Femke Herregraven is an artist, designer, and researcher whose word explores the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes, ecosystems, language, historiography, and daily life. Her research into the interaction between financial markets, risks, and the physical world forms the foundation for her iterative sculptures, drawings, films, and hybrid installations.

Over the past decade, Herregraven has focused on financial, geological, and climatological self-organising systems that both shape and disrupt everyday existence. A recurring theme in her work is the financialisation of the future as crisis, which she examines through catastrophe bonds as a set of potential distributions of risk and collapse. She employs multiple textual, computational, and gestural languages – expressed through image, sound, drawing, and speculative fiction – to reflect on how predictive models alter the perception of reality, and the very ground on which it stands.

She graduated in Graphic Design from ArtEZ Arnhem in 2007 and in Design from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, in 2010, where she obtained the Creator Doctus title in 2024. An alumna of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, she currently teaches at the Sandberg Institute..

Herregraven was part of On-Trade-Off, a transnational project on lithium extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2018 to 2024. She was shortlisted for the 2019 Prix de Rome, awarded the Evens Arts Prize in 2023, and received the Theodora Niemeijer Prize in 2025.