Johan Rijpma (1984) is a visual artist based in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in his work he forms creative collaborations with often simple subjects from his daily surroundings in an experimental and playful way. Within his systematic and analytic procedures he reflects on the relationship between his own presumed control and the unpredictability of everyday life. Video, animation and photography are primarily the means by which he creates and captures unusual, seemingly simple but often meticulous processes. Johan studied Image and Media Technology at the Utrecht School of Arts and his work has received multiple awards and is internationally screened and exhibited.

 

Awards

2021 – Apr Impakt Festival – Winner of the Virtual Battle, Bal Masque, Utrecht, Netherlands
2019 – Feb Nonplussed Fest – Best Experimental Short, Los Angeles, USA > Extrapolate
2017 – Dec Vimeo – Best of the Year 2017, Staff Picks > Extrapolate
2017 – Dec GIRAF 13 – Hororable Mention, Best Use of Line Graph, Calgary, Canada > Extrapolate
2017 – Oct Animation for Art Lovers Award – KLIK Animation Festival, Netherlands > Extrapolate
2015 – May Prix Ars Electronica – Honorary Mention (Computer Animation/Film/VFX) > Descent
2014 – Mar The Barbara Aronofsky Latham Award for Emerging Experimental Video Artist > Division
2014 – Jan 2 Minute Short Award – Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany > Division
2013 – Sep Incubate Film Award 2013, Tilburg, Netherlands > Division
2013 – Apr Honorific Award Timishort IFF – Timishort IFF, Timisoara, Roemenia > Tape Generations
2013 – Mar Videoformes – Le Coup de Coeur ARTE CREATIVE, Cleremont Ferrand, France > Division
2013 – Mar Disposable Film Festival – Special Experimental Award, San Fransico, USA >
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2012 – Sep Split Film Festival – Special Award, Split, Croatia > Tape Generations
2011 – Dec HKU Award 2011 Jury Award, Utrecht, Netherlands > Tape Generations
2011 – Dec HKU Award 2011 Audience Award, Utrecht, Netherlands > Tape Generations
2011 – Nov Brasil Stopmotion 2011 “Best Sound Design”, Pernambuco, Brasil > Tape Generations
2009 – Feb Best of HKU (Mediale) Jury Award, Hilversum/Utrecht, Netherlands > Groeien

 

Exhibitions

2021 – Jan 19 Out of the Window, Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan > Group Exhibition
2020 – Jan 22 Gravity Waves, MIR Project, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Wageningen, Netherlands > Solo Exhibition
2019 – Nov 30 Self-Publish or be Damned, AG Ruimte voor nieuwe kunst en media (Academiegalerie), Utrecht, Netherlands > Group Exhibition
2019 – Jun 14 Drawing Triennale, Wrocław, Poland > Extrapolate > Group Exhibition
2019 – Apr 07 The Edge of the Center, Kunstenlab, Deventer, Netherlands > Grouped Solo Exhibition
2019 – Mar 31 Tweetakt Festival, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, Netherlands > Group Exhibition, Sjen Sjen
2018 – Sep Salon ’18, Museum Flehite, Amersfoort, Netherlands > Group Exhibition
2018 – Sep De Line Up – Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands > Group Exhibition, Extrapolate
2018 – Jun 21st Japan Media Art Festival Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan> Group Exhibition, Extrapolate
2017 – Sep Physical Predictions, Langhuis, Zwolle, Netherlands > Solo Exhibition
2017 – Sep Grenzenloos Kunst Verkennen, IJhorst, Netherlands > Elastic Recurrence & The Twelve Eleven Break
2017 – Aug Utrecht Down Under, Utrecht, Netherlands > Group Exhibition, Elastic Recurrence
2017 – Jun Meta Matter – Solyanka State Gallery (with e.g. Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Wouter Venema and Fons Schiedon), Moscow, Russia
2017 – Feb Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands > Elastic Recurrence & The Twelve Eleven Break
2016 – Oct Thinking Sense, Witteveen Visual Art Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Descent
2016 – Feb Statenlokaal Tweede Kamer, The Hague, Netherlands > Descent, Refreshment, Primary Expansion, Division, Tape Generations

