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Projectspace on the Inside, Amsterdam, Transit, April 18–August 9, 2026 [scroll right →]
Installation of 24 panels suspended from the ceiling of the exhibition space. Image credits: Peter Tijhuis.

Nooit Meer Slapen, VPRO, radio interview / podcast, May 20, 2026 [scroll right →]
Natascha Libbert in conversation with Femke van der Laan.

Galerie LUMC, Leiden, group exhibition, October 23, 2025–January 23, 2026 [scroll right →]
The exhibition ‘Resilience’ in Galerie LUMC shows works by seven artists on resilience in times of setbacks and disaster. Participating artists Martin en Inge Riebeek, Saar Scheerlings, Lou-Lou van Staaveren, Henk Wildschut and Natascha Libbert.

Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future (group show Amsterdam Museum) [scroll right →]

Interview Mister Motley's Kunst is Lang (Dutch), 2025 [scroll right →]

Amsterdam Museum, Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future, July 11–November 30, 2025 [scroll right →]

For Refresh Amsterdam #3: Imagine the Future, the Amsterdam Museum has commissioned 15 leading artists to show work on urgent themes that affect our common future. Participating artists: Frank Ammerlaan, Sebastián Díaz Morales, Ivna Esajas, Koen Hauser, Raquel van Haver, Ischa Kempka, Minne Kersten, Brigitte Louter, Fiona Lutjenhuis, Afagh Morrowatian & Roshanak Morrowatian, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Patricia Werneck Ribas, Don Yaw Kwaning & Maurits de Bruijn, 4Siblings Collective, Natascha Libbert. Curator Nina Folkersma.

Vernacular design, salt extraction at Lake Katwe, Uganda, 2025 [scroll right →]

Kiln-fired (burnt) clay bricks for housing purposes in Uganda, 2024–2025 [scroll right →]

Endemic Time, June 27–September 13, 2024 [scroll right →]

I was intrigued by reports of the active volcano that gripped the island La Palma in 2021. I went there and watched the volcano spew its magma every day, continuously and noisily, covering the landscape and remnants of life forever. The continuitiy and sound surprised me, as did the earthquakes at night. A new surface was created and whilst the hardened lava is like a grey deathly dark sarcophogus over what was there previously, other parts of the island where this has happened previously display the most beautiful endemic plantlife. Seedlings of endemic plants nestle in the porous lava. It struck me as an earthly act that not only transcends man's dominance but also human perception of time. In an era in which man shapes the surface of the earth to his own will, the realization that the earth sets its own pace was a comforting thought. Amidst destruction and life, it suggests our insignificance.

Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, UNSEEN 2024 [scroll right →]
Plantation Ground, 2022. Inkjet print on Canson Baryta, framed under glass, 50 × 70 cm

Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, UNSEEN 2024 [scroll right →]
Droplet, 2022. Inkjet print on Canson Baryta, framed under glass, 32.5 × 48 cm

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Ik, de ander & de aarde, permanent collection installation view [scroll right →]

Galerie LUMC, Leiden, LUMC Art Collection, July 11–October 27, 2024
Lily’s Water, 2019. Inkjet print, framed under glass, 100 × 140 cm

My studio garden, 2022 [scroll right →]

Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, solo exhibition Japanse Oesters / Japanese Oysters, 2021
Japanese Oysters is a presentation about exotics transported by (industrial) globalism as they form in their new habitat.

De Correspondent, publication Het onzichtbare leven op een vrachtschip (Dutch), 2021 [scroll right →]

38CC, Delft, Trace on Trace, November 15, 2020–April 11, 2021 [scroll right →]

Participating artists: Ricardo van Eyk, Cao Guimarães, and Natascha Libbert

CODA, Apeldoorn, Inside the Outside, May 1–September 25, 2022 [scroll right →]

Participating artists: Betweentwohands, melanie bonajo, Lex ter Braak, Eelco Brand, Elspeth Diederix, Alexandra Hunts, Ellen Kooi, Anouk Kruithof, Jan Robert Leegte, Natascha Libbert, Awoiska van der Molen, Erwin Olaf, Daan Paans, Jaap Scheeren, Richard Tepe, and Jacquie Maria Wessels

Ontmoetingen bij de Wilg, with Birthe Leemeijer, IJsselbiënnale 2020 [scroll right →]

“Zand is het fundament van onze steden, maar de winning ervan verwoest de natuur. Dit project laat zien hoe het anders kan”, De Correspondent, 2020 [scroll right →]
Text by Jan van Poppel (Dutch)

Cargo in Context, Amsterdam, Home, 2019. Inkjet print on rice paper
A makeshift home belonging to a worker living and working in the agricultural industry in Almería, Spain, a region also known as the Mar de Plástico.

Cargo in Context, Amsterdam, solo exhibition Undermined, June 15–July 27, 2019 [scroll right →]
Libbert's work is characterized by presumably innocent places and landscapes, in which she exposes the traces left by man due to global industrialism. For Cargo she developed the Undermined project.

I Went Looking for a Ship, book, selected for The Best Dutch Book Designs 2018 [scroll right →]

The thirty-three Best Dutch Book Designs 2018 have been announced. A total of 295 entries were assessed for their distinctive qualities by a panel of experts looking for outstanding work in such areas as content, design, picture editing, typography, choice of materials, printing and binding. Design by Michaël Snitker. Order at The Eriskay Connection or buy at your local bookstore.

The thirty-three books selected can be admired in an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam to be held in the autumn, coinciding with the publication of this year’s catalogue.

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