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

exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS AND TALKS


Highlights

  • Three-time TED speaker (click here for my talks)

  • Tutor Position - Art & Ethics, Delft Technical University

  • Nature & Culture Summit Keynote for UN

  • Keynote speaker - Triennale Milan ‘Broken Nature

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

  • Econario at COP15 Montreal, Dec 2023

  • Xylemia at Art Basel (CH), June 2024

  • Symbiosia at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (FR), Jun 2019

  • We Harvest Wind Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Oct 2021 (NL)

  • Fellow at the VU University Amsterdam

  • Econario at G20 top 2023 India


Exhibitions

Fungal Factulty This AI-powered mushroom artwork aims to rewire our perception of intelligence.  This interactive AI artwork, a collaboration between artist Thijs Bietsteker and AI scientists from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is an icon of of fluid

Fungal Faculty at the VU university

Current

  • Econtinuum at LAM Budapest (HU), Aug 2024 - Jul 2025

  • Xylemia at Jardin des Artistes Ruinart (FR) (permanent)

  • Idemunda at Groote Museum, Artis (NL) 2024 (permanent)

  • Extended Nature at Junya Ishigami - Zaishui Art Museum (CN) (permanent)

  • Grown Intelligence at Groote Museum, Artis (NL) 2024 (permanent)

Upcoming

  • Wither at COP16 Cali (CO), Oct 2024

  • Wither and Amazonium at Nature House, COP16 Cali (CO), Oct 2024

2024

  • Art Basel, Basel (CH), Jun 2024

  • Voice of Nature 2024 at Goethe Institute Paris (FR) by ZKM Karslruhe, May - Aug 2024

  • Memory of the Melted at Montreux Jazz Festival (CH), Jul 2024

  • Lecture at Art for Tomorrow conference Venice (IT), Jun 2024

  • Plenary lecture at World Biodiversity Forum Davos (CH), Jun 2024

  • Berlin Gallery Weekend (DE), May 2024

  • Villars Institute Symposium, Mar 2024

  • TEFAF Maastricht (NL), Feb 2024

  • Fungal Faculty at MU Gallery, (NL) 2024

2023

  • Amazonium at Unesco General Conference Paris (FR), Nov 2023

  • Econtinuum at Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, (CH), May 2023 - May 2024

  • Econario G20 Exhibition India (IN), Sep 2023

  • Closing Keynote Planet Earth Festival Lucca Italy - In collaboration with Stefano Mancuso

  • Gasp Flow Festival Helsinki (FI), Aug 2023

  • Amazone research trip with UNESCO and LVMH - Amazonia (BR), Apr 2023

  • Villar Symposium - Workshop on Science communication through art, Jun 2023

  • Villars Symposium Keynote, Jun 2023

  • MBC02 - Nomination Starts Prize Ars Electronica

  • Keynote AAMC Climate change panel (US)

  • Voice of Nature at Museum Arnhem (NL), until Jan 2023

  • Wither at Barbican Centre London (UK), until May 2023

  • Econario at World Government Summit Dubai (UAE), Feb 2023

  • We Harvest Wind at LLUM Barcelona (SP), Feb 2023

  • Fungal Faculty at VU Amsterdam (NL), Oct 2023

2022

  • Econario at COP15 Montreal (CA), 7-19 Dec 2022

  • Nature & Culture Summit KEYNOTE for UN Montreal (CA), Dec 2022

  • Wither at Barbican Centre London (UK), until May 2023

  • Voice of Nature at Museum Arnhem (NL), until Jan 2023

  • Talk at UNESCO Université de la Terre, Paris (FR) 25 November

  • Econtinuum at Le Pavilion Namur (BE), until Nov 2022

  • Econario at Kunstkerk Dordrecht (NL), until Nov 2022

  • Wither 1m3 at Art Tapei (TW), 20 - 24 Oct 2022

  • TEdX talk Den Helder (NL), October 2022

  • Wither 1M3 at Muce Circulair Antwerpen (BE), until Oct 2022

  • Keynote at DIORAMA festival, Breda (NL)

  • MB>C02 Release, April 2022

  • Keynote speaker sustainability congress TU Delft University

  • Idemunda at Groote Museum, Artis (NL), May 2022

  • Pee Privacy at ARCAM, March 2022 (NL)

  • Wither at Gardening (NL), May 2022

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

  • Keynote Polestar Sustainability Event

  • Wavelengths at Discovery Museum, Kerkrade (NL)

2021

  • Wither at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Children’s Biennale at the Japanese Pavilion (DE)

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

  • Econtinuum at NXT museum Amsterdam (NL)

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

  • Wither at RE-Nature in Den Bosch (NL)

  • Keynote speaker at Dutch Design Week (NL)

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



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


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

2016

  • Plastic Reflectic at Mu Gallery (NL),

  • Creative Press Challenge Briefing , Amsterdam, NL

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

  • Down the Rabbit Hole exhibition