Femke Herregraven

Femke Herregraven investigates which material base, geographies, and value systems are carved out by financial technologies and infrastructures. Her work focuses on the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes, ecosystems, historiography and individual lives. This research is the basis for the conception of new characters, stories, objects, sculptures, sound, and mixed-media installations. Her recent work focuses on the financialization of the future as a ‘catastrophe’ and uses sound, the respiratory system, landscapes, language and code to examine how these calculated and monetized eventualities affect our social, biological, and technological ecosystems. In 2016, she collaborated with Dutch investigative journalists on the Panama Papers. She is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2017–2018). She is part of On-Trade-Off: a transnational artist-led project on the lithium extraction in the DRC. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Prix de Rome, and was awarded the Evens Arts Prize 2023.