Femke Herregraven’s work explores the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes, ecosystems, language, historiography, and daily life. Her research into the interaction between financial markets, risks, and the physical world forms the foundation for her iterative sculptures, drawings, films, and hybrid installations.

Over the past decade, she has focused on financial, geological, and climatological self-organizing systems that both shape and disrupt daily life. A recurring theme in her work is the financialization of the future as crisis, which she examines through catastrophe bonds as a set of potential distributions of risk and catastrophe. Her work employs multiple textual, computational, and gestural languages, expressed through image, sound, drawing, and speculative fiction, to reflect on how these contemporary future models shape the experience of reality and the very ground on which it stands.

Herregraven graduated from Graphic Design at ArtEZ Arnhem in 2007, and from Design at the Sandberg Institute Amsterdam in 2010. She is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2017-2018), and obtained the Creator Doctus title at the Sandberg Institute in 2024. Herregraven teaches at the Sandberg Insititute and is a core tutor at the MA Artificial Times: Sound and the Algorithm. She was part of On-Trade-Off: a transnational artist-led project (2018–2024) on the lithium extraction in the DRC. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Prix de Rome, and was awarded the Evens Arts Prize 2023. In 2025 she won the Theodora Niemeijer Prize (jury report),the largest unrestricted art prize in The Netherlands

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Supported by Mondriaan Fund