https://stefveldhuis.com Stef Veldhuis Fri, 22 May 2026 07:34:06 +0000 https://stefveldhuis.com en https://stefveldhuis.com/Telling-the-Bees-i Fri, 22 May 2026 07:34:06 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/Telling-the-Bees-i Telling the Bees+ Honey Bee Colony + Archival Space + Sensors Telling the Bees wires the obsessively controlled environment of an archive to the entangled ecosystem of a beehive. A colony of honeybees lives in a porcelain hive at the edge of the Amstelpark; sensors inside the hive measure temperature, humidity and electromagnetic communication, and pass those readings to an archive cabinet inside the art space, where they control its light and atmosphere. The cabinet houses the archive of Dutch artist Hans de Vries, including a small yellowed clipping titled Goed honingjaar, one of the earliest documents to link the loss of honeybee colonies to anthropogenic causes. The archive is a place where the symbolic body is kept after death, defended against change by sealed glass and regulated air. The hive works the other way: it preserves through continuous fluctuations in relation to its environment. The condition of the paper now depends on the condition of the bees. 2026 <img width="5557" height="4168" width_o="5557" height_o="4168" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b600c65408b4acd26a75ff0bd8212bb469cae2e7046be5f266d859754e51725d/TML20260706_201504343434433434.png" data-mid="250399886" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b600c65408b4acd26a75ff0bd8212bb469cae2e7046be5f266d859754e51725d/TML20260706_201504343434433434.png" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/MicroCodex Thu, 29 May 2025 14:34:44 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/MicroCodex MicroCodex + Genetically modified organism + Bioreactor + LED-screenIn MicroCodex, micro-organisms found in the Silbersee - a toxic lake in the East-German town of Bitterfeld Wolfen - are genetically altered to carry a single sentence from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself: “For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” This new history encoded into their DNA is passed from generation to generation. With every transfer, there is a chance of genetic mutation that might alter the sentence’s structure, meaning, or legibility. The words reimagined by the metabolism of this microorganism, and by the toxic water it inhabits. 2025<img width="5212" height="3909" width_o="5212" height_o="3909" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d22194139db868a7b07033732c20fd768fbd486a80d06ce63d5c7aa9b760ddb4/P1012432_edit.png" data-mid="237727606" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d22194139db868a7b07033732c20fd768fbd486a80d06ce63d5c7aa9b760ddb4/P1012432_edit.png" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/SourceCodex Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:39:43 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/SourceCodex MicroCodex [edition] + Synthetic DNA suspended in glycerin+ Modified glass medical ampoule+ Lasercut aluminum This edition of the MicroCodex contains the original synthetic DNA sequence designed for the project. The unmutated sentence of Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself - “for every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you” - translated into the ATCG coding of DNA. In MicroCodex, this synthetic DNA was embedded within microbes from the East-German Silbersee, living in a closed life-support system, mutating the words in ever new poetic forms. This edition sees the source code of the project suspended in glycerin - a preserved reference point against which future mutations are measured. 2025<img width="3851" height="2888" width_o="3851" height_o="2888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8954c140e953f0e91ebe00a4f314815f5d1bae9f8d4e323191ecd1e2f4bbcae2/SourceCode3-4.png" data-mid="241643432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8954c140e953f0e91ebe00a4f314815f5d1bae9f8d4e323191ecd1e2f4bbcae2/SourceCode3-4.png" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/SD Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:18:07 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/SD Soil Dogs + Ceramics + VLF and Seismic recordings + Geophone The installation “Soil Dogs” explores the relationship between canines and seismic activity. Through a combination of ceramics, geo-acoustic and electromagnetic recordings, Soil Dogs connects the assumed earthquake warning signs to the local soil of Taiwan. A soil that has been shaped and is constantly reshaped by the seismic fluctuation of the island situated on the fault line between the Eurasian and Philippine Sea plates. 