Toon Fibbe is a time-traveling cartographer of invisible economies, born on a distant planet where currency is made of laughter and bureaucracy is run by sentient clouds. His studio floats between dimensions and is usually powered by the collective sighs of overworked office workers.
NEWS:
You Breath Differently Under the Weight. Debt and Credit
GAK Society for Contemporary Art Bremen
07.06.-07.09.2025
Alice Creischer, Moyra Davey, Toon Fibbe, Lili Huston-Herterich, Santu Mofokeng, Arjuna Neuman & Denise Ferreira da Silva, Miriam Stoney a.o.
Traces We Keep
Brutus, Rotterdam 12.07 -24.08.2025
Artists:
Aaryan Sinha, Adrian Kiss, Alaa Abu Asad, Alexandra Phillips, Angeliki Diakrousi, Anouk Kruithof, Benjamin Francis, Cemre Kara, Cihad Caner, AYO, Danae Io, Doris Kolpa, Elio Mazur, Feline Hjermind, Florian Braakman, Ilke Gers, Ines Borovac, Inez Vierdag, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Joost Vermeer, Juliette Lizotte, Katarina Jazbec, Liza Wolters, Lotus Rooijakkers, Mathieu Wijdeven & Mateo Vega, Meghan Clarke, Mel Chan, Mylan Hoezen, Nadim Choufi, Nanno Simonis, Noor Boiten, Puck Schot, Raziel Perin, Robert Glas, Ruben Kotkamp, Ruben Mols, Scott van Kampen Wieling, Theophile Blandet, Toon Fibbe, Ulufer Çelik, Vlada Predelina, Zalán Szakács en Zoë D’hont.
Wet t-shirt chorus
An evening of performances and readings (EN / FR)
Anouchka Oler Nussbaum, Toon Fibbe, Théo Casciani, Perri MacKenzie
Komplot. Place du Conseil 4, Brussels 1070
Saturday 17 May
Jesterdays
Jester Genk, May 17 - May 25
Apparatus 22, Arpita Akhanda, Agnese Cornelio & Massimo Carozzi, Slow Reading Club, Toon Fibbe, Dominik Gajarsky, Silke Gerinckx and Jorn Plucieniczak.
DEBT. Unsettling Matters of Interest
Symposium and Exhibition Project
Organizer: University of Bremen, GAK Society for Contemporary Art Bremen, HFK Bremen, and University of Oldenburg
Venue: GAK Society for Contemporary Art Bremen, Teerhof 21, 28199 Bremen
Start: May 22, 2025
End: May 23, 2025
Duotones: A series of artists talking
Friday, May 9, 2025
6:00 – 8:30 PM
Talk #1: Toon Fibbe and Han Hoogerbrugge
Moderated by Antye Guenther, representing Varia
Hosted by TENT, Coolhaven 32, Rotterdam
Join us next Friday, May 9, for the beginning of Duotones: A Series of Artists Talking—a new program of artist talks organised by A Tale of A Tub and Studio Art Office/CBK R’dam and hosted by TENT. The series is an attempt to put different generations of Rotterdam-based artists in conversation, and to kick it off we’ve invited Toon Fibbe and Han Hoogerbrugge to unpack their approaches to working with digital technologies and across mediums—from animatronics to mask-making to illustration and animation—as a means for exploring identity construction and value production, both on and off the screen.
Symposium Archief Speculatief
"The Great Mirror of Folly: Immorality and Seduction"
Date:02.28.25
Together with Suzanne Kooloos, we’ll explore Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid (1720). Suzanne will present its depiction of financial speculation as theater, and I’ll showcase masks based on the Tafereel’s imagery, brought to life with animatronics, voice, and movement.
