Constant Dullaart

Constant Dullaart (born 7 March 1979 in Leiderdorp) is a Dutch conceptual artist, media artist, internet artist, and curator. His work examines the cultural and social effects of communication and image-processing technologies, as well as the power structures of major internet corporations.

Biography 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.

Selected works 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.

Exhibitions (selection) 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