2022
Exhibition: in het Licht, groupshow in Krona Museum for religious Art Uden(NL).
Installation; Insulation sheets, electronics, ventilator. Approx. 125 x 175 x 15cm.
Fans slowly push air into the mattresss and then let it flow out again, this make it seem to breathe slowly with soft crackling sounds.
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Auszeit
2022
Kinetic object: MDF, fly swatters, electronics and steppermotors. Approx 110x70x130cm.
For the group show “WEG” (away/road) which thematically focused on the remains of a former camping site, Auszeit (sparetime) shows time passing like a digital flipping clock.
Not with numbers though. And every once in a while this “clock” becomes unpredictable.
The website to the project weg: weg.works
Borderline
2021
Without Title, Group-show, In pairs, Kunsthaus Troisdorf (DE).
Group-show with 4 Artist-couples from Germany, the Netherlands and Switserland.
Each couple presenting work which is a result of working in pairs.
Two objects, MDF, thermos bottles, metall. Approx 2x2x2m each.
Together with Sonja Karle.
Scream
2005
Exhibition: Tulips from Kabul, Dogtroep in fortress Ruigenhoek (NL).
An installation project with guided tours in an old fortress near Utrecht with and about asylum seekers.
Installation: ear protection, firing slit. Approx. 15 x 45 x 5cm.
Shovel / Creating prohibited
2008
Exhibition: Landverkenners, Oostknollendam (NL).
Together with Sonja Karle
Site specific work 1: Polder landscape, dug out shovel (proposal, not realised while probited)
Site specific work 2: Polder landscape, signs and poles. Size Variable (15 Signs, each 25 cm. diameter).
Bracelet
1983
Object: Ice. Approx. 7cm diameter.
A melting piece of jewelry.
Forced growing I
1983
Object: Vacuum cleaner, branches. Approx. 100 x 50 x 50cm.
Assisted growth.
Touch
1984
Object: Electric wire, foam rubber, cardboard. Approx. 1 x 5 x 14cm.
Fish
1988
Object: Electric wire, clinical thermometer. Approx. 1 x 6 x 15cm.
Sandman
1989
Competition (not selected) 150 years HollandProvinces, The Hague (NL).
Installation: Metal construction and wood, plastic pipe, sand. Approx. 10x8x3 meter.
Buffet
1990
Sculpture: wood, glass, soap. Approx. 240 x 400 x 100cm. (model: 30 x 50 x 12,5cm.)
Buffet is a sort of huge showcase-like sculpture with an open space in the middle. There isn’t any entry and climbing over the glass seems dangerous. The soap gives the geometrical outside a soft touch; The human-size curves of the table-top and glass seem naturally formed.
Guillotine for a mammoth
1991
Exhibition: Geweld, Paraplufabriek Nijmegen(NL).
Sculpture: Concrete, steel (model: wood, steel, paint). Approx. 14 x 10 x 6meter (model 50 x 30 x 20cm).
A monument for the animal that symbolizes all species that died out after the last ice age.
Frost
1991
Object: Thermos, shovel stick. Approx. 100cm high.
The nonfunctional combination of a vulnerable bottle placed on a shovel tick which is meant to withstand considerable force, is a contradiction in itself.
Final judgment
1992
Object: Scale, table tennis ball, paint. Approx. 25 x 25 x 4cm.
A scale with a rotating globe as indicator of your weight.
Lightyears
1992
Object: wall-socket (without cover), lens. Approx. 5 x 5 x 5cm.
The tears of Miss Holland
1993
Exhibition: Miss Holland (private home) Amsterdam (NL).
Installation: Soap on expanding foam. Approx. 360 x 120 x 70 cm.
A sperm-whale made of soap is placed among wealth dating back to the whaling age; wall size paintings, chandeliers, a herringbone bond carpet and an opulent owner. It looks like being stranded in the back of this monumental building in Amsterdam.
The Twist
1994
Exhibition: Hoeken en Twisten, Amsterdam (NL), Beverwijk (NL, ’95).
Sculpture: Chipboard and mineral wool. Height and diameter approx. 200cm.
A tower of Babel built out of empty loudspeaker boxes.
