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.
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