Harm van den Dorpel’s broad practice includes sculpture, installation, works on paper, computer generated graphics and software. Rooted in the conceptual heritage of net.art, Van den Dorpel’s works often simulate neural networks. The role of technology in his works is a means to an end: a tool to increase the understanding of our experience. “I seek to produce works that explore not only the technological hardware we use in our daily lives, but how we use it, the modalities of interface that are created, enabled, facilitated and restricted by the advance of technology.”
Harm van den Dorpel lives and works in Berlin. Selected (group) exhibitions include the New Museum in New York, MoMa PS1 in New York, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam. His first solo exhibition at Upstream Gallery is scheduled for February - March 2018. In 2015, Van den Dorpel started Left Gallery, an online gallery that commissions, produces, and sells downloadable files.
Harm van den Dorpel lives and works in Berlin. Selected (group) exhibitions include the New Museum in New York, MoMa PS1 in New York, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam. His first solo exhibition at Upstream Gallery is scheduled for February - March 2018. In 2015, Van den Dorpel started Left Gallery, an online gallery that commissions, produces, and sells downloadable files.
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https://www.upstreamgallery.nl/artists/45/harm-van-den-dorpel
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023 Our Inner Child, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2021 Mutant Garden, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2020 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam collection presentation, Amsterdam
Upstream Focus - Harm van den Dorpel, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Lexachast, ICA, London
Art FWRD: On Technology, VondelCS, Amsterdam
Automat Und Mensch, Kate Vass Gallery, Zurich
Uninnocent Bystander, Lehmann + Silva, Porto
Left gallery at Stroom, Den Haag
Vertiginous Data, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Notes on Objects, Narrative Projects, London
Art Rotterdam, with Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam
2018 American Medium Gallery, New York City
Pattern and Presence, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Asking for a friend, Narrative Projects, London
Lexachast (performance with Bill Kouligas and Amnesia Scanner), Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2016 Death Imitates Language, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
2015 IOU, Narrative Projects, London
Loomer, Young Projects, Los Angeles
Ambiguity points to the mystery of all revealing, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
Just-in-Time, American Medium, New York City
2014 Online solo exhibition at The Composing Rooms, Berlin
2013 Release Early, Release Often (...), Abrons Arts Center, New York City
2012 About, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Watch the Throne, Grouphab.it, Berlin
The Mews Project Space, London
2011 You’re so beautiful, and so on..., with Bas van den Hurk, Rod Barton, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023 ...And that’s only (half) the story, PLUS-ONE gallery, Antwerp, BE
Choreographed Events, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Market Makers, Studio Knecht/Wendelin Berlin, DE
IN REALITY THE TRUTH IS DIFFERENT, LOHAUS SOMINSKY,Münschen, DE
2022 Fernand Léger En De Daken Van Parijs, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Context Switch, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, DE
Systems of Belief, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, CH
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
The Painters New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, NY, US
Pop Up Exhibition Nodous, Panke Gallery /rosa, Berlin, DE
Art and the Blockchain, a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, NL
2018 E-state Realisms, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami, USA
I was raised on the internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Live and Let Live, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Post Fail, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Ch
Open Codes, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
Immortalism, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE
Wild Flowers (wildness is contextual!), Narrative Projects, London, UK
New Dawn, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE
Site Visit, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE
Shifting Optics IV, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2016 ICA Associates: PAN Presents (...) (performance lecture), ICA, London, UK
Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, DE
Drawing After Digital, XPO Studio, Paris, FR
2015 Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera, MoMa PS1, NYC, US
The vertebral Silence, Lucia Diego Gallery, London, U
Politics are Personal, Exo Exo, Paris, FR
Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia,US
24/7: the human condition, Vienna Biennale 2015, MAK, Vienna, AT
Inflected Objects, Swiss Institute, Milan, IT
Shifting Optics, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Liminal Sunday, group exhibition at Satellite Space, Los Angeles, US
Collecting Mode, group exhibition at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE
The Moving Museum, Istanbul, TR
Unoriginal Genius, group exhibition at Carrol / Fletcher, London, UK
Private Settings (commissioned sculpture), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Residency and exhibition, The Moving Museum, Istanbul, TR
In Its Image, American Medium, NY, US
Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Surplus Living, KM Temporaer, Berlin, DE
The New Beauty of Our Modern Life, Higher Pictures, New York City They Live, online exhibition, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
Driving Fast Nowhere, Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ
2013 Image Employment, MoMa PS1, NYC, US
Where Narrative Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Dissociations @ First Look Series, online commission, The New Museum, NYC, US
Analogital, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, US