Nest box
1995
Object: plaster, kettle-whistles, diaphragm, some simple engineering. Approx. 12 x 12 x 48cm.
Fountain (model)
1996
Design for a competition (not selected), Sourcy Bunnik (NL)
Fountain: (Model of cardboard and rubber) concrete and rubber. Approx. 1200 x 850 x 30cm.
Rubber water-lily-shaped bags are slowly filled with water. Then, unexpectedly, with a powerful squirt they empty, each at their own pace.
Lighter
1997
Exhibition: complementary, Hengelo (NL), Gemünd (DE, ’13)
An exhibition with the theme 1 kg of orange and 1 kg of blue.
Sculpture: Wax, matches, paint. Each approx. 35 x 12x 16cm.
These wooden shoes are fire.
Chandelier
1997
Exhibition: complementary, Hengelo (’97), Haarlem (2001)
An exhibition with the theme 1 kg of orange and 1 kg of blue.
Object: Fluorescent tubes, PVC, electric devices. Height about 140cm.
This rung ladder invites to climb up the light. The fluorescent tubes attract insects.
Monkish work
1998
Exhibition AaArt, Aa-Church Groningen (NL), Leeuwarden (NL, ’99), Haarlem (NL, 2000), Utrecht (NL, ’02)
Installation: Aluminium, plasterboard, cardboard, electronics, motors, lamps, computer controlled.
Each copier approx. 65 x 50 x 120cm.
Look-alike photocopiers perform an “at random” choreography with their flaps and moving lamps.
(Photography first image: Wim van Kouterik)
Flies
1999
Exhibition: Summerlaboratory, ArToll, Bedburg-Hau (DE)
Installation: Origami Airplanes between the double window-frames like dead flies. Size Variable.
Entry
1999
Exhibition: Summerlaboratory, ArToll, Bedburg-Hau (DE)
Installation: Dandelions under the grating in front of the main-entrance-door. Size Variable.
Doomed to be trampled upon.
Romeo & Julia
2000
Exhibition: Summerlaboratory, Artoll, Bedburg-Hau (DE), Amsterdam (NL, ’04).
Installation 1: Romeo: Wood, Plastic, pipe-insulation. Approx. 200 x 110 x 70cm.
Installation 2: Julia: Toilet, ventilator, ir switch, trash bin, safety blanket. Size variable.
Pulpit/Rostrum
2000
Exhibition: Artrelay (speakerscorner), Gouda (NL, 2000).
Object: tube, wood, metal. Approx. 100 x 120 x 160cm.
Group exhibition with the theme Religion. With “Speakerscorner” representatives of all religions could preach from this pulpit which was made for the occasion. A bit rocky, it makes the speaker lose fixed ground.
Chilly
2000
Exhibiton: Tegenbeeld, Old Meat market Haarlem (NL, 2000).
Installation: Cold-store-device, wood, former entrance. Approx. 240x220x220 cm.
A 17th century meat market was converted into a museum some twenty years ago. The glass entrance was added for climate control. That entrance became obsolete again after the museum was extended. For Tegenbeeld this former entrance was temporarily converted into a cold storage room. The glass fogged up on the museum side and visitors started drawing and writing on the dimmed glass.
Without title (Bachorgan)
2000
Exhibition: Bach and the arts, from Akteins, Cologne (DE).
Installation: Airpump, wood, PVC-pipes, tubes, aluminium, life jacket
size variable, floating device approx. 650 x 650 x 230cm.
By treading on the air pump visitors are able to float this circular set of pipes and tubes, with a lifejacket in the centre.
Mankind
2001
Exhibition: Man from Akteins at the University Cologne (DE).
Installation: Neoprene, wood, foam rubber, styropor.
(4x) approx. 65 x 50 x 35cm.
Stools of diving-suit material, in the shape of numbers, placed in a pathological institute, are surrounded by numbered hall stands, numbered students and numbered preparations preserved in formaldehyde.
Corridor / Overflow
2002
Exhibition: visiting the neighbours, Tabitha, Amsterdam (NL).
Concept/curated/organization together with Guda Koster.
Installation: Wood, pieces of carpet. Approx. 230 x 160 x 218cm.
