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![Another Deep]( "Another Deep")
infoA/V Performance at Rewire Festival, 2025, The Hague, NL © Kamiel Scholten
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![Another Deep]( "Another Deep")
infoA/V Installation at Multiplica Lab, 2025, Luxembourg, LU © Yves Conrady
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infoA/V Performance at Rewire Festival, 2025, The Hague, NL © Kamiel Scholten
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infoLive at The Grey Space in the Middle, 2024, The Hague, NL © Esmée de Vette
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infoLive at The Grey Space in the Middle, 2024, The Hague, NL © Esmée de Vette
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infoResidency at The Grey Space in the Middle, 2024, The Hague, NL © Jelger Schwarz
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![The Sun, My Father]( "The Sun, My Father")
infoInstallation view at CHRONIQUES Biennale, 2022, Aix-en-Provence, FR © Sébastien Robert
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infoInstallation view at CHRONIQUES Biennale 2022, Aix-en-Provence, FR © Sébastien Robert
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infoInstallation view at Biennale Son, 2025, Sion, CH © Annik Wetter
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infoInstallation view at Into The Great Wide Open, 2022, Vleland, NL © Myles Merckel
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infoInstallation view at Into The Great Wide Open, 2022, Vleland, NL © Myles Merckel
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infoInstallation view at Into The Great Wide Open, 2022, Vleland, NL © Myles Merckel
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![As Above, So Below]( "As Above, So Below")
infoLive at Le Guess Who? Festival, 2021, Utrecht, NL © Lisanne Lentink
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infoLive at Le Guess Who? Festival, 2021, Utrecht, NL © Lisanne Lentink
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infoInstallation view at KABK graduation show, 2020, The Hague, NL © Charlotte Brand
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infoInstallation view at KABK graduation show, 2020, The Hague, NL © Charlotte Brand
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infoInstallation view at KABK graduation show, 2020, The Hague, NL © Charlotte Brand
Sébastien Robert (b. 1993, Nantes, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of visual and sound art, technology, science, and ethnography. His projects mostly unfold within a long-term research cycle titled You’re no Bird of Paradise, through which he explores disappearing sonic rituals and cosmologies. Beyond simple documentation—but distinct from a formal ethnographic archiving approach—his work seeks to translate these immaterial resources into long-lasting, tangible artworks. These are shaped using materials that resonate with the traditions of the communities he encounters and the geo-specificities of the territories he explores. Through this practice, Sébastien aims to foster an engaged and evolving dialogue between non-Western epistemologies and contemporary technology—challenging dominant ways of perceiving the world and foregrounding its pluralistic, often overlooked, knowledge systems.
Websites
Website
sebastienrobert.nlSocial media
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2018 - 2020ArtScience (MA) Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2011 - 2017Entrepreneurship (M.B.A) ESDES School of Business and Management diploma
exhibitions
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2026Sonic Acts Biennial Het Documentaire Paviljoen Amsterdam, Netherlands Duo
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2025Multiplica Lab Rotondes Luxembourg, Luxembourg Group
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2025TEC ART Katoenhuis Rotterdam, Netherlands Group
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2025Biennale Son La Centrale Sion, Switzerland Solo
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2025More Than Human Light Art Musem Budapest, Hungary Group
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2024AfterLand Rezidența9 Bucharest, Romania Group
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2024Phantom Vision Light Art Musem Budapest, Hungary Group
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2024New Art on Screen The Grey Space in The Middle The Hague, Netherlands Group
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2024If Only We Could Master Miracles Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, Netherlands Group
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2024ZÉRØ1 Festival France Ⅰ - Musée Maritime La Rochelle, France Solo
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2024Dans La Nature Espace Multimédia Gantner Bourogne, France Group
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2023SSSSSSSST AG (HKU) Utrecht, Netherlands Group
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2023Green Art Lab Alliance festival UFRO Campus Pucón, Chile Group
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2023FIBER Festival - Fragments DOOR OPEN SPACE Amsterdam, Netherlands Group
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2023Obsoletely New! SIGN Groningen, Netherlands Group
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2023Superluminal Light Art Museum Budapest, Hungary Group
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2023Scopitone Festival ESBANM Nantes, France Duo
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2022Schemerlicht Festival Goffertpark Nijmegen, Netherlands Group
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2022Biennale Chroniques Bibliothèque Méjanes Aix-en-Provence, France Solo
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2022Nordlyst Festival Andenes Lighthouse Andøya, Norway Group
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2022Ayarkut - Terrestrial Voice Online Yakutsk, Russian Federation Group
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2022Changes on Northern Shores Arktikum Rovaniemi, Finland Group
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2022Into The Great Wide Open Oost-Vlieland Vlieland, Netherlands Group
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2022STRP Festival Pullman Hotel Eindhoven, Netherlands Group
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2021ZER0|1NE Festival Hansen House Jerusalem, Israel Group
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2021Intangible losses 5020 / fünfzigzwanzig Salzburg, Austria Group
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2021Transliminal (Uncloud Festival) Pieter Baan Centrum Utrecht, Netherlands Group
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2020ArtScience graduation show KABK The Hague, Netherlands Group
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2020Instability (FIBER Festival) Tolhuistuin Amsterdam, Netherlands Group
Projects
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022
- 2020
- 2019
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2018
The Forgotten Melodies of Pleng Arak Cambodia sebastienrobert.nl/The-Forgotten-Melodies-of-Pleng-Arak
- 2017
International exchanges/Residencies
