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Idea consultation hour

Would you like to register immediately for the exhibition or consultation hour in Werkplaats Molenwijk? Send an email with your name, the desired date and time and whether you are coming for the exhibition and / or the consultation hour to the following email address: molenwijk@himmelsbach.nl Due to the current measures taken for Covid-19, it […]

The Monument for Okay People, Haarlem

The Monument for Okay People, Slachthuisbuurt is a community art project in the Slachthuisbuurt in Haarlem. In early 2012, local residents from this growing neighbourhood were given the opportunity to set up a monument for their neighbors. In workshops, people could make the name in clay of someone who they think has a warm heart. […]

A Paper Monument for the Paperless

Sixty woodcut portraits to give a face to the paperless migrants. Made to print in large quantities and so as to stick them up through the city streets as an hommage to these ‘outsiders’. A collective artist effort, initiated by Himmelsbach

The Monument for Okay People

A monument for the 99%, for the people who are not mentioned on monuments. A monument for my friends and obscure inspirators, artists, writers. Exactly in the geographical centre of the Netherlands, on a dike at the side of the Veluwemeer near Biddinghuizen. An attempt to give our culture the thumbs up with the help of this ritualistic tool. The monument as a tool to rewrite history. An ongoing participatory project. 2015-Now

One Hour of Free Help, Embassy of Goodwill

Residents of New York could receive an hour of free help as an attempt to save the Dutch social reputation. During the public art and performance festival ‘Art In odd Places’ 2014, in collaboration with performance artist Marieke Warmelink, I offered free help on and from Union Square. On the spot we gave help and […]

Platform for Unasked Art

Where the government sees the loitering of the youth as a problem, Platform for Unasked Art (PUA) sees them as an example; the only real users of the public space. PUA programs artistic interventions in the social space. From performances to placing sculptures and murals, visible and less visible interventions. This to encourage artists to […]

Wilders Web Shop

An online gallery with Geert Wilders as its muse, Using this populist politician as a brid. ge to bring art to the people Satirical social realism serving the market. For and against, we serve all, from bandages for your wounds to garden dwarves. An artistic prank inspired by how capitalism deals with subversive cultureThe first artists who were portrayed positively by Dutch tabloid television station PowNed. 2012-Now

One Day of Free Help

A performative action: two months offering free help. A self integration course in the city of Amsterdam. Breaking with social spectatorship. A research on how to reach ‘the unreachable citizen’. 2010

I Do Believe In You

During a solo exhibition in Moira-Utrecht, I used the gallery space as my home base to give Utrecht an ultimate ‘visual pat on the back’ during the cold winter months. In large numbers, I printed and pasted the Sinterklaas (Dutch Santa Claus like celebration) poster with the text “I Do Believe In You” on the […]

Asylum seekers are okay!

The idea behind this project arose with the question of what needs to change in the Netherlands at the moment and what is really worth paying attention to. The harrowing stories of refugees who have to live for years hopeless in detention centers under the direst circumstances led to the idea of embracing a message […]

The Shrinkfestival

Artist in residence Terhole, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, The Netherlands. How do you tackle the exodus in demographic areas such as Zeeuws Vlaanderen? Together with Tabo Goudswaard, I was invited to develop a strategy in the project “Krot of Kans (Shack or Chance)” together with sociologists, housing associations, sustainability researchers, photographers, writers and other artists. The aim was […]

Only the worst gives me feelings

Every political election, I have my doubts about the ritual of electing a representative of the people. Voting for a representative who comes close to me in terms of ideas feels like too little impact for me. In the video “Only the bad gives me the feeling I can make a difference”, I examine the […]

I’m engaged with your misery

‘I’m engaged with your misery’ is my first successful attempt to perform in public space.
Once I felt being locked up in my studio, in my creative reserve; the art world. There was a huge distance between me, the artist, and society, a feeling of spectatorship.

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