Unsettled Soils (ShakeMaps 2.0), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm and split off parts in variable sizes

Unsettled Soils (ShakeMaps 2.0), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm and split off parts in variable sizes

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Unsettled Soils (ShakeMaps 2.0), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm and split off parts in variable sizes

Unsettled Soils (ShakeMaps 2.0), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm and split off parts in variable sizes

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Unsettled Soils (Loppersum 3.2), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm

Unsettled Soils (Loppersum 3.2), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm

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Unsettled Soils (Huizinge 3.6), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm and split off parts in variable sizes

Unsettled Soils (Huizinge 3.6), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm and split off parts in variable sizes

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Resource (coal), 2024. Pages from ‘Zwarte Rook. Fotografie en steenkool in de twintigste eeuw / Black Smoke. Photography and coal in the twentieth century’ (2002) on laser-cut and spot welded steel sheet, magnets, 46,5 × 46,5 cm

Resource (coal), 2024. Pages from ‘Zwarte Rook. Fotografie en steenkool in de twintigste eeuw / Black Smoke. Photography and coal in the twentieth century’ (2002) on laser-cut and spot welded steel sheet, magnets, 46,5 × 46,5 cm

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Resource (NAM), 2024, pages from ‘Gasaardig’ (1984) and ‘NEHA-jaarboek voor economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis, 59’ (1996) on laser-cut and spot welded steel sheet, magnets, 46,5 × 46,5 cm

Resource (NAM), 2024, pages from ‘Gasaardig’ (1984) and ‘NEHA-jaarboek voor economische, bedrijfs- en techniekgeschiedenis, 59’ (1996) on laser-cut and spot welded steel sheet, magnets, 46,5 × 46,5 cm

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Horizon, 2026
Horizon, 2026, concrete mixed with shredded office paper Installation view, Jester, Genk
Stromingen, 2025
Installation view Stromingen, ArtBase Terneuzen, 25 April – 17 May 2025
Intermodal Solidarity, 2024
Installation view Open Studios, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 30 May – 2 June 2024
Governance Complex, 2024
Governance Complex, 2024, plaster Installation view Open Studios, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 30 May – 2 June 2024
Fact of Life, 2024
Fact of Life, 2024, colour slides with photographs by H. de Muinck, black and white slides with text from ‘Dutch Drowning Syndrome’ (1998) by M. W. van der Sluis, on multiple slide projectors Installation view Open Studios, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 30 May – 2 June 2024
Unsettled Soils, 2024
Unsettled Soils (ShakeMaps 2.0), 2024. Crushed and ground coal, coke, anthracite, bitumen, 90 × 90 cm and split off parts in variable sizes
Nodes, 2024
Installation view Open Studios, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 30 May – 2 June 2024
Collection, 2023
Collection, 2023, litter collected on the way to the exhibition install, transparent bag Installation view News from Nowhere, (Nelly &) Theo van Doesburg Stichting at collection Philippa van Loon, Amsterdam
Met wysheid gezaaid, in zegen geoogst, 2023
Met wysheid gezaaid, in zegen geoogst, 2023, jack, sickle, knapsack sprayer, illuminated airport sign Installation view Fruits of Labour, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, 11 June – 20 August 2023
Lift to Release, Retention, Enclosure, Will, 2023
Installation view Open Studios, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 2–11 June 2023
Double Movement, 2023
Installation view Open Studios 2023, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, June 2–11, 2023
Holding, 2023
Holding, 2023. Stainless steel tube, temporarily fitted to the public space of the exhibition venue (here welded to guardrail facing the office of Director Strategy and Development at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten)
Claim, 2023
Claim, 2023. Suitcases previously handled at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Turns, 2022
Turns, 2022, hand-turned spruce, hand-turned plane, CNC-turned and CNC-milled yellow poplar, hand-turned larch, hand-turned and CNC-milled mahogany, hand-turned elm, manufactured by local woodturners Maarten den Breeijen, Marisa Klaster, Doornekamp Wood Specials, Tijn Remmerswaal, Woodwave, and Jasper Kaarsemaker Permanent display Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
Stb.1966,271-16625-20649
Stb.1966,271-16625-20649, 2023, iron chain hoist, rope in ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene Dyneema fiber, dimensions variable Installation view Petromelancholia, Brutus, Rotterdam, 1 September – 19 November, 2023
20368-20369-20370-20371-23222, 2021
Installation view Prospects at Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam, 30 June – 4 July 2021
Visit (1883–2020), 2020
Visit (1883–2020), 2020, sixteen souvenir prints and a map of the International Colonial and Export Trade Exhibition from the set ‘Herinnering aan Amsterdam’ (library collection Stedelijk Museum, copy number: 2017/2740; shelfmark: Doos WTT 4; technique: chromolithography; print maker: anonymous; printer: Emrik & Binger; publisher: Het Nieuws van den Dag), frames from the Stedelijk Museum inventory, custom mat boards Installation view In the Presence of Absence, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 5 September 2020 – 31 January 2021
Surplus Composition, 2019
Surplus Composition, 2019, machine oil on jacquard fabric residues on stretchers, six parts Installation view Manufactuur, Gastatelier Leo XIII, Tilburg, 22–24 February 2019
Mutual Support, 2018
Mutual Support, 2018. In-house rental equipment Installation view Graduation Show – A Festival of Choices, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, 14–17 June 2018
Foundation, 2018
Foundation, 2018, concrete foundation piles, pavilion closed for the duration of the exhibition as a safety measure to prevent shear failure of the space’s foundation from additional weight. Installation view Foundation, Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam, 15–17 March 2018

