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tephanie Smit (1987), known as Giek, is a Dutch multidisciplinary artist, performer, writer, and reincarnation researcher.
Her work explores mythology, symbolism, and consciousness through performance, storytelling, immersive media, and experimental research.
She is the founder of Reality Cult, a multidisciplinary artistic research platform through which she develops performances, lectures, installations, symbolic media projects, and experimental approaches to reincarnation research.
Her practice explores soul continuity, archetypal memory, and the evolution of consciousness through years of intuitive investigation, symbolic analysis, artistic experimentation, and cultural research. Drawing from Hermetic traditions such as astrology and tarot alongside AI-assisted historical mapping, archival material, and pattern analysis, she develops frameworks for exploring reincarnation as a layered and multidimensional experience of identity.
Her artistic cosmology bridges lifetimes and epochs, weaving together experimental theatre, ritual performance, sacred storytelling, classical composition, digital media, and handcrafted zero-waste costume design. Through immersive environments combining sound, poetry, improvisation, scenography, video, and symbolic imagery, she creates works that explore memory, myth, spiritual initiation, and nonlinear perceptions of time.
Much of Stephanie Smit’s work functions as a living symbolic archive: performances that open spaces for remembrance, installations that uncover hidden cultural and mythological patterns, and interdisciplinary works investigating how identity echoes across history, archetype, and collective imagination.
Soul Continuity: The Architecture of Identity
Throughout her artistic and research practice, she traces how symbolic and emotional imprints echo across lifetimes, surfacing through instinct, creativity, attraction, fear, talent, recurring relationships, and the deeper forces that shape personal and collective narratives.
Stephanie Maria Catherina Smit investigates how symbolic echoes and recurring archetypes shape the invisible architecture of identity, influencing the emotional, creative, and intuitive patterns that guide a life.
Across hundreds of readings, intuitive investigations, and symbolic analyses, she explores how recurring affinities, archetypal themes, and relational dynamics reappear across individuals, histories, and cultural contexts. These patterns often emerge through creative impulses, emotional resonances, recurring life-themes, and the seemingly irrational pull toward particular people, places, eras, or mythologies.
Her approach understands identity and consciousness as fluid and multidimensional, shaped through memory, symbolism, embodiment, and cultural inheritance. Through this lens, reincarnation functions not only as a metaphysical concept, but also as an interpretive and artistic framework for examining continuity, transformation, and archetypal recurrence across time.
Her work has been presented internationally at institutions and conferences including Harvard Divinity School’s Spirituality & the Arts Conference (2025), Occulture Conference Berlin (2023–2025), Design Museum Den Bosch, Museum Lakenhal Leiden, Dutch Design Week Eindhoven, Bauhaus Berlin, Arti Amsterdam, and others.
In 2025 Stephanie Smit launched IWasJimMorrison.com, an ongoing artistic research project and installation exploring collective past-life identity, archetypal resonance, and digital myth-making through astrology, cultural symbolism, archival material, and AI-assisted research tools. She is currently developing methods to systemize her growing constellation of symbolic and past-life data into multidisciplinary installations mapping recurring identities, soul lineages, and mythic patterns across time.
Decoding the Journey of the Soul
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elected writings, lectures, and artistic research projects.
Stephanie Smit writes regularly for Brainz Magazine and Bloom Magazine. Further writings on reincarnation research, symbolic consciousness, and mythic continuity will appear in New Dawn Magazine (2026) and more. Her work was recognized through the BRAINZ 500 Global Awards 2025.
Her interdisciplinary lecture series, Decoding the Past, developed during the Aetheria Residency in Crete, premiered at Occulture Festival Berlin in 2025 and continues to evolve as an experimental fusion of reincarnation studies, symbolic analysis, performative research, and cultural pattern recognition.
Stephanie Smit is also involved with Vision Lab, an interdisciplinary arts and research collective connected to Harvard Divinity School, where she contributes as an artist ambassador. Alongside future lectures, retreats, installations, and participatory gathering formats developed through this collaboration, she is also creating smaller-scale community gatherings in the Netherlands combining performance, dialogue, ritual, and artistic research.
Through performance, storytelling, lectures, and experimental research, Stephanie Smit develops interdisciplinary works that explore memory, mythology, consciousness, identity, and the symbolic dimensions of human experience.
Disclaimer: This work is presented as artistic, symbolic, and spiritual research and should not be interpreted as medical, psychological, or scientific advice or objective fact.
Selected Recent Works
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cross-disciplinary body of performances, installations, and research projects exploring soul memory, ritual, and myth across contemporary art spaces.
2026 · Lineage, Continuity, and Myth-Making at a Cultural Threshold — Presentation / talk
2025 · Decoding the Past — Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
2025–ongoing · IWasJimMorrison.com — Research Project & Installation
2019–ongoing · Independent Reincarnation Research — Symbolic, intuitive & historical investigation
2024–ongoing · A Soul’s Journey — Multidisciplinary Performance & Installation
2023 · 5th Dimension and Beyond — Performance Collaboration with Frederique Jonker
2022–2023 · A New World + Transcending Time and Space — Painting, Installation & Divination
2021–2023 · KYBALION the Musical — Esoteric Performance Cycle
2022–ongoing · GIEKONSTRUCT — Zero-Waste Costume & Installation Practice
2021–ongoing · Improvisations
2020–2025 · Spread My Wings — Audio-Visual Project
2020 · LEF Global Lab — Immersive ‘Inner Climate’ Video Performance at the Dutch Infrastru cture and Watermanagement
2019–2023 · OWN REALITY — Ritual Pop Performance
2019–2021 · Stone Orgy — Ritual Performance & EP collaboration with Jasper Griepink
2018–2019 · Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw — Composition & Performance
Recognition
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tephanie Smit’s work has received growing international recognition through grants, residencies, and publications.
GRANTS & RECOGNITIONS
03/2026 · YGA-4 — Groninger Museum / NP3 — Shortlisted
10/2025 · Station Noord — Finalist
01/2024 · Rijksakademie — Shortlisted (Final Round)
03/2024 · Stimuleringsfonds Talentontwikkeling — Scout Night (Giekonstruct)
04/2022 · Kulturstiftung Sachsen — Gastspielförderung
05/2021 · SENA — Music Production (Spread My Wings)
06/2020 · Fonds Podiumkunsten — Work Contribution
10/2018 · NTS WIP (London, UK) – Longlisted for experimental music talent programme
2015 · VSB Fonds — Crowdfunding Support
RESIDENCIES
06/2025 · Aetheria Institute, Crete — Black Sky Society Residency
05/2024 · Maakweken Delft — Costume/Scenography
06/2023 · Séance Volda (Norway) — Ritual voice & visual composition
05/2019 · Choreographic Coding Lab — Movement, tech & prototyping
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming 2026–2027: New Dawn Magazine
2026: Bloom Magazine, Brainz Magazine — multiple articles
2025: Brainz Magazine — multiple articles
2020: Threshold Magazine, Couvre x Chefs, Redefine
2017–ongoing: Interviews (Brainz, Brabants Dagblad, The Great Game Podcast)