My work consists of models, objects, installations, and sculptural interiors. Using architecture as a medium, I create places that refer to personal experiences and memories—places conceived as environments in which an event has taken place or could take place. These spaces are furnished with objects, constructions, and structures that belong to our collective consciousness. I am the fly on the wall, looking at the world through a magnifying glass.

I see our surroundings as a human landscape, because this landscape reveals who we are. Caspar David Friedrich believed that an artist should not only paint what he sees in front of him, but also what he sees within himself. My work reflects this inner landscape. In my landscapes, we ourselves—human figures—are physically absent, yet conspicuously present.

My exhibition at Tension Fine Art will reflect on the idea of “witness” — from its fundamental meaning to its philosophical and moral implications. We look at one another and are looked at; online and offline, within everyday reality we are witnessing each other’s lives . We are witnesses to our contemporary society, in which on- and offline realities intersect and influence one another.

Bearing witness entails knowledge; as a witness we are not passive . Seeing creates responsibility: once something has been witnessed, neutrality is no longer possible.

Casper ter Heerdt, July 2026

Bio: Casper ter Heerdt

Born Babberich, the Netherlands, 1966 

Lives and works in Beuningen/Nijmegen NL

Studied ArtEZ, sculpture,  Kampen (NL) with residencies in Pietrasanta, IT and Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, D.

 Casper ter Heerdt has had his work internationally exhibited including De Nieuwe Gang, Beuningen, NL (2026), Museum Kurhaus Kleve, D (2022), Ostrale Dresden D (2019 & 2021), IJsberg, Damme B, (2021), De Cacaofabriek, Helmond, NL (2020), Valkhof Museum Nijmegen NL (2018), Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg D (2017), Kunstverein Emmerich D (2016), Projektraum Bahnhof 25, Kleve D (2017) Galerie Sebastianskapelle, Ulm D ( 2011). Odapark, Venray, NL (2003)

Witness is the first presentation of Caspers work in the UK.