Timo Demollin is an artist based in Amsterdam, NL

Contact

Selected Exhibitions

  1. 2025

    Stromingen, ArtBase Terneuzen

  2. 2024

    Open Studios 2024⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

  3. 2023

    Petromelancholia⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Brutus, Rotterdam

  4. 2023

    Fruits of Labour⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

  5. 2022

    Turns⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

  6. 2021

    The Best Dutch Book Designs 2020⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

  7. 2020

    In the Presence of Absence. Proposals for the Museum Collection⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Residencies

  1. 2025

    Jester, Genk

  2. 2025

    Nesse, Terneuzen

  3. 2022⁠​–⁠24

    Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

  4. 2022

    XXVI CSAV Artists’ Research Laboratory with John Knight, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como

  5. 2019

    Pompgemaal, Den Helder

  6. 2018

    Gastatelier Leo XIII, Tilburg

Advisory Role

  1. 2018⁠​–⁠24

    Amsterdamse Kunstraad, various committees

Artist Publications

  1. 2025

    Stromingen

  2. 2020

    Visit (1883–2020). Notes on Museumplein’s exhibitionary complex across coloniality and modernity, ISBN 978-90-9033-758-6

  3. 2020

    Industry as Culture as Industry

  4. 2018

    Mutual Support: Interview with Olav Velthuis, May-June 2018

  5. 2018

    Foundation

Writing

  1. 2025

    Drive. Artists inside institutional hierarchies, ArtTable Netherlands

  2. 2025

    ‘Imagine a Rijksakademie led by artists’⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠ On a future-proof Rijksakademie, Metropolis M

  3. 2025

    Organisatorische zaken. Naar een toekomstbestendige Rijksakademie, Metropolis M

  4. 2024

    Up and Down to Earth, Reinier Vrancken for Willem Twee Kunstruimte Den Bosch

  5. 2023

    ZAAK no. 2108/85, Pieter Paul Pothoven for Artissima, Dürst Britt & Mayhew

  6. 2022

    The luxury to engage, in On My Belly, On My Back, Fondazione Antonio Ratti

  7. 2021

    ‘Verzamelen betekent ook ontzamelen’, Metropolis M

  8. 2021

    The philanthropy trap⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠. De fuik van filantropie⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Platform BK

  9. 2021

    Bitte Nicht Berühren / Please Do Not Touch. Recente tentoonstellingen van Charlotte Posenenske, De Witte Raaf

  10. 2020

    LPG Modernity, in The Space Conductors Are Among Us, P/////AKT

  11. 2019

    Kunst zonder zichtbaarheid. Over het kunstwerk als beleggingsobject, Metropolis M

