Constant Dullaart

Constant Dullaart studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is conceptual art, photography and film. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam and Berlin. Residence is recorded at Berlin. Work by Constant Dullaart is recorded in the collections of LIMA, Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Eye Filmmuseum.

• Name — Constant Dullaart • Birth Name — Constant Klaas Willem Dullaart • Born — 7 March 1979 • Birthplace — Leiderdorp, Netherlands • Field — Conceptual art, Net Art • Training — Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam; Rijksakademie, Amsterdam • Works — The Revolving Internet, Jennifer in Paradise, The Death of the URL, High Retention, Slow Delivery, The Possibility of an Army • Awards — Prix Net Art 2015

Dullaart was born and raised in Leiderdorp in the Netherlands. He attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy from 1997 to 2002. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten from 2007 to 2008. Since 2023, Dullaart has been professor of Networked Materiality at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. Dullaart's 2013 work series Jennifer in Paradise uses and reworks the image used as the first photograph to demonstrate Photoshop. He is also known for distributing 2.5 million bought Instagram followers amongst a personal selection of active art-world Instagram accounts. In 2015, for a four-month durational performance commissioned by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Dullaart created thousands of fake Facebook profiles using the names of Hessian soldiers from the Hetrina archive of the Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen. In 2015, Dullaart received the Prix Net Art.

• The Revolving Internet (2010), a browser-based work in which the Google search interface rotates while retaining its functionality. • Jennifer in Paradise (2013), a series based on the image used to demonstrate early versions of Photoshop, which Dullaart reworked in digital and physical forms. • The Death of the URL (2013), a web-based work using an unusually long.xxx domain name as a commentary on changing patterns of navigating the web and the growing role of platforms such as Google and Facebook. • High Retention, Slow Delivery (2014), an online social-media intervention in which artificial followers were distributed among users in order to disrupt follower counts as measures of popularity. • The Possibility of an Army (2015), an online performance commissioned by Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt that used fake Facebook accounts based on historical Hessian soldiers to examine digital identity and social-media metrics.

• 2025 – Choose Your Filter! Browser Art since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web, ZKM, Karlsruhe • 2019 – Link in Bio, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig • 2019 – Uncanny Values: Artificial Intelligence & You, MAK, Vienna • 2019 – Behind the Screen, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin • 2019 – Festival van de Controle, Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt • 2018 – Cultural Matter: Constant Dullaart, LI-MA, Amsterdam • 2018 – Follower Profiles, Foam, Amsterdam • 2018 – I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago • 2017 – Open Codes: Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe • 2017 – Collecting Europe, Victoria and Albert Museum, London • 2015 – The Possibility of an Army, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt • 2014 – High Retention, Slow Delivery, Jeu de Paume, Paris • 2013 – Jennifer in Paradise, Future Gallery and Import Projects, Berlin