In this lecture, Angelique Spaninks will share insights from nearly fifteen years of running the Bio Art & Design Award (BAD). This award aims to bring together talented young artists and designers from all over the world with renowned scientists and their research teams based in the Netherlands to explore innovative projects at the intersection of health, food, ecology, biotech, and more.
Each year, the BAD receives proposals from over twenty-five countries. After a selection process and matchmaking session, twelve teams were formed and competed for the three awards. Those teams collaborate to transform their creative ideas into art installations that blend scientific research with artistic expression. These works are showcased in a thematic bio art exhibition at MU Hybrid Art House, attracting a growing audience and deepening their understanding of contemporary art and scientific developments.
Angelique Spaninks will also highlight the cases from over forty winning projects and discuss how these projects continue to travel the world and foster knowledge exchange. Through this lecture, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the latest trends in bio art and explore the possibilities of future intersections between art and science.
Date: 23/09/2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Auditorium of Macao Museum of Art
Speakers: Angelique Spaninks
Moderator: Liu Gang, Co-curator of “Art Macao 2025”
Target Participants: People aged 13 and above
Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin available)
Number of Participants: 80 people. Admission by drawing lots. Free admission.
Registration: From now to19/09/2025 apply on "Macau One Account".(Registration)
Angelique Spaninks
Angelique Spaninks has built her hybrid and generalist practice along with an extensive network in the art world over the past 30 years as a director, curator, board member, advisor, critic, and journalist. In doing so, she has consistently chosen to cross and stretch the disciplinary boundaries between digital culture, design, and contemporary visual arts. For her, art and culture create added value in connection to society and people, where collaboration is indispensable. The foundation for this was laid during her studies in Journalism and Art and Cultural Sciences.
Following her education, she worked in media for 10 years, initially on the art editorial staff of VNU newspapers and later as chief of the central editorial staff.
Since 2005, she has served as the director-curator of MU Hybrid Art House in Eindhoven, a role she held alongside that of director and artistic director of the STRP Biennial for creative technologies from 2012 to 2018. In both capacities, she has worked internationally as a curator, including for the 6th Guangzhou Triennial in China, and has provided advice in various committees and think tanks. Since 2014, Spaninks has coordinated and managed the international Bio Art & Design Award, an annual prize recognizing three teams of talented artists and scientists in the fields of biotechnology, life sciences, and ecology. Since 2023, she has been the chair of De Zaak Nu, the organization representing the interests of non-profit art institutions in the Netherlands.
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