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2025GMEM - National Center for Musical Creation of Marseille Marseille, France
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2025Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm, Sweden
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2024V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2024Willem Twee Studios Den Bosch, Netherlands
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2024Artica Longyearbyen, Norway
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2023Bergen Center for Electronic Arts - BEK Bergen, Norway
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2023The Arctic Circle Svalbard, Norway
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2023IMéRA x Mucem Marseille, France
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2021Arctic Wave Stave, Norway
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2020Into the Great wide open Vlieland, Netherlands
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2019Valley of the Possible Temuco, Chile
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2018WeTransfer Phnom Penh , Cambodia
Publications
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2021Emerging Threshold Vinyl/Lp Meakusma Eupen, Belgium
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2020Exploration or Appropriation? The position of contemporary sound artists towards Indigenous music Book The Hague, Netherlands
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2017Mydriasis Book Paris, France
reviews
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2025
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2025Sébastien Robert | Accordages #38 | BS2 Radio Arnaud Laporte open.spotify.com/episode/444AjeXM4hslkudEQTuq30?si=S6S4V1FMRKmdz2Fb8ClSsA&nd=1&dlsi=d7aed95b73ef4a8c
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2023Entretien avec Sébastien Robert, chercheur en résidence à l’Iméra (2022-23) TV Iméra www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joj984Oz6GE
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2023The Lights Which Can Be Heard, audible Northern Lights Magazine Neural neural.it/2023/11/the-lights-which-can-be-heard-audible-northern-lights/
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2022À Aix-en-Provence, tendre l’oreille vers les aurores boréales Radio Arnaud Laporte www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/affaire-a-suivre/a-aix-en-provence-tendre-l-oreille-vers-les-aurores-boreales-8771531
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2022Scientific research, cosmologies and human encounters to put into perspective a century-old debate Website obsolete.studio/blog/the-lights-which-can-be-heard/
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2021Mark IJzerman & Sébastien Robert on their collaboration, travel and cultural appropriation Website Lucia Udvardyova shapeplatform.eu/2021/mark-ijzerman-sebastien-robert-cultural-appropriation-is-something-we-both-take-very-seriously/
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2021Using art to study endangered indigenous rituals and music Blog/Vlog Régine Debatty we-make-money-not-art.com/using-art-to-study-endangered-indigenous-rituals-and-music/
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2021The formidable, ancient power of nature in conversation with the needlepoint behaviour of technology Blog/Vlog Oli Warwick www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2021/04/01/the-best-new-albums-this-week-3/
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2020In conversation: Mark IJzerman & Sébastien Robert Website Holly Dicker www.rewirefestival.nl/feature/mark-ijzerman-sebastien-roberts-as-above-so-below-in-conversation
Awards and grants
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2025Immerse\Interact Nederlands Filmfonds Amsterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2024Project Grant Amarte Fonds Amsterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2024Artistic Project Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2024Digital Culture Creative Industries Fund, NL Rotterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2023Talent Development Grant Creative Industries Fund, NL Rotterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2023Artistic Project Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2023Mobility Grant Culture Moves Europe Brussels, Belgium Granted
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2023Pro Onderzoek Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Granted
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2022Experiment Creative Industries Fund, NL Rotterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2022Residency abroad Creative Industries Fund, NL Rotterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2021Fonds [SCAN] Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Lyon, France Granted
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2021Pro Onderzoek Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Granted
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2021DICRéAM CNC Paris, France Granted
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2021Corona-overburgging Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, Netherlands Granted
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2021Face of We Are Europe We Are Europe Tromsø, Norway Selected
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2021ACT 1 AWARD STRP Eindhoven , Netherlands Granted
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2021Shape Artist 2021 - 2022 SHAPE Platform The Hague, Netherlands Selected
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2020ArtScience Department Award Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Finalist
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2020Royal Academy Master Award Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Winner
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2020Pro Onderzoek Stroom Den Haag The Hague, Netherlands Granted
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2016FR + SG Photographic Arts Award Alliance Française Singapore, Singapore Granted
Secondary art-related activities
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2021 - 2025Guest-teach - KABK On-going
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2020 - 2022Research Assistant - Studio Antimundo
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2019 - 2021Freelance Art Handler - Hizkia Van Kralingen
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2018 - 2018Curational Assistant - Mirage Creative+ (Dolus & Dolus)
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2017 - 2017Grant Assistant - STEP travel grants (European Cultural Foundation)
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2017 - 2019Supervisor - Museum Voorlinden (Stichting Voorlinden)
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2016 - 2016Production Assistant - European Lab Seoul (Arty Farty)
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2015 - 2020Project Manager - Field Records
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2015 - 2016Project Manager - Coded Matter(s) (FIBER Festival)
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2014 - 2014Project Assistant - TodaysArt Festival