Semi-True Interpretation of Fictionality Part III: The Fun-DING Body-ody-ody
Date: 05.10.2024
Workshop description:
For Fictionality III, the infamous Anna Delvey will serve as our guide and teacher. Known for posing as a wealthy German heiress while scamming New York’s elite, Delvey convinced the high society to invest in The Anna Delvey Foundation, her vision for a club and art gallery. Media outlets were quick to chastise Delvey for her swindles, but if anything, she perfectly reflected her surroundings by carefully shaping herself after the desires of potential investors. As cultural practitioners we are often asked to spark the imagination and desires of funding bodies or institutions. As Anna shows us, funding bodies shape not only the projects they fund, but also the identities and behaviours of those who seek their investment.
We will explore this together with artist Toon Fibbe, by turning our professional selves into (drag)characters. However, first the funding body needs a makeover. If we imagine funding differently, what characters and behaviours could it produce? Join us in concocting characters, criteria, speculative and perhaps absurd scenarios. Scenarios that might not be utopian, but at least will give us insight into the fictions undergirding our funding structures.
Rock Facts
You are warmly invited to the launch Rock Facts, a zine compiled by Francesca Hawker and featuring written contributions by Alicja Melzacka, Anastasia Hadjipapa-McCammon, Andy Grace Hayes, Gayatri Kodikal, Harun Morrison, Lean Rüegg, Liza Lillicrap, Sean Wehle, Toon Fibbe,
and Zachary Schoenhut. Sunday September 15th at 5 p.m.,
at celador, Avenue Jef Lambeaux
23, 1060 Brussels.
Biennale de l’Image Possible
16.03 - 01.06.2024 Ancienne bibliothèque Chiroux, Liège
https://mutantx.bip-liege.org/artistes/
Article in Errant Journal Issue #6 Debt
I wrote the article Dragging Debt, Colon Collateral and the Gendering of Credit for the current issue of Errant Journal.
The issue can be bought here https://framerframed.nl/store/product/errant-journal-6-debt/
Contributors: Ian Beattie, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sultan Doughan, Toon Fibbe, Ibrahim Kombarji, Levi Masuli, Jamie McGhee, Kristina Millona, Bahar Noorizadeh, Falke Pisano, Taring Padi, Dalia Wahdan
Blue Screen 5 year anniversary
31.01.2024
Location: SMOG, Brussels
Blue Screen is a monthly screening program focussing on film and video works by visual artists. The program is initiated by Chloé Malcotti and Emma van der Put.
Each of the artists in focus of the past Blue Screen editions will present one short film, and we'll watch them in chronological order. The evening will consist of works by: Graham Kelly, Toon Fibbe, Anouchka Oler, Katja Mater, Fairuz Ghammam, Adina Ionescu-Muscel, Stéphanie Roland, Caroline Corbason and Eponine Momenceau.
Playbill ACT VII
Playbill is an event series curated by Martha Jager and Isabelle Sully at Torpedo Theater, Amsterdam
Sam Cottington, Toon Fibbe, Bryony Gillard
Charming for the Revolution
with Carly Rose Bedford, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz and Toon Fibbe
curated by Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg
11 March - 30 May 2023
HOT AIR! Or the devil dressed in paper
The green corridor
Read & Repair - Poetry and Finance feat. Sara Hamadeh and Toon Fibbe
READ
Date: Saturday, 24th September 2022
Time: 11:00-13:00 CEST
Location: Varia, and online
LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00 we share a free, catered lunch for participants.
REPAIR
Time: 14:00-16:00 CET
Location: Varia
http://varia.zone/en/rr-poetry-finance.html
M-idzomer, Museum M, Leuven
Telemagic
with films by: Adam Centko, Chloë Delanghe, Toon Fibbe, Eva Giolo, Audrey & Maxime Jean-Baptiste,
Pien Kars, Juliette Lizotte, Ans Mertens & Maika Garnica, Erik Peters, Emma van der Put, Paulius Sliaupa,
Ingel Vaikla, Minhong Yu, Inwoo Yung & Valerie van Zuijlen
Museum M, Leuven (BE)
Wild summer of art Brutus
17 Reasons people aren't listening to you
Collaboration with Laura Wiedijk
PuntWG Amsterdam 02.07.2022 - 25.07.2022
Opening on the 2nd of July at 17:00
Lady Credit of Finance in Drag - Act 1
VERFRIS Rotterdam, 31st of March - 24th of april
Superhost - Where should we begin
Muhka Antwerp - Performance during the first meeting part of Falke Pisano's project Superhost - Where should we begin
Publiciteit— Rotterdam
Performative tours of the exhibition Publiciteit, a public art project by Publication Studio Rotterdam featuring local artists Ilke Gers and Falke Pisano, and poet Ça?lar Köseo?lu.
