Gabey Tjon a Tham is an installation artist working and living in the Hague, The Netherlands.
Gabey transforms spaces into sensory and immersive environments through kinetic machines, digital landscapes, light, and sound. By analyzing complex systems that occur both in nature and the digital world she compiles a common structural core. She has found a common ground between nature and the digital in how they both command our lives through uninterrupted cycles. A sublime paradox that balances between beauty and the grotesque.
Technology is a natural occurrence for Tjon a Tham: “While what we have traditionally called nature is increasingly being influenced by human action, our technological environment is becoming increasingly complex and untameable, we almost have to relate to it as a new nature”.
See CV here
Supported by: Mondriaanfonds, Stimuleringsfonds, Stroom Den Haag
Residencies
2021 Symbiotic Spaces | Stockholm, Bibliotek-a, Stockholm
2018-2019 Crossing Parallels, Delft University of Technology
2016 How do we save time – TimeLab, Ghent
2016 Steim, Amsterdam
2015 DordtYart, Dordrecht
2014 Museum of Transitory Arts, Ljubljana
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Flowing Grounds, Galleri Frihamsntorget, Stockholm
2020 Red Horizon & the Monads, Bierumer School, Bierum
2019 ))))) repetition at my distance, Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival, Red Ger Creative Space, Ulaanbaatar
2018 If/Then – FIBER Weekends, 4BID Gallery, Amsterdam
2018 The Monads – Tetem, Enschede
2017 Gabey Tjon a Tham – Stereolux, Nantes
2016 ))))) repetition at my distance – De School, Amsterdam
2015 Glinting honey in the dark, a feather tickling on my back, Stroom Ondertussen – Stroom, The Hague
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Superluminal – Light Art Museum, Budapest
2023 Uit het donker V – De Warande, de Hoge Rielen, Kasterlee
2022 Traces – Into the Great Wide Open, Vlieland
2021 Sound Art in Public Spaces, Wilde Westen, Kortrijk
2021 Cinekid, Medialab, Amsterdam
2020 Confined.work, Virtual Exhibition, TAC, Eindhoven
2020 Highlight, Theater de Veste, Delft
2019 TodaysArt 2019, Electriciteitsfabriek, The Hague
2019 Respons – Bellamy Kabinet, Amsterdam
2018 Interactive Environments – Science Center, Delft
2018 Sensorium 2018, Pisztory Palace, Bratislava
2018 Tec Art 2018, Worm, Rotterdam
2017 Another Dimension, Nest, The Hague
2017 Sonica – Museum of Transitory Arts, Ljubljana
2017 (Im)matérialités, Mirage Festival, Les Subsistances, Lyon
2016 November Music, Kruithuis, Den Bosch
2016 Interferences – KIKK Festival, Namur
2016 Fort Process, Newhaven
2015 Lichtbaden – CBK Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2014 TodaysArt.JP, Edition Zero – Warehouse Terrada, Tokyo
2014 Mapping Festival – Le Commun Bac, Geneva
2014 Lucida Space – National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow
2012 (im)possible worlds – FIBER / NIMk, Amsterdam
2012 Clash of Context – West, the Hague
