The idea of an image as a process, unfinished, in motion, is central to my practice. My work includes video, sculpture, drawing and installations. Through continuous sketching, erasing, sawing and videotaping, I examine how the image relates to material reality. Each action, whether it’s cutting a shape from wood or filming a gesture, becomes part of a larger inquiry into what it means to make something visible.
My video works revolve around simple, recognisable actions: kneading clay, bending rubber, smearing paint over skin. These are demonstrations of manipulation, not in a deceptive sense, but in the literal, manual handling of matter. They are easy to follow, yet remain strangely ambiguous. You understand what you’re seeing without being able to fully explain it. In this way, the work operates in a zone between clarity and uncertainty.
I’m particularly interested in the space that emerges when physical material and the easily manipulated nature of digital media meet. It’s a space where texture, resistance, and friction interact with smooth editing, repetition and the possibility of endless undoing. My practice does not aim to resolve this tension, but rather to inhabit it, to keep the image in flux, to resist closure.
At the core of my practice is a curiosity about perception: how meaning is constructed from what we see, and how unstable that meaning can be. By exposing the process - showing edits, traces, hesitations - I invite the viewer to remain within the act of making, rather than only engaging with the finished form. The work stays open, rooted in physical gestures, yet always shifting in what it offers or reveals.
Process at Litomysl Residency. Photography by František Renza
Thom van Rijckevorsel (Leiden, 1977),
lives and works in Amstelveen.
Art Education
2014 - 2019 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam NL
BA Fine Arts
Solo exhibitions
2020 Rock Paper Screen, Museum JAN, Amstelveen NL
Group exhibitions
2025 Blue Zone, Kunsthal, Rotterdam NL
2025 A tree is one thing, a stone is another, Aankopen Kunstcollectie De Nederlandsche Bank 2020-2024, Amsterdam NL
2025 Somewhere in the middle, C. Gallery, Hoofddorp NL
2024 UNFAIR Editions, Amsterdam NL
2024 I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore, Unit 28 (former Footlocker), Stadshart Amstelveen NL
2024 Uncertain Walls, 11th Litomysl Sympozium, Gallerie Mirsolava Kubíka, Litomysl Czechia
2024 9e Amstelveen Triennale, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2024 Art Rotterdam, Best of Graduates Legacy, Ron Mandos Gallery NL
2023 UNFAIR23, Changing Perspectives, Amsterdam NL
2023 Unbound (Unseen), Suspended Matter, Amsterdam NL
2023 #38, PADA Gallery, Barreiro (Lisbon) Portugal
2023 Exodus, Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen NL
2022 Verzameld voor Amstelveen – de gemeentelijke kunstcollectie, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2022 Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
2021 It is part XXI of an ensemble, and this ensemble is no longer necessarily ceremonial, Backer & Rueb hal, Breda NL
2021 Sprouts, Arti et Amitcitiae, Amsterdam NL
2020 The Self Design Academy, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven NL
2020 Corona Archives, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam NL
2020 8e Amstelveen Triennale, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2020 Momentum, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar NL
2019 The Object is Absent, MU Artspace, Eindhoven NL
2019 SBK Sprouts Young Talents 2019, Amsterdam NL
2019 Best of Graduates 2019, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam NL
2018 Rietveld Uncut, Hold me now, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam NL
2017 Rietveld Uncut, What Is Happening To Our Brain? Art & Life in Times of Cognitive Automation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam NL
Grants
2024 Development Funding Mondriaan Fonds
2023 Project Funding Mondriaan Fonds
2020 Werkbijdrage Jong Talent (Stipendium Emerging Artist) Mondriaan Fonds
Collections
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
Collectie Voorlinden
Gemeente Collectie Amstelveen
Lakeside Collection
Miroslav Kubík Gallery Collection
NN Group Art Collection
De Nederlandsche Bank
Various private collections
Residencies
2024 Artist in residence, 11th Litomysl Sympozium, Gallerie Mirsolava Kubíka, Aug - Sept, Litomysl Czechia
2023 PADA Residency, May - July, Lisbon, Portugal
Press
2024 Amstelveens Nieuwsblad, Dertien kunstenaars houden tijdelijke expositie in winkelpand in Stadshart Amstelveen, Eddie de Blieck
2023 Het Parool, Kunstbeurs Unfair op Westergas: lege gebouwen, handenvideo’s en een nieuwe kijk op dyslexie, 15 november 2023, Kees Keijer
2023 Volkskrant, Van migratie en ontheemding tot de innerlijke reis: expo ‘Exodus’ toont de eigentijdse tocht naar het Beloofde Land, 30 maart 2023, Sarah van Binsbergen
2020 Filosofie Magazine, Het zelf staat niet op zichzelf, 9 oktober 2020, Hannah Achterbosch en Tim Miechels
2020 Trouw, 2 februari 2020, Henny de Lange
2019 Art Update, 3 januari 2019, Ko van Dun
Activities/other
2024 - today Art Advisory Board Municipality of Amstelveen
2024 Guest lecture Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen
2022 Guest lectures DOGtime Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Jan - Feb
2022 - 2023 Assessment Committee Municipal Studios Amstelveen