Not LESS-MATERIAL
PuntWG, Amsterdam - Toon Fibbe & Laura Wiedijk, Céline Mathieu, Maxim Tyminko
Not LESS-MATERIAL marks the opening of the festival ‘A Matter of (In)digestions’ organised by La Cocina in different venues in Amsterdam in October-November 2020. With the festival, we want to call attention to what we tend to take for granted – that is, what we consume –, and highlight some of the socio-political, historical and cultural intersections that consumption implies. What do our appetites tell us about taste and infrastructure, crops and identity, recipes and botanics?
I want to be eaten by celebrities
A contribution Laura Wiedijk and I made for the online program of "A Matter of (In)digestions" by La Cocina: http://www.lacocinaarchive.info/contributions/i-want-to-be-eaten-by-celebrities/
TMI
Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
07 augustus t/m 23 augustus
Group exhibition with Alexandra Hunts, belit sa?, Lyubov Matyunina, Toon Fibbe
Curator: Liesbeth Visee
Open Skies
WIELS, Brussels 27.09.2019 – 05.01.2020
Open Skies is an exhibition that challenges the ever louder call for transparency in society. It does so through the contributions of seven artists who explore our public and private spaces of supposed freedom.
With: Luiza Crosman, Helen Dowling, Toon Fibbe, Naïmé Perrette, Leander Schönweger, Emmanuel Van der Auwera & Jelena Vanoverbeek
It Happens Anyway
01/06/2019 – 07/07/2019 W139, Amsterdam
participating artists Antoine Bertin, Nina Glockner, Marika Groen, Nao Ishizaka, Kenzo Kusuda, Vilma Luostarinen, Sachi Miyachi, Ayako Nishibori, Nishiko, Alexandra Phillips, Natasha Rosling, Rodrigo Red Sandoval, Giorgi Tabatadze, Laura Wiedijk & Toon Fibbe, Guido Yannitto, Bernke Klein Zandvoort
Disassemblies 9: Guts / Gusts (gestations)
22 of March at OffOff Cinema Kunsthal Gent
Initiated by members of Knowledge Is A Does (KIAD) and with special contributions by Rory Pilgrim, Brendan Curtis and Sarah Browne, we present a selection of videos, performance and sound based works. Disassemblies 9, a reading group and evening programme, explore Vanessa Agard-Jones’ theory on bodies in systems, which she defines as a movement directing us from the innards of embodiment to the space of global capital. The scores, spells and fragments will be explored in the space and on the pages to explore the ways in which meaning and power can be re-charted.
Reading group / 16:00
Evening Programme / 20:00
Full programme: €10 *
With: Kym Ward, Toon Fibbe, Rory Pilgrim, Katherina Zimmerhackl, Sarah Browne, Brendan Curtis and Karisa Senavitis.
Background evening Madison Bycroft at 1646
For the background evening of their solo exhibition now on view at 1646, Madison Bycroft compiled a night of performance with Kari Robertson, Toon Fibbe, Robin Rutenberg and Madison Bycroft.
MOUTH MOUTH - Bikini Basel
04.1.2019–18.1.2019, Opening 4.1.2019, 7pm
Artists:
Ceel Mogami De Haas
Miriam Kongstad
Toon Fibbe & Laura Wiedijk
Performance by
Miriam Kongstad & Reece Cox
GHOST presents Sesamstraat in Gemaal op Zuid, the arts and neighborhood common of Rotterdam Zuid. Featuring the work of José Aramburo, Toon Fibbe & Laura Wiedijk, Kayije Kagame, Momu & No Es, Santiago Monge, Scott Pyle, Jay Tan & Geo Wyeth (with Serena Lee, Vala Sigþrúðar Jónsdóttir and Dieuwertje Hehewerth), Daniel Tuomey, Jan Verwoert and an exhibition text by Cédric Fauq.
