About

Benjamin van der Zalm (1985) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based between Antwerp, Belgium, and Normandy, France, whose practice explores the intersections of art, science, history, and the dynamics of biological and ecological systems.

AnthroBios Nexus is the conceptual framework through which his work unfolds — a space where ideas, disciplines, and experiments converge. The name reflects an ongoing inquiry into the relationship between human culture (anthropos) and the living processes of life (bios), understood as part of a wider network of natural and cultural systems.

Rather than a fixed body of work, it functions as an evolving field of inquiry where artistic practice, research, and speculation intersect.

Rooted in an early background in goldsmithing and later expanding through photography and visual arts, his practice gradually moved beyond individual mediums toward a broader exploration of knowledge and form. Over time the focus shifted from the object itself toward the systems, patterns, and processes that underlie both human culture and the living world.

Within AnthroBios Nexus, projects emerge as investigations into these underlying structures: the dynamics of life and transformation, the relationship between memory and history, and the recurring patterns that connect emergence, growth, decay, and renewal. Each project forms a fragment of a larger constellation — an ongoing attempt to map the relationships between life, knowledge, and imagination.

Together they constitute AnthroBios Nexus: a living network of research, speculation, and creative exploration.