Site specific at Grote Kerk Veere, Zeeland, 2025-2026. Buoyants is a large scale sculpture developed alongside Ludmila Rodrigues, as a time travel vision for the monumental church in Zeeland. The work comprises a kinetic sculpture, spatial sounds, and tactile stations on seating islands, affording a vertical perspective. Invited as ‘Kerkmeester’ (church masters), we studied the…
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Quantum Mirror is an optical sculpture that 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…
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How an artwork becomes a continuous learning processor: the case of the technological cyclops One day around twilight at the Scheveningen beach, while the sun was setting in the horizon, we observed the number of people that reach out for their cameras to capture that precious moment. The colours, the warmth and the vanishing gleams…
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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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During Conflux Festival 2025, we presented Piano / Forte as a performance, along with multi-instrumentalists Jimi Hellinga, Myra Ida van der Veen, Wouter Mol and their vocal ensemble. Inside the unique space of the Brutus’ furnace we re-imagined Piano / Forte as a collective ritual. Accompanied by the sounds of the hurdy-gurdy and electronics by…
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Interference #001 is a light sculpture composed of a grid that interferes with its own reflection. The image that emerges is defined by the viewer’s position. Through the subtle interplay of material, shadow, reflection, and perspective, Interference #001 engages in a continuous dialogue with its audience. The work is not an image, but a system…
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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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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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