EXHIBITIONS
/UPCOMING
T.b.a.
WAF Galerie, Vienna
T.b.a.
Curated by Philipp Pess
2025
/PAST
BYOB
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Our Mind As a Host
Curated by Florian Borstlap
2025
Thrive in Space
Lumen Museum, Riscone
Hand 14
Hand 21
Hand 45
Hand 71
Lifetime Approval Rate 96%
Curated by Lisa Leoni & Thina Adams
2024
Eternal Knitting, Gesamtkunstwerk
Villa Heike, Berlin
Crimes of Carelessness
(the deep and the foamy)
Curated by Moritz Jekat
2024
Converging Elements
Culterim Gallery, Berlin
Pareidolia ‘Selfie’
Pareidolia ‘Anxiety Attack’
Curated by -
2024
Two-Dimensional Man
Vrijpaleis, Amsterdam
SPONSORED
Curated by Sophie Schreurs
2024
(A)part
Gallery Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna
BLOB #2
Curated by Roman Pfeffer
2024
SONNTAG
F6, Vienna
Hand 14
Hand 21
Curated by Die Grosse
2024
Post:Facism
Loods6, Amsterdam
Our Mind As a Host
Lifetime Approval Rate 96%
Hand 14
Hand 21
Training Data
Curated by Alexandre Pastoor
2024
Seven Sins
Museum Of Young Art, Oosterhout
Pareidolia
Curated by Doron Beuns
2023
Cursor Fever
Vrijpaleis, Amsterdam
Pareidolia ‘Anxiety Attack’
Curated by Thieu Kessels
2023
Forward Festival
Gartenbaukino, Vienna
Pareidolia ‘Anxiety Attack’
Curated by Othmar Handl
2023
Bloodsport
Het Werkpaard, Amsterdam
BLOB #1
Baarmoeder I & II
Curated by Sodom and Gomorra
2023
Dedu Galva
MOrka Gallery, Vilnius
Death Drive
Curated by Mykolas Valantinas
2022
ABOUT
Thrive+:
‘’Ilse Kind, geboren 1994 in den Niederlanden, ist eine transdisziplinäre künstlerin, die erforscht, wo das Physische und das Digitale zusammenfließen. Durch ihre Arbeit deckt sie die symbiotische Beziehung zwischen Natur und Technologie auf und zeigt, wie diese Systeme nabeneidnander existieren, sich entwickeln und gegenseitig beeinflussen.’’
Museum of Young Art:
‘’Ilse Kind (geboren in 1994) is een Nederlandse kunstenaar die woont en werkt in Amsterdam. Ze werkt met sculptuur, installatie, tekenen, video en collage. In haar artistieke praktijk onderzoekt ze en maakt ze gebruik van technologische systemen die momenteel een parasitaire en verslindende aanwezigheid in ons leven hebben. In dit systeem worden mensen behandeld als kneedbare wezens die een gesimuleerde en vereenvoudigde versie van de realiteit ervaren, terwijl de illusie van individuele vrijheid behouden blijft. Met haar werk onderzoekt Kind hoe dit systeem vervreemding en verschillende vormen van pathologisch gedrag veroorzaakt’’
Doron Beuns:
‘’Ilse Kind is a Dutch artist who works across sculpture, installation, drawing, video and collage. In her artistic practice she investigates and uses technological systems that currently (mis)interpet, predict, direct and parasitise our lives. In this system human beings are treated as malleable creatures who experience a simulated and simplified version of reality whilst maintaining the illusion of individual freedom.‘’
Ella Paritsky:‘’Dutch artist Ilse Kind, challenges the simulated reality imposed by technological systems. Luckily for us, we get the chance to see her new sculptures, crafted with the aid of A.I. along with a video exploring the obscured symbiosis at the core of A.I.-generated images. Oh but wait, there more. In another area of the exhibition, Kind confronts us with a video revealing the ways in which hidden surveillance resembles the behaviour of parasites; leaching beneath our skin through biometric algorithms.’’
