Nabuurs&VanDoorn’s works arise between unannounced performances and archival projections, stretched videos and blackened exformation, architectural installations and theatrical settings, formal paintings and situationist mapmaking, instant photography, and invisible edges. They produce large-scale multidisciplinary projects, and the production of their work often requires the collaboration of several participants; passers-by, audiences, and professionals. Experimenting the mechanisms of artistic research and the dramatic impulses of adventure, Nabuurs&VanDoorn succeed in transposing self-reflection out of melancholic actions and in revealing belief-systems on which our perception of reality relies.
Nabuurs&vanDoorn are Dutch artists and artistic researchers based in Eindhoven. Since 2021 they are fellows at Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg, as experts artistic research. In Delinking/Relinking in the collection of the Van Abbemuseum (2021-2026) they present the second part of their Zwischenlandschaften series- Freeland (2017- ongoing) They were artist in residence at Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam, 2025. Van Gogh House, Zundert, 2022. Viafarini, Milan, 2019. Boghossian Foundation Brussels, 2018. Stichting K.i.K – Basiskamp Entre Nous, Frederiksoord, Netherlands, 2017. Łaźnia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk 2014, Embassy Gallery Edinburgh, 2011. Likovni Salon, Celje, 2009 and De Cacaofabriek, Helmond, 2009. Their work was featured in exhibitions at veneus including Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, 2024, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven 2008/2011/ 2018/2022; Address Unknown, Milan, 2021, Museum for Modern Art, St. Petersburg, 2019. Villa Empain Brussels, 2018, dOCUMENTA14, Kassel,2017; 12 Hay Hill, London 20014; Onomatopee Eindhoven, 2012; The Forgotten Bar PROJECT, Berlin, 2010; New Museum, New York 2008 and FILTER Hamburg 2006. Nabuurs&VanDoorn were nominated for the Follow Fluxus grant in 2008 and 2020.