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Twan Lugten

wetenschap & techniek , schrijven , schilderen , performance , installatie , Geluid

“To [un]become: a point of departure. I don’t know what lies behind the veil / the skin / the screen, but I am drawn toward it. [sigh] Much more work needs to be done. Only when it answers back do I know something is present. I cannot ignore this. Now is the time to let go.”

Twan Lugten is an interdisciplinary artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and performance, his practice investigates the formation of selfhood by questioning containment, desire, and transformation. His work considers how structures that support and protect also impose limits, and how the longing to move beyond them coexists with the desire to remain held.

Informed by his experience as a medical doctor and his post-colonial lineage connected to the Dutch East Indies, Lugten works through acts of cutting, eroding, folding, binding, and inversion, alongside experiments with voice and sound. These processes explore what becomes perceptible when a surface is opened, a form is reversed, or a hum becomes a scream.

untitled (weight of ache)., [2026] oils, acrylic, and resin on composite pannel.
untitled (weight of ache)., [2026] oils, acrylic, and resin on composite pannel.
reclining#1 [vertical view], [2026] mixed media installation.
reclining#1 [vertical view], [2026] mixed media installation. - Group Exhibition, ArtEra Erasmus MC Rotterdam, May 29 - Oct 1 2026, curated by Rawad Baaklini. "Reclining #1 invites visitors to lie on a low, angled seat and look upward toward the Erasmus MC science tower, framed by two mirrored sculptures. Shifting between the scale of architecture and the body, the work reflects on medicine, institutional power, and the limits of control. An immersive audio composition introduces what Lugten describes as swamp thinking: a mode of attention that embraces uncertainty, entanglement, and the persistence of ecological life within modern structures. By bringing the monumental into intimate proximity, the installation proposes a bodily encounter through one's own physical presence."
Protector(existence over self) [2026] mixed media.
Protector(existence over self) [2026] mixed media. - Exhibited in the group exhibition 'Protectors' at De Aanschouw, curated by Tiiu Meiner.
slough. [2026] textile, metal, wax, acrylic, chain, padding, studs, zippers, band patch
slough. [2026] textile, metal, wax, acrylic, chain, padding, studs, zippers, band patch - Exhibited in the group exhibition 'EXO' at Alley Space Rotterdam during Rotterdam Art Week, curated by Tiiu Meiner.
SKIN (#2), [2025] textile, doll eyes, baseball mask, wax, sulfurous clay, candles, various media.
SKIN (#2), [2025] textile, doll eyes, baseball mask, wax, sulfurous clay, candles, various media. - Gasbon Metabolism, Yamanashi Japan, Oct - Nov 2025.
case p2, [2025] instrument box, waxed leather, UV-resin, automotive metal, various media.
case p2, [2025] instrument box, waxed leather, UV-resin, automotive metal, various media. - Exhibited at, Garage M Schiedam, Aug 23-31 2025.
Exhibition overview @ Gallerie Pouleouff
Exhibition overview @ Gallerie Pouleouff - Works shown 2024.gen#1 & #2. pigment (ivory black), stain, lacquer, wax on carbon fibre pannel. 2 times 200 x 90 x 15 cm 2024.muse#2. epoxy, pigments, fixative, wax, nylon, pins, aluminum, steel. Approx. 100 x 22 x 22 cm. Picture by Hanah Schleifer
2024.muse#2. epoxy, pigments, fixative, wax, nylon, pins, aluminum, steel. Approx. 100 x 22 x 22 cm.
2024.muse#2. epoxy, pigments, fixative, wax, nylon, pins, aluminum, steel. Approx. 100 x 22 x 22 cm.
2023_ftsttg[x.0]
2023_ftsttg[x.0] - multi-media installatie, Artwell Residencies Amsterdam Bijlmer
2022_ftstt[g4.0]
2022_ftstt[g4.0] - audioperformance - zang en samples o.a. uitgevoerd bij Brutus, Rotterdam; Rietveld Academie afstudeershow; Fiber Swamp, Boo2 Amsterdam
2022_ftsttg[prequel]
2022_ftsttg[prequel] - overzichtsfoto [1] van afstudeerinstallatie
2022_ftsttg[prequel]
2022_ftsttg[prequel] - deel van installatie
2021__TIRTH.
2021__TIRTH. - Site - specific multi media installatie, Thomaskerk, Zeist.
2020_ftsttg[1.0]
2020_ftsttg[1.0] - hedendaags audiospel o.a. verkrijgbaar bij 3345, Den Haag grafisch design door Rik Laging https://ftsttg.bandcamp.com/album/ftsttg10

A Room Neighboring the Planet, group show w/ Lisa Meijer, Louis Braddock Clarke, Moosje M Goosen, and Angelina Kozhevnikova, curated by Rawad Baaklini. ArtEra, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam.

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EXO, group show w/ Amrith de Zoete and Micha Prinsen, curated by Tiiu Meiner. Alley Space, Rotterdam.

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Resident at Gasbon_Metabolism, Hokun Japan

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Resident Artist at Artera, Erasmus MC, curated by Rawad Baaklini

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In samenwerking met: Erasmus MC

975 Ostra Practice x Tiny Art Gallery, group show

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Prisoners dilemma, duo show w/ Tijn Gerards at Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden.

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Locatie: Galerie Pouloeuff

[2024.esch.gen] Research project supported by CBK-Rotterdam O&O grant.

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Resident, Artwell Residencies - Amsterdam

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In samenwerking met: Artwell

Residency program for alumni of the following academies; Gerrit Rietveld Amsterdam, KASKA Antwerp and La Cambre Brussels.

Graduation Gerrit Rietveld Academie

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Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation show.

Openingsperformance and exhibition at 'Brutus Wild Summer of Art [2]'

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In samenwerking met: Brutus

Openingsperformance for Brutus' Wild Summer of Art

Tirth

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Site specific multimedia installation in the former Thomaskerk, Zeist NL

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