Maud van den Beuken

In her artistic practice Maud van den Beuken (NL / DE) maps and measures the porous spaces between the binaries of land and water. Working closely with scientists, engineers and policy-makers in the fields of physics, watermanagement and cartography, she poetically reflects on Western ways of knowing today’s environment. For the past eight years, she has been specifically engaging with rivers, such as the Kaveri, the Mississippi, the Elbe, the Rhine and the Meuse.

Besides the formal context of the arts, her work primarily manifests itself in public spaces, mapping archives, scientific conferences and universities, through interventions, sculptures, installations, maps, (audio)walks and videos.

Van den Beuken completed a residency at the Jan van Eyck postgraduate institute in Maastricht (NL) in 2023. Her work has been exhibited internationally at TENT, Rotterdam (NL), United Nations Water Conference 2023 in New York (US), EIGHT/ΤΟ ΟΧΤΩ in Athens (GR), EENWERK Gallery (NL), Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre (NL), IJsselbiennale (NL) and the Special Collections Department of the Utrecht University Library (NL).