CURRENT, UPCOMING
Duo show at Buitenstebinnen I Amsterdam house of Arts and Crafts I Last weekend of September, 2025
A world of Threads: tapestries of the modern age I MdbK, Leipzig, Germany I 11/12/2025 - 12/04/2026
De Kracht van de Vrachtwacht I Douane, Schiphol, in the permanent collection of the Dutch Governmental collection I Indefinite
MAKERSGEHEIMEN #4 I Textielmuseum, Tilburg I 14/6/2024 - 15/6/2026
PAST
18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference I Oslo, Norway I 24/05/25 - 27/05/25
Making Degrowth Art I Sagene Kunstsmie, Oslo, Norway I 24/05/2025 - 27/05/2025
Duo show at Kunsthall 3,14 I Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen, Norway I 09/05/2025 - 15/08/2025
MANIFESTA 15 Barcelona Metropolitana I Monastery of Sant Cugat, Sant Cugat del Vallès I 8/9/2024 - 15/11/2024
Dutch Design Week I Eindhoven I 19/10/2024 - 24/10/2024
1en1is1 I Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam I
Brandt New I Rutger Brandt Galerie, Amsterdam I
Best of Graduates I Galerie Ron Mandos
UNCUT - Refuge - fleeing, flowing, leaking I Stedelijk Museum
PUBLICATIONS / INTERVIEWS
Textielmuseum: ‘Joy and satire coexist in Fanja Bouts’ drawn universes‘
Galerie Ron Mandos: ‘Celebrating the New Design for Best of Graduates 2024: An Interview with Fanja Bouts’ Het Parool: ‘Film over haar, een peepshow en big bangs op de Gerrit Rietveld Graduation Show 2023‘ ‘
Illustratie Ambassade: ‘Afstudeerders 2023 Deel 1: Stof tot nadenken’
BNO: ‘Class of ’23: Gerrit Rietveld Academie’
Dd Yearbook: Published in the physical copy of ‘Dd, Dutch Designers Yearbook ’23-’24’
FCCENTRUM: ‘Blokje kunst: de beloftes van de kunstwereld in galerie Ron Mandos’ Metropolis M: ‘Graduation Shows 2023: Gerrit Rietveld Academie: Fanja Bouts (VAV - moving image)’
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
FD talenten 2025, Financieel Dagblad
Public choice award, Galerie Ron Mandos
Art battle award for best graduation project, Novio arte kunstuitleen Nijmegen
TALKS / PRESENTATIONS
Blauwe Draad I Invited as a guest on the lecture series ‘Blauwe Draad’, where each month a guest tells about their life. I was invited to talk about my art practice. Screening of film 'Time and Space' I Screening at AT5 and Nieuwe Anita to show my 12 minute animated short film ‘Time and Space’.
Museumgasten x Abakanowicz I Panel talk guest for the opening of ‘Everything is made of fibre’, in which we discussed the links between my practice and way of thinking and that of Magdalena Abakanowicz.
Èkó Electro I Guest on the podcast show Èkó Electro at Open Source Radio, in which every month a speaker is invited to talk about an environmental issue based on a track.
Guest on 'Dare to Hear' I Economic Imaginaries: A conversation with the artists Fanja Bouts and Jannecke Knudsen Heien