In front of a window at the end of a corridor in a care centre, is a colorful pile/mountain/staircase made of many layers of carpet.
The upper inside
2002
Artists in residency, ArToll, Bedburg Hau (DE).
Two Objects: Beaker and Dish made of tablets, glued together, on the altar of the church at the grounds of an asylum.
Dish diameter approx. 30cm.
Until mid 20th century, for patients in this asylum it was mandatory to join the mass in this church every Sunday.
Freeze
2002
Proposal for a competition. (not selected).
Fountain: Stainless steel, ice cube machine, acrylic tubes, wood (benches). Approx: 3,5 meter diameter.
This Fountain doesn’t sprout, it drips. Ice cubes, made in the machine in the top of the pole, drop down through acrylic tubes, creating a whistling sound.
They fall in the wired basket and start melting. As a result water drips on the roof, creating a constant dripping sound.
From the roof the drops fall into the water that encircles the base and the benches underneath the roof.
Gap
2002
Exhibition: Test image from Halo Foundation at the former Court house Utrecht (NL).
Installation: 37 x 35mm-slides (+ projectors + screens).
At the street side of this former Court house building, screens and projectors are placed behind each window. Together they show a collage-style panorama of an overgrown fence, the time stamp on each slide suggests it proves something. But does it?
Mould / Foolish
2003
Exhibition: Numbers only at Arti, Amsterdam (NL), Cologne (DE, ’04), Bedburg-Hau (DE, ’04),
Sculpture: Chicken egg-shells glued together. Approx. 50 x 40 x 45cm.
Without title (the Kiss)
2003
Project: the Kiss, proposal for an exhibition in the small citypark Sarphatiepark, Amsterdam (NL).
Installation: Grass (by temporarily covering the grass, imprints are visible). Size variable.
Throughout the park tens of imprints, each shaped differently and with different measurements, suggest a camping site after summer.
Victory platform
2003
Project: playing/games, (Cover of) Supplement of the Amsterdam newspaper Parool (NL).
For the occasion of the 75th birthday of the monumental Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam, Artists, writers, journalists and sportsmen let themselves be inspired by the architecture, the sport, the history and the Olympic Games. All contributions together were published in one themed magazine/supplement (PS) of the newspaper Parool.
Concept/Organisation/Curated together with Guda Koster.
FrontPage of the themed magazine/supplement Parool PS. Tabloid, approx. 87.000 copies
The 8th Continent
2003
Exhibition: Come Home (Kommen sie nach Hause), Exhibition at private homes in Cologne, Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, (’03-’04).
Object: Three different sorts of cat litter, glued together. Approx. 10 x 15 x 2cm.
Nest
2004
Exhibition: New Members, Arti, Amsterdam (NL), Cologne (DE, ’04), Educational Art-DVD for Dutch schools (NL, ’07)
Object: Chips forks. Approx. 30x30x25 cm.
Summertime
2004
Exhibition: 100 years Lombok, Utrecht (NL), Amsterdam (NL, ’05).
Sunshades in various sizes. Size variable.
Like pop-up tents these sunshades in the landscape seem the pioneers of new inhabitants.
Icecap
2004
Project: Turmstipendium/Grant, Watertower Geldern (DE).
First proposal: Put an icecap on top of the roof. The high cost of this project due to the immense installation and energy input needed, made it impossible to realize.
Run-through
2004
Project: Turmstipendium/Grant, Watertower Geldern (DE).
Installation: Toilet seat covers made of artificial grass (some of moquette). Approx. 9-meter diameter.
A theatrical assembly around the central pipe that used to drain the water out of the basin.
The tower is located next to a railway and a football field.
WaterLand
2004
Proposal for a competition by the occasion of creating the new subway in Amsterdam (NL), InNL booklet (’11).
Sculpture: Concrete tiles chained together and floating on Styrofoam, the lampposts also float and sway in the waves. Planned near the former site of the Amsterdam gallow-island. Approx. 1800 x 1000 x 700cm.
Tree-tunnel
2004-2010
Proposal (manipulated photo) for a site specific work. InNL booklet (’11)
Polder-landscape, concrete. Size variable.
In a flat Polder-landscape an open tunnel mimics the effect of trees disappearing behind hills.
