WERC_Artist_Talks #10 With Heleen Blanken
September 4th 2026
Heleen Blanken’s work lies at the intersection of nature, technology and perception. Through installations, kinetic sculptures, generative video environments and spatial scenography, she explores how technology and nature seem to be increasingly merging.
This theme is strongly evident in Habitat (2020), an immersive digital environment in which nature appears as an artificial memory; Abiosis (2022), a mechanical ecosystem inspired by theories on the origin of life; and Singularity Garden (2025), a robotic Zen garden in which mechanical arms endlessly trace patterns in sand.
Her installations invite visitors to engage with possible future worlds, where technology, nature and human perception are constantly intertwined.
More information about Heleen Blanken can be found at www.heleenblanken.com
