Biography
Noor Nuyten's practice expands upon the tradition of conceptual art through a distinctive focus on sustainability, material experimentation and collaboration. Her works engages with the rationally structured systems that shape our daily lives, such as time, language, units of measurement and digital interaction, giving them poetic and tangible shapes. Materials lie at the core of her practice: she rethinks matter through the lens of sustainability, generating alternatives to the linear economy. Her practice is rooted in sustainable collaboration, tying in with traditions that resist the myth of the solitary genius. Each artwork is a constellation of voices, co-produced with clockmakers, engineers, 3D printers, ecologists and activists, and embodied by the signature 'NN+'.
Born in Groningen in 1986, Nuyten lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied at Academie Minerva in Groningen and Malmö Art Academy, completed the postgraduate programme at HISK in Ghent and was a guest resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her work has been shown at institutions including TENT in Rotterdam, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, Kunsthalle Münster and Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg. It is held in collections including Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Museum CODA in Apeldoorn, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem, the collection of the Government of the Netherlands and the NN Art Collection. In 2025 she published her first monograph, Digital Dust and Other Stories, with writer and curator Marian Cousijn.