Ground level
2005
Exhibition: Polderlicht Amsterdam (NL), InNL booklet (’11).
A sculpture route around the polluted grounds of a former Gas factory.
Installation: Lampposts, electric wiring. Approx. 3500 x 2000 x 120cm.
A small row of lampposts seems to be sunk into the ground or grown out of it. Originally more than 12 meters high they peep out of the pavement with just a little more than their glowing heads.
Socle
2005
Exhibition: Artlibrary Nieuwegein (NL).
Installation: Wood, electronics, textile. Approx. 260x120x100 cm.
In the shopwindow of this art library is an empty pedestal. All of a sudden its soft skin starts to tremble; one moment in one place, the other moment in another.
EXIT
2005
Exhibition: Tulips from Kabul, Dogtroep in fortress Ruigenhoek (NL).
An installatin project with guided tours in an old fortress near Utrecht with and about asylum seekers.
Sculpture: Wood, hourglass, safety hammer. Approx. 21 x 21 x 5cm.
Cast
2005
Exhibition: Tulips from Kabul, Dogtroep in fortress Ruigenhoek (NL).
An installation project with guided tours in an old fortress near Utrecht with and about asylum seekers.
Installation: wood, paper, binder-paper, binder-rings, carpet.
Instant
2005
Exhibition: Pumpingstation Wachtendonk (DE), Utrecht (NL) (’05), Eitorf (DE) (’13).
Sculpture: Pedestal, glass, chicken-eggs, spy-lenses. Approx. 140 x 30 x 30 with pedestal.
A white pedestal with two chicken-eggs on felt under glass. The two small spy-lenses “look” towards the outside.
Coffee
2006
Exhibition: Coffee, former coffee-roasting factory Antwerp (BE),
Group exhibition with Karla Houben and Margreet Kramer.
Installation; Insulation sheets, electronics, ventilators, oasis floral foam (globe). Approx. 160 x 160 x 160cm (globe), mattresses in different 1:1 sizes.
Fans slowly push air into the mattresses and then let it flow out again, this make them seem to breathe slowly with soft crackling sounds.
Ice-zebra-crossing
2006
Proposal (manipulated photo) for a site-specific work. InNL booklet (’11)
Canal, ice machine. Size Variable.
During summer, in a canal, an ice-zebra-crossing makes it possible to cross the canal as if it were winter.
Hostess
2006
Exhibition: pumping station Wachtendonk (DE), Eitorf (DE, ’13).
Show in a former water pumping station. Autumn: freezing cold.
Sculpture: Socks, paper dispenser. Approx. 60 x 45 x 38cm.
A sock-dispenser for warm feet.
Tie / Tire
2007
Exhibition: UitZicht, Artwalk Amsterdam (NL), InNL booklet (’11),
Bedburg-Hau (DE, ’12)
A show with the invisible gardens behind the houses as a theme. Each artist interviews the tenants about gardens and gardening. Their stories become the inspiration for the artworks shown in the shop windows of this art show. Concept/curation/organization together with Guda Koster.
Installation: Photoprint mounted on Aluminium, spider paper, antique bookstand.
In his childhood, the tension between A. and his father eased when they were gardening together. It was only after his father’s death that he picked up gardening again.
Bagatelle
2007
Competition (not selected): Broekpolder Vlaardingen (NL), InNL booklet (’11).
Sculpture: Competition to design a landmark for a nearby natural reserve next to a motorway.
The history of this reserve began as a chemical dump and the soil so toxic it was forbidden to enter. Concrete, tree. Approx 900x900x1500 cm.
Semper Virens
2007
Proposal (manipulated photo) for a site-specific work. InNL booklet (’11)
High voltage power line, Semper virens tree.
Wall of fame
2007
Exhibition, Polderlicht, Amsterdam (NL), Eindhoven (NL, ’08).
Installation: 128 flash-guns from disposable cameras, infra-red-sensors, electronics, computer steered, red carpet (in Eindhoven). Approx 900 x 600 x 240cm.
These flashes flash randomly yet somehow triggered by the visitors. (In Eindhoven: All of a sudden the flashing can stop, the “normal” light lights up, the dream is broken. After a few moments the flashing starts again and the dream continues.)
