Jeanine Verloop creates multimedia and kinetic sculptures and currently works predominantly with Borosilicate glass. Her work explores how technology expands, shapes, and limits imagination. By challenging the conventional perception of machines as powerful and indestructible, she seeks to embrace vulnerability, malfunction, and destruction. In her recent works, Verloop incorporates various sensors, inviting the audience to engage and immerse themselves in a parallel reality where technology has taken an alternative path.

During her Illustration studies (2018) at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Verloop was already interested in the technology of old printing presses and typewriters. She delved into their mechanisms and biological principles of motion, using this as a starting point for her exploration of kinetic devices. Gradually, the machines themselves became more important than the prints they made. To emphasize and exaggerate the fragility of her machinery, she started independently practicing Scientific Glassblowing in 2020. Verloop seamlessly integrates the precision and flexibility of digital fabrication tools with the hands-on artistry of traditional tools. She extends her exploration across various domains, blending programming with glassblowing, resulting in unexpected forms.

In 2020, she received the Emerging Artist Grant from the Mondriaan Fund and a starting subsidy from the Creative Industries Fund NL for her research into scientific glassblowing. Her work has been showcased internationally at ARS Electronica with V2_Lab for Unstable Media (2022), and she has participated in residencies at Hangar_org in Barcelona (2019) as part of the Summer Sessions by V2_ and CYENS – Centre of Excellence in Nicosia (CY) (2022). 

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