Bobbi X

sociaal-maatschappelijk , Artistiek onderzoek

Bobbi is an organizer first and an artist second. Her lived experiences and involvement in urban environmental and social movements in the Netherlands fuel an ever-growing need to make for and with the city: to reclaim space and to seek out stories, hopes and dreams that don’t naturally surface; that need untangling, probing and beckoning. This happens in her personal art practice, in her institutional research, and in volunteering and organizing throughout the city. She focuses on making (political) publications, activist tools and public art based on (participatory) research. In these projects she puts emphasis on radical imaginations. She strongly believes that even minor change can only become real if we are all outrageously imagining ahead.

GRIT, 2023-2025
GRIT, 2023-2025 - We find ourselves in a demanding, excluding web of beauty messages that reduce us to smoothness and are often imposed on us even if we don’t consciously accept them. To reject facial recognition and AI-informed AR from governing our bodies, I ask the abject on us what it can do as source of dissent. Taking inspiration from the abjects on ourselves and AR-rejection strategies, a method was developed to model wearable and legal facial coverings to be used during protest and in daily life.
Eulogy for A Dying City
Eulogy for A Dying City, 2023 - Ongoing - When neighbourhoods are demolished, communities are pulled apart and their collective grief is buried underneath new development projects. How do we surface that grief? How can we make visible the efforts of resistance even after gentrification has happened? This research project coins the term gentrification grief and start moving from the understanding that gentrified citizens deserve griefwork. With a range of neighborhood interventions I am figuring out what this could look like; effective across cultural differences, uncooptable by capitalist forces, steering clear from extractivism.
Would She Reclaim Us
Would She Reclaim Us, 2024 - Ongoing - Series illustrating an ecological apocalyptical fantasy in which humans are subjected to the vanishing, obliterating and disappearing. If we still expect Nature to reclaim us after all we've inflicted can we still expect her to be gentle?

RADIUS kunstdocent

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Locatie: RADIUS

Execution of the workshop 'EEN ONVOLTOOIDE ODE AAN MODDER' within RADIUS' year program 2026 'YOU AND I ARE EARTH' for a range of elementary school classes from Delft. The workshop itself was developed by RADIUS' Head of Education Andrea Koll.

https://www.radius-cca.org/nl/educatie/an-unfinished-ode-to-mud

RADIUS kunstdocent

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Locatie: RADIUS

Execution of the workshop 'EEN ONVOLTOOIDE ODE AAN MODDER' within RADIUS' year program 2026 'YOU AND I ARE EARTH' for a range of elementary school classes from Delft. The workshop itself was developed by RADIUS' Head of Education Andrea Koll.

https://www.radius-cca.org/nl/educatie/an-unfinished-ode-to-mud

part of (blue)ambient collective

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In samenwerking met: Suck Ants, Lilith, Perpetual Bel, Rattatus, Monitor Doll

(blue)ambient is a FLINTA tattoo collective based in Rotterdam comprised of tattoo artists who engage in trauma-informed tattooing and have a deep love for ambient music. Responsibilities and opportunities are shared. We co-host a tattoo studio in the crevices of the city, and we also, from time to time, host events that combine performance, ambient/noise music and tattooing.

(blue)ambient buurtoren fundraiser / JUN 2026 / @WGW Podium
(noise)ambient tattoo cave / NOV 2025 / @Snackbar Fried

Queer BashBack co-organiser

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In samenwerking met: CATU Rotterdam

Initiating and co-organising Queer Bashback, a weekly and free self-defense class geared towards FLINTA and non-conforming bodies.

Kinderkookcafe co-organiser

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In samenwerking met: Emiel Ferment

Monthly cooking classes for kids aged 4-10 in Rotterdam-West. We cook in nature, with seasons and with a lot of roaming and playing.

GRIT

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In my project GRIT I explore a future where society's obsession with beauty and a lack of worry over privacy intersect and run rampant. I forecast what emerges from it.

In an effort to both reject smoothness, privacy and autonomy issues, that surface from ongoing social media hegemonies, I co-created a dissent strategy with my stretchmarks. We are made up of parts, strange parts. Parts we can embrace to reject what has deemed them strange in the first place.

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