(images: Jan Theun van Rees).
Without title (13)
2008
Exhibitions: Beehive, Amsterdam (NL, ’08 – ’10).
Quickly changing group show with approx. 30 artists. Each artist has a white (cube) box of 60 x 60 x 60cm. Every Monday a new opening event.
The setup of this alternative set of shows was a good opportunity to test and try various ideas.
By chance my box number was 13. To start with I reacted to the superstition around that number.
Level
2008
Exhibition: Landverkenners, Oostknollendam (NL), InNL booklet (’11), Schokland (NL, ’20).
Sculputure: 12 waterlevels, 2 palls. Approx 10 x 115 x 200cm.
Group show in a polder which became a bird sanctuary.
From afar this work looks like a sign, getting closer it becomes clear there is no text on this sign. Closer again one recognizes the levels that don’t seem to make sense.
Without title (Home)
2009
Exhibitions: Beehive, Amsterdam (NL, ’08 – ’10).
Quickly changing group show with approx. 30 artists. Each artist has a white (cube) box of 60 x 60 x 60cm. Every Monday a new opening event.
The setup of this alternative set of shows was a good opportunity to test and try various ideas.
Wings/Churls
2009
Exhibition: Skybox Marcipanis, Amsterdam (NL).
This former school building now houses studios and a restaurant. In the former doorman’s house shows are organized.
Installation: several garlands made of black paper bird-silhouettes, black adhesive foil. Size variable.
Standard
2009
Competition: Borderland (not selected), Drente (NL).
Sculpture: Landartproject. 2 Flagpoles, a silver flag, a golden flag.
A silver flag is hoisted in the woods, between the trees. Nearby, in an open, cultivated field, is a golden flag.
Head over heels
2009
Competition (not selected): Honderdmorgen, Lingerwaard (NL), InNL booklet (’11).
Sculpture: Competition to design a temporary abode in the context of the river delta, brick factories, clay and bricks.
This House ironically embodies the difficulties involved with building brick houses in the marshy soil of the Netherlands.
Archimedes
2009
Competition (not selected): Honderdmorgen, Lingerwaard (NL), InNL booklet (’11).
Sculpture: Competition to design a temporary abode in the context of the river delta, brick factories, clay and bricks.
This rowing-boat defies all intuition. Laying upside down you don’t know if it can really float.
From underneath it looks like a part of an arched roof.
Those who look to the outside
2009
Exhibition: Ander licht, Hardebollenstraat, Utrecht (NL), Amsterdam (NL, ’10)
In a red light district a changing group show in a former prostitution window with installations that react to the surroundings.
Installation: window blinds, electronics, motors, wood, wires. Size variable.
All windows are covered by window blinds that occasionally peep open slightly, making passers-by feel like they are being observed.
Without title (Proboscis)
2010
Exhibitions: Beehive, Amsterdam (NL, ’08 – ’10).
Quickly changing group show with approx. 30 artists. Each artist has a white (cube) box of 60 x 60 x 60cm. Every Monday a new opening event.
The setup of this alternative set of shows was a good opportunity to test and try various ideas.
This party horn box shows the party horns to visitors while other visitors have to kneel down to blow into them. Later one could drop money in one box, which activated a vacuum cleaner that blew the party horns inside another box. Without any physical connection, the money landed in the other box.
Evolver
2010
Exhibition: Bewegter Wind, Lichtenfels (DE).
Installation: Visitors can unroll a huge party horn, using a large air-pump. The sound is the cacophony from several horns together. Once the pump stops, it rolls back silently.
Pioneers
2010
Proposal (manipulated photo) for a site specific work at the outskirts of a large City. InNL booklet (’11)
Various standard concrete tree planters placed in the middle of meadows that surround the city. Size variable.
Rough diamond
2010
Proposal for a competition (not selected) for a new fountain in a city park in Schiedam (NL), InNL booklet (’11).
Fountain: 3 arms of an excavator mounted on a concrete pedestal. Randomly these arms dig up water with their buckets and let it pour out of holes in the buckets, back in the pond again and again.
500 hand-cut sheets of A4
2011
Exhibition: Consumer Art, Project 72, Alkmaar (NL).
