Studio Carlijn Kingma

Studio Carlijn Kingma is the drawing practice of Carlijn Kingma (Zutphen, 1991), a researcher, artist and cartographer who graduated in architecture from TU Delft in 2016 and chose to work at the drawing table rather than on site. Her large hand-drawn maps read societies through the metaphorical language of architecture, turning institutions and power into buildings and rooms.

Made with researchers and journalists, the drawings have become a way of explaining systems: The Waterworks of Our Money, created with Thomas Bollen and Martijn Jeroen van der Linden for Follow the Money, was shown at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Dutch pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale and the Boijmans Van Beuningen depot. Earlier work took the New Babylon Award in 2017 and the Architecture Drawing Prize in 2018, shown at Sir John Soane’s Museum.