co-creators, a frame of reference and at times characters in the work. Together we produce multidisciplinary outcomes across film, performance, installation, and workshop. My practice centers on local cohesion, shared curiosity and intrinsic motivation. A recurring thread in my work is how communities shape and understand their own environments, and whether the deeply local can be universal.
Contact at: danielsiegersma@hotmail.com
Co-creator Baobab Magazine
Based between Hamburg and Oldenzaal
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University of Applied Arts Vienna - MA Social Design
Royal Academy of Arts The Hague - BA Photography
Exhibitions, press, prizes
2026
Broadcast days - Dear Stranger is a radio programme that is a practical, experimental and playful guide on how to talk to strangers, build connections with other people, and feel less lonely in this world. - link
Residency Tiny Spaces Deep Connections
From Hamburg to Athens in collaboration with Sophie Allerding - link
Exhibition - Eer Onzer Zwijgt - link
Residency Kunstwerk in Kolderveen - From 17th of February to 18th of May - link
2025
Master graduation exhibition - My graduation work shown an the University of Applied Art in Vienna (link)
Exhibition - Exhibition - The Relationship - From 18th of may till 22nd of June, exhibition part of the festival Wiener Festwochen. (link)
2024
Stipendium - Recipient Afman/Peeters Fonds - link
Film Screening - Screening of 'It Must Be The Timing Belt' at Athens Digital Arts Festival - link
Film Screening - Screening of 'It Must Be The Timing Belt' at First Cut RESEARCHING, MAKING AND CONVERSING - link
Exhibition - 'Others' - On January 31th, 2024 at the opening of the exhibition “Nur Hier Nur Jetzt” in Floridsdorf (Vienna) the performance "Others” (by Daniël Siegersma and Grayson Ruple) took place. The performance consisted of four performers who shared a story based on experiences of other people whose lives were affected by the rules and codes of the norm.
2023
Exhibition - Together with Jana Romanova we coordinated the first years of the master Photography & Society KABK students to create the exhibition ‘Everything that melts is about to Blend’ - link
Exhibition - 'Knock Knock who's there?!' - The exhibition brings together the works of five artists - Filippo Maria Ciriani, Daniël Siegersma, Sophie Allerding, Yusuf Zucchero, and Rudi van Delden. The artists explore a range of themes and issues through their installations, sculptures, and audio-visual works. In collaboration with Dispari duo and De Waterkant - link
Performance - "During Prospects, a performer takes one of Siegersma's works from the wall and then, in front of the audience and Siegersma, launches into a discussion about all of his unfinished projects. Why do so many ideas remain undeveloped, and what guarantees that a work will be completed? Siegersma undergoes the sermon he organized himself in the midst of the exhibition." Preformed and co-created by Yusuf Zucchero - link
2022
Exhibition - 'South from here' - Pub talks, bringing back the photography. (Created by Dispari) link
Exhibition - ‘Looking For Problems’ Together with Rudi van Delden and Pietro Bulfoni. An exhibition on problem solving. Hosted by Lab22
Exhibition - Together with Jana Romanova we coordinated the first year master Photography & Society KABK students to create countercurrents a group exhibition in collaboration with Creative Court, The Hague. In February this year, twelve artists from seven countries were prompted by the existing issue of underwater munition burial sites in the North Sea. - link
Shortlisted - 'South from Here' At the Belfast Photo Festival
Lecture - ‘A Tribune To This’ An interactive lecture on how can the distribution/dissemination of the image help us question what authorship means - link
Exhibition - Baobab collaboration with ‘Borgo di Villafredda’ in medieval hamlet of Villafredda di Tarcento, Udine, Italy. - link
2021
Lecture - 'Undiciplining Photography' organised by MA photography and society, Nederlands Fotomuseum - link
Lecture - 'Cool Coding' Talk about the Grotto project - link
Stipendium for Emerging Artists from the Mondriaan fonds (link)
Publication - paper exhibition in Hard//hoofd magazine - link
Project - launch of the Grotto.nu website - link
Interview - Bird in flight magazine - 'Anorak' - link
2020
Online Exhibition - Tune of the Hamlets part of 'Hoogtij May 29: Should I stay or Should I go. (link)
2019
Exhibition - Should I stay or should I go, Tetem, Enschede, The Netherlands. (link)
Article - Worlds, People, Places - resistance through culture - (link)
Exhibition - Worlds, People, Places - resistance through culture, Noorderlicht photo festival, Groningen, The Netherlands (link)
Exhibition - Visions of Europe Museo della Fotografia Pino Settanni, Matera, Italy (link)
Photography Residency - Matera European photography in collaboration with Canon, Italy
2018
Baobab - Launch 3rd edition Baobab Magazine (link)
Winner of the Young Art Support Amsterdam - Netherlands (link)
Exhibition - Curator of an exhibition in collaboration with the University of Leiden and Baobab Magazine (link)
Interview - British Journal of Photography - Issue #7878: Nature
"Anorak" (link)
Exhibition - Takeaway exhibition of Anorak commissioned by Theater aan
het Spui in Den Haag. Publication that can be taken apart, folded out and turned into an copy of the exhibition of Anorak as seen in Theater aan het Spui during the 'Nee, jij hebt talent festival!' in October 2018, which be taken home and put on display on your own wall. This takeaway exhibition was made in collaboration with Rudi van Delden.
Winner of the Steenbergen Stipend 2018 - The Netherlands (link)
Exhibition - Nederlands Foto Museum of the project "Anorak" September 15, 2018 to January 14, 2019
Online publication - Assignment for the International theater Amsterdam "Thuislozen" photo series
Exhibition - Graduation festival Royal Academy of Art "Honorable Mention department award"
Print publication - Project "Anorak" published in newspaper "The Hague central"
Interview - Project "Professional Amateurs" published in magazine "Shutr"
Interview - Project "Professional Amateurs" published in online magazine "Kiekie" (link)
2017
Exhibition - Migration from Above, assignment for the Humanity House in The Hague (Video installation, Group installation “I see peace”)-(link)
Exhibition - Video installation - Part of photo festival "Cortona on the move" - In collaboration with Donald Weber.
Exhibition - The project "professional Amateurs". Is part of the exhibition Fabulous failures in The Hague (link)
2016
Online publication - "it's like fishing" published on Ignant.com (link)
Publication - Project "it's like fishing" published in the magazine "BKN magazine" (link)
Publication - Part of a collective project made in Sarajevo, my contribution: "Keep on counting, Shepherd" was printed in a self-funded newspaper that we gave away for free to various agencies, institutions and people.