The beast is alive! Hope you come and check out our biennal shows 🧡 photo: Peter Tijhuis, showing Danny Franzreb, Sara van der Heide and Noviki (ltr)
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Director of Noorderlicht, platform for photography and lens-based media. Part of the ARK collective, and member of the board of governors of Oude Kerk & Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
NoorderlichtRECAP DAY 3 MACHINE ENTANGLEMENTS 🎉
Here we go! After our final opening day at the Niemyerfabriek, Machine Entanglements is now officially open. We look back on a successful weekend and would like to thank everyone who made our 30th biennial possible:
We thank Municipality of Groningen, Province of Groningen, Municipality of Leeuwarden and Province of Fryslân for their structural support. Machine Entanglements was also made possible by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Cultuurfonds, Mondriaan Fonds, Fonds 21, Stichting Beringer Hazewinkel, BPD Cultuurfonds, Province of Drenthe and Municipality of Westerveld.
Finally, no glitch, failure, resistance or wonder without our Friends of Noorderlicht, the tireless efforts of our volunteers, artists and, of course, our own Noorderlicht team. Thank you! ❤️
Machine Entanglements can still be visited until 7 September at six different locations in Drenthe, Groningen and Friesland. Will we see you there?
Photos: Tim van der Kuip
Here we go! After our final opening day at the Niemyerfabriek, Machine Entanglements is now officially open. We look back on a successful weekend and would like to thank everyone who made our 30th biennial possible:
We thank Municipality of Groningen, Province of Groningen, Municipality of Leeuwarden and Province of Fryslân for their structural support. Machine Entanglements was also made possible by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Cultuurfonds, Mondriaan Fonds, Fonds 21, Stichting Beringer Hazewinkel, BPD Cultuurfonds, Province of Drenthe and Municipality of Westerveld.
Finally, no glitch, failure, resistance or wonder without our Friends of Noorderlicht, the tireless efforts of our volunteers, artists and, of course, our own Noorderlicht team. Thank you! ❤️
Machine Entanglements can still be visited until 7 September at six different locations in Drenthe, Groningen and Friesland. Will we see you there?
Photos: Tim van der Kuip
📍 Niemeyerfabriek during the Noorderlicht Biennial 2025: Machine Entanglements
Here in the former Niemeyer factory—once a proud symbol of Groningen’s industrial progress—Machine Entanglements also explores the shadow side of technological innovation. In a space steeped in labour and production, artists pose critical questions and activate their imagination: what if technology is not merely a tool for acceleration, control or extraction, but also a chance to repair, reconnect, and unearth forgotten histories?
Featuring works by: Chloe Abidi, Roel Backaert & Niels Schrader, Louis Braddock Clarke, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Florinda Ciucio, Grayson Cooke, Sounak Das, Beyza Dilem Topdal-İrez, Dawid Dobosz, Bart Eysinks Smeets, Danny Franzreb, Emma Godfrey Pigott, Nicolas Gourault, Heinrich Holtgreve & Moritz Metz, Tashiya De Mel, Jack Latham, Emilia Martin, Michael Najjar, Josèfa Ntjam, Thomas Nolf, Noviki, Hannah O'Flynn, Alice Pallot, Sabrina Ratté, Refrakt, Lena Schabus, Rick Silva, Sondi, Telemagic, Yang Su.
🗓️ On view from 12 July to 7 September 2025
🔗 More info: #linkinbio
#NoorderlichtBiennale2025 #MachineEntanglements #kunst #fotografie #expo2025 #ecologie #technologie #samenleving #groningen #friesland #drenthe #ai #artandtech #biennale
(Image: Noviki, Dream of the Machine, 2024. Courtesy BMW Art Club)
Here in the former Niemeyer factory—once a proud symbol of Groningen’s industrial progress—Machine Entanglements also explores the shadow side of technological innovation. In a space steeped in labour and production, artists pose critical questions and activate their imagination: what if technology is not merely a tool for acceleration, control or extraction, but also a chance to repair, reconnect, and unearth forgotten histories?
Featuring works by: Chloe Abidi, Roel Backaert & Niels Schrader, Louis Braddock Clarke, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Florinda Ciucio, Grayson Cooke, Sounak Das, Beyza Dilem Topdal-İrez, Dawid Dobosz, Bart Eysinks Smeets, Danny Franzreb, Emma Godfrey Pigott, Nicolas Gourault, Heinrich Holtgreve & Moritz Metz, Tashiya De Mel, Jack Latham, Emilia Martin, Michael Najjar, Josèfa Ntjam, Thomas Nolf, Noviki, Hannah O'Flynn, Alice Pallot, Sabrina Ratté, Refrakt, Lena Schabus, Rick Silva, Sondi, Telemagic, Yang Su.
