Site specific for Grote Kerk Veere, Zeeland From 4th September to 26th October, 2025 and from April to May 2026. Buoyants, a large scale project at the Grote Kerk Veere. This site specific piece that I’ve been developing with my beloved Ludmila Rodrigues combines a time travel vision on this monumental church in Zeeland. The…
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photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Sunset subverts the iconic image of the sun sinking into the horizon by freezing its disappearance and rendering it visible at 360 degrees. It provokes new relations within the urban environment, while reflecting on the passage of time and our contemporary image production. Sunset in Amsterdam is presented by NDSM…
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Light Space Modulator is a kaleidoscopic tunnel that rotates around the visitors as they walk through. While the visitor’s body is free to walk, its image is multiplied by the reflecting walls inside the tunnel. Thereby one experiences an extension of their movement, deconstructed and inverted multiple times. The mechanism of the kaleidoscope offers an…
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Quantum Mirror allows the concept of quantum state to be experienced through the gaze of two observers. A double-sided mirror, from which an algorithmic pattern is cut out, is held simultaneously by two persons opposite to each other. While one sees 50% of their own reflection, the other 50% are the direct image of the…
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Sino at St Hippolyt Chapel, May 24th till June 2nd 2024 in Lana, Italy, as part of the exhibition ‘Ritual Rhythms: Modern Practices, Ancient Echoes’ during LanaLive. Under the theme Rethinking Rituals, the event dedicates itself to exploring and reflecting on the evolution of traditional rituals. The festival invites participants to discover new perspectives on…
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Ostraka is a kinetic sound sculpture that explores the spatialisation of sound within the context where it is installed. For this work, Mike Rijnierse has repurposed an old parabolic dish as two reflecting moving heads, placed on either side of a hall. Once an antenna for satellite communication, today this instrument is vehicle for acoustic…
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Sunset in the Woods was the latest iteration of Sunset, a collaboration between Mike Rijnierse and Ludmila Rodrigues, presented by Hangar Y, Southwest of Paris. The work was shown in the context of Prendre le Solei (Seize the Sun) an exhibition that examines the ever familiar, yet taken for granted central body of our solar…
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How many times is the sunset registered every day around the world? Can one actually capture its splendor and magnitude? Sunset in Paris was presented on Saturday, 3 June 2023, during Nuit Blanche. Sunset is a light sculpture created in collaboration with Ludmila Rodrigues, previously seen in The Hague, and in Delft. Sunset subverts the…
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Sunset in The Hague, from 6 to 9 October 2022, featured in BlowUp Art Den Haag and the Museumnacht (the night of the museums) on October 8th. Sunset is an on-going collaboration between Mike Rijnierse and Ludmila Rodrigues. Sunset subverts the iconic image of the sun sinking into the horizon by placing it within the…
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Exhibition at OYFO Techniekmuseum, in Hengelo (NL) from 23 April to 28 August 2022. The work was installed in conjunction of the showing of Mariska de Groot’s sound sculpture BROM. Piano / Forte is a sound sculpture in which two piano harps – the pianos stripped of the keys and supporting parts – swing in…
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Sunset in Delft is a sculpture that reenacts the everyday phenomenon of the sun sinking into the horizon, and it does so, inside of a city. This massive glowing body of light has been placed on the water, precisely at the crossing of three canals in the idyllic town of Delft – the place where…
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Volver is a light sculpture that reflects itself into infinity. A light source situated at the bottom of a cylindrical mirror bounces around by the rotation of two other smaller mirrors, drawing an ever evolving light image on a round surface of 1,5 m diameter. This continuous process of reflection offers the impression of a…
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