I work with objects, installations, and text, often starting from the body as a way to think about identity and culture. My practice is research-based, but it moves slowly and materially. I’m interested in what materials remember: how use, time, and repetition leave traces that can be read. Feminine culture and the transmission of caring gestures from generation to generation are the red thread running through my work, shaped by everyday acts of making, repairing, and tending; practices that have long structured women’s lives, often unnoticed.
Archival research is an important part of how I work. I delve into overlooked histories and uncover forgotten details, approaching them through a contemporary feminist lens. Rather than treating the archive as something fixed, I use it as a starting point for speculative narratives rooted in the ordinary. These stories trace how women’s labor, domestic rituals, and craft traditions quietly shape both personal experience and collective memory.
My background in contemporary jewelry continues to influence how I think about materials and bodies, questioning societal ideas of beauty, gender and the value we attach to them. I’m drawn to the space where objects are worn, touched, or handled, and where intimate gestures can turn into shared rituals. Through this process, materials become carriers of knowledge and memory. I hope the work invites viewers to slow down and engage with subtle forms of care, transformation, and embodied female legacies.
Alma Agatha Johanna Teer
Amsterdam, NL
1997
Almateer.artwork@gmail.com
Education
2017-2018 Gerrit Rietveld Academie
PreCourse
2018-2022 Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Jewellery Linking-Bodies
Exhibitions
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
2022 – Dutch designers Yearbook, 22 best graduation works, published by BNO
2022 – Monthly Design, Korean design magazine
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
2024 – 2025 Art programme, Draad en Dracht, Muzee (Scheveningen)
2022 Talent program,GEMZ, Current Obsession (Amsterdam)
Supported by Mondriaanfonds Artist Start Grant
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