Plants vs Zombies, Boetzelaer|Nispen, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Against Interpretation, Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven Bcc 9: Das Ei ohne Schale, OSLO10, Basel, CH
Motion, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
Say goodbye to Hollywood, Import Projects, Berlin, DE
Deep Space (insides), Joe Sheftel, NYC, US
2011 The Greater Cloud, Dutch Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam, NL
Where Language Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Collect the WWWorld, Link Art Center, Brescia Boo!, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Multiplex, Peer to Space, Munich Index of Potential, Athens, GR
Enchanted, School of Development, Berlin, DE
Sousveillance, Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, RO
Maps & Legends, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, IT
Free, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, US
2009 Versions, Dutch Institute For Media Arts, Amsterdam, NL
Contemporary Semantics Beta, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL
LMIRL, Capricious Gallery, NYC, US
Are you sure you are you?, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City The New Easy, Art News Projects, Berlin, DE
New Wave, Internet Pavillion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
Away from Keyboard, Sculpture Garden Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
Argot, Plan B, Amsterdam, NL
Objects, Furniture, and Patterns, Art Since The Summer Of ‘69, NYC, US
SCREENINGS
2013 Dream Factory, Import Projects, Berlin
2012 Strategies, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage
DNK celebrates James Tenney & John Cage, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
PANELS
2016 Concluding panel discussion, Impakt Festival, Utrecht 2015 Art Basel - Salon, Artist Talk | BioLab Studios, Basel, CH
The Internetional Symposium, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
Resistance and the Digital Sublime, Venice, IT
2014 Structures and Textures: Database, Lunch-bytes panel discussions series, Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Post-Net Aesthetics, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
GRANTS AND PRIZES
2016 Net Based Award, Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel,
2012 Grant (bijdrage werkbudget), Mondriaan Foundation
2011 Grant (bijdrage werkbudget), Dutch Foundation for the Arts (Fonds BKVB)
Grant (startstipendium), Dutch Foundation for the Arts (Fonds BKVB)
CURATING
2016-ongoing Left gallery (https://left.gallery/)
2015 Strange Strangers, iPad exhibition, presented at Resistance and the Digital
Sublime, Venice Biennale
2011 Rhododendron, W139, Amsterdam, group show
Rhododendron II, Space project space, London, group show
2008-2009 Club Internet, online internet exhibition space
TEACHING
2017 Visiting lecturer at the Écal, Lausanne, Switzerland Teacher at Master Graphic Design, KABK, Den Haag, NL
2016 Guest teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki Guest teacher at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
Guest teacher at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (Frankfurt, Germany) 2008-2012 New Media Arts and Interaction Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Harm van den Dorpel, Annet Dekker, Metropolis M, December issue Artist Profile,
Harm van den Dorpel, Rhizome
Harm van den Dorpel, Neumeister Bar-Am, Artforum (in print)
MAK Vienna becomes first museum to use bitcoin to acquire art, a Harm van den Dorpel, ArtNews
Viennese Art Museum Uses Bitcoin to Buy a Screensaver, The Observer Here’s the First Museum to Buy Art with Bitcoins, the creators project Interview with Harm van den Dorpel on having kids in the art world – Spike Art Harm van den Dorpel, Der Tagesspiegel
Navigating the Complexity of Harm van den Dorpel’s Post-Internet Art, the creators project Conceptual Art Goes Viral in Harm van den Dorpel’s Berlin Exhibition, Artsy Editorial
Harm van den Dorpel, Neumeister Bar-Am, Nero Magazine
https://www.upstreamgallery.nl/artists/45/harm-van-den-dorpel
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023 Our Inner Child, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2021 Mutant Garden, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2020 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam collection presentation, Amsterdam
Upstream Focus - Harm van den Dorpel, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Lexachast, ICA, London
Art FWRD: On Technology, VondelCS, Amsterdam
Automat Und Mensch, Kate Vass Gallery, Zurich
Uninnocent Bystander, Lehmann + Silva, Porto
Left gallery at Stroom, Den Haag
Vertiginous Data, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Notes on Objects, Narrative Projects, London
Art Rotterdam, with Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam
2018 American Medium Gallery, New York City
Pattern and Presence, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Asking for a friend, Narrative Projects, London
Lexachast (performance with Bill Kouligas and Amnesia Scanner), Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2016 Death Imitates Language, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
2015 IOU, Narrative Projects, London
Loomer, Young Projects, Los Angeles
Ambiguity points to the mystery of all revealing, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
Just-in-Time, American Medium, New York City
2014 Online solo exhibition at The Composing Rooms, Berlin
2013 Release Early, Release Often (...), Abrons Arts Center, New York City
2012 About, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Watch the Throne, Grouphab.it, Berlin
The Mews Project Space, London
2011 You’re so beautiful, and so on..., with Bas van den Hurk, Rod Barton, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023 ...And that’s only (half) the story, PLUS-ONE gallery, Antwerp, BE
Choreographed Events, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Market Makers, Studio Knecht/Wendelin Berlin, DE
IN REALITY THE TRUTH IS DIFFERENT, LOHAUS SOMINSKY,Münschen, DE
2022 Fernand Léger En De Daken Van Parijs, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Context Switch, Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, DE
Systems of Belief, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, CH
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JP
The Painters New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, NY, US
Pop Up Exhibition Nodous, Panke Gallery /rosa, Berlin, DE
