Aldo Brinkhoff presents Thixocymatics (2025)
he/him
22 May–31 May | de Brakke Grond
Thixocymatics is a kinetic sculpture that explores the fragile threshold between order and collapse, developed through a collaboration between an artist and a scientist. Using tools from the world of construction, specifically concrete formwork, the artist created an instrument that carefully manipulates a block of thixotropic calcium. Rather than producing stable patterns, the material resists predictability. It slowly shifts, continuously reshaping itself into an evolving, unstable landscape.
This project was carried out in collaboration with associate professor Eduardo Mendes, whose research at TU Delft focuses on Functional Soft Matter, part of the residency “Crossing Parallels” at the TU Delft, and was made possible with support of Amarte and Cultuurfonds.
About the artist
Aldo Brinkhoff is an artist whose practice investigates processes of growth and destruction as interconnected movements within continuous transformation. Working from the field of morphology, he studies how forms emerge, deform, and evolve, often intervening in these parameters to intensify states of change. His installations frequently become inseparable from the architectural spaces they inhabit, shaping how transformation is experienced over time. Emerging from a background in ArtScience at the KABK, laboratory work, and research at the Institute for Advanced Study, his practice brings together material experimentation and spatial design. Recent residencies at EKWC and TU Delft further developed his focus on kinetic systems, thixotropic materials, and processes of timed transformation.
