Bente de Bruin

Bente de Bruin is an artist, educator and creative technologist based in Stockholm. Her practice developed from critical technology towards interaction design, ecology and more-than-human perspectives. Working across different media, she explores how humans perceive and relate to both the living an technological world around them. Her current work focuses on ecological relationships and processes that often remain unnoticed, and on ways of making these more perceptible.
Contact: bente_debruin@hotmail.com

Education
2025–2027
MSc Interactive Media Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
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2018–2019
Minor Computer Programming
University of Amsterdam
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2016–2020
Bachelor of Design, cum laude
St. Joost School of Art & Design
Specialisation in film, photography and digital art

Exhibitions
2026
NAVET Student Festival, Tekniska Museet, Stockholm - Sounds of the Soil
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2022
Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie, in collaboration with Mónica Alcázar-Duarte - Second Nature
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2022
Binnenstebuiten, Open House Exhibition, De Nieuwkomers, Chaam - Outdoor camera obscura

2020
Gogbot, Enschede - An Algorithms' Introduction in the White Cube
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2020
Graduation Show, St. Joost School of Art & Design - An Algorithms' Introduction in the White Cube

2020
Young Art Weekend, Singular Art Gallery, Nijmegen - An Algorithms' Introduction in the White Cube

2019
Anywhere but here, Oddstream, Lindenberg, Nijmegen - How Two Chairs Became One Couch

2019
Innovate Arnhem - How Two Chairs Became One Couch

2017
Zuiderwaterliniefestival, Breda - Over meisjes van 20 en bijna 20

Talks / public events
Book launch, TransArtists & DutchCulture, Amsterdam
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Label Party, De Waag, Amsterdam
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Tip Off #5 — Creating Artist Residencies, Melkweg, Amsterdam

Selected experience
2025–present
Teaching Assistant, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Teaching and supervising students in interaction design, UX and human-computer interaction.

2020–2024
Co-founder, De Nieuwkomers
Rural art collective focused on ecology, education, residencies and community-based artistic practice.

2020–2023
Freelance creative technologist / designer
Technical and creative support for artists and cultural projects, including web development, data processing and machine learning.

2022–2023
Education Coordinator & Project Manager, MU Hybrid Art House
Worked on creative coding education and project coordination.
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‍Full CV available on request.