Group-show on the theme of Consumerism.
Object: 500 hand-cut din-A4 sheets of paper on a pedestal. Approx. 21 x 29,7 x 120cm.
His Gardener
2011
Residency with group-show: The ideal man, ArToll, Bedburg Hau (DE).
Land Art piece; Fallen leaves, partly removed. Approx. 9 meter diameter.
This H in a circle resembles both a helicopter landing spot, the sign for a men’s toilet and the sign for bus-stop in Germany.
RUF (Cry / Reputation)
2011
Residency with group-show: The ideal man, ArToll, Bedburg Hau (DE).
Residency in one of the 60 houses on the grounds of an old asylum.
Sculpture: Ironwire, steelwool. Approx. 240x90x80 cm.
Slow Prototyping
2011
Residency with group-show: The ideal man, ArToll, Bedburg Hau (DE), Eitorf (DE, ’13)
Residency in one of the 60 houses on the grounds of an old mental hospital.
Installation: Din A4 paper sheets, sanded. Total size variable.
These toy-size cars are made of stacked but unattached sheets of paper. Therefore playing is not possible.
Only a gust of wind could blow them apart.
Green
2011
Proposal (manipulated photo) for a site specific work. InNL booklet (’11)
Polder-landscape, concrete foundations, Steel, paint. Size Variable.
Golf-courses often mimic a slightly hilly landscape; the variation makes it more attractive to play on. In the Dutch Polder-landscape these variations have to be man-made.
The artwork mimics a golf-course in a hilly landscape that isn’t there. The normally sandy spots of a court are recreated in steel and put on poles to lift them above the ground. The result is the abstract imagination of a nonexistent golf-course.
Radar
2012
Proposal (not selected) for the Amsterdam (NL) Light Festival.
Installation: Electronics, motor, table tennis balls, green laser, acrylic ball. Size variable.
A green laser rotates in circles close under the surface of a canal. A green line moves around like on a radar screen. Several small balls are floating in the water. Once the laser hits these small balls they light up.
Landing-stage
2007-2011
Proposal (manipulated photo) for a site specific work. InNL booklet (’11)
Park in Amsterdam, wood. Size Variable.
The terrain of the parks in Amsterdam subsides by several cm a year. Meanwhile the houses, build on piles, remain at their higher level. This is why the parks are on a lower level than the surrounding streets and houses. The parks reflect the artificiality of the Dutch landscape, and although everyone visiting a park walks downhill to enter the park and uphill to leave, no one really notices.
Forced growing II
2012
Residency with group-show: In front of behind, ArToll (Church), Bedburg Hau (DE).
With Elaine Vis and Guda Koster, we created Paradise 2.0 in the Church of this mental hospital.
Installation: Wood, plastic, plants, Natrium lamp. Approx. 400 x 300 x 275cm.
A greenhouse over/around the altar of the church.
Farther
2012
Residency with group-show in former cable factory (NKF) Delft (NL).
Print on adhesive foil. Approx. 18 x 10 meter.
Inspired by the famous early Graphic Designs which Piet Zwart made for the NKF, this large print on the facade mixes impressions of the current state of the location with my personal history.
I grew up in Delft and had my very first job in this very same factory building.
Fall-fantasy
2013
Part of a Videoinstallation showing videoworks of ca. 25 different artists, former Organfactory Karslruhe (DE). Video-loop 2min 56sec HD.
On the left side of the screen a suitcase is first packed and then unpacked, somehow synchronised with the wind turning the leaves of a fashion magazine on the right side of the screen.
Kicker (Kicker/Table Footbal)
2013
Working period: Wandel (change) at the ground of Artist/Entrepreneur Odo Rumpf, Cologne (DE).
Mannequin (modified) wood, metal. Approx. 220 x 200 x 50cm.
Odo has many mannequins lying around, many of which he already has transformed into some sort of metal humanoid artwork. Opposite “Odonien”, a railway-Bermuda-triangle transformed into a nightlife/artistic event ground , is a 12-story building known as the largest brothel of Europe. Kicker interacts with the location.
Tempio
2013
Residency/Grant at the “Artist village” Schöppingen (DE).
