About Us

Nabuurs&VanDoorn are a Dutch artist duo based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Through performances, films, photography, maps, scores, installations and spatial interventions, they construct artistic systems that explore how reality is produced, experienced and transformed. Working with existing places, archives, images and social structures, they intervene in the ways histories are shaped and narratives are formed. Their works do not simply document the world; they reorganize the conditions through which it becomes visible.

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At the core of their practice are performative cartographies, protocols and soft infrastructures—temporary structures that connect bodies, places and forms of knowledge. Moving between fact and fiction, research and imagination, individual experience and collective memory, Nabuurs&VanDoorn create works that challenge fixed perspectives and open new ways of navigating contemporary reality. Each project takes a distinct form, from film and photographic series to performances, scores and spatial constructions, while remaining part of an ongoing investigation into how we relate to the world around us.

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Their work has been presented internationally at venues including Powerlong Art Center, Xiamen (2026); Sainsbury Centre, Norwich (2025); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2008, 2011, 2018, 2022); Address Unknown, Milan (2021); Kropotkina 11, St. Petersburg (2019); Villa Empain, Brussels (2018); documenta 14, Kassel (2017); 12 Hay Hill, London (2014); Onomatopee, Eindhoven (2012); Forgotten Bar PROJECT, Berlin (2010); New Museum, New York (2008); and FILTER, Hamburg (2006).

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Recent and previous residencies include 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2026); Scope, Berlin (2025); Hangar, Lisbon (2025); Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam (2025); VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Milan (2019); Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (2018); Stichting K.i.K – Basiskamp Entre Nous, Frederiksoord (2017); Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (2014); Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2011); Likovni salon, Celje (2009); and De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (2009).

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Their work is held in collections including M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp; Kunstfonds Vincent van GoghHuis; Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; SWISScollections, Basel; Lucius and Annemarie Burckhardt Foundation, Basel; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Nabuurs&VanDoorn were nominated for the Follow Fluxus award in 2008 and 2020.