Jason Hendrik Hansma

Jason Hendrik Hansma (b. 1988) works across film, sound, and installation. Drawing on theories of the pre-linguistic, the liminal, and the slur, his work is formed at the threshold of articulation, where recognition precedes naming. Hansma develops his work through long-term research periods that bring together archival material and memory, philosophy, aesthetics, language, philology and digital culture. Working with small interdisciplinary teams, he will develop a body of formal systems that unfold across film, spatial installations, and multi-channel sound environments. These works circulate across, museums, galleries, festivals and clubs, taking the form of touring and reconfigurable spatial systems that maintain their structure across contexts. These formats stabilise across exhibition and collection contexts, bringing diverse audiences into shared conditions of attention and perception, within structures that enable collective experience without prescribing meaning, where meaning is approached through rhythm, repetition, and attunement rather than definition. His work has been presented at the Grand Palais, UNESCO, Bauhaus Dessau, Eye Filmmuseum, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, and has been featured in publications including Artforum, Frieze, V ogue, and NSS Magazine. Hansma is co-director of Shimmer, an international curatorial platform and production infrastructure developed with curator Eloise Sweetman. Operating as both a programme and a long-term cultural infrastructure within contemporary art, Shimmer produces exhibitions, commissions, and public programmes that foreground encounter, transmission, and sustained forms of public life. It operates as a network for collaboration, distribution, and audience development, and has realised projects with over 220 artists, including Ellen Gallagher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Lawrence Weiner. Hansma regularly writes on the ethics and methodology of curating from the perspective of an artist, and also works regularly as a cultural advisor. Alongside his artistic practice, he has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the University of Amsterdam, and currently serves as an advisor to the Mondriaan Fonds. He lives and works in Berlin and Rotterdam.