Proposal for a pavilion, presented in a booklet. Pavilion: sand, concrete, metal, chains, benches, light.
Approx. 17,5×17,5×7 m.
The only way to reach this pavilion is through the loose sand that encircles it. In order to make it possible for each visitor to feel to be the first one ever to enter, everyone is invited to leave the pavilion without leaving any traces. The traces can be erased by moving around the arms with the chains (which hang on the sand-surface).
Pirouette
2013
Residency/Grant at the “Artist village” Schöppingen (DE).
Proposal for a windmill and some variations, presented in a booklet.
Windmill: concrete, helicopter, caterpillar, blades. Approx. 14x4x25 m.
Standing
2014
Group-show: Hanging Around, Art-Library Amsterdam (East)(NL).
Video-installation: A monitor hanging in a pendulum. Video-loop 3 min 43 sec HD, acrylic globe, metal, electronics, solenoids. Approx. 60 x 350(deflection) x 650cm.
A Pendulum is swinging. The suspended weight is a transparent globe with a monitor in it, showing two naked feet standing on a lined and numbered floor. The recording shows the feet while rotating around them. The two movements; the camera rotating around the feet and the swinging of the pendulum, interact.
Strip
2014
Proposal (not selected) for the Amsterdam (NL) Light Festival.
Installation: Prepared cars. Size Variable
Two lines of cars are floating in the main canal in Amsterdam, the headlights pointed towards each other.
The lights are lit; it looks as if there is a makeshift landing strip in the canal.
Sweepheart
2014
Residency with group-show: Control, ArToll, Bedburg Hau (DE).
Video-installation: Video-loop 9 min 52 sec HD, player, projector, white foam board (approx. 60×80 cm), black cloth, stepper-motor, electronics.
A hanging foot is recorded https://matthijs-muller.eu/wp-admin/post.php?post=370&action=edit&lang=enfrom underneath. You see the trees around it, losing their leaves. Looking closer you can see the small pulsating movements from the blood pumped through the veins. You can see the heartbeat.
The white projection-screen rotates in steps, approximately every second. A couple of steps clockwise, a couple of steps counterclockwise; alternating in direction. The two movements interact silently.
Blind Date
2014
Guided Tour around my new home in the countryside (Mierscheid, DE).
Guided Tour with printed photos and videos (on a tablet) of Artworks by 12 Dutch Artists.
Introducing myself as a Dutch artist (in Germany) I curated this Artwalk on location.
During a 2 hour walk through meadows and woods I chose 12 stops at points that all somehow related to an Artwork of a Dutch Artist.
I showed the artwork and explained its background, and the relation I saw to the spot.
Shaken
2014
Group-show: Kunstpunkte, at the old wool-factory in Eitorf (DE).
Object: chicken egg, door-handles. Approx: 20 x 20 x 4cm.
Throne
2014
Zero 1,2,3 a group-show in the elevator at the chamber of commerce, Cologne (DE), Eitorf (DE, 2014).
Sculpture: Stilts, wood. Approx. 50 x 50 x 160cm.
This small but very tall chair, made of stilts, is placed one of the many elevator-rooms.
Promised
2015
Temporary installation together with Sonja Karle in a shop-window in a subway-station in Amsterdam (NL).
Installation: Partly existing work, partly new work. Paper, wood, photo, metal, textile, rope, flag. Size variable.
A small associative landscape made to not fulfill a superterrestrial promise underground.
Almost Exactly
2015
Group show: Kunstpunkte, in the former Wool-factory Eitorf (DE).
Video-installation: Video-loop 2min50sec HD, Foam-board, electronics, servomotor, wires. Approx. 100x40x1 cm (Projection-Board).
A recording of a branch of a plant, moving in the wind. The recording is projected onto a board hanging in a large metal frame.
The board moves mechanically and seems to try to follow the movements by the wind. The sound you hear resembles the howling wind but sounds mechanical, a little spooky.
Take off
2016
Proposal (not selected) for a landart group-show, Sancy (FR).
Sculpture: Wood, metal. Approx. 470 x 290 x 560cm.
A dingy (entirely made of wood) floats in a lake. Where normally the outboard-motor is mounted, a semicircle is cut-out. Two poles, connected with a beam on top, rise above this. Underneath this beam is a metal plate, its slanted bottom-side reminds of a guillotine.
