Sean van den Steenhoven

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Trans Europa Design Express – a journey through five design collections exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Pride Photo Award 2019 campaign

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht en MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and Londen

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht en MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and Londen

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht en MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and Londen

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

Mapping Modernity exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Pride Photo Award 2019 campaign

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

Trans Europa Design Express – a journey through five design collections exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Deserting from the Culture Wars. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.

sens studio Letterklankbeeld

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Graduation catalogue 2018. HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

Pride Photo Award 2019 campaign

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Benjamin Fro - Behave

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

Trans Europa Design Express – a journey through five design collections exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht en MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and Londen

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

Mapping Modernity exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Mapping Modernity exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Pride Photo Award 2019 campaign

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Pride Photo Award 2019 campaign

sens studio Letterklankbeeld

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht en MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and Londen

Mapping Modernity exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch.

Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Deserting from the Culture Wars. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design. To Watch the War: The Moving Image Amidst the Invasion of Ukraine (2014–2023) Convened by Olexii Kuchanskyi and Oleksiy Radynski.

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch.

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Trans Europa Design Express – a journey through five design collections exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht en MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and Londen

Graduation catalogue 2018. HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

Pressing Matter Artist in Residence Program (in collaboration with Rijksakademie). 2021–2025. Photo by Ben Cy

A room with a view. Dordrechts Museum. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Installation view from Mutable Cycles, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, April 5 – May 25, 2025. Master’s thesis exhibition curated by Ariana Kalliga. Photo: Olympia Shannon 2025.

Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch.

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch

Graduation catalogue 2018. HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

Pride Photo Award 2019 campaign

Deserting from the Culture Wars. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

sens studio Letterklankbeeld

Trans Europa Design Express – a journey through five design collections exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.

Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice, published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht en MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and Londen

Meret Oppenheim: für dich – wider dich exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch

Trans Europa Design Express – a journey through five design collections exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

Jonna Bruinsma - Dragone

sens studio Letterklankbeeld

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London.

HKU University of the Arts graduation show campaign 2022

Fragments of Repair. Published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Jap Sam Books

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in-house design

Trans Europa Design Express – a journey through five design collections exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch.

Intersphere - Studioninedots' manifest for the unprogrammed city

Process – Design Drawings from the Rijksmuseum exhibition Design Museum Den Bosch. Exhibition design by Bart Guldemond and photo by Peter Thijhuis.

A room with a view. Dordrechts Museum

Sean van den Steenhoven is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His practice has an editorial approach and is always driven by dialogue and awareness of the given context, resulting in mixed media outcomes with a strong typographic character. He's motivated to translate extensive research into concepts that stay visually true to their essence; seeing design as a medium for storytelling, research, poetry, exploration, creation, and serendipity. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of the Arts Utrecht, he studied at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and worked as an intern with Marco Balesteros (Letra) in Lisbon, Portugal and Córdova Canillas in Barcelona, Spain. In the fall of 2018 he worked with designers collective New Studio in Brooklyn, New York. In addition he is responsible for the in-house design for BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. BAK is an international platform for theoretically-informed, politically-driven art and experimental research.

50 percent of sens

sens is a studio for graphic design based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands that works with commissioners within the field of the arts and culture, architecture, fashion, and design, ranging from individuals to institutions. We focus on visual languages and identities that result in printed matter, digital expressions, and research-based narratives. sens is the outcome of an intense collaboration of sjondebaron (Robin Kamping) and Sean van den Steenhoven and is continuously expanding into various collaborations with other artists and designers.

For commissions and/or collaborations get in touch

seanvds@xs4all.nl
(+31) 6 23 15 66 33
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