About
With the same curiosity as a scientist I visualize contemporary environmental topics. Planetary conditions and our place in them are the starting point in my work; the way humans interfere with nature and how we relate to the Earth on an individual level. By visualizing the beauty of scientific research, my aim is to contribute to already ongoing environmental debates in a positive way.
Currently one of my main sources of inspiration is Hyperobjects, a book by philosopher Timothy Morton. A hyperobject is such a big or abstract object, that we cannot see or touch it, but only experience it through it’s effects. For example, we can see and touch a single plastic object, but to imagine global pollution is nearly impossible. Through art (mainly photography) I try to gain a better understanding of environmental hyperobjects, like climate change or global pollution.
Curriculum Vitae
Suzette Bousema
Visual artist, 1995
The Hague (NL)
Tel: +31(0)681149462
Web: www.suzettebousema.nl
Mail: suzette@bousema.eu
Grants
Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds
NATUURCULTUUR
Jun 2021
MIAP Grant 2020
Future of Nature
Mar 2020
Mondriaan Fonds
Young Talent
Aug 2020 – Jul 2021
Nominations
SBK Sprouts Young Talent Award
Amsterdam | 2019
StartPoint Prize
Prague | 2019
Exhibitions
Mycota | London Design Festival
London |16 – 29 Sept 2021
Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Leiden|14 Jul – 4 Aug 2021
Alterando Paisagens | Changing Landscapes
Online | 2021
Outdoor exhibition: Super Organism
Kaapse Bossen | 22 mei – 11 juli 2021
VierVaart
Groede | 26 Apr – 9 Oct 2021
West End Projekt
The Hague | 27 Nov, 2020 – 27 Jan, 2021
Hoogtij #63
The Hague | 27 Nov, 2020
Photoville
New York | 17 Sept – 17 Nov, 2020
Fotobok Festival Oslo
Oslo | 10 – 20 Sept, 2020
What If The Earth Becomes Uninhabitable | PHMUSEUM
Online | 07 Jul - 12 Oct, 2020
Foam | First Editions
Amsterdam (NL) | 20 May – 30 Aug, 2020
Rotterdam Photo festival
Rotterdam (NL) | 6 - 9 Feb, 2020
Group: Udo Prinsen, Esther Kokmeijer
StartPoint Prize
Prague (CZ) | 11 - 18 Dec, 2019
UN Climate Change Conference | COP 25
Madrid (ES) | 4 Dec, 2019
Little Big Art Show | Circle gallery
Amsterdam (NL) | 23 & 24 Nov, 2019
Sprouts Young Talent | SBK
Amsterdam (NL) | 13 - 27 Oct, 2019
On Your Own (OYO) | HKK
The Hague (NL) | 21 - 27 Oct, 2019
Antarctica. Peter Kuipers Munneke & Suzette Bousema op onderzoek | Museum Singer Laren
Laren (NL) | 3 Sept - 5 Jan, 2019 - 2020
YOUNG ARTISTS SHOW 2019 | gallery DE TWEE PAUWEN
The Hague (NL) | 4 Aug - 4 Sept, 2019
Gallery Project 2.0
The Hague (NL) | 30 Jul - 26 Aug, 2019
Graduation show | Royal Academy of Art
The Hague (NL) | 5 - 11 Jul, 2019
Save Our Seas (S.O.S.) | Muzee Scheveningen
Scheveningen (NL) | 7 Jun - 22 Sept, 2019
REUSE | The Scientific Center Kuwait
Kuwait City (KW) | 10 Jan - 10 Apr, 2019
Rondje Kunst Statenkwartier
The Hague (NL) | 23 & 24 Jun, 2018
Good work, good work, ‘‘good work’’ | The Greyspace In The Middle
The Hague (NL), 25 - 30 Jan, 2018
Curator: Femke Lutgerink
Publications / Video
Collect – De Wandeling
Sept 2021
Written by Koos de Wilt
Liberatión | Fossiles à vivre
22 Jul 2021
De Telegraaf | Schimmelnetwerken op doeken in bos
Jul 2021
Written by Eric Roeske
Harper’s Bazaar | Nature’s CALL
Oct / Nov 2020
Written by Helene van der Ven
Die Zeit | Das Märchen vom guten Plastik
Oct 2020
By Barbara Unmüßig
Foam magazine #57 In Limbo |Nature's Limbo
Oct 2020
Written by Kim Knoppers
New York Times | ‘Photoville Adds New Venues, Vistas and Vision’
21 Sept, 2020
Written by Siddhartha Mitter.
