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Roelof Knol (NL) → Currents

19-24
  • 9 City center
  • Interactive installation

About project

Roelof Knol’s interactive installation unfolds across the entire gallery space, using projections and light walls to create a minimalist sensory landscape where light, sound, and movement merge into one harmonious whole. Currents invites visitors to set the static lines in motion–playfully reminding us that all our relationships contribute to a single interconnected world. The installation prompts reflection on how our actions, much like ocean currents, influence flows of energy and set them in motion. At a time when there is an urgent need to reassess our impact on the environment, this dynamic experience offers a possible path forward–a solution rooted in the search for more responsible ways of being.

The soundscape accompanying the installation was created by multimedia artist io ola lanko.

Artist

Roelof Knol is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. In his interactive installations, he plays with perception and challenges the audience’s assumptions about what is real. Drawing on a range of technologies, he uses minimalist aesthetics and simple geometry to create sophisticated visual scenes that transform physical space through light. By blurring the boundaries between physical reality and fiction, Knol invites viewers to rediscover their relationship to space, to one another, and to themselves in a playful and intuitive way.

io ola lanko is a Ukrainian-born artist, photographer, and sociologist living in Amsterdam. Her multidisciplinary projects often aim to develop new perspectives on everyday phenomena. She combines research and analytical methods with playful artistic strategies. She currently teaches at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

Location

The Hybernská Campus complex brings together creativity, art, innovation, and academia. It hosts lectures, performances, concerts, exhibitions, screenings, discussions, and other public events. The multifunctional spaces of the campus offer an ideal setting for Roelof Knol’s interactive projection, which transforms the neutral architecture into fluid currents and lines that respond to visitors’ movements. Openness and accessibility define not only the campus itself but also the installation, delighting even the festival’s youngest visitors.

  • Installation partner

    Campus Hybernská

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