conceptual artist + independent (sub)urban artist-curator + empirical artistic field research + art-science-society + environmental storytelling + inventor of innovatory heritage = art as public space art + paleontology + geology + archeology + hydrology + ecology + future climate + conceptual ceramic techniques + technology =in search of the miraculous…the in-between-ness of the natural and artifactual: it’s a love story! sea + time + matter + landscape + climate co-founder, artist-curator of artists collective Satellietgroep since 2006
zinnelijkheid | emblematic …. shape-shifting sun, water, minerals…personal reference collection of fossils and/or artifacts2023: artist-in-residency Earthly Encounters, Clay Kitchen Portugal2023: Denken over de planeet Filosofie Den Haag 27 maart 20.00 Zaal 3 Den Haag over tijdgeest, en de verschuiving van professioneel naar ook publiek klimaatbewustzijn2023: De Wonderkamer-revisited over tijdgeest, over dingen en emoties en de verschuiving van materieel naar ook immaterieel erfgoed, Innovatory Heritage, Erfgoedlab DNA Zoetermeer2023: …. in search of the miraculous… the in-between-ness… of time + art + nature + 3-d technology…2022-23: In search of the miraculous…the in-between-ness…. Plantscapes, in the proces of making an imprint themselves…BCN 2022:…. in search of the miraculous…the in-between-ness ….Soft Shells….…..zinnelijkheid | emblematic ….July-mid Sept, 2022: it’s a love story, Earthly Provenance | Ancestral Intimacy, part of Our Living Soil, Zone2Source at Glazen Huis, Amstelpark Amsterdam; July-mid Aug 2022: Dagzomen, artist-in-residency at Park Studio de Orangerie, AmstelparkSphagnarium…ongoing2022: artist talks: The Anthropogenic Coastal Atlas | Now Wakes The Sea | Black Sea for Sinop Biennial, Sinopale 8, Turkey; for Batumi Urban Agenda, Georgia; and Governors Island, NYC.June 28, 2022: Studio Presentation, Sublime Soft Stones, artist-in-residency at CasCaDas ArtSpace, BarcelonaSoft Stones washed ashore, Barcelona, 2004-2020 June 2022: In search of the miraculous…, artist-in-residency at CasCaDas ArtSpace, BarcelonaGathering dust, or delay as an artistic research method (2019-2022), performative intervention, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam 2022Soft Soils, aardtijd is embedded within the exhibition Exploded View and the ongoing dialogue with artistEline Kersten since 2019; Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam Febr 19-March 27, 2022Sjjhagnmn(1872 – …. )Veldlessen over tijd, zee en klimaat | Field lessons on time, sea & climate, 2021toenadering [ˈtunadərɪŋ] 2021 with danser-choreographer Kenzo Kesudare-cast as repository | residual intimacy Open Studio, introducing Dunes Iron Age Porcelain & Celadon at Test Case XXIV, EKWC – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2021re-cast as repository | residual intimacy 2nd artist-in-residency EKWC – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2021 Water flows upward 5 months artistic field research, followed by 5 months DIY public participations, 2021aardtijd part 5 of The becoming, The Being & The meanwhile, subsurface as living climate archive, 2021Soft Soils, the in-between-ness of art & heritage with soil/Earth part 4 of The becoming, The being & The meanwhile, 2021essay, reflecting 10 years of artistic field research of/with Zandmotor, published in ‘Building with Nature Perspectives’ RiUS 7, Delft University Publishers, 2021Open Studio, introducing North Sea Fossils Porcelain & Celadon at Test Case XXII sedi | senti | ment at EKWC – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2020sedi | senti | ment artist-in-resident at EKWC – the European Ceramics Work Centre, 2020The becoming, The being & The meanwhile part 3: Breath of Soil(s), Zone2Source, 2020The becoming, The being & The meanwhile Land in Wording, part 1: Genesis & part 2: Onland, subsurface as living climate archive, 2019The art of making an Earth Sphere 24hr online global workshop, 2020as if it is, 2009-2020 is my shell cabinet a zoo? ethics of appropriations Posidonia Oceania, Ibiza, 2019Climate as Game Changer, ZeeLab#2, 2018
art as public space, 1996 – ongoing schommel, swing, TENT, Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam 2001founder, artist-curator of artists collective Satellietgroep, 2006 – ongoingZandmotor – a cultural phenomenon, 2014 – ongoing essay, published in ‘The Sand Motor: a nature-based response to climate change’ by Delft University Publishers, 2017Climate as Artifact, 2018 art redefines climate as an artifact, as something we make Who is nature? Zeelab # 1-5, 2018 essay, published in ‘The Urbanisation of the Sea’, nai010 Publishers, 2020 Landscapery, Gardening without Borders, 2017 Wadden Island Terschelling, Oerol Prospectors, three layers of landscape, 2017 Intersections, Art Rotterdam
Destination Highway Afsluitdam, Afsluitdijk 2017 a rock shore habitat in between 2 Natura2000 areas
Hole in the Sea, video, Sources & Resources artist-in-resident Praputnjak, Croatia, 2017Now Wakes The Sea, international exchange artist-in-residency programs since 2012 artist-in-resident at Governors Island, NYC, 2015Zandgast, Zandmotor, 2014 – ongoing artist-in-residency programs & Public Expeditions #1-18, ongoingAnthropogenic Coastal Atlas walking all the shores of the Netherlands, 2014 & 2015On Flux of Sand and Aquatic Ecosystems Liminal imaging of nature, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania, 2014 & 2015Stellingname – water, land & innovatory heritage, Haarlemmermeerpolder, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, 2013Xlendi, video. Malta, 2012 artist-in-resident Malta, Gozo, Buoyant-F’wiċċ l-ilma, 2016inventor of Innovatory Heritage a shift from static/exclusive to dynamic/inclusive heritageThe Chamber of Marvels of Zoetermeer, 2008-2009 4289, deconstructing institutional museologyEverybody is a director and curator of a museum residential area transformed in Museum Oostwijk, 2002-2009 To whom belongs the sea? Badgast, artist-in-residency programs, Scheveningen 2009-2014United Nations, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 27.1The Dutch are masters in disguising a cultural landscape as a natural one…, artist talks+ There is never only one story to tell. We all live in a bubble of a Truman Show. One day you wake up and realize what kind of world you live in …Ik noem haar Roos, 2000-2005 constructs of identity themed around a childhood memory archiveStonewater I, II & III, 1996-1997 sensing light, time, space, movement Himalaya, 1991-1996