Tineke van Veen is a Dutch artist based in The Hague, whose work bridges the relation of post human landscape and humans, the environmental and cultural perspective. Her research and fieldwork on remote locations as radioactive sites is translated in film, photography, installations and objects. In addition to her artistic practice, she undertakes various curatorial activities, provides lectures at different academies and is founder of the Gueststudios in DCR, The Hague and co-founder of WondersonWork.
In her art-practice she visualises the concept of safety, safety related to vulnerable situations in a personal and in a broader intercultural context. It reveals the importance of understanding safety in a way that takes into account both vulnerability and resilience.
'Vulnerability. For Tineke van Veen this is a keyword. Her work is always balanced on the boundary between harm and preservation, safety or disaster, aggression or consolation.' Els Fiers
Her latest work concerns the disturbed relationship between humans and the environment. The film- and photo-projects 'Aware' (Fukushima, Japan, 2014) and 'Unsettling Dust' (Fort de Vaujours, France, 2016-2021) wishes to focus on the intimate and the sense of alienation of the nuclear contaminated landscape. The projects wish to explore the lived, bodily experience of radiation and question what it means to live with the threat of invisible contagion today. By providing reflections on place and subjectivity, it point to larger phenomena that underlie visible landscapes as well as stimulate discussion on how to acknowledge and responsibly address the consequences of the nuclear age.