Art and the Blockchain, a rose is a rose, Amsterdam, NL
2018 E-state Realisms, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami, USA
I was raised on the internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Live and Let Live, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Post Fail, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Ch
Open Codes, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
Immortalism, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE
Wild Flowers (wildness is contextual!), Narrative Projects, London, UK
New Dawn, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE
Site Visit, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE
Shifting Optics IV, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2016 ICA Associates: PAN Presents (...) (performance lecture), ICA, London, UK
Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, DE
Drawing After Digital, XPO Studio, Paris, FR
2015 Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera, MoMa PS1, NYC, US
The vertebral Silence, Lucia Diego Gallery, London, U
Politics are Personal, Exo Exo, Paris, FR
Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia,US
24/7: the human condition, Vienna Biennale 2015, MAK, Vienna, AT
Inflected Objects, Swiss Institute, Milan, IT
Shifting Optics, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Liminal Sunday, group exhibition at Satellite Space, Los Angeles, US
Collecting Mode, group exhibition at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin, DE
The Moving Museum, Istanbul, TR
Unoriginal Genius, group exhibition at Carrol / Fletcher, London, UK
Private Settings (commissioned sculpture), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Residency and exhibition, The Moving Museum, Istanbul, TR
In Its Image, American Medium, NY, US
Art Post-Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing Surplus Living, KM Temporaer, Berlin, DE
The New Beauty of Our Modern Life, Higher Pictures, New York City They Live, online exhibition, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
Driving Fast Nowhere, Polansky Gallery, Prague, CZ
2013 Image Employment, MoMa PS1, NYC, US
Where Narrative Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
Dissociations @ First Look Series, online commission, The New Museum, NYC, US
Analogital, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, US
Plants vs Zombies, Boetzelaer|Nispen, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Against Interpretation, Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven Bcc 9: Das Ei ohne Schale, OSLO10, Basel, CH
Motion, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK
Say goodbye to Hollywood, Import Projects, Berlin, DE
Deep Space (insides), Joe Sheftel, NYC, US
2011 The Greater Cloud, Dutch Institute for Media Art, Amsterdam, NL
Where Language Stops, Wilkinson Gallery, London
Collect the WWWorld, Link Art Center, Brescia Boo!, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Multiplex, Peer to Space, Munich Index of Potential, Athens, GR
Enchanted, School of Development, Berlin, DE
Sousveillance, Young Artists’ Biennial, Bucharest, RO
Maps & Legends, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, IT
Free, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, US
2009 Versions, Dutch Institute For Media Arts, Amsterdam, NL
Contemporary Semantics Beta, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL
LMIRL, Capricious Gallery, NYC, US
Are you sure you are you?, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York City The New Easy, Art News Projects, Berlin, DE
New Wave, Internet Pavillion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
Away from Keyboard, Sculpture Garden Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
Argot, Plan B, Amsterdam, NL
Objects, Furniture, and Patterns, Art Since The Summer Of ‘69, NYC, US
SCREENINGS
2013 Dream Factory, Import Projects, Berlin
2012 Strategies, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage
DNK celebrates James Tenney & John Cage, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
PANELS
2016 Concluding panel discussion, Impakt Festival, Utrecht 2015 Art Basel - Salon, Artist Talk | BioLab Studios, Basel, CH
The Internetional Symposium, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
Resistance and the Digital Sublime, Venice, IT
2014 Structures and Textures: Database, Lunch-bytes panel discussions series, Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Post-Net Aesthetics, The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
GRANTS AND PRIZES
2016 Net Based Award, Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Basel,
2012 Grant (bijdrage werkbudget), Mondriaan Foundation
2011 Grant (bijdrage werkbudget), Dutch Foundation for the Arts (Fonds BKVB)
Grant (startstipendium), Dutch Foundation for the Arts (Fonds BKVB)
CURATING
2016-ongoing Left gallery (https://left.gallery/)
2015 Strange Strangers, iPad exhibition, presented at Resistance and the Digital
Sublime, Venice Biennale
2011 Rhododendron, W139, Amsterdam, group show
Rhododendron II, Space project space, London, group show
2008-2009 Club Internet, online internet exhibition space
TEACHING
2017 Visiting lecturer at the Écal, Lausanne, Switzerland Teacher at Master Graphic Design, KABK, Den Haag, NL
2016 Guest teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki Guest teacher at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
Guest teacher at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (Frankfurt, Germany) 2008-2012 New Media Arts and Interaction Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Harm van den Dorpel, Annet Dekker, Metropolis M, December issue Artist Profile,
Harm van den Dorpel, Rhizome
Harm van den Dorpel, Neumeister Bar-Am, Artforum (in print)
MAK Vienna becomes first museum to use bitcoin to acquire art, a Harm van den Dorpel, ArtNews
Viennese Art Museum Uses Bitcoin to Buy a Screensaver, The Observer Here’s the First Museum to Buy Art with Bitcoins, the creators project Interview with Harm van den Dorpel on having kids in the art world – Spike Art Harm van den Dorpel, Der Tagesspiegel
Navigating the Complexity of Harm van den Dorpel’s Post-Internet Art, the creators project Conceptual Art Goes Viral in Harm van den Dorpel’s Berlin Exhibition, Artsy Editorial
Harm van den Dorpel, Neumeister Bar-Am, Nero Magazine
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