Driessens en van den Baar WANDSCHAPPEN

textile - social-social - soft sculptures - figurative - design

As artists we develop images with a vision of current events, as they are palpable in our immediate environment. Our mission is to seduce with the images, to then reveal a deeper message that causes doubt and encourages reconsideration. We achieve this by continuing to analyze, rediscover and innovate our own developed working methods in order to contribute to a deeper insight into the world in which we live together.
As an artist duo we have been working together on an extensive oeuvre since 1999. Our collective energy and attention can always be found in all works of art that relate to the city of Rotterdam and developments in the world. The stages in the art and design world ensure visibility, sales and new questions. In this we realize our own space and meaning. The studio is the epicenter, from which new work is created with a small group of specialists.

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    • Collateral Damage

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 13-10-2023 t/m 07-01-2024
    • Location: Gallery Untitled, Rotterdam
    • Works in which nature and the landscape as both a protective and threatened phenomenon are the starting point. Part of it is connected to the disappearance of people on the run, in the sea, in forests (fires), in mountains and deserts, on their way to Europe and looking for a new life. Another part is about the disappearance of nature itself, as a result of our human actions.
    • https://galleryuntitled.nl/2023/10/17/collateral-damage-nu-te-zien/

    Apprentice and Master Program Kunstpodium -T Tilburg

    Other

    • 28-08-2023 t/m 30-06-2024
    • In collaboration with: Kunstpodium -T
    • Location: Kunstpodium - T, Tilburg
    • Together with a group of recent Dutch and Belgian academic graduates, we are working on a joint exhibition project based on studio visits, conversations and collaboration. As Master we are responsible for the process. The exhibition is designed together on the basis of equality. Nine groups will exhibit this year.
    • https://kunstpodium-t.com/

    "Greenpower"

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 30-05-2023 t/m 30-06-2023
    • In collaboration with: Rotterdam Roof Days
    • Location: Rooftops on Zuidplein, Rotterdam
    • We created the installation "Greenpower" on behalf of Rotterdam Roof Days. It is a collection of non-existent growth forms in ultramarine blue wool felt, which works its way from the air conditioning and extraction systems on the roofs of Zuidplein, under which a large number of fast food chains emit their polluted meat odors. "Greenpower" is one of approximately 25 works of art that were specially commissioned for the "Boven op Zuid" project. There were 15.000 visitors.
    • https://rