Heleen Blanken
Heleen Blanken
Introduction

Heleen Blanken is a visual artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. She levitates across the fields of installation art, new media, cinematography, scenography, and sculpture. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Influenced by the complex exchange between humanity and the natural environment, her artistic practice explores the different layers of our aesthetic perception of the natural world while defining traditional artistic dichotomies like the organic vs. artificial and analog vs. digital. In her work, she raises questions on how we contemplate ideas of nature. Heleen’s work has been shown internationally in curated shows at institutes such as Nxt Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Kunstkerk Dordrecht, Floriade World Expo 2022, Gropius Bau Berlin, La Gaîté Lyrique, Gallery Ron Mandos, Musée d’art Contemporain, and Ars Electronica. She has collaborated with institutes such as Naturalis Leiden, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and the Institute for Geosciences Utrecht.

Exhibitions

Abiosis at group exhibition 'Lucid' at Kunstkerk, curated by Boris Gunst, Dordrecht

Netherlands

Jul 2023 - Sep 2023

Habitat at group exhibition 'Post-Digital Heritage’ curated by Suzanne Rietdijk at Grote Kerk, Breda

Netherlands

Jan 2023 - Feb 2023

Abiosis exhibition Naturally: Wild Futures, Floriade World Expo museum pavilion, Museum M, Almere

Netherlands

Aug 2022 - Nov 2022

Habitat at XP Conference, curated by Mirik Milan

Saudi Arabia

Sep 2022 - Nov 2022

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