Jason Hendrik Hansma (b. 1988) engages with film, sound, and installation. Informed by theories of the pre-linguistic, the liminal, and the slur, his practice constructs encounters situated at the threshold of articulation, where recognition precedes naming.
Hansma develops his work through sustained research that integrates archival materials, philosophy, language development, and digital culture. Collaborating with interdisciplinary teams, he creates formal systems manifested in film, spatial installations, and multi-channel sound environments. These works are presented at museums, galleries, festivals, and clubs, and are realized as touring, reconfigurable spatial systems that engage diverse audiences in shared experiences of attention and perception.
His work has been presented at the Fenix Museum Rotterdam, Ultra Fiorucci, Grand Palais, UNESCO, Bauhaus Dessau, Eye Filmmuseum, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, and featured in publications including Artforum, Frieze, Vogue, and NSS Magazine.
Hansma serves as co-director of Shimmer, a curatorial and production platform established with curator Eloise Sweetman. Shimmer functions both as a program and as a long-term cultural infrastructure, producing exhibitions, commissions, and public programs that emphasize encounter, transmission, and sustained public engagement. It operates as a network for collaboration, distribution, and audience development, and has realized projects with over 220 artists, including Ellen Gallagher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Lawrence Weiner. Hansma also contributes writings on the ethics and methodologies of curating from an artist’s perspective.
In addition to his artistic practice, Hansma has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and the University of Amsterdam. He currently serves as an advisor to the Mondriaan Fonds.
He lives and works in both Berlin and Rotterdam.