The outline of a tree is cut out of the plate.
Noose
2014
Group-show: Kunstpunkte, at the old wool-factory in Eitorf (DE), Geldern (DE, 2022).
Object: Festoons. Approx: 5 meter length (variable).
Ich bin (I am)
2017
Group-show: Mitwelt42103, in and around the new-Art-centre-Wuppertal (DE).
A group project about the tension between privacy and public matter.
Installation: Billboard in public space; photoprint, wood. Approx. 240×420 cm (Print).
The image used for Ich bin is a manipulated still from an execution-video send into the world by ISIS.
Both killer and beheaded are blurred slightly. The head of the victim/hostage is cut out so from behind you can put your head through the board and become part of the image.
Scattered over the picture, the shape of the oval cut-out is repeated (not cut out) as a graphical element.
The position of the persons, the color of their clothes and their strong outlines against a blue sky and desert, keep the image recognizable, certainly on a second look.
At the rear-side of the billboard, next to the oval opening, hangs a manual. It states the title of the work and the theme of the exhibition and invites people to stick their head through the billboard, make a picture of it and upload it to the website of the project (through a QR-code) and become part of the show. Only one person did this (with a dog in the opening). Many people did make the picture though, but didn’t want it to become public. Some recognized the source of the image only when they saw the image on the small screen of their phone/camera, with themselves in it.
Several threatening protests were sent to the local government, demanding the work to be removed immediately. As planned, after four weeks I removed the piece, unscathed and without any graffiti.
Water
2018
Group-show: Water from the company, shopwindows, Den Helder (NL).
Due to its location, for centuries the city of Den Helder used to be the main port of Dutch military. But after the end of the cold war, the military moved out.
The number of inhabitants shrunk notably. Poverty and unemployment became a common problem. Therefore the city centre has many empty shops and is about to be reorganized.
Installation: Waterbottle, water, wood, electronics, motor, video-loop 2min57sec HD, player, monitor.
A waterbottle in the size you normally don’t have at home is laying on a plate on the top of a triangular shaped sort of pedestal.
The pedestal contains a mechanism that makes the bottle roll smoothly: cap up-bottom-up, making the water move constantly in the bottle in a wave from left to right, and back.
At some distance a monitor shows a video of an image of a mountainous landscape. A finger pushes the image around, from left to right and back, more or less in synch with the bottle.
Now and again
2019
Group-show: Self is the other, Kulturwerkstatt Kircheib (DE).
Video-Installation: video-loop 19min56sec HD, player, projector, electronics, servo-motor, mirror, tripods.
Ab und zu is a projection of the head of a man (with a 30 day’s beard, eyes closed) on the upper side of the wall. Watching closely suddenly you notice the eyes blinking every now and then. Then randomly and completely unexpected the head seems to fall down, eyes wide open and accompanied by an unpleasant sound (created by the fast-moving servomotor). For a moment the head remains just above the floor, shaved. Then, much slower the head moves up again, eyes closed, the beard growing again.
Ouverture
2020
Group-project (proposal, not selected): Supergau (Meltdown) Flachgau, Salzburgerland Austria (AT).
Installation: 9 barriers, electronics. Size variable.
9 Barriers stand, scattered around, on the administrative border of two provinces, in an overwhelming landscape where nobody thinks of borders.
Like some strange kind of choreography they just open and close independently and randomly.
Inside-Out
2021
Group-show: Outside ArToll, Bedburg Hau (DE).
Video: video-loop 1min45sec HD, player, monitor.
Final show in this Artist-Initiative on the grounds of an asylum.
The recording shows a man seen from behind bars. He picks one bar and starts to balance it on his hand.
The opening in the bars doesn’t seem to interest him. He just balances the bar. You don’t see his hands, just the bars and his face and one bar moving behind them.
Then the bar is put back in its place.
Waterfall
2021
Group-show: Poet on the water/closer to the water, former island Schokland (NL).
The show is a sculpture-route on and around the former island (now an elevation in the polder – and Unesco World Heritage).
Sculpture: wood, 5 buckets, showerhead.