Commissions
In my commissioned art works I don’t aim for spectacular objects, but for spatial experiences that allow visitors to slow down, to dwell, and to engage with transience as a generative force. In a world that changes ever faster, they carve out much-needed spaces of stillness and meaning. Each project is a site-responsive intervention that engages architecture, landscape, and audience alike, while resonating with universal themes of memory, loss, and renewal.
Walkshops
My walkshops are guided explorations of disused and abandoned terrains. Through embodied experience, conversation, and attentive observation, my walkshops open a space for dialogue and for rethinking how we relate to the built environment beyond narratives of functionality or economic value.
They are especially relevant for communities, spatial planners, and cultural practitioners interested in new ways of engaging with participation, urban transformation, and artistic research.
(Photo: Once upon a time, walkshop with spatial planners on their project site in Diepenveen, commissioned by Kunstenlab, 2016)
Sculptural futures
Through on-site artistic research, I develop scenarios for the future of ruins that might otherwise be demolished. In these conceptually and ecologically driven proposals, the object itself is not erased or replaced, but reimagined as a sculptural presence; a work of art that continues to inhabit public space.
This approach offers an alternative to conventional art in public space: instead of adding a new artwork to a site, it transforms what is already there. The result is a reactivation of architectural remnants, where what was once seen as obsolete gains a renewed cultural life.
(Photo: Van leegstand naar sculpturen; concept for a sculptural future for the Stingerdome in Ede, 2012)
Sculptural reïncarnations
In my sculptures, I transform forgotten or deserted places into sculptural objects where recognition and estrangement coexist: a spatial object that once existed in reality reappears in another place, in another time.
These reincarnations want to emerge in quiet landscapes or within the silence of abandoned architecture. Detached from their original context, they invite free interpretations, self-chosen interactions, and profound moments of reflection.
(Photo: Panorama Fibula, sculptural watchtower, Loowaard, commissioned by the council of Duiven, 2022)
“You have changed this place without touching it. We saw it as a wasteland, as a rotten area in our neighbourhood. Our collaboration transformed it into a wild landscape, loaded with narratives, available for all of us.”
— Participant of the To Have And To Hold project, icm Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo, 2012