Trees a Voice—in Lights’
Ecowatch

’Periscopista’
Dutch Design Daily

’Ecologia e big data. Intervista all’eco-artista Thijs Biersteker’
Art Tribune

’This artwork lets trees tell the story of climate change.’
Next Nature Network

’This Tree Produces Psychedelic Art By Using Sensors to Monitor Its Own Health’
Vice - Voice of nature


’Thijs Biersteker creëert interactieve installaties, producten en diensten die mensen laten glimlachen en nadenken.’
Fontanel


’Voice of Nature’
Starts Prize - Ars Electronica


’Symbiosia’
Unique Creta - Symbiosia

‘The ocean is filled with plastic. And maybe you are, too.’
Fastcompany

‘“Plastic Reflectic” draws attention to environmental issues and the direct impact our actions have.’
Boooooooom.com

‘‘Plastic Reflective“: In einem Tümpel aus schwarzem Wasser erscheint in Echtzeit die Silhouette des Betrachters – aus Plastikmüll.’
Arte.tv

‘Dutch artist Thijs Biersteker’s kinetic installation puts the “I” in plastic pollution.’
NRDC

‘Plastic Reflectic’ Gold Award
Lumenprize for digital art

‘Thijs Biersteker zien dat ons handelen invloed kan hebben op dit schrikbeeld en dat wij zelf de controle hebben over de hoeveelheid plastic in de oceaan.’
Neuwelle

‘Their movement at this moment can influence the ever growing plastic problem later.’
Digital Ambiance

‘Artwork built from ocean plastic sends a powerful message about how it enters the food chain.’
Insider

‘Thijs Biersteker, helps participants think of ocean waste as a universal issue.’
PSFK


’Plastic Reflectic’
Ur designmag