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Wouter Osterholt

Zum Grünen Wald

Zum Grünen Wald

(German for 'To the Green Forest') is a on-site production of a sculpture in an effort to talk with passers-by on the impact of the climate crisis and its effects on the Grunewald forest in Berlin, DE. (2022)

Deep Time Agency Exhibition

Deep Time Agency

An exhibition of Deep Time Agency, a multi-year, artistic research initiative with the aim to contextualise archaeological and paleontological objects in (post-)industrial landscapes, Rotterdam, NL. (2022)

Moeraspaleis

Moeraspaleis

(Dutch for Swamp Palace) is a reconstruction of a primeval forest, based on an ecological experiment of the paleoanthropologist Eugène Dubois, Tegelen, NL. (2022)

Concrete Reef

Concrete Reef

Site-specific sculpture designed as an artificial reef for a post-industrial lake in a former limestone quarry near Maastricht, NL. (2022)

Video

Ancestors Rising

Drone flight over the Garzweiler lignite mine as a means to reactivate two 10.000 year old archaeological objects, North-Rhine Westphalia, DE. (2022)

Exhibition 2022

Kaalslag

(Dutch for 'Clear Cut') Overview of tree-felling protests in the Netherlands, used as source material for a series of performances in the Amstelpark in Amsterdam, NL. (2020 - 2022)

Exhibition 2022

Una Forza Del Passato

(Italian for 'A Force from the Past') Archeological survey of the former Borghetto Latino, an informal neighborhood in the Appian Way Regional Park in Rome, IT. (2019 - 2022)

Installation and workshop in Cairo, EG

Taking Stock

Commemorative work on the closure and consequent transformation of the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, EG through a series of interactive still-life drawing sessions. (2020 - 2021)

Exhibition at Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL

Descent into the Future

Installation as a proposal for the return of a fish fossil to its original find site in a post-industrial lake in NRW, Blausteinsee, DE. (2020 - 2021)

Golden Tide

Golden Tide

Project on the influx of sargassum seaweed in the Caribbean, launched at a tourist market in Curaçao. (2019)

Beacon Tree

Beacon Tree

Outdoor painting sessions as a means to organize a neighborhood gathering based on an ancient tradition of a local trysting tree in Dagenham, London, UK. (2017 - 2019)

Island of a Million Palm Trees

Island of a Million Palm Trees

Palm tree made from waste tires found on the man-made island of Nurana in the North of Bahrain. (2017)

Buurtwacht

Buurtwacht

(Dutch for Neighborhood Watch) Mobile projection of an animated Assyrian sculpture 'patrolling' the streets around a newly opened asylum center in Maastricht, NL (2016)

Paraíso Ocupado

Paraíso Ocupado

(Portuguese for 'Occupied Paradise') An exhibition as a proposal for a new museum in Rio de Janeiro based on the reconstruction of a failed modernist plan. (2012 - 2016)

Vapauden Temppeli

Vapauden Temppeli

(Finnish for 'Freedom Temple') Reconstruction of a failed memorial proposal with the aim to reconsider the foundations of the Finnish state. (2015)

De Vlucht

De Vlucht

(The Flight) Sugar sculpture as a temporary monument dedicated to newly arrived migrants in Breda, NL. (2015)

Exhibition Frisian Museum

Weest geen Knecht der Menschen

(Be not a servant of men) Documentary work on the conflict between protestant Mennonites and Ayoreo indians in Paraguay. (2013)

İNSANLIK ANITI - YARDIM EDEN ELLER

Insanlik Aniti - Yardim Eden Eller

(Turkish for Monument to Humanity - Helping Hands) Proposal for a new Monument to Humanity as an alternative for the demolished sculpture in Kars, TR. (2011 - 2013)

St. Joseph

St. Joseph

Participatory ritual on notions of debt, poverty, prosperity and wealth in a neighborhood in Boxtel, NL. (2013)

Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

Public intervention with CCTV cameras with the aim to find participants for workshop about online privacy, Zoetermeer, NL. (2013)

Open to the Public

Open to the Public

Research and a public platform for discussion about the meaning and potential of vacant buildings in Preston, UK. (2013)

De Meent

De Meent

(The Commons) A proposal to buy a house with a large, heterogeneous group of people in the center of Amsterdam, NL. (2012)

To the Other End

To the Other End

Project about the live export of sheep from Western Australia towards the Middle East. (2012)

Where Opinions Meet

Where Opinions Meet

Public consultation on the design of two mosques in Eindhoven, NL. (2010)

My Country is the World

My Country is the World

Redesigned post-war propaganda posters with quotes from cosmopolitan thinkers as a proposal to reimagine a historical narrative. (2010)

Inspraakronde

Inspraakronde

(Public Consultation) Project on the phenomenon of citizen participation in urban planning, situated in a renovated neighborhood in Leeuwarden, NL. (2009)

Your Home is in Our Hands

Your Home is in Our Hands

Exploring the fallout of the American housing crisis by pushing a model home through the streets of a Los Angeles suburb, eliciting reactions, US. (2009)

Model Citizens

Model Citizens

Miniature replica of neighborhood as basis for community workshop, Cairo, EG. (2009)

Celebrate Diversity

Celebrate Diversity

Performance with flags of the 10 most represented nationalities in the city of Eindhoven, NL. (2008)

Imagine Anything

Imagine Anything

Performance at speakers corner with commercial slogans found in city center of Toronto, CA. (2008)

Iceland Best Place to Live

Iceland Best Place to Live

30 Minutes performances in the city of Reykjavik with the aim to question Iceland’s first-place position in the annual U.N. report. (2007)

Sell and Cash

Sell and Cash

A display of local food products as a way to promote the agricultural heritage in the village of Sangiorgiu de Mures, RO. (2007)

100 % Natural

100% Natural

Intervention in Jordanian village with small billboards depicting natural elements cut out from street litter. (2007)

Demonstration of Protest

Demonstration of Protest

Public performance with replicas of historical banners used during previous protests in the city of Nijmegen, NL. (2007)

Sign Language

Sign Language

Video projections in public space of the sign language used by construction workers, Amsterdam, NL. (2007)

Your Home is a Castle

Your Home is a Castle

Project about disappearance of informal architecture in Groningen, NL (2006)

Interfacing Space

Interfacing Space

An installation as an abstract spatial experiment to test the influence of architecture on the movements of its users in Eindhoven, NL (2006).

Rave Nature

Rave Nature

Temporary stage in a forest near Maastricht, NL (2005)

Tunnel

Tunnel

Tunnel through gallery creates new public space in Groningen, NL (2004)

Refuse Dump

Refuse Dump

Intervention in newly build neighborhood with objects found in garbage containers in the Leidsche Rijn, NL (2004)

Patrimonium

Patrimonium

Facade project that combined old traditional Dutch heritage with new cultural influences. Realized in The Hague, NL (2004)

Atrium

Atrium

Architectural installation based on a research of atriums in office buildings in Rotterdam, NL (2003)

Storage

Storage

Installation made within a vacant shop with the aim to question the health and safety legislation in Leiden, NL. (2002)

Forest

Forest

Project examined the authenticity of Dutch forests. (2002)

© Wouter Osterholt 2023