2023<img width="6480" height="4320" width_o="6480" height_o="4320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91b8a00513791abe71f05f2604f399e4ee06cbe1218d6a02153ce66beb67301e/0C3A9173-2.jpg" data-mid="175532929" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91b8a00513791abe71f05f2604f399e4ee06cbe1218d6a02153ce66beb67301e/0C3A9173-2.jpg" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/WWMS Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:20:23 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/WWMS What Worlds Make Stories + Three-screen video installation What Worlds Make Stories aims to disentangle the hidden violence within our human mythologies by looking at the changing myth of the unicorn from monster to commodity. The dialogue between the two monsters touches upon elements of pop culture, art history, and the different forms of knowledge that are prevalent within contemporary Western discourse. The script invites us to explore the parallels between the domestication of the unicorn, as depicted on the famous unicorn tapestries, and our relationship to our surroundings. 2023 <img width="4843" height="3229" width_o="4843" height_o="3229" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dddef30c3dd92de7dcf0f57052f356362541b9683c30be581cfd4dc1da023e2b/001_BWC4575editwbsite.jpg" data-mid="196110079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dddef30c3dd92de7dcf0f57052f356362541b9683c30be581cfd4dc1da023e2b/001_BWC4575editwbsite.jpg" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/HVWD Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:18:08 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/HVWD High Voltage Waggle Dance + Glass pods + VLF-recordings of honeybees + Speakers High Voltage Waggle Dance uses VLF-recordings to cultivate a patient, sensory attentiveness to the visible and invisible energy-ecosystems within the atmosphere, the earth, and the more-than-human actors inhabiting it. The piece includes the crackling and whistling of lightning bolts, time-stretched signals of bees interacting with the receiver’s antenna, and recordings of electro-communication within the hives tended by the Slovenian beekeepers. 2022/2023 <img width="1955" height="1304" width_o="1955" height_o="1304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db4946115fa12a576ccfe0189ebad470801d39e1f3c2fd544e31738100183acb/Prospects-2023_Mondriaan-Fonds_door-Aad-Hoogendoorn-114.jpg" data-mid="175535804" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db4946115fa12a576ccfe0189ebad470801d39e1f3c2fd544e31738100183acb/Prospects-2023_Mondriaan-Fonds_door-Aad-Hoogendoorn-114.jpg" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/Waddenorgel-1 Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:18:08 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/Waddenorgel-1 Waddenorgel+ Organ pipes + Sensors + Drone motors The Waddenorgel, or Organ of the Wadden Sea, is a sound installation consisting of sixteen organ pipes that react to the gape width and heartbeat of a single mussel lying in the Wadden Sea. Created in collaboration with the Waddenacademie and the Oerol festival, the Waddenorgel offers new practices of listening in order to get a deeper understanding of the mussel as a vital part of the oceans’ ecosystem.&nbsp; 2021/2022 <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5397b61d946551375da3813469d246fa85273e95bce883db4ee6cc0c061f72ef/Hoofdbeeld-Waddenorgel-klein.jpg" data-mid="175538163" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5397b61d946551375da3813469d246fa85273e95bce883db4ee6cc0c061f72ef/Hoofdbeeld-Waddenorgel-klein.jpg" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/Distance-Object-Header Sat, 06 May 2023 07:53:16 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/Distance-Object-Header Distance as Object + Postcard + Envelopes + Global postal service Starting of as an experiment in interpersonal communication across the 52nd parallell, Distance as Object encountered opposition at the Polish border when the unlawful invasion of Ukraine by Russia resulted in a halt of all postal communications towards Russia. The postcard, traveling along the same latitutde line from Utrecht to Berlin, Warsaw, Atka, Saskatoon, and Limerick, hence had to skip its port in Irkutsk. The absence of the Russian stamp is a stark indicator of the postcard’s proximity to war.&nbsp; 2021/2022 <img width="3306" height="2400" width_o="3306" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b51b1fa92bcb62ed275162cc9dc49ae3e6aaa7957a536b30026ea166cb4aad1/website.png" data-mid="177845736" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b51b1fa92bcb62ed275162cc9dc49ae3e6aaa7957a536b30026ea166cb4aad1/website.png" /> https://stefveldhuis.com/SOTNS-Header Tue, 02 May 2023 13:51:33 +0000 Stef Veldhuis https://stefveldhuis.com/SOTNS-Header Sound of the North Sea + North Sea water + Aquarium + Speaker In Sound of the North Sea a piece of music, composed using data measured in the North Sea, can be heard in the waters of that same sea. The aquarium is filled with North Sea water and an underwater speaker is placed at the bottom, transforming the aquarium into a conductor of sound waves. The installation is experienced by submerging&nbsp;ones head, thus transforming the audience from a passive onlooker into an active performer.&nbsp; 2019/2020 <img width="3240" height="2160" width_o="3240" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c22e931eca1c36d921e317d6eb5c4204ae9f4ac528f8dbcc481fc986e67d2c28/website.jpg" data-mid="177403952" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c22e931eca1c36d921e317d6eb5c4204ae9f4ac528f8dbcc481fc986e67d2c28/website.jpg" />