PERSONAL NOTE
My practice begins in fragile, uncontrollable situations. Coming from a family that survived by blending in, I inherited an instinct to stay unseen. This created a distance to my own body and feelings, and a heightened sensitivity to the natural- and technological systems that watch and control us.
In earlier works I directly inhabited these infrastructures: breaking into surveillance cameras in Pareidolia, collecting targeted ads in Sponsored, and comparing technological devices to parasites in Our Mind as a Host. What first produced fear gradually gave way to empathy, as I started to anthropomorphize them: cameras endlessly repeating the same view like trapped beings; advertisements crawling under the skin, shifting behaviour. By relating such abstractions to the organic world, I create an understanding of what they mean to us.
Today, I carry these mechanisms into material processes. I am drawn to materials that control, adapt, grow, or decay in ways I cannot fully predict. Each work develops hands-on, in encounters between the digital and the material, the controlled and the uncontrollable. I see them as interspecies assemblages that ask how, in contemporary life, we exist as both host and resource within the systems that intimately govern us.
For me, meaning emerges when art itself becomes part of a larger ecology: cameras feeding on presence, materials growing and eroding, cables pulsing, viewers observing. Within these entanglements, I look for strategies of survival, ways to adapt to visibility without being consumed, to exist as both host and resource within the systems that govern us.
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EXPERIENCE
Jury, Savvy Awards, 2025
Artist talk, Crimes of Carelessness, Villa Heike, 2024
Panel talk, Thrive in Art, Women in Space, Lumen Museum, 2024
Artist talk, Two-Dimensional Man, Vrijpaleis, 2024
Art Director, Artists For President, Intercell, 2018-current
Photobook sales, Erik Kessels, Unseen, 2023 - current
Photobook sales, New Dimension, Artbook Fair Vienna, 2023, 2024
Adversory & Arts Council, Semester 9, 2022-2023
Perception of Space Teacher, Bachelor of Arts, Academie Artemis, 2020-2023
Artist talk, Perception of Space class, Academie Artemis, 2020
Branding Strategist, Amsterdam Locals, Tropen Instituut, 2019
Instructior in Photography, Entry course for youth at risk, Foundation Twisted, 2019
Jury, Savvy Awards, 2025
Artist talk, Crimes of Carelessness, Villa Heike, 2024
Panel talk, Thrive in Art, Women in Space, Lumen Museum, 2024
Artist talk, Two-Dimensional Man, Vrijpaleis, 2024
Art Director, Artists For President, Intercell, 2018-current
Photobook sales, Erik Kessels, Unseen, 2023 - current
Photobook sales, New Dimension, Artbook Fair Vienna, 2023, 2024
Adversory & Arts Council, Semester 9, 2022-2023
Perception of Space Teacher, Bachelor of Arts, Academie Artemis, 2020-2023
Artist talk, Perception of Space class, Academie Artemis, 2020
Branding Strategist, Amsterdam Locals, Tropen Instituut, 2019
Instructior in Photography, Entry course for youth at risk, Foundation Twisted, 2019
APPRECIATIONS
Fakewhale, Nikolai Frerichs, Clemens Fischer, Yumo Wu, Moritz Jekat, Ilse Kind, ‘’Converging Elements’’ at Backshop, Berlin
Saliva live, Converging Elements
Art Viewer, Post Facism
Ofluxo, Post Facism
Saliva live, Post Facism
Numero, ‘’Semester 9 presents group exhibition bloodsport: Navigating our subconscious attraction to cruelty in the digital age’’
Jan Pieter Ekker, Parool, ’’Kunnen we nog spreken van een vrije wereld nu we steeds meer worden geregeerd door algoritmes?’’
Grace Powell, Glamcult, ‘’In conversation with the curators of BLOODSPORT’’
Maria Dragoi, Zgriptor, ‘’In conversation with Doron Beuns and Isabelle van Manen’’
Nomination 2021, NFF [Netherlands Film Festival], Costume design & Art Direction
CONTACT
ilsemail@gmail.com
