About

Artist statement

I am a visual artist working at the intersection of sculpture and philosophy, researching the hidden narratives of our built environment. My artistic practice is driven by a desire to find meaning in the transience and constant transformation of our urban landscape.

In my work, I create sculptural interpretations of spaces that are about to disappear. These places occupy a transitional state just before demolition or renovation, when they have lost their function, ownership, and control. In that liminal moment, they become open to decay, distortion, and unplanned use. Silence and darkness enter these places, allowing for the wisdom and mystery of place and space to emerge.

I encounter such spaces in the fringes of the city. My focus is not on dramatic sites of rusty factories or conflict zones, but on more mundane, silent contemporary ruins: empty shops, disused offices and abandoned homes. These overlooked environments are products of our time too, where economic shifts and political tensions turn each location into a layered collage of temporal fragments. In these places, reality often appears stranger than fiction.

In my practice I invite people to pause with the ambiguity these places hold: the weight of the past, and at the same time the possibility for reflection, wonder, and an unexpected form of beauty. In my studio and in public space, I seek ways to make this fragile tension expressible, allowing viewers to connect with both the past and the poetic mystery that remains today.

My projects are not monuments, but open sites of encounter, where darkness and attraction, past and presence, reality and imagination intersect.

CV

Summary - full resume available on request

  • 2002-2006 ArtEZ Fine Art Arnhem, graduated BA

    1996 - 2002 Wageningen University, graduated Ir./ MSc.

  • 2024 Art Noord, Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen

    2023 ACEC Apeldoorn

    2022 Paltz Biënnale, Soest

    2021 IJsselbiënnale, Dieren

    2020 Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam

    2019 Kunst op de Koffie, Arnhem

    2018 Art on paper, Amsterdam

    2017 Galerie Plan D, Düsseldorf (D)

    2016 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

    2015 PAK, Gistel (B)

    2014 State Museum of the history of St. Petersburg (RF)

    2013 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (HR)

    2012 Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo

    2011 Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam

    2010 Art Amsterdam

    2009 Prix de Rome, De Appel, Amsterdam

  • 2022 Panorama Fibula, Loowaard, Duiven

    2017 Getuigen, installatie, Fort Beneden-Lent, Nijmegen

    2016 Lost and found, folly, Baron van Wassenaerpark, Ede

    2015 Element of surprise, object, Tolkamer

  • 2022 - present BA Art and Design in Education, ArtEZ, Arnhem

    2016 - 2020 BA Fine Art, Utrecht University of the Arts, Utrecht

    2008 - present Guest and Project teacher at academies across The Netherlands

  • 2020 - 2021 AIR Stingerbol, Ede

    2014 - 2020 AIR Geheime Bunker, Studio Omstand, Arnhem

    2016 Metaphorically Speaking, Circa…Dit, Arnhem

    2015 Bakens aan het Water, Provincie Gelderland

    2013 + 2011 ArtEZ Finals BA Fine Art Arnhem

    2010 -2011 Synchronic Spaces, Paraplufabriek (POST), Nijmegen

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