Arvid van der Rijt is a Dutch-Eurasian cultural worker and audiovisual artist with over 20 years of experience in the Finnish and international contemporary art field. He combines sense of strategy with practical, hands-on production skills, having developed and managed international residencies, visitor programmes, and collaborative projects across the Nordic region and beyond. Experienced in partnership building, programme coordination, and artist support, with a strong commitment to inclusion, sustainability, and fair working conditions in the arts.

In his artistic practice he makes use of multiple media and materials. He brings together the bricolage of everyday trash, colonial knickknacks and Western kitsch, building a symbiosis of the imaginable, the visible and the invisible.

His immersive performances deal with the concepts of belonging and identity and build new constellations and labyrinths to help us find new ways of being lost, if nothing else.

Arvid currently lives and works in Helsinki. His work has been shown in Finland and abroad including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA (2016), Scratch Expanded @Light Cone, Paris, FRA (2016), the Congo Biennale in Kinshasa, DRC (2019), the AAVE Festival, Helsinki (2014) and Pixelache Festival, Helsinki (2021).