CORA JONGSMA – VISUAL ARTIST – ARTISTIC LANDSCAPERESEARCHER

Tangible Cartographic Visualisations

Cartography is one of the oldest forms of media. The practice of making maps is an ongoing process of making and remaking how we understand and interact with our world.

The maps of felt she creates, known as Feltscapes, are based on the history of origin and current issues of cultural landscapes. These tactile maps are cartographic visualisations of the micro-relief of the landscape made out of wool and the process of felt making.

Like a landscape, felt is composed of layers that reveal a network of traces. For Cora Jongsma, the landscape is an ever-evolving narrative. Its surface narrates the saga of life, dwelling, and labor. Utilizing this Feltscaping approach gives the opportunity to map the characteristics of landscape and provide a new and sensitive empathy, interpretation and awareness of landscape.

Cora Jongsma (1968), MA, Landscapehistory and Art at the University of Groningen (2017), studied Monumental Design at the academy ArtEZ. Since 2011 she has been teaching as a tutor and researcher at several schools including Landscape architecture at the TU Delft, Academy Minerva, ArtEZ.

Selected exhibitions and workshops

2025 Verdwalen, MOW (NL)

2025 Siel fân Súdwest, Workum (NL)

2024 Feltscaping Oosterlaand, Into Nature and K&C, de Onlanden (NL)

2023 Feltscapes, Galleri Svanen, Tisslingen (SE)

2023 Bodemschepsels, Het Bos van Assen (NL)

2023 Vattensjuka, Langbyn (SE)

2022 Zone Asserbos, Het Bos van Assen (NL)

2022 Drents DNA, Assen (NL)

2019 Lecture and Workshop Cross over Project Landscape history, Architecture and Art history (RUG), Ballooërveld (NL)

2019 Burned Tracks, The Farm Margaret River (AU)

2019 Illuminating Remains, Assens (DK)

2018 Ljochtstill, Eernewoude, Alde Faenen (NL)

2018 Unfold Landscape, Äskhult (SE)

2018 Mapping the Ground, Grounding the Map, Zone2Source, Amsterdam (NL)

2017 Dwell, Act, Transform. Faculty of Art (RUG) and Academy Minerva Groningen (NL)

2017 Radius van Allardsoog, Peergroup, Allardsoog (NL)

2017 Matterscape, Taskscape, Feltscape. Art-based landscape research, MA (RUG) Groningen (NL)

2016 Challenge Landschap 2070, Raad voor de Leefomgeving en Infrastructuur (NL)

2015 Mapping Landscape, K38 Roden (NL)

2015 Karrensporen over het Balloërveld, artistic research and BA (NL)

2013 Polders van Vilt, Erfgoedcentrum Nieuwland Lelystad (NL)

2011 Proeftuinen van Vilt, Tuinen van Mien Ruys, Dedemsvaart (NL)

2009 Proeftuinen van Vilt, Architectuurcentrum Makeblijde (NL)

2008 Tuinen van Vilt, Kwekerij Piet Oudolf, Hummelo (NL)

Art Residency

2023 Joya, Andalusïe (SP)

2023 Örebro, Art in the Public Space, Örebro County (SE)

2019 The Farm Margaret River (AU)

2019 Assens (DK)

2018 Äskhult, Art Inside Out, Halland (SE)