Studio Timaeus
Timaeus (NL, he/him) is an artist and art director based in Rotterdam. He combines an artistic-led practice with collaborations across the commercial & cultural field, as well as educational interests.
Goldband summer tour 2025
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Martyrs of the Anthropocene
video installation- short filmExhibited at Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Messyverse (Felix Meritis, Amsterdam), Huidenclub (Rotterdam), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven) and during the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024
A short film installation that intertwines rituals, historic references and urgent environmental and behavioural questions. Forming a rite of passage, the film presents a tree and a lichen with the title of Martyrdom.
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Next Nature Museum - Geolift
A lift installation descending to the centre of the Earth. Part of the exhibition‘Once upon a time... the Earth’ in Eindhoven at Next Nature Museum.
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Dekmantel 10 year anniversary
Visual language - stage design- lighting - VJ - operating
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Raytracers
objects - lamps - installationExhibited at Design Biennale Rotterdam
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Passage through the bark
Video installation - Material: Laser cut wood, bronze PLA, found bark, looping screenSystems have existed for as long as life itself. Natural systems are now often overshadowed by human-made systems such as technology. In Passage Through The Bark, Timaeus shows how bark beetles create patterns in trees that disrupt the flow of water. While they move through the wood, complex, almost map-like structures emerge. Timaeus translates these natural pathways into digital patterns that are generated by AI: a technology that also consumes vast amounts of water. The work invites reflection on how systems repeat, change and are reinterpreted.
Presented during Art Rotterdam 2026
‘Interface’ curated by Hannah van der Elzen
One Way Trip to Gaia (live A/V)
Live A/V performance - Art directionLive A/V show in collaboration with Rotterdam based producer Alberta Balsam and an inflatable designed by visual artist Zalán Szakács . Performed at a variety of pop podia, festivals and museums.
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Anthropocene Monsters
Installation - Video work - commissioned by Fiber Festival - collaborator: YopoExhibited at FIBER FESTIVAL & INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
Installation view of Timaeus’ video work at Fiber Festival, in which he presented a trilogy setup of rotating monsters. All with their own specific theme. For the festival, which was based upon the theme of mutation, I was commissioned to create two additional monsters that explore this subject. A total of 5 monsters were presented.
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Alberta Balsam - Cosmic Runner (official video by Timaeus)
Videoclip - Video work - Realtime 3D - Avatar commissioned by Alberta Balsam
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Klankpoeder - Vouwmakreel
Videoclip - Video work - Realtime 3D - Digital Puppeteering commissioned by Klankpoeder
Videoclip for Rotterdam based contemporary jazz quintet ‘Klankpoeder’.
A puppeteered fish, in line with their title track, is performed and recorded in realtime. You follow the energetic fish while it navigates it’s way through neither land nor water.
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No natural enemies
Art prints made during residency in Hoofddorp
The claws of crayfish, found in the grass by Timaeus during a residency period, left him with a mysterious and odd feeling. Without their attached bodies they look alien in it's surrounding. Fascinated by this feeling and the look of the claws, Timaeus created speculative scenes that gave the claws a central role in the ecosystem.
Louis Vuitton X showcase installation
Concept development - creative As part of my internship at Random Studio, I worked on the concept development of the installation. The distinctive checker pattern occassionaly makes way for virtual worlds exploring a variety of world travels.
Ruins beyond the Veil - live A/V
A/V installation - Video work - Realtime 3D - collaboration with Future Intel
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Timaeus x Traumgarten
Merchandise with The Hague’s label Traumgarten, accompanied by launch video’s and art directionview project
Yopo & Timaeus explore...
A/V worldbuilding - Video work - Realtime 3D - aluminium dibond prints In collaboration with Future Intel
In collaboration with producer & DJ Yopo Timaeus provided a bimonthly show at Future Intel, as part of a digital residency during the corona pandemic.
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Het bos droomt - centre spread for De Gids
In collaboration with writer Dirk Vis I developed the central image for De Gids 2021/3: De ziel. Accompanying his writing on the Bialowieza forest. Białowieża forest.
Hic Sunt Dracones - Graduation work from Willem de Kooning
Speculative, first person experience which explores an archaeological site, set in a distant future, which contains time capsules with the monsters and their remnants that have taken shape in, and reflect upon the 21st Century.
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info@timaeus.nl
Robert Fruinstraat 37
3021 XB Rotterdam
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