Alma Teer (1997,NL) is a multidisciplinary artist working across materials, objects, text, installation and research. Her practice starts by looking at what is passed down through generations of women. Age-old traditions, craft, stories and rituals: these intimate gestures often go unnoticed in daily life, yet carry knowledge about care, labour, femininity and cultural heritage. Through a contemporary lens, Teer looks at how these practices shape bodies, identities and relationships, while often remaining undervalued in historical narratives.
Archival research and material experimentation form the basis of her practice. She approaches the archive as a space for speculation, weaving overlooked stories together with personal memories. She is drawn to the afterlife of rituals: what remains when their original context has disappeared, but their gestures continue through materials, movements and collective memory? Textiles, tools, garments and domestic objects become vessels of these traces, shaped by touch, use and time. With a background in contemporary jewellery, she continues to approach materials through their relationship to the body. Her work seeks to reveal hidden connections, spark curiosity, and invite audiences to engage with the subtleties of care and embodied heritage.
Alma Agatha Johanna Teer
Amsterdam, NL
Atelier@almateer.nl
Education
2017-2018 Gerrit Rietveld Academie
PreCourse
2018-2022 Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Jewellery Linking-Bodies
Exhibitions
2026 – The Art of Ending Things, Peckham Oasis Gallery (London)upcoming
2026 – Handmade Books Exhibition, Helsinki Central Library Oodi (Finland)
2025 – RAUW Theater & Dance performance, Museum Tot Zover (Amsterdam)
2024 – Boetsters {de ~ (v.); -s} Vrouwen die netten herstellen, Kunstruimte H47 (Leeuwarden)
2023 – Still Moving, Tweede Nassau Ateliers (Amsterdam)
2023 – Bodies of Knowledge, Galeria Kaufhof (Munich)
2023 – Cruising, discomfort as a tool to depatriarchise design, Huidenclub (Rotterdam)
2022 – Manifestations, Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven)
2022 – What has Huygens ever done for us?, Hofwijck (Voorburg)
2020 – Fabulation, Rietveld Pavilion (Amsterdam)
2019 – Habit(ats), Mediamatic (Amsterdam)
Publications
2026 – Feature article V(r)ouwen: A Meditation on Dutch Folding Rituals,
AYFP issue 3: In the Folds (UK) upcoming
2026 – Bread & Bones, self published, research zine (NL)
2022 – Dutch designers Yearbook, 22 best graduation works, published by Nai010 (NL)
2022 – Monthly Design, Korean design magazine (KR)
Prize & Nominations
2022 – Winner of the ‘Young Talent Award‘, by Manifestations at Dutch Design Week
2022 – Nomination Thesis Price 2022, Gerrit Rietveld Academie: ‘A Vestigial Re-velation‘
2021 – Trophy designer of ‘The Jan Hanlo Essayprice 2021‘
Related activities
2026 – Research talk & panel discussion V(r)ouwen: A Meditation on Dutch Folding Rituals, online launch event by AYFP upcoming (London)
2024 Art programme, Draad en Dracht, Muzee (Scheveningen)
2022 Talent program,GEMZ, Current Obsession (Amsterdam)
Supported by Mondriaanfonds Artist Start Grant
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