Fantastic Idea Artists Land in Amersfoort

This year, as an extension of my Himmelsbach Idea Library, I am collaborating with curator Arda van Tiggelen on a new community art project: Fantastic Idea Artists Land in Amersfoort. Commissioned by the municipality of Amersfoort, we bring artists and residents together to approach everyday issues in an unconventional way. On this page, you will […]

Easter Egg, Reality Check

A Hidden Layer in the Realism of Museum MORE Museum MORE invited me to present A Paper Monument for the Paperless in their ten-year anniversary exhibition on Dutch realism. An honor—so much so that I nearly forgot to critically examine the context in which this monument is now being exhibited. Realism in art has historically […]

The Woke Award

The Woke Award I am proud to announce that IMPAKT has done some shopping in the HIMMELSBACH subversive ideas catalog and chose to develop Idea 135, The Woke Award, with me during IMPAKT Festival 2024: DEAL WITH IT. Idea 135, ‘The Woke Award’ Idea 135: The Woke Award A playful disruption of the woke debate […]
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The New Vermeer

This work won the TV contest ‘The New Vermeer’ on Sunday, Feb. 12, with Himmelsbach’s surprising interpretation of Johannes Vermeer’s lost work, “A nobleman washing his hands”.
Think pile of a paper monument for the paperless woodcut prints on Hahnemuhle paper

A Paper Monument for the Paperless Edition

The ‘paper monument for the paperless’ limited edition: From street art to conversational piece and ambassador in culture-historical collections, institutes and museums.

The Himmelsbach Dutch Mountain tarot

My most gothic work till now. A tarot with references to my occult favorites: petroglyphs, Sola Busca, Pamela Colman Smith, Himmelsbach symbology and pop references.

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.
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Idea consultation hour

Conceptual consultation and inspiration centre in a community residency Werkplaats Molenwijk* by Framer Framed.

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
Playful bronze/brass artistic commemorative placard for a collision, alternative to an expensive repair

Memorial for a Crash

A Creative Collision: The Plaque at Kadoelenwerf Marina Last year, I accidentally crashed my boat into the dock at Kadoelenwerf Marina, the very place where I had just finished restoring it. The harbor master was going through a stressful period, and I was told that the damage would cost me at least €800 in repairs. […]

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’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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