Biography Tjebbe van Tijen
1944, lives in Amsterdam. Tjebbe van Tijen studied sculpture in Den Bosch, Haarlem, Milan and London. From 1965-68, he completed various installations, environments and expanded cinema projects in London and in several cities in the Netherlands. In 1973, he founded the Documentation Center of Social Movements at the University Library of Amsterdam, which he headed until 1993. Van Tijen has designed exhibitions in Vienna, Milan, Copenhagen, Dortmund and Hamburg dealing with ecology, urban conflicts and alternative and underground culture. He most recently developed, in collaboration with Jeffrey Shaw, the interactive installation Imaginary Museum of the Revolution. Tjebbe van Tijen is currently working as advisor for new media at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and as a multimedia artist and producer under the name "Imaginary Museum Projects."