Jasper Coppes
Jasper Coppes’ practice takes shape across a variety of media, including film, writing, sculpture, architecture and sound. His work questions the dominant stories we tell about landscapes and the processes that take place within them. Long-term dialogues with specific sites, people and non-human entities form the basis of his practice.
Jasper’s film Aasivissuit (2020), made in collaboration with experts from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), presents indigenous perspectives on environmental changes. His film KALI WAAL (2024) retells the story of an ecological controversy in the Netherlands. The latter was produced during his participation in the KABK Design Lectorate Research Group under the project title Shallow Lake, becoming both the subject and the medium through which he explored cinematic responses to contamination and toxicity. In addition to teaching at KABK, Jasper also teaches in the TXT (textile) department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Recent exhibitions of Jasper’s work include: KALI WAAL at puntWG, Amsterdam, 2024; Shallow Lake at the Sprouts Film Festival hosted at the Moving Arts Centre Amsterdam (MACA), 2024; ‘Fragments from Shallow Lake’ at POST Nijmegen, 2022; ‘Our Living Soil’ at Zone2Source, Amsterdam, 2022; Marraq / Mud, featured in ‘Chapter 5IVE’ at het HEM, Amsterdam, 2022; ‘Our Living Soil’, at Zone2Source, Amsterdam, 2022; Aasivissuit at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), 2020; and Corvo in ‘Exploded View: Art and Research on Landscapes in Transition’ at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, 2020. He has received grants from institutions such as the Mondriaan Fund; Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunsten; Cultuurfonds and het Nederlands Film Fonds.
