Sjors Hoogerdijk
Artist, curator, researcher based in Helsinki, Finland (originally from The Netherlands)
Date of residency: April — May 2025
*1987, Netherlands
Artist, curator, researcher based in Helsinki, Finland (originally from The Netherlands)
Date of residency: April — May 2025
www.sjorshoogerdijk.com
https://www.instagram.com/sjorshoogerdijk/
Sjors Hoogerdijk is a cross-media artist based in Helsinki, with a BA from Minerva NL and a MFA in Time and space art from the University of the Arts Helsinki FI, with works that have been exhibited in shows in Finland, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands and Germany. Specialising in sound and installation art and with a research focus on the language of interaction and narratives. With an affection for sound and the design of electronics, hand building audio and interactive installations. The work uses issues of the day to day to give context to bigger subjects of our age. Re-contextualising a narrative and identity to give light on the self and their surroundings. With an approach that stands back and reviews the conceptual ideas in artworks- trying to reshape what art can be for an audience and how it should work for you. Using the work as a pedagogic tool, something for the viewer to transpose or emulate into their daily practice by mediating their look on situations and objects.
The goal of the residency:
During his E75 Art Bus residency at Malý Berlín, Sjors is developing Modulating Histories – an interactive sound installation that reflects on how we shape and reinterpret the past. The work invites audiences to rearrange and remix sound loops, gradually changing the soundscape and its logic. On the E75 Art Bus journey that will follow the residency in 2026, Modulating Histories will be presented in a mobile form, encouraging visitors to question how memory works – what we hold onto, what we forget, and how we retell our stories. The piece listens back, responds to interaction (or silence), and constantly reshapes itself based on the audience’s actions.