About

Bas van Raay (1981) is a Dutch artist, researcher, and educator exploring how people relate to themselves, each other, and the time in which they live.

His work moves between artistic research, participatory encounters, guided visualizations, symbolic objects, and social rituals. Drawing from philosophy, futures research, and lived experience, he investigates how changing values, cultural narratives, and collective beliefs influence the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

Rather than offering answers, his work creates spaces in which assumptions can be suspended and alternative realities imagined.

ARTISTIC PRACTICE

Participatory works

• 2026 – The Weigh-In, Tilburg (participatory encounter)

Solo exhibitions

• 2023 – Cova Art Gallery, Eindhoven

• 2011 – Karena Schuessler Gallery, Berlin

• 2010 – Weekly Berlin Gallery, Berlin

• 2010 – ABN AMRO, Eindhoven

Represented by Karena Schuessler Gallery (2010–2012)

• 2012 – Cologne Fine Art Fair

• 2011 – Art Basel, Basel

• 2011 – Cologne Fine Art Fair

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2010 – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

• 2010 – Salone del Mobile, Milan

• 2010 – IMM Cologne

• 2010 – Brainport, Eindhoven

• 2010 – Transversale, Dortmund

• 2009 – Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

• 2009 – IMM Cologne

CURATORIAL PRACTICE

• Curator, Dutch Design Week – Fontys TCL (2023–present)

• Assistant Curator, Graduation Show – Design Academy Eindhoven (2013–2017)