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Screenings / ● Nominations

2021 – Mar 23 Kaboom Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Extrapolate
2019 – Sept 10 Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt > Elastic Recurrence
2019 – Mar 13 22th Recontres Traverse Video, Toulouse, France > Elastic Recurrence
2018 – Oct 13 International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Greece, Cypres > Elastic Recurrence
2018 – Sept 21 K.F. Hein Fonds, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
● Nomination K.F. Hein Stipendium 2018
2018 – Apr 07 The Webby Awards, New York, USA > Extrapolate
● Nomination Online Film & Video / Animation Webby Award
2018 – Jan 25 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands > Elastic Recurrence
2017 – Nov 15 34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany > Extrapolate
2017 – Nov 02 26th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, USA > Extrapolate
● Selection Narrative Shorts Competition
2017 – Nov 02 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Chitose, Japan> Extrapolate, Elastic Recurrence
● Selection International Competition
2017 – Oct 21 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Los Angeles, USA > Extrapolate
2017 – Oct 14 International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2017, Cyprus, Turkey > Extrapolate
● Selection International Competition
2017 – Oct 06 Animatou Festival International du Film d’Animation, Geneva, Switzerland > Extrapolate
● Selection International Competition for Best Experimental Short
2017 – Sep 24 17th Lille International Short Film Festival, Lille, France > Extrapolate
● Selection International films Competition
2017 – Sep 20 37th Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands > Extrapolate
● Selection L’OR Gouden Kalf Competitie
2017 – Jun 30 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic > Extrapolate
2017 – Jun 01 VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Vienna, Austria > Extrapolate
● Selection Animation Avant Garde Competition
2017 – Apr 28 Cracking The Frame – Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands > Division
2017 – Apr 05 Go Short International Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands > Extrapolate
● Selection European Competition
2017 – Mar 22 Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands > Extrapolate
● Selection International Animation Competition 2017
● Nomination Grand Prix Dutch Animation 2017
2017 – Mar 14 19th MECAL Pro – Int. Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain > Extrapolate
● Selection Animation Competition 2017
2017 – Mar 04 Imagine Science Abu Dhabi – INTERIOR/EXTERIOR program, Abu Dhabi > Extrapolate
2017 – Jan 25 46th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands > Extrapolate
2017 – Jan 18 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany > Extrapolate
● Selection Short Film Competition Stuttgarter Filmwinter
2016 – Jun 24 Indefinite Visions Symposium – Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK > Primary Expansion
2016 – Apr 19 Flatpack Film Festival, Berningham, UK > Descent
● Nomination Short Film Competition
2014 – Nov 11 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Chicago, USA > Descent

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Talks / Presentations / Workshops

2021 – Jul 11 Presentation – IMPAKT / Setup: Makers Meet & Eat, RAUM, Utrecht, Netherlands
2018 – Sep 04 Presentation – University of the Arts Utrecht, Animation Research (with i.e. Michael Dudok de Wit) Utrecht, Netherlands
2018 – Jun 23 Talk – Manifest: Animation Show and Tell, Den Haag, Netherlands
2018 – Apr 13 Presentation – FLATPACK Festival no.12, Birmingham, England
2018 – Mrt 13 Talk – EYE’s Selected Artists’ Moving Image, Amsterdam, Eye Film Museum, Netherlands
2018 – Feb 01 Presentation – Centraal Museum Utrecht, Art Meat #5 , Utrecht, Netherlands
2017 – Jul 05 Talk, Workshop – Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 – Mar 25 Talk – “Heartstrings” – Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands
2017 – Feb 11 Talk – “Patty Morgan – Boardroom Meeting” – Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2016 – Oct 28 Presentation “International Computer Art Forum” – Computer Space 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 – Jun 25 Workshop “De Kunst van Kijken en Zien” (with i.e. Hans Aarsman, Roy Villevoye, Jan Rothuizen en Lernert & Sander, Radboud UMC), Nijmegen / Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 – Feb 20 Presentation – Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2015 – Dec 01 Talk – “The LIMA Collection 2015” – LIMA Media Art Platform, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 – Nov 11 Presentation, Screening “Cinetoko” – Korzo Theater, The Hague, Netherlands
2015 – Oct 30 Workshop – Animation, Ink Workshop “KLIK!” (with Carola Rombouts), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 – May 08 Round Table Discussion “Art, Science & Nature” (with Robert Seidel, Steven Woloshen) – Punto y Raya Academy 2015, Madrid, Spain
2012 – Oct 28 Presentation – Panorama Nights Event “Rigid Regimes” – Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Collections / Distribution

Centraal Museum, Utrecht
Eye Film / Distribution / Documentation / Festival Collection, Amsterdam
LIMA Media Art Collection, Amsterdam
Minds Eye – Andaz, Amsterdam
Het Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Hilversum
Radboud Universiteit / UMC Kunst Collectie

 