Financial Times |Snapshot: ‘Climate Archive’ by Suzette Bousema
22 May, 2020
Written by Chris Allnut
Tijd & Taak | Green Deal
Apr, 2020
Written by Tim Zeedijk
The Correspondent | In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how
8 Jan, 2020
Written by Eric Holthaus
LensCulture | Favorite Photobooks of 2019
Jan, 2020
Selected by Taco Hidde Bakker
Trigger, FOMU magazine | Photographing the Anthropocene
Nov, 2019
Written by Taco Hidde Bakker
MuseumTV | Peter Kuipers Munneke in Singer Laren
20 Sept, 2019
Der Spiegel | Bild der Woche | ausgabe 35/2019
24 Aug, 2019
NRC | Luchtbellen van 20.000 jaar oud
2 Aug, 2019
Written by Gemma Venhuizen
Sir Edmund, de Volkskrant | Zee van plastic
5 Jan, 2019
Haagsche Handen | Plastic fossielen uit de toekomst
28 Mar, 2018
Written by Noortje Schrauwen
Teaching
Royal Academy of Art | Go to the second year in 6 weeks
The Hague (NL) | Preperatory Year Program
Yearly workshop | co-teacher Mafalda Rakoš
2019-2021 | Apr – May
Fotodok Visual Storytelling X GLU
Online (NL) | 8 Dec 2020
Co-teachers Jan Dirk van der Burg & Stacii Samidin
Muzee Scheveningen | Workshop cyanotype printing
Scheveningen (NL) | 7 & 14 Aug, 2019
Royal Academy of Art | Workshop ‘Speculative Beach Cleaning’
The Hague (NL) | 27 Mar, 2019
Future Fossils: A Design Archaeology of the Here and Now, Alice Twemlow
The Greyspace In The Middle | Workshop cyanotype printing
The Hague (NL) | 26 Jan, 2018
Commissions
De Correspondent | Jaarlijks verbranden we miljoenen tonnen kleding. Het goede nieuws: dat kán anders
26 Sept, 2019
Written by Emy Demkes
Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research | Polar Symposium 2018 | Tipping Point
The Hague (NL) | 1 - 13 Dec, 2018
Verbond van Verzekeraars | Hoofd Boven Water
The Hague (NL) | 15 Sept, 2018
Podcasts / Radio
Podcast De Fotograaf
Conversation with Maartje Strijbis
Cameranu.nl
Nov 2021
Podcast Radio Hortus
Episode 22: Fungi & Fuchsia’s
Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Aug 2021
Talks / Presentations
Super Organism | Hortus Botanicus
Leiden | 14 Jul
With soil scientist Nadia Soudzilovskaia
Super Organism | Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity
Online | 22 Apr 2021
Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam Photo Talks
Rotterdam (NL) | 8 Feb, 2020
Stroom | Zefir7 | Science or Photography? Design or Fine Art?
