PUBLIC TALK CARLIJN KINGMA

In November 2016 Kingma graduated from Delft University of Technology at the faculty of Architecture. But although Kingma felt highly attracted to the architectural practice, she chose to be an architect in an alternative way. Behind my drawing table, Kingma creates worlds in order to understand the world around us. Drawings that reflect on the complex structures of our societies. The drawings and stories map the social, political and power structures around us, readable through the metaphorical language of architecture. The worlds become alternative maps to navigate our society.

Carlijn Kingma (Zutphen, 1991) is a cartographer of society. In collaboration with researchers and journalists she maps the invisible power structures and institutional lay-outs that steer our society. In 2017, her work was honored with the New Babylon Award, and displayed in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. In 2018, Kingma won the Architecture Drawing Prize, in the category hand-drawing. As a result, she got to exhibit her work in the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, amidst work of her heroes, architect Piranesi, and architect and artist Joseph Gandy. Furthermore, her work was exhibited at the Kunstmuseum The Hague, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Museum Flehite and Lowlands Festival. Her recent projects are published at Dutch news outlets De Correspondent and Follow the money. Her most recent work, The Waterworks of Money, made in collaboration with Thomas Bollen, Martijn Jeroen van der Linden and Follow the Money, was exhibited at the Kunstmuseum The Hague in April 2023, the Venice Biennial of 2023 and Boijmans Depot in the spring of 2024.