Articles / Broadcasts / Reviews / Publications

2020 – Nov Online Publication / Edge of Frame > Interview with Edwin Rostron
2019 – Nov Self-Published Zine / Look and Say What You See on the Seat> Anderszine
2018 – Oct Online Publication / Metropolism > De line Up / Extrapolate
2018 – Oct Online Publication / Algemeen Dagblad > De Line Up / Extrapolate
2017 – Oct Online Publication / Metropolism > Eye Film Selectie / Elastic Recurrence
2017 – Jun Online Publication / Interview Directors Notes > Extrapolate
2017 – Jun Online Publication / Interview Labocine > Imagine Science
2017 – Jun Online Publication / Interview Art Forever > Het Proces
2017 – Apr Online Publication / Wired / Motionographer / Cartoon Brew / Creators Projects > Extrapolate
2017 – Mar Online Publication / In 4 Art > Elastic Recurrence / Art Rotterdam
2016 – Oct Print / Volkskrant / Jeanne Prisser > Presentation Impression with Charles Donker
2016 – May Online Publication / NRC> Betere diagnoses stellen door naar kunst te kijken
2015 – Jul Online Publication / LI-MA, In Focus: Johan Rijpma
2015 – Jul Online Publication / Kunst Blijft Een Raadsel > Condition Humaine
2015 – May Online Publication / Mister Motley > Exhibition Tweetakt / Ruigenhoek
2015 – Apr Online Publication / VBCN – Vereniging Bedrijfs Collecties Nederland
2015 – Apr Online Publication / Lucy in de Lucht > Exhibition Tweetakt / Ruigenhoek
2015 – Sep Online Publication / Monschouwer Editions > Plakband Papier Water en Klei
2014 – Jun Selected Works DVD – Ann Arbor Film Festival Collection #7 > Division
2014 – Apr Online Publication / Colossal / Animated Review / The Curious Brain > Refreshment
2012 – Aug Book / Film Art: An Introduction 10th edition, David Bordwell And Kristin Thompson > Tape Generations

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Education

2010/2011 HKU – Master of Arts in Design for Digital Cultures
Hilversum, Netherlands (Open University of Milton Keynes, England)
2009/2010 Internship: Luna Maurer & Conditional Design
2007/2011 HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht)
Image and Media Technology – Hilversum, Netherlands
2005/2006 Deltion College – Art Media and Design
Multimedia Design – Zwolle, Netherlands
2001/2005 Deltion College – Art Media and Design
Graphic Design – Zwolle, Netherlands

 

Grants / Residencies

2019/2020 MIR Residency at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, Wageningen
2017 New Screen NL, Afwerkingsbijdrage, The Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands, Amsterdam
2016 Animation Artist In Residence, JAPIC, Tokio, Japan
2016 Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Other Activities

2021/present Teaching – AMFI, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
2020/2021 Teaching – Stichting Kunstzinnige Vorming (KUVO), Minkema College, Woerden, Netherlands
2020 Jury Member, Dutch Competition & International Student Competition, Go Short, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2020 Mobile Choreography, Cinedans Fest ’20, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Jury Member, Vimeo Best of the Year Award, New York, USA
2018 Researcher, Creative Practices, “Maakprocessen” – University of the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands
2017/2019 Guest Teacher – Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands
2017 Co-Curator – Solyanka State Galery “New Japan” Exhibition, Moscow, Russia
2017 Jury Member – Nederlands Film Festival – Tuschinski Award, Amsterdam / Utrecht, Netherlands
2016/present Co-Curator – Tweetakt Festival / Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, Netherlands
2016 Advisor – Stimulerings Fonds (TAX- videoclipsfonds), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Curator – Music Video Program, KFP, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Jury Member – Stuttgarter Filmwinter, 2 min. Shorts Award, Stuttgart, Germany
2014/2016 Advisor – Dutch Media Fund (Dept. TAX- videoclipfonds), Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Guest Teacher – HKU / Art Media & Technology, Hilversum, Netherlands
2012 Guest Teacher – Tampere Art Factory, Tampere, Finland

 

Filmography

2017 – Feb Elastic Recurrence
2016 – Sept Extrapolate
2014 – Apr Descent
2014 – Feb Refreshment
2012 – May Division
2012 – Dec Primary Expansion
2011 – Sep Tape Generations
2010 – Feb 8 Frame Grid
2009 – Jul Tegels (Tiles)
2009 – May Nachtloop
2009 – Apr Wachtmelodie
2009 – Mar Groeien (Grow)