UPCOMING

"Speaking of Idols"

is an essay I wrote for the publication "MATERIAL LUST – Excursions in Contemporary Sculpture IV", which is published by the organisers of the scultpure exhibition Lustwarande every year in the part Oude Warande in Tilburg.

BOOK LAUNCH 5 Juli 2026

14:15 in het auditorium van De Pont Museum, Tilburg

Ter gelegenheid van het vijfentwintigjarig jubileum van LUSTWARANDE verschijnt een nieuwe publicatie: MATERIAL LUST – Excursions in Contemporary Sculpture IV. Tijdens het programma gaat Chris Driessen in gesprek met de auteurs Toef Jaeger en Florian Göttke. Na afloop is er gelegenheid om vragen te stellen en wordt het eerste exemplaar uitgereikt.

I am a visual artist, researcher, writer, and educator based in Amsterdam. I am most interested in the functioning of public images and their relationship to social memory and politics. I use visual/artistic modes of research (especially collecting, close reading, and montage of images), sometimes combined with academic research.

I currently teach artistic research at the University of Amsterdam, and I am engaged in the research project "Holding Grief: Engaging Trauma through Contemporary Art."