About
Interdisciplinary artist and writer Nienke Roth (Netherlands, 1999) explores nature’s rights, its perspectives, its tales and its ecological processes, through a speculative documentary lens. She gains and shares ecological knowledge in the spaces where imagination and science meet.Nienke’s methods focus on co-species storytelling and archiving. Through developing these methods Nienke converses with the ecosystems that surround her. Her image-based works, objects and installations are co-created with water, soil, foods, seaweeds and plants, therefore always existing in an impermanent condition. In each project the materials that are used, as well as the process of making them, are equally as symbolic as the work they depict.
Traveling through The Netherlands, Nienke pieces fragments of the Dutch ‘ecological identity’ together with every project. She has made work with the seaweeds in the Oosterschelde, reflects on the ethics of reclaiming land, photographs together with the North Sea, and includes the soil as a recipient of the left overs of her art by working on edible and compostable papers. Integrating the image with the material is an ever-going research, and Nienke’s approach to the photographic medium is in the process of becoming a more sculptural one.
Nienke holds a BA degree in Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2023. Her works have been exhibited at Energiekas (Den Haag), Troef (Leiden), Ballon Rouge (Rotterdam) and The Grey Space in the Middle (The Hague), among other venues.
Contact nienkerood@hotmail.com
EXHIBITIONS AND RESIDENCIES
2026
2026
2025
2025
2024
2023
2023
2021
2021
Energiekas x Hoogtij, ‘Change with me’ (upcoming on 13 March)
Troef, ‘The Sea I Breathe’ (ongoing until 01 March)
Ballon Rouge, ‘When Flowers Sleep’
See Lab Open Studio’s Exhibition
See Lab, ‘Trial and Errrorrr’
Royal Academy of Arts Graduation Show
Meertens Instituut (residency)
Grey Space in the Middle, ‘Cartographies of Care’
Cockroach Collective x The Spectrum Space
NOMINATIONS AND FUNDING
2023
Stichting tot Steun Stipend
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PUBLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS
2026
2024
2023
WAER Magazine, Bodemloos (upcoming in March)
Meertens Instituut, ‘Artist in residency Nienke Roth: Geography of the Waterwolf ‘
Meertens Instituut x Vonken Onder de As (podcast), ‘Water’
EDUCATION
2019 - 2023
2022
2022
2022
2018 - 2019
Royal Academy of Art, BA Photography (Design)
Royal Academy of Art, 1/6 of Mushroom Radio
Assistant at Chert Luedde, Berlin
Intern at Kasia Fudakowski, Berlin
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, BA Photography (Propedeuse)