Bier en Brood

wall painting

Renowned for pushing visual art boundaries with expansive murals, the canvases stretch from skyscrapers to container ships. These black-and-white creations seamlessly blend cyber precision and traditional painting, blurring the lines between virtual and real worlds. Influenced by contemporary society and cutting-edge technologies, creator of murals that often feature surrealistic and psychedelic elements.

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    • PANOPTIC PASS

    Residencies / exchange

    • 05-02-2020 t/m 01-01-3000
    • In collaboration with: @powwowworldwide @powwowhawaii @montanacans_usa @hawaiihta @xlargejp @xlarge_us @ourkakaako @wardvillage @montanacans @monsterenergy @hawaiianairlines @alohilaniresort @zippys @scotthawaii @heineken @citymill @kahala @thinkspace_art @cbkrotterdam
    • Location: Hawaii, United States of America, Honolulu
    • Mural made for Pow Wow Hawaii now known as World Wide Walls. "This piece “PANOPTIC PASS”, is a gateway into the infinite. A look at the future is like having a look through a window with a moving landscape outside, the view is different every time we peek and through each window we gaze. world is that ever changing vortex that we are all passing through with a different personality and perspective." made possible by CBK
    • https://bierenbrood.nl/project/pow-wow-hawaii-2020/

    Rotterdam art ride

    Project

    • 05-06-2018 t/m 09-06-2018
    • In collaboration with: Foundation Mesh
    • Location: Maashaven, Rotterdam
    • Rotterdam Art Ride (ROAR) is an art project in the South of Rotterdam. 18 pillars under the metro line are painted by an international group of emerging and established artists from all over Europe. The goal of the project is to make visual art accessible to a wide audience and to inspire residents on a daily basis. The project focuses on making the neighborhood more lively for it's inhabitants and offer a new icon to the city of Rotterdam. The inspiration for this painting was movement.
    • https://www.bkor.nl/schilderkunst/zonder-titel-8/

    PAREIDOLIA ASCENT

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 11-05-2021 t/m 01-01-3000
    • In collaboration with: STRAAT
    • Location: STREET, Amsterdam
    • We visited STRAAT to create a work for the collection of their museum. A landscape of thoughts was our starting point for this piece.Thoughts are a collection of connections made up of memories and interactions with the world around us. Every now and then one recognizes something in what one sees that is actually something else.The world is rapidly climbing a to vision of the future, which in everyone's perception will have a different outcome.
    • https://straatmuseum.com/

    Lions on the Coolsingel

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-06-2020 t/m 01-09-2020
    • In collaboration with: Museum Rotterdam, Municipality of Rotterdam, CBK Rotterdam, Rotterdam city archives
    • Location: Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • An exhibition in memory of WW2 Rotterdam in, 75 years of liberation. Five Rotterdam based artists painted the walls in the museum. Each wall depicts a different time frame of Rotterdam during WW2. Our artwork represents the start of the war 80 years ago when Rotterdam got invaded by the Nazi regime.
    • https://bierenbrood.nl/2020/06/05/leeuwen-op-de-coolsingel/

    Illustrator for de Volkskrant

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-01-2014 t/m 01-01-2024
    • In collaboration with: Volkskrant
    • Location: The newspaper, Amsterdam
    • Illustrator for a large number of illustrations in the Volkskrant between 2014 and 2020, including the weekly column The Makeable World with instructional illustrations for do-it-yourself inventions. But also varying illustrations on current themes and cartoons.
    • https://www.volkskrant.nl/

    Illustrator for De Standaard

    Task

    • 01-01-2016 t/m 01-01-2020
    • In collaboration with: De Standaard
    • Location: The newspaper, Antwerp
    • Illustrator for a large number of illustrations in the Belgian newspaper De Standaard between 2016 and 2020 Varying illustrations on varying themes.
    • https://www.standaard.be/

    Form

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 22-03-2024 t/m 01-02-3000
    • In collaboration with: Amare The Hague
    • Location: Amare, The Hague
    • Made on the walls of "Amare Studio". Rehearsal space for @residentieorkest and part of the Amare building located in the center of The Hague. This cultural center also houses @ndtdance @koninklijkconservatorium and functions as a theater. Originally inspired by the architecture of the building, this work called "Form" is an exploration of the essence of Amare - the interplay between sound, movement and visuals which house within the walls of the building.
    • https://www.amare.nl/

    The Auguries

    • 15-09-2024 t/m 07-12-2022
    • In collaboration with: Mtn Germany, Hola utopia, Hanova Immobilien
    • Location: Mehlstrasse, Hannover
    • Triptych in Hannover. This project that started in September as part of the @hola_utopia_festival and evolved into 3 murals. The future was the inspiration for these murals. How abstract would our world look to a caveman pit in this time. Imagine what it would be like to travel the same distance into the future. The murals represent portals into the future. A glance into another reality wich we are moving towards with tremendous speed.
    • https://www.hola-utopia.com/

    Acknowledgments

      Publication

    • CONTRAST

    • 2020
    • Book
    • Karski - Karski
      Publication

    • Picture This:

    • 2023
    • Book
    • The Book Factory - Jaap van der Doelen
      Publication

    • Illustrations Volkskrant

    • 2014
    • Newspaper Illustrations from 2014 to 2020
    • Volkskrant - Various
      Publication

    • Illustrations The standard

    • 2016
    • Newspaper Illustrations from 2016 to 2020
    • De Standaard - Various