Sofie Doeland (1986) graduated in 2011 from the Scenography program at the Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Since then, she has been a freelance scenographer, theater maker and develops her own installation work.
“I am an image maker and (set) builder. I have a great workshop at the Domijn in Weesp, where I can do whatever I want.
I design by my wood stove with a view of the forest and build downstairs between work material and machines.
I always work location-oriented. The concept (almost) always originates from the place where I work
and interacts with the surrounding landscape in both content and form.
I am fascinated by places or situations that are not so visible and I like to take the viewer with me into a different,
renewed view of the everyday”.
Esther Kokmeijer, born in Dokkum, The Netherlands (1977), is an artist and explorer, currently residing in Rotterdam and working around the globe. From 1996 until 2001 she studied graphic design at Constantijn Huygens Academie, now the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts and managed her own design studio for ten years. Since 2008 she works as an independent artist.
In 2013 she studied Arctic and Antarctic Science, a minor at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG). Since 2013 she seasonally works as an expedition photographer and polar guide, sailing to the Arctic during the Arctic summer and to Antarctica during the Antarctic summer. She is the founder of Antarktikos, an anually print journal that is solely dedicated to Antarctica and brings together art and science. (www.antarktikos.com) From 2015 untill 2023 on she was a board member of Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) in The Netherlands and is organizing together with the NWO the annual Dutch Polar Symposium.
She is co founder of the Cosmic Water Foundation (CWF), which aims to raise general awareness through daring scientific and artistic projects on water and its eminent role on earth and in the cosmos. (cosmicwaterfoundation.com)
Her work has been exhibited and published worldwide, also she published multible books and publications of her own works. For various projects, she has visited 85 countries and participated in long term residency programmes in The Netherlands, Indonesia, South Korea, Greenland, Antarctica, Spitsbergen, Germany, France, Mongolia, and China.
Arjen Boerstra creates installations, videos, photographs and performances in specific places.
Boerstra (1967) lives in Den Horn and works in Groningen in the Netherlands.
He completed his bachelor degree in 1993 at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen (The Netherlands)
Boerstra’s work consists of a mix of constructions, installations, happenings, photos, video and performance. He started early crafting model boats and airplanes, building huts and all kinds of wanderings in nature. At the start of his artistic career, an a search for the open-mindedness of that time, and as a memory experiment, he made a reconstruction of the attic room when he was a child. This became the starting point for projects in which personal memories, historical facts and discoveries are wonderfully intertwined.
Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live arts projects. Living in the UK but working internationally since 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the world. In 2023 alone, he had over 115 exhibitions in 27 different countries, visited by more than 3 million people.
As well as touring his installations, Luke’s artworks are in over 70 permanent collections around the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Shanghai Museum of Glass and the Wellcome Collection in London.
Sound artist Tristan Visser lives on Terschelling. He graduated from the Academy for Pop Culture in Leeuwarden and focuses on sound installations and audiovisual productions. When is sound considered music? He explores this boundary in his works. He is inspired by his travels across the sea and sounds from below sea level.
Alex van de Beld was the founder of Onix (Groningen) and worked as an architect-director within the firm for twenty years. Since its foundation in 1994, the firm has realized more than 100 projects, including school buildings, homes, public buildings, offices, healthcare institutions, bridges and interiors. These projects are characterized by innovative constructions and experimental structures and an exceptional sensitivity for the practical dimension. In 2014, van de Beld left Onix and started ALBSurroundings. He also teaches at the LTH Lund in the Advanced Architectural Design department. Van de Beld’s work has been awarded many prizes, including the Charlotte Köhler Prize (1994), the Bouwfonds Prize (1998), the Dutch Design Award (2006), the Vredeman de Vries Prize (2004, 2008 and 2010), the BNA Prize North (2010), the Stavanger Architecture Prize (2012), IBA Hamburg Housing (2013) and the Houtarchitectuur-Oeuvreprijs (2014).
Marcel van Luit is a multidisciplinary artist known worldwide for his modern surrealistic works.
He is a digital artist, painter, sculptor, and animator. His clientele includes celebrities such as Drake, Lionel Richie, Paris Hilton, Post Malone, and Naomi Campbell.
Through his art, he aims to enhance the connection between humans and nature, with the goal of fostering admiration and respect for the magical world around us.
By focusing on the connection between humans and animals in his work and creating life-sized public art installations that bring nature into cities, Van Luit seeks to inspire people to take care of our world and protect the animal kingdom.
His work has been showcased in Times Square in New York during the Frieze Art Fair, at Art Basel Miami, and in numerous solo exhibitions in renowned galleries around the world.
Van Luit’s next exhibition is planned for September 2024 in Los Angeles, where he will unveil his newest sculpture.
Andreas Oskar Hirsch is a Cologne-based musician and visual artist, field recordist and inventor of electro-acoustic instruments. His work is multifaceted, but draws primarily from the possibilities of sound, music and experimental setups, stories and performative processes, pushing them to a point where madness, humor, sense and nonsense meet. After a residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center in 2010, Andreas started collaborating with Joop Mulder, Theun Mosk and Robert Wilson and began collecting audio recordings around the island of Terschelling.
Marc van Vliet (‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1961) is a visual artist, theatre maker and designer. He lives and creates in Overschild, Groningen. Self-taught in various disciplines he started as a designer in 1980. Since 1999, van Vliet has become known for the performances and installations of theatre group Tuig, which are characterised by the crossover of image, movement, music and sound. In recent years, the emphasis of his work has been on land art, installations and kinetic objects.
Linette Raven is a photographer. People, heritage and flowers are the main subjects in the work that Raven initiates and develops.
Linette wants to inspire people to look at each other and the environment again. Linette sees photography more as a craft than just a beautiful photo. She photographs up close to the skin, both literally and figuratively speaking. In her work, Linette searches for nuances that give portraits content and meaning, and that are necessary for her to empathize with the stories of the person portrayed. Expressions, emotions and urgency are palpable. All her outdoor projects with portraits are usually accompanied by sound installations and interviews.
Linette Raven has been based in Amsterdam with her studio since 2018.