Stijn Terpstra
Visual artist & Researcher
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Stijn Terpstra (b. 2000) is a visual artist, (spatial) designer, and interdisciplinary researcher based in the Netherlands. He holds a BA from St. Joost School of Art & Design (Breda, The Netherlands) and an MA in Comparative Arts and Media at Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). His practice explores the aesthetic and political conditions of contemporary media as both material infrastructures and systems that govern perception. Drawing on artistic and scientific methodologies, he critically navigates the entanglements of technology and nature, working between photography, writing, moving images, and found media.
2025 / Noorderlicht Biënnale: Machine Entanglements, Museum Belvédère, Friesland
2024 / Kunsthal Gent, Kunstwerkt: PET SHOP, Ghent
2023 / Kunstenaarsinitiatief B93, From Dusk ‘till Dawn, Enschede
2022 / Dutch Design Week, Class of ‘22, Klokgebouw Eindhoven
2022 / Graduation St. Joost School of Art & Design: Now show
2021 / Fotoasiel, St. Joost School of Art & Design (self-organized)
2021 / NS16 Tilburg, Nieuwe wegen, Oude sporen
2021 / Noorderlicht: The Makeable mind, Sugar Factory Groningen (Student open call)
2019 / RUIS. St. Joost School of Art & Design, Online exhibition & Live interview ‘Interne Ruis’
2024 / Kunsthal Gent, Kunstwerkt: PET SHOP, Ghent
2023 / Kunstenaarsinitiatief B93, From Dusk ‘till Dawn, Enschede
2022 / Dutch Design Week, Class of ‘22, Klokgebouw Eindhoven
2022 / Graduation St. Joost School of Art & Design: Now show
2021 / Fotoasiel, St. Joost School of Art & Design (self-organized)
2021 / NS16 Tilburg, Nieuwe wegen, Oude sporen
2021 / Noorderlicht: The Makeable mind, Sugar Factory Groningen (Student open call)
2019 / RUIS. St. Joost School of Art & Design, Online exhibition & Live interview ‘Interne Ruis’
2025 / Geologies of Violence, Aesthetics of Non-Alignment, Kunstlicht Vol. 45, no. 3-4
2025 / NRC, “Als een tomaat tegenstribbelt” report on Noorderlicht: Machine Entanglements, featuring Through the Opera Glass, August 9.
2025 / Through the Opera Glass, Noorderlicht Biënnale: Machine Entanglements (Catalog)
2023 / The Annihilation of Space and Time, Zero Feedback
2022 / Blurring the Lines (Catalog)
2025 / NRC, “Als een tomaat tegenstribbelt” report on Noorderlicht: Machine Entanglements, featuring Through the Opera Glass, August 9.
2025 / Through the Opera Glass, Noorderlicht Biënnale: Machine Entanglements (Catalog)
2023 / The Annihilation of Space and Time, Zero Feedback
2022 / Blurring the Lines (Catalog)
MA, Comparative Arts and Media Studies, VU Amsterdam [cum laude]
PMA, Comparative Arts and Media Studies, VU Amsterdam
BA, Photography and Film, St. Joost School of Art & Design, Breda
2BA Photography (Erasmus exchange), KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts, Ghent
Preliminary Program St. Joost, Den Bosch / Breda
PMA, Comparative Arts and Media Studies, VU Amsterdam
BA, Photography and Film, St. Joost School of Art & Design, Breda
2BA Photography (Erasmus exchange), KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts, Ghent
Preliminary Program St. Joost, Den Bosch / Breda
2026
When Eddy tries to restore an incomplete list of radio amateurs who were killed in the war, a drum filled with archival material from a radio pioneer comes to light. In doing so, a past is revealed that has long been kept secret.
This story was made during Oorzaken Podcast Academy 2026, a talent development program by OORZAKEN in collaboration with NPO / NPO Fund.
Concept, interview and editing: Stijn Terpstra
Story coach: Jair Stein
Final mix: Tijmen Bergman
Audio excerpt from a video by VERON by Thijs Kruyff, featuring spoken contributions by Remy Denker and Kristen Del Bello
This story was made during Oorzaken Podcast Academy 2026, a talent development program by OORZAKEN in collaboration with NPO / NPO Fund.
Concept, interview and editing: Stijn Terpstra
Story coach: Jair Stein
Final mix: Tijmen Bergman
Audio excerpt from a video by VERON by Thijs Kruyff, featuring spoken contributions by Remy Denker and Kristen Del Bello