investigates the dynamics between air particles as a dynamic ecosystem where the visitor travels through different altitudes of an artificial atmosphere above the Goffertpark in Nijmegen. →

Airborne Landscapes

Every day we are surrounded by machines and technological systems that have their own internal clocks. →

If/Then

A sensory installation that explores sensuality in terms of behaviors, phenomena and possible qualities without their relying on cultural codes. →

Glinting honey in the dark, a feather tickling on my back

creates a swarm of light and sound; a combination of chaos and precision, appearance and intention. →

Red Horizon

The neighborhood is alive, it is a collection of various conscious and unconscious stimuli and reactions to them. →

Symbiotic Spaces

Derives from the ideas of the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) who assumed that the universe consists of “monads”, invisible elementary particles equipped with a certain degree of consciousness. →

The Monads

A kinetic/light/sound installation based on a subjective interpretation of sound traveling through space. →

))))) repetition at my distance

is a generative virtual environment based on the urban space around Paradiso in Amsterdam that is influenced in real time by weather conditions and the day and night rhythms of physical reality. →

Vec4(red,green,blue,alpha)

reflects on Stockholm’s ever changing urban landscapes and on the complex relationships between man-made, technology and nature. →

Flowing Grounds

Gabey Tjon a Tham is an installation artist working and living in the Hague, The Netherlands.

Gabey’s artistic practice revolves around the question: How natural is nature in our current time? In her work she is researching the complex systems that occur both in nature and in our digital world and how they affect each other through ever evolving processes. These principles are explored through audiovisual installations that are balancing between virtual and analog realities.

By acquiring cross-disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences and computer science she finds connections between the natural and artificial in our anthropocentric environment. In her current practice she is focusing on working from location-specific experiences to reflect directly on environments where agents function with their own time cycles and behaviour, influencing a living system in becoming.

Supported by: Mondriaanfonds, Stimuleringsfonds, Stroom Den Haag
Member of Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii) in the Hague

Residencies

2024 Digital Explorers, Witte Rook, Breda
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

2024 Vec4(red,green,blue,alpha), Small Museum – Paradiso, Amsterdam
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

2025 Still Processing – NXT Museum, Amsterdam
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

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