🗓️ On view from 12 July to 7 September 2025
🔗 More info: #linkinbio
#NoorderlichtBiennale2025 #MachineEntanglements #kunst #fotografie #expo2025 #ecologie #technologie #samenleving #groningen #friesland #drenthe #ai #artandtech #biennale
(Image: Noviki, Dream of the Machine, 2024. Courtesy BMW Art Club)
Cyanne
The winner of the Noorderlicht Award 2025 is… 🥁 Viktoria Stefanova!
The graduation project Lost in Two Eras explores what it means to live in the contradiction between fast-paced digital life and our romantic longing for the slow, simple, and analogue past. Through quiet performance and poetic visuals, the work stages a beautifully slow scroll through nostalgia, glitch, and desire.
The jury praised the project for its simple clarity and performative strength. Viktoria receives a €1,000 prize to support the further development and presentation of her work during the Noorderlicht Biennial Machine Entanglements this summer. CONGRATULATIONS!
An honourable mention goes to Iris van Kalsbeek for The Land Where Animals Kiss — an erotic ecosystem of slow intimacy and fearless sensuality. Go check it out at the Niemeyer factory.
The Academie Minerva and Frank Mohr Institute Graduation Show 2025 is open until 20 June across various locations in Groningen. Don’t miss it!
#NoorderlichtAward #ClassOf2025 #ArtAndTechnology #LensBasedMedia #MachineEntanglements #ViktoriaStefanova #IrisvanKalsbeek
The graduation project Lost in Two Eras explores what it means to live in the contradiction between fast-paced digital life and our romantic longing for the slow, simple, and analogue past. Through quiet performance and poetic visuals, the work stages a beautifully slow scroll through nostalgia, glitch, and desire.
The jury praised the project for its simple clarity and performative strength. Viktoria receives a €1,000 prize to support the further development and presentation of her work during the Noorderlicht Biennial Machine Entanglements this summer. CONGRATULATIONS!
An honourable mention goes to Iris van Kalsbeek for The Land Where Animals Kiss — an erotic ecosystem of slow intimacy and fearless sensuality. Go check it out at the Niemeyer factory.
The Academie Minerva and Frank Mohr Institute Graduation Show 2025 is open until 20 June across various locations in Groningen. Don’t miss it!
#NoorderlichtAward #ClassOf2025 #ArtAndTechnology #LensBasedMedia #MachineEntanglements #ViktoriaStefanova #IrisvanKalsbeek
🌈 IN FULL COLOUR – exhibition & opening
Who are you when you're seen? And what happens when you return the gaze?
Join us on Friday June 20 at Noorderlicht in Groningen for the opening of IN FULL COLOUR: a powerful, tender, and raw exhibition by twelve emerging photographers from the Netherlands, Ireland, and Germany – exploring queer visibility, self-image, and intimacy.
📍 Noorderlicht, Akerkhof 12, Groningen
🕡 Doors open: 16:30
🗣 Opening: 17:00
🎤 Performance by Olivier Schooneveld
🚶 Guided walk: Pride Photo outdoor exhibition
🥂 Drinks until ±19:30
All allies welcome – no registration needed.
✨ Come as you are – in full colour.
More information? #linkinbio
#infullcolour #noorderlicht #pridephoto #queervisibility #photographyexhibition #groningen
(Image: Olivier Schooneveld)
Who are you when you're seen? And what happens when you return the gaze?
Join us on Friday June 20 at Noorderlicht in Groningen for the opening of IN FULL COLOUR: a powerful, tender, and raw exhibition by twelve emerging photographers from the Netherlands, Ireland, and Germany – exploring queer visibility, self-image, and intimacy.
📍 Noorderlicht, Akerkhof 12, Groningen
🕡 Doors open: 16:30
🗣 Opening: 17:00
🎤 Performance by Olivier Schooneveld
🚶 Guided walk: Pride Photo outdoor exhibition
🥂 Drinks until ±19:30
All allies welcome – no registration needed.
✨ Come as you are – in full colour.
More information? #linkinbio
#infullcolour #noorderlicht #pridephoto #queervisibility #photographyexhibition #groningen
(Image: Olivier Schooneveld)
Real power doesn’t roll down Pennsylvania Avenue in armored vehicles.
Real power walks in the streets.
Real power holds hands. Sings loudly. Shows up for another. And dreams big.
PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER.
Real power walks in the streets.
Real power holds hands. Sings loudly. Shows up for another. And dreams big.
PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER.
📣 We proudly present the artists of the Noorderlicht Biennial 2025: Machine Entanglements!