The Hague (NL) | 15 Oct, 2019
With Louisiana van Onna & Marijn van der Leeuw
Grondstofjutters launch | Future Relics
Scheveningen (NL) | 7 Apr, 2018
Nationaal Archief | Spaarnestad Photo | Future Relics
The Hague (NL) | 17 Jan, 2018
Education / programs
Royal Academy of Art BA | Photography
The Hague (NL) | 2015 – 2019
Royal Academy of Art | Preparatory Year
The Hague (NL) | 2014 - 2015
Residencies
Alterando Paisagens | Changing Landscapes
T.A.L. & Green Art Lab Alliance
Online|2021
Bonaire | Self-initiated
Nov 2020, 16 days
Events
Beach Clean-up | Future Relics
Scheveningen (NL) | 6 Mar, 2021
Scheveningen (NL) | 28 Jan & 10 Mar, 2019
UWC Art for Impact |online fundraising event
NL | 20 – 30 Nov 2020
Projects
Dead Zones | 2021-2022
Super Organism | 2020-2021
Dinoflagellates | 2020
Contemporary Air Archive | 2019 & ongoing
Climate Archive | 2019
Future Relics | 2018
Thesis
Understanding Hyperobjects: An Archaeological Quest Into The Anthropocene | 2019
Collections
Novartis
Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Various private
Fentener van Vlissingen Fonds
NATUURCULTUUR
Jun 2021
MIAP Grant 2020
Future of Nature
Mar 2020
Mondriaan Fonds
Young Talent
Aug 2020 – Jul 2021
Nominations
SBK Sprouts Young Talent Award
Amsterdam | 2019
StartPoint Prize
Prague | 2019
Exhibitions
Mycota | London Design Festival
London |16 – 29 Sept 2021
Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Leiden|14 Jul – 4 Aug 2021
Alterando Paisagens | Changing Landscapes
Online | 2021
Outdoor exhibition: Super Organism
Kaapse Bossen | 22 mei – 11 juli 2021
VierVaart
Groede | 26 Apr – 9 Oct 2021
West End Projekt
The Hague | 27 Nov, 2020 – 27 Jan, 2021
Hoogtij #63
The Hague | 27 Nov, 2020
Photoville
New York | 17 Sept – 17 Nov, 2020
Fotobok Festival Oslo
Oslo | 10 – 20 Sept, 2020
What If The Earth Becomes Uninhabitable | PHMUSEUM
Online | 07 Jul - 12 Oct, 2020
Foam | First Editions
Amsterdam (NL) | 20 May – 30 Aug, 2020
Rotterdam Photo festival
Rotterdam (NL) | 6 - 9 Feb, 2020
Group: Udo Prinsen, Esther Kokmeijer
StartPoint Prize
Prague (CZ) | 11 - 18 Dec, 2019
UN Climate Change Conference | COP 25
Madrid (ES) | 4 Dec, 2019
Little Big Art Show | Circle gallery
Amsterdam (NL) | 23 & 24 Nov, 2019
Sprouts Young Talent | SBK
Amsterdam (NL) | 13 - 27 Oct, 2019
On Your Own (OYO) | HKK
The Hague (NL) | 21 - 27 Oct, 2019
Antarctica. Peter Kuipers Munneke & Suzette Bousema op onderzoek | Museum Singer Laren
Laren (NL) | 3 Sept - 5 Jan, 2019 - 2020
YOUNG ARTISTS SHOW 2019 | gallery DE TWEE PAUWEN
The Hague (NL) | 4 Aug - 4 Sept, 2019
Gallery Project 2.0
The Hague (NL) | 30 Jul - 26 Aug, 2019
Graduation show | Royal Academy of Art
The Hague (NL) | 5 - 11 Jul, 2019
Save Our Seas (S.O.S.) | Muzee Scheveningen
Scheveningen (NL) | 7 Jun - 22 Sept, 2019
REUSE | The Scientific Center Kuwait
Kuwait City (KW) | 10 Jan - 10 Apr, 2019
Rondje Kunst Statenkwartier
The Hague (NL) | 23 & 24 Jun, 2018
Good work, good work, ‘‘good work’’ | The Greyspace In The Middle
The Hague (NL), 25 - 30 Jan, 2018
Curator: Femke Lutgerink
Publications / Video
Collect – De Wandeling
Sept 2021
Written by Koos de Wilt
Liberatión | Fossiles à vivre
22 Jul 2021
De Telegraaf | Schimmelnetwerken op doeken in bos
Jul 2021
Written by Eric Roeske
Harper’s Bazaar | Nature’s CALL
Oct / Nov 2020
Written by Helene van der Ven
Die Zeit | Das Märchen vom guten Plastik
Oct 2020
By Barbara Unmüßig
Foam magazine #57 In Limbo |Nature's Limbo
Oct 2020
Written by Kim Knoppers
New York Times | ‘Photoville Adds New Venues, Vistas and Vision’
21 Sept, 2020
Written by Siddhartha Mitter.