Dates & time: opening Friday 9 Nov 19:00 - 22:00
Location: Gemaal op Zuid, Pretoriaan 141 Rotterdam
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21 October 2018, at Commend NYC, GUST/GUTS
The movements of storms and bowels converge in performance, sound, and video by KIAD members and friends. We've been reading Kyla Schuller's "Biopolitics of Feeling" getting ready. Let's share stories, spells, and feelings about outside forces passing and pressing upon bodies and vice versa.
Please join us at this very informal gathering!
Katharina Zimmerhackl
Emilio Martinez Poppe
Kym Ward
Katherine MacBride
Toon Fibbe
E.C. Feiss
Karisa Senavitis
Free. Tea & snacks. Ramp access. Floor & stool seating.
We're putting together a little reader/take-away too!
didyouread.tumblr.com
commendnyc.com
172 Forsyth St, New York, NY 10002
Almende - the Second Triennial of Beetsterzwaag
6 till 9 September 2018
Participating artists include (TBC): Isabelle Andriessen, Feiko Beckers, Egle Budvytyte, Madison Bycroft, Joaquin Cociña & Cristóbal León, Deirdre M. Donoghue, Helen Dowling, Wapke Feenstra, Priscilla Fernandes, Toon Fibbe & Laura Wiedijk, Paul Geelen, Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Ane Graff, Jason Hendrik Hansma, Josje Hattink, Rosie Heinrich, Femke Herregraven, Sjoerd Leijten & Stijn Verhoeff, Eric Peter, Lea Porsager, Anne Marijn Voorhorst, Louwrien Wijers, Riet Wijnen, Müge Yilmaz, and Timmy van Zoelen.
Catalogue - MAMA
An exhibition by Publication Studio Rotterdam – A host to the social life of the book since 2009.
From Saturday May 12th 2018 until Sunday July 22nd 2018
With contributions by: Sabrina Chou, Toon Fibbe, Sam Gould, Dan Graham, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguy?n, David Horvitz, Janice Kerbel and Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Curated by: Yin Yin Wong and Isabelle Sully
Performance 'The Birth of All Flesh' at That Might be Right - 1st of May
'Cloning The Ghost - A groan of vegetable lust' in collaboration with Laura Wiedijk't Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen
1 october - 21 december
Long Legs of the Stockmarket, performance at That Might be Right - 5th of August Brussels
LEGITIMATE REHEARSALS, Group Exhibition
D21 Kunstraum
13 April—21 May 2017
Showing works of Jeremiah Day (US), Toon Fibbe (NL), Ilke Gers (NZ), Emma Haugh (IRL), Conny Karlsson Lundgren (SE), Emanuel Mathias (DE), Hana Miletic (HR, BE), Kym Ward (GB), Katharina Zimmerhackl (DE/US)
The Shark's Pretty Teeth, Nieuwe Vide Haarlem
Grand Opening, Feeelings, Brussels - January 27
Feeelings, Brussels- Ghosts, Games & Gambling, An evening of playing cards and speculative hauntings February 14th
Past:
The Birth of All Flesh - Performance at Performance Bar Rotterdam September 2016
As each of us was several, together we became quite a crowd - Solo Show at Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
Suddenly Last Summer, Reflektor M Munchen
Good Vibes, Good Children Gallery New Orleans
Resident at Deltaworkers New Orleans - March - June 2016 http://deltaworkers.org
Resident at Bains Connective Brussels
The Grinning the Machine and the Closemouthed Growl, at Kunsthuis Syb together with Laura Wiedijk
The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Muzak at De Nieuwe Vide Haarlem
Group Show
