ABOUT
ABOUT
Rebekka Bank (1998, Denmark) is an artist, designer and chef based in Amsterdam. Driven by a multidisciplinary approach she bridges visual art, speculative design, creative writing, and culinary arts into an ever-changing creative mixture. As a maker her language is poetic, meticulous and often expressed through detailed objects and mixed media installations.
Her practice revolves around the alienation of natural landscapes, posing questions to a dominating narrative where ecosystems are commodified, restrained and exploited.
As someone who grew up in one of the most cultivated counties in Europe, and now situated in the Netherlands, being the country with the most man-made land, her interest in human-altered landscapes have long influenced her practice. Her work seeks to investigate the invisible infrastructures and forgotten histories embedded in these hybrid ecologies.
Another guiding principle for her work is to rethink the role of the artist. She often engages in collaborative projects, working with other artists, designers, chefs, farmers, creative venues, as well as specific landscapes and their non-human actors. She defines herself not only as an artist, but as a facilitator and mediator of a collective framework developed through encounters.
Next to her individual practice, she is a part of the collaborative project MIST together with Tomás Ornaghi
rebekkabank@gmail.com
IG: @rebekkabank
Her practice revolves around the alienation of natural landscapes, posing questions to a dominating narrative where ecosystems are commodified, restrained and exploited. As someone who grew up in one of the most cultivated counties in Europe, and now situated in the Netherlands, being the country with the most man-made land, her interest in human-altered landscapes have long influenced her practice. Her work seeks to investigate the invisible infrastructures and forgotten histories embedded in these hybrid ecologies.
Another guiding principle for her work is to rethink the role of the artist. She often engages in collaborative projects, working with other artists, designers, chefs, farmers, creative venues, as well as specific landscapes and their non-human actors. She defines herself not only as an artist, but as a facilitator and mediator of a collective framework developed through encounters.
Next to her individual practice, she is a part of the collaborative project MIST together with Tomás Ornaghi
CV
EDUCATION
(2020 – 2023)
BA in Art & Design, DesignLab
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
(2019 – 2020)
Basicyear
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
(2018)
Preparatory Art Course
Kunsthøjskolen, Holbæk, DK
ADDITIONAL COURSES
(2021)
Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC)
(2021 - 2022)
ART and RESEARCH, Honors Programme,
Rietveld-UvA Certificate
INTERNSHIPS
(2022)
Intern at artist collective de Onkruidenier
COOKING EXPERIENCE
2025 - 2026: chef at Testtafel, Mediamatic
2025 - 2026: supporting cook for Lacuna Kitchen
2024 - 2025: Cook at Restaurant V12
2022 - 2024: Chef and recipe developer at TestTafel/De Sering
2021 - 2022: Kitchen and workshop assistant at Baking Lab
EXHIBITIONS:
2026: Sound of Soil / Lyden af Jord
Group Exhibition at Havhuset, Vesteraas
Ærø, DK
2026: So-n-so
Group Exhibition at Treehouse NDSM,
Amsterdam NL
2025: All You Can Eat
Group Exhibition at Endhoven Central Station for Dutch Design Week
2025: Gathering Ground, Gathering Grain
Exhibition at Buurtwerkplaats Noorderhof, Amsterdam, NL
(curator, organizer and participation artist)
2025: De Sering x Amsterdam Art Week
Group Exhibition at De Sering, Amsterdam, NL
2025: Dinner is Served
Group Exhibition for Design Biennale Rotterdam 2025, Schiedam, NL
2024: PAiR: Open Studios
Group Exhibition at PAiR Residency, Pavilosta, LV
2024: Curious about... The Symbioscene,
Group exhibition at A Lab, Amsterdam, NL
2023: scraps, crumbs, bits, sprouts, seeds, shells, rocks, thoughts,
Graduation exhibition for Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show,
Amsterdam, NL
2022: Sludge Sanctuary,
Group Exhibition at RWZI Water treatment plant, Amstelveen, NL
2022: (...) unmoored and adrift and alive,
Collective writing group and finissage at ‘If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution’, Amsterdam, NL
2022: MURMURS, Group Exhibition for ART and RESEARCH at Zone2Source, Amsterdam, NL
2021: SPAM
Group Exhibition at De Bouwput, Amsterdam, NL
2021: Source?
Group Exhibition at NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL
2021: THRILLBOUW, Group Exhibition at De Bouwput, Amsterdam, NL
CULINARY PERFORMANCES:
2025: Living Mulch (food installation for the opening of ‘Processed Memories of Adaptations’)
WiLL!E Creative Space, Zaandam
2025: Forgotten Gardens
Conceptual Dinner event at Makerspace CONTACT, Amsterdam, NL
2023: Still Feast,
Conceptual dinner in collaboration with bisbis for Museumnacht
at No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2023: A Secret Dinner,
Conceptual dinner event in collaboration with bisbis and Unknowsdinners
Amsterdam, NL
2022: ( the silent kitchen ),
Inatallation and food performance for Museumnacht at Brakke Grond,
Amsterdam, NL
PUBLICATIONS / WRITINGS:
2023:‘ all forgotten things (and the sound of a quintillion tiny shivering leaves)’, thesis presented at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show
2022: ‘MURMURS’, Group Publication for ART and RESEARCH
NOMINATIONS:
Selected for Rietveld Review(ed) 2023, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Shortlisted for Dd Yearbook ‘23, BNO
RESIDENCIES:
June 2024: PAiR Residency, Pāvilosta, LV
TEACHING/WORKSHOPS:
2025: We’re Simmering
3-day course for the MA Students from iRAP at Minerva Art Academy,
at BAK Basecamp, Utrecht, NL
2023: ROOT-TO-STEM,
creative cooking workshop in collaboration with bisbis
at Robin Food, Amsterdam, NL