Lotte Pet

wetenschap & techniek, schilderen, Lichaam, Figuratief, Educatie, Artistiek onderzoek

Lotte Pet is a visual artist and bioart researcher, living and working in Rotterdam. Her work is driven by a fascination with the inside of the biological body. Specifically, she focuses on contemporary biotechnological developments that create new life forms from organs, cells, and genes, such as organoids and organs-on-chips. In her paintings, Lotte uses the material aesthetics and cultural-historical characteristics of oil painting to explore the existential status of these semi-living entities and to provide these creatures with a societal embedding. Applied with pasty paint strokes, her compositions of tissues intertwined with laboratory equipment balance between still life and organic portrait.

After earning a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Lotte completed a bachelor's, master's and PhD in art history at Leiden University. For her dissertation “The Excess of Meaning” (completed in 2024), she investigated how bioart can generate its own form of knowledge about biological matter, parallel to bioscientific and bioethical discourses.

Mene tekel (2025) — **Mene tekel** - (2025), 75 x 75 cm, oil on canvas

**That Is the Law. Are We Not Men?** - (2025), 80 x 80 cm, oil on canvas

**Exodus** - (2025 120 x 90 cm, oil on canvas

**Tool** - (2025), 70 x 50 cm, oil on canvas.

**Juicy** - (2024) 160 x 120 cm, oil on canvas.

**Good Boy** - (2024) 90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

**Oh God** - (2024), 160 x 100 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**The neighbors are at it again** - (2024), 120 x 160 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**They left them to their own devices** - (2024), 160 x 100 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Slide** - (2024), 40 x 40 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Impinge** - (2024), 40 x 40 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Spread** - (2024), 40 x 40 cm, oil on canvas. Organs-on-chips (OOCs) are cell cultures in microfluidic devices that simulate one or more functions of adult organs. This biotechnology is a fruitful means for drug testing and replaces the lab animal as an instrument for experiment. In the series ‘Organoscape’, these semi-living organoids have outgrown their silicon wombs and are establishing new ecosystems in which the microscopic and macroscopic merge into one another. A soft-fleshy business has transformed into mountains for industrial mining. It suggests that the human search for economic uses of life is inspiring the prolific uses of economy, framing the commodification of bodily parts as a mechanism for metabolism.

**Vem kan segla förutan vind?** - (2024), 85 x 120 cm, oil on canvas. How can we define our human essence if we outsource our biological intelligence? Organoid Intelligence (OI) is an emerging field of data processing. Human-derived brain organoids (i.e., cultured brain cells, or ‘intelligence-in-a-dish’) have been attributed great potential for being able to perform not only sequential processing as done by Artificial Intelligence, but also parallel processing. This could be used to solve complex and heterogeneous problems while using smaller datasets and less power. The oil paint series Therapy for Organoid Intelligence imagines a world in which these brain organoids are the latest laborers in human society. Picturing them as exhausted minds that are being forced to process more and more information, I wonder how we can care for these little brainiacs created for human desires. Should we emphasize with the needs of these novel, self-conscious (semi-)living entities—and can we even understand them at all?

**I'm craving a Pepsi cola** - (2023), 90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas. How can we define our human essence if we outsource our biological intelligence? Organoid Intelligence (OI) is an emerging field of data processing. Human-derived brain organoids (i.e., cultured brain cells, or ‘intelligence-in-a-dish’) have been attributed great potential for being able to perform not only sequential processing as done by Artificial Intelligence, but also parallel processing. This could be used to solve complex and heterogeneous problems while using smaller datasets and less power. The oil paint series Therapy for Organoid Intelligence imagines a world in which these brain organoids are the latest laborers in human society. Picturing them as exhausted minds that are being forced to process more and more information, I wonder how we can care for these little brainiacs created for human desires. Should we emphasize with the needs of these novel, self-conscious (semi-)living entities—and can we even understand them at all?

**The coddling of the organoid mind** - (2023), 90 x 60 cm, oil on canvas How can we define our human essence if we outsource our biological intelligence? Organoid Intelligence (OI) is an emerging field of data processing. Human-derived brain organoids (i.e., cultured brain cells, or ‘intelligence-in-a-dish’) have been attributed great potential for being able to perform not only sequential processing as done by Artificial Intelligence, but also parallel processing. This could be used to solve complex and heterogeneous problems while using smaller datasets and less power. The oil paint series Therapy for Organoid Intelligence imagines a world in which these brain organoids are the latest laborers in human society. Picturing them as exhausted minds that are being forced to process more and more information, I wonder how we can care for these little brainiacs created for human desires. Should we emphasize with the needs of these novel, self-conscious (semi-)living entities—and can we even understand them at all?

**The marriage of noosphere and biosphere** - (2023), 50 x 70 cm, oil on canvas. My medical history is a portrait series of the usually invisible inside of the body. The portraits capture intimate moments from Lotte Pet's own medical history in which organs, tissues, and bodily fluids have gained meaning through interaction with biomedical instruments, and in which these instruments have, vice versa, gained significance through convergence with her anatomy.

**Relief mediator** - (2023), 60 x 50 cm, oil on canvas. My medical history is a portrait series of the usually invisible inside of the body. The portraits capture intimate moments from Lotte Pet's own medical history in which organs, tissues, and bodily fluids have gained meaning through interaction with biomedical instruments, and in which these instruments have, vice versa, gained significance through convergence with her anatomy.

**Third molar emerged** - (2023), 40 x 50 cm, oil on canvas. My medical history is a portrait series of the usually invisible inside of the body. The portraits capture intimate moments from Lotte Pet's own medical history in which organs, tissues, and bodily fluids have gained meaning through interaction with biomedical instruments, and in which these instruments have, vice versa, gained significance through convergence with her anatomy.

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