Iris Box (b. 1987, Amsterdam) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is situated at the intersection of body, time, and landscape. Her work has been presented at KunstRAI, Big Art, Looiersgracht 60, and De Vishal.
Her practice originates in a direct, physical engagement with the natural environment. By walking, spending extended periods in a field, or intervening in her surroundings—for example, by felling a tree—she confronts the landscape and seeks a renewed connection with it. By repeating these experiences over extended periods, she builds a diary of interactions with nature through her work.
Installations, drawings, and collections emerge from these experiences. Her work strives for a balance between stillness and movement—a space where looking slows down and presence becomes tangible. Works develop over long periods, sometimes years, and bear traces of repetition, change, and transience.
Ecological awareness is not a theme, but a prerequisite for her practice. Through her physical engagement with the environment, Box explores the tension between human action and nature. Her work offers no solutions, but proposes an alternative way of being: direct, embodied, and inextricably linked to what lives and decays.
From 2006 to 2010, she studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After starting her own photo studio, she decided to pursue her master’s degree at the Sandberg Institute (Materialization in Art and Design) from 2015 to 2017.