JOANA SCHNEIDER
ART IN THE AQUARIUM

ARTIS AMSTERDAM ROYAL ZOO, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
PERMANENT INSTALLATION SINCE 2026

Contemporary artists show how water lives, moves and connects. Their work invites visitors to look at the Aquarium and the underwater world in a different way. Since its founding, ARTIS has been a place where artists come to find inspiration in nature.Joana Schneider works with old ship ropes and fishing nets. By wrapping them in yarn, she changes their shape and colour. For the Aquarium, she created the room-filling installation DIVINE IDYLLE. It is a world of its own, inspired by De Slufter on Texel, an area where sea and land meet.

© All photos by Pim Top

FEATURED ARTIST

JOANA SCHNEIDER

Joana Schneider (b. 1990 in Munich, Germany) is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Right after she graduated, she received the ‘Keep an Eye Textile and Fashion Award’. Her work has been shown internationally in exhibitions and fairs such as VOLTA Basel, PAD Paris and London, PULSE Art Week Miami, Enter Art Fair Copenhagen, Masterly Milano, Fite Textile Biennale, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. She is currently living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Joana Schneider creates spacious installations and sculptural environments that intertwine themes from natural and fictional realms. Her work initiates a dialogue ...