Harm van den Dorpel

Harm van den Dorpel’s art focuses on emergent systems and the role technology plays in their development and meaning. Engaging with diverse materials and forms, including works on paper, sculpture, computer-generated graphics, and software, van den Dorpel’s works are continuously evolving. Working within and beyond the lineage of "net art", a core aspect of van den Dorpel’s practice is software development that addresses specific approaches to artificial intelligence. With immense skill and craftsmanship, he builds advanced systems that draw on intuition and subliminal processes of the mind in order to continually output unexpected and curious aesthetic forms that embody a feeling of subconscious computation.

“SUMMER: SUR REAL REAL” explores summer as a condition suspended between physical intensity and media-shaped perception. Heat, light, and the stretching of time collide with algorithmic image worlds, artificial bodies, and fragmented identities. The exhibition brings together works by Harm van den Dorpel, Louisa Clement, Charlie Stein, Melanie Siegel, Matthias Bitzer, and Janina Roider that do not depict reality, but displace it—toward a state in which the real itself begins to appear unreal.

At the center of the exhibition lies the question: how does perception change when digital logics, artificial intelligence, and social media overlay our sensory experience? Summer becomes a metaphorical space of resonance—overexposed, exaggerated, almost hallucinatory.

Harm van den Dorpel

SUMMER: SUR REAL REAL

Vera Molnar and Harm Van Den Dorpel - 1% of Disorder

Harm van den Dorpel and Vera Molnár - ANGLES MORTS

Exhibition

Podcast "Verse Talks"

Podcast "Verse Talks"

Exhibition

Press

Interview

Interview

White Wall

Press

Press - It's Nice That

Art Forum

Harm van den Dorpel reads N. Katherine Hayles

Clara Runge and Harm van den Dorpel

Harm van den Dorpel, Dr. Annette Doms and Hanns Lennart Wiesner

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