  12. 2018

    Full Disclosure: processes of corporatization in the public eye, self-published

Talks, Media, Press

  1. 2025

    Drowning in a Sea of Blurb⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠: The Value of Writing in the Age of Content, AICA Salon, Perdu, Amsterdam

  2. 2025

    Stromingen. In conversation with Digna Sinke and Adriënne van der Werf, ArtBase Terneuzen

  3. 2025

    De loden last van Ammodo⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Metropolis M

  4. 2025

    Zwarte Zwanen⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠ ep. 10: De Pensioenmiljardenroof, dir. Cees Grimbergen, Omroep Max / NPO

  5. 2025

    Vals alarm politie⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠: tekenclub aangezien voor actiegroep bij fabriek Cargill, Omroep Zeeland / NOS

  6. 2024

    Alles wird gut.⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠ In conversation with Alexandra Hunts and Miloš Trakilović, Open Studios 2024, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

  7. 2023

    Monotonie ist schön. Charlotte Posenenske and the legacy of conceptualism. In conversation with Brenda Guesnet and Laurens Otto, celador, Brussels

  8. 2023

    Renzo Martens, Erken dat uitgebuite plantagearbeiders co-auteurs van het Stedelijk zijn, NRC

  9. 2023

    Harmen van Dijk, Een Palestijnse verzetsstrijder en Tineke Netelenbos, verrassende kunst in de Rijksakademie⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Trouw

  10. 2022

    Sanneke Huisman, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Kunst in het Trappenhuis, in ‘Nieuwe collectie. Aanwinsten 26 musea’, Metropolis M

  11. 2022

    Kunst in het trappenhuis met Timo Demollin⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

  12. 2022

    Van links naar rechts⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠. In conversation with Jelle Bouwhuis, Museum Arnhem Podcast

  13. 2022

    De Staat van Mecenaat⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠. De culture of giving in de Nederlandse kunstsector 10 jaar na de bezuinigingen. In collaboration with Platform BK and Framer Framed, Amsterdam

  14. 2021

    Post-Precarity Autumn Camp⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn

  15. 2021

    Plannen voor museum hedendaagse kunst op Amsterdamse Zuidas, De Witte Raaf

  16. 2021

    Stedelijk Studies, Changing and learning. A conversation between Yvette Mutumba and Rein Wolfs, Szine #1

  17. 2020

    Fabienne Rachmadiev, Tussen ‘hier’ en ‘daar’, De Groene Amsterdammer

  18. 2020

    Maria van Oosterhout, In the Presence of Absence, De Witte Raaf

  19. 2020

    Sarah van Binsbergen, Het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam doet aan zelfreflectie, Volkskrant

  20. 2020

    Jan Pieter Ekker, Sprankelende kritiek op heden en verleden, Het Parool

  21. 2018

    Domeniek Ruyters, Over 'de comeback-city' - Tilburg Oud-Noord⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Metropolis M

  22. 2018

    Laurens Otto, This Time It’s Personal⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠: Politics as an Expansion of the Self, in The Name of the Author, Sandberg Instituut

  23. 2018

    Domeniek Ruyters, Graduation Shows 2018 Sandberg Institute Fine Arts Department⁠⁠(opens in a new tab)⁠, Metropolis M

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

Mondriaan Fonds
Amarte Fonds
De Nederlandsche Bank (Rijksakademie Fellowship)
Cultuurfonds: Knecht-Drenth Fonds, Vigo-brug Fonds (Rijksakademie Fellowship)
The Best Dutch Book Designs
Pictoright Steunfonds
Stichting Vrienden Stadsarchief Amsterdam
Leo XIII Award, Gastatelier Leo XIII
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

Education

  1. 2022⁠​–⁠24

    Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam

  2. 2019

    BAK Public Studies: Art and Politics, BAK, Utrecht

  3. 2016⁠​–⁠18

    MA Fine Arts, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam

Photo Credits

Quinten Buijsse, Robert Glas, Aad Hoogendoorn, Lola Pertsowsky, Gert Jan van Rooij, Gerrit Schreurs, Luuk Smits, Sander van Wettum