From speculative futures to digital landscapes and technocropping — this edition features work by more than 70 artists from the Netherlands and abroad who explore the entangled relationship between technology, ecology, and heritage.
📍 de Niemeyer Factory, Kunstpunt (het Tschumipaviljoen), Museum Dr8888, Museum Belvédère, Brouwerij Fortuna, and De Proef
📅 Opening: July 11, 12 and 13
⏳ On view until September 7
Featuring works by: affect lab, Chloe Abidi, Clint Baclawski, Crystal Bennes, Noor Boiten, Louis Braddock Clarke, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Ioana Cirlig, Florinda Ciucio, Grayson Cooke, Sounak Das, Tashiya De Mel, Umberto Diecinove, Beyza Dilem Topdal-İrez, Dawid Dobosz, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Bart Eysink Smeets, Danny Franzreb, Sophie Gerrard, Diana Gheorgiou, Emma Godfrey Pigott, Nicolas Gourault, Heleen Haijtema, Hendrik Hantschel, Heinrich Holtgreve & Moritz Metz, Hyeseon Jeong & Seongmin Yuk, Susanne Kriemann, Anouk Kruithof, Thomas Kuijpers, Jack Latham, Emilia Martin, Steven Maybury, Victor Mendez, Christoph Miler, Michael Najjar, Mizuho Nishioka, Thomas Nolf, Noviki, Josefa Ntjam, Hannah O'Flynn, Alice Pallot, Špela Petrič, Polymorf, Sabrina Ratté, Refrakt, Livia Ribichini, misha de ridder, Gjert Rognli, Hedwich Rooks, Sasha Rudensky, Nicolás Rupcich, Sylvia Sanchez, Lena Schabus, Sebastian Schmieg, Niels Schrader & Roel Backaert, Rick Silva, Sondi, Martine Stig, Katja Stuke, Yang Su, Julieta Tarraubella, Telemagic, Stijn Terpstra, Nina van Tuikwerd, Christy Westhovens, Henk Wildschut, Lorenzo Zerbini.
(Photo: Noviki, Dream of the Machine, video still, 2024. Courtesy of BMW Art Club)
#NoorderlichtBiennale2025 #MachineEntanglements #kunst #fotografie #expo2025 #ecologie #technologie #erfgoed #groningen #friesland #drenthe #ai #artandtech #biennale
From speculative futures to digital landscapes and technocropping — this edition features work by more than 70 artists from the Netherlands and abroad who explore the entangled relationship between technology, ecology, and heritage.
📍 de Niemeyer Factory, Kunstpunt (het Tschumipaviljoen), Museum Dr8888, Museum Belvédère, Brouwerij Fortuna, and De Proef
📅 Opening: July 11, 12 and 13
⏳ On view until September 7
Featuring works by: affect lab, Chloe Abidi, Clint Baclawski, Crystal Bennes, Noor Boiten, Louis Braddock Clarke, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Ioana Cirlig, Florinda Ciucio, Grayson Cooke, Sounak Das, Tashiya De Mel, Umberto Diecinove, Beyza Dilem Topdal-İrez, Dawid Dobosz, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Bart Eysink Smeets, Danny Franzreb, Sophie Gerrard, Diana Gheorgiou, Emma Godfrey Pigott, Nicolas Gourault, Heleen Haijtema, Hendrik Hantschel, Heinrich Holtgreve & Moritz Metz, Hyeseon Jeong & Seongmin Yuk, Susanne Kriemann, Anouk Kruithof, Thomas Kuijpers, Jack Latham, Emilia Martin, Steven Maybury, Victor Mendez, Christoph Miler, Michael Najjar, Mizuho Nishioka, Thomas Nolf, Noviki, Josefa Ntjam, Hannah O'Flynn, Alice Pallot, Špela Petrič, Polymorf, Sabrina Ratté, Refrakt, Livia Ribichini, misha de ridder, Gjert Rognli, Hedwich Rooks, Sasha Rudensky, Nicolás Rupcich, Sylvia Sanchez, Lena Schabus, Sebastian Schmieg, Niels Schrader & Roel Backaert, Rick Silva, Sondi, Martine Stig, Katja Stuke, Yang Su, Julieta Tarraubella, Telemagic, Stijn Terpstra, Nina van Tuikwerd, Christy Westhovens, Henk Wildschut, Lorenzo Zerbini.
(Photo: Noviki, Dream of the Machine, video still, 2024. Courtesy of BMW Art Club)
#NoorderlichtBiennale2025 #MachineEntanglements #kunst #fotografie #expo2025 #ecologie #technologie #erfgoed #groningen #friesland #drenthe #ai #artandtech #biennale