Financial Times |Snapshot: ‘Climate Archive’ by Suzette Bousema
22 May, 2020
Written by Chris Allnut
Tijd & Taak | Green Deal
Apr, 2020
Written by Tim Zeedijk
The Correspondent | In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how
8 Jan, 2020
Written by Eric Holthaus
LensCulture | Favorite Photobooks of 2019
Jan, 2020
Selected by Taco Hidde Bakker
Trigger, FOMU magazine | Photographing the Anthropocene
Nov, 2019
Written by Taco Hidde Bakker
MuseumTV | Peter Kuipers Munneke in Singer Laren
20 Sept, 2019
Der Spiegel | Bild der Woche | ausgabe 35/2019
24 Aug, 2019
NRC | Luchtbellen van 20.000 jaar oud
2 Aug, 2019
Written by Gemma Venhuizen
Sir Edmund, de Volkskrant | Zee van plastic
5 Jan, 2019
Haagsche Handen | Plastic fossielen uit de toekomst
28 Mar, 2018
Written by Noortje Schrauwen
Teaching
Royal Academy of Art | Go to the second year in 6 weeks
The Hague (NL) | Preperatory Year Program
Yearly workshop | co-teacher Mafalda Rakoš
2019-2021 | Apr – May
Fotodok Visual Storytelling X GLU
Online (NL) | 8 Dec 2020
Co-teachers Jan Dirk van der Burg & Stacii Samidin
Muzee Scheveningen | Workshop cyanotype printing
Scheveningen (NL) | 7 & 14 Aug, 2019
Royal Academy of Art | Workshop ‘Speculative Beach Cleaning’
The Hague (NL) | 27 Mar, 2019
Future Fossils: A Design Archaeology of the Here and Now, Alice Twemlow
The Greyspace In The Middle | Workshop cyanotype printing
The Hague (NL) | 26 Jan, 2018
Commissions
De Correspondent | Jaarlijks verbranden we miljoenen tonnen kleding. Het goede nieuws: dat kán anders
26 Sept, 2019
Written by Emy Demkes
Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research | Polar Symposium 2018 | Tipping Point
The Hague (NL) | 1 - 13 Dec, 2018
Verbond van Verzekeraars | Hoofd Boven Water
The Hague (NL) | 15 Sept, 2018
Podcasts / Radio
Podcast De Fotograaf
Conversation with Maartje Strijbis
Cameranu.nl
Nov 2021
Podcast Radio Hortus
Episode 22: Fungi & Fuchsia’s
Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Aug 2021
Talks / Presentations
Super Organism | Hortus Botanicus
Leiden | 14 Jul
With soil scientist Nadia Soudzilovskaia
Super Organism | Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity
Online | 22 Apr 2021
Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam Photo Talks
Rotterdam (NL) | 8 Feb, 2020
Stroom | Zefir7 | Science or Photography? Design or Fine Art?
The Hague (NL) | 15 Oct, 2019
With Louisiana van Onna & Marijn van der Leeuw
Grondstofjutters launch | Future Relics
Scheveningen (NL) | 7 Apr, 2018
Nationaal Archief | Spaarnestad Photo | Future Relics
The Hague (NL) | 17 Jan, 2018
Education / programs
Royal Academy of Art BA | Photography
The Hague (NL) | 2015 – 2019
Royal Academy of Art | Preparatory Year
The Hague (NL) | 2014 - 2015
Residencies
Alterando Paisagens | Changing Landscapes
T.A.L. & Green Art Lab Alliance
Online|2021
Bonaire | Self-initiated
Nov 2020, 16 days
Events
Beach Clean-up | Future Relics
Scheveningen (NL) | 6 Mar, 2021
Scheveningen (NL) | 28 Jan & 10 Mar, 2019
UWC Art for Impact |online fundraising event
NL | 20 – 30 Nov 2020
Projects
Dead Zones | 2021-2022
Super Organism | 2020-2021
Dinoflagellates | 2020
Contemporary Air Archive | 2019 & ongoing
Climate Archive | 2019
Future Relics | 2018
Thesis
Understanding Hyperobjects: An Archaeological Quest Into The Anthropocene | 2019
Collections
Novartis
Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Various private