Tinkle Drum 
Recycled pallet wood, various metals, nitrous oxide cannisters, copper pipes, solar panels, wires and cable.
Burning Man, NV, USA 2022 
40°78'52.3"N 11°9'19.6"E
Tinkle Drum 
An interactive musical sculpture made from recycled materials
Made thanks to everyone in the TЯAsh Collective, many seen here, who helped build the work. More to come ;) 
Detail
Documentation  
Aerial cinematography by Jamen Percy, Matt Emmi, and Rand Larson







  
Drop
 Sheet metal, water, recycled steel cable
 Permanent installation, Alsversjö Open Collective, Sweden
N 57° 37' 15.96 E 14° 55' 35.4252
An interactive (sound) sculpture suspended in mid-air.

An oversized, grotesque yet poetic water form—a wounded, hybrid work embodying for material vulnerability and ecological suffering.

To the side of the drop is a lever. As people turn the lever, this powers on a shepard’s tone - an audio illusion, continuous rising and falling frequencies that, however long you wait…never heighten or finally land. 
  Drop detail
Patination over time, the work seems to blend into the Swedish nature.
   Detail:
 The inside, before hydroforming.
                       



  
                                                               











Drip
Sheet metal, brass, string, steel cable.
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 
52°36'90.9"N 4°89'16.6"E


A non-wind chime instrument that invites interaction

Installed at Buiten Bereik, Arti et Acitimiae, and CIRCL Park Amsterdam 













Meet Dog 
40cm x 60cm. Mixed bones, sausage, and intestines.
52° 22' 45" N, 4° 52' 11" E












Green Car
Car frame from recycled bike frames
  Marineterrein  Amsterdam  
52°37'40.9"N 4°9'18.1"E
Green Car
Initial sketch
Spring, starting to grow, paint still bright. 
In winter, creepers starting to takeover as the structure develops a more faded, post apocalyptic feel.













Green Car detail
        Bot Heart
   A heart that dances, beats and plays with automation on water
           52°37'40.9"N 4°9'18.1"E











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 After building the sculpture, I collaborated with engineers to choreograph the heart to light up 
to music and choreographed patterns on the water, so the heart appears to dance 
Bot heart at night, Marineterrein Amsterdam, 2023.


“Collaboration, participation and play are central — I’m serious about my work, but also silly in it.” 
Bibi grew up in a Dutch immigrant family on the West Coast of New Zealand before moving to Amsterdam in 2019. Growing up in West Auckland with its dense nature and expansive beaches has shaped Bibi and her work. Her sculptures, often made from recycled wood, metal, and textile — are singing, wounded, hybrid bodies. They often tremble, play, reference material vulnerability, living ecosystems, ecological suffering, the feminine grotesque and humanity’s connection to nature. Her works often come across as playful yet have deeper layers of meaning. They grow, decay, and are in flux. 


Process
In the studio Bibi is led by conceptual visions but also works intuitively to let material speak, so there’s structure and chance. She often works collaboratively and has founded several collectives, yet craves solo studio time as well. Her practice has a feminist lens, through which she question systemic structures, explores interdependence, and connects with social and environmental concerns. 







Exhibitions


March 2026   The Wrong Biennale, Invisible Forces Pavilion 

Jan 2026     Harmony, Kunsttraject Groupshow, Amsterdam West 

Nov 2025     SiSiSpex, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

June 2025    Exploration of Senses Group Show, De Sering, Amsterdam, NL

March 2025   Update 1 Arti et Amicitiae, Group Show, Amsterdam, NL

Nov 2024     I Cry and Cry, One Off Moving Image Festival, Valencia, Spain

July 2024    ParkXPark, Marineterrein, Amsterdam, NL 

Dec 2024     Gerrit Rietveld DGT 3 Bogota Broedplaats, Halfweg, NL

Aug 2024     Radical (dis)Connection, KlimaatMuseum / VOX-POP, Amsterdam, NL

Dec 2023     DGT 2, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

July 2023    Tinkle Drum, Lola Luid, Amsterdam NL

Sept 2022    Tinkle Drum, Reno Tahoe International Art Show, Reno NV, US

Aug  2022    Tinkle Drum, Burning Man Honorarium Sculpture, Black Rock City, NV, US

July 2022    Tinkle Drum Living Arts Lab Energy Junkies Prize & solo show, Amsterdam, NL

June 2022    Tinkle Drum Burning Man NL Art Jump Grant & show, Flevoland, NL


Collectives and Collaborations


TЯAsh Collective
Bibi founded TЯAsh Collective in 2022—a collective of artists, engineers, social workers, and researchers creating art from recycled materials.

(KYBL)
KIEM, Yufei Gao, Bibi Jordan and Lorena Rode first collaborated in May 2024 for the 'Radical Connection' exhibition in Amsterdam. When student protests against Dutch ties to Israeli institutions erupted, the artists transformed their individual works into a collaborative, site-specific piece of censorship, Radical Disconnection. 

Snack’n Sketch
Bibi she hosts regular sketch sessions to observe and respond to our changing environment.


Education

Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam)
BFA
2022 - Current

Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam)
Orientation Year
2021

Auckland University of Technology
Bachelor of Communications
2006


Contact:    Bibi.Bliekendaal@gmail.com
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