Nino Gontcharova is a social-oriented artist who aims to investigate the unseen connections between people. Connections that go further than concepts like ‘identity’ alone. Her vision is of a connected society that focuses on its similarities instead of its differences. Nino believes that we as...
Scientist in training Shaad Muhammad Ahmad surrounds himself with everything he finds inspiring. With a special passion for the small living creatures and all of their properties, he is now looking at how to deploy these properties into designing an aesthetically pleasing installation. In his...
Researcher and artist Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov is very concerned about the current status of the political, religious and scientific instances in his native country, Russia. He feels that their reciprocal interference and their disruptive procedures bring about social upheaval and serious risks to public health. The church...
Having grown up on the island of Hawaii, Chris Ritson is all too aware of society’s struggle with sustainability. He sees how his geographically isolated community has struggled to manage natural resources, and how the results have effected the social and economic welfare of the...
Cradle-to-cradle artist Dorieke Schreurs observes the art world around her and sees that it painfully lags behind in terms of sustainability. She feels that the gap between nature and arts is becoming worryingly big. So for her own work, she applies a progressive way of...
In his artistic process Tim de Gier works both with physical and digital media. By rearranging things he is often intending to create a new logic in specific parts of the world around him. This also often involves softening the border between the physical and...
Monique van Gemert Smulders is a circularly operating artist who is fascinated by nature and passionate for its synergy with arts. As she has always been inspired by the rustic, authentic landscapes of rural North-Brabant, our BioArt Village is just the place for her. For...
With both a passion for natural materials, artists annex researchers Lucila Kenny and Naan Rijks are devoted to strengthen the relationship between nature and arts. Both diligent initiators on this matter, they aim to increase the relevance and usability of organic and durable dyes and...
In his work, Mathias Anger combines matter and nature. He seeks to make the world more sustainable by modifying or creating all kinds of materials, in order to benefit from all their properties. Supporter of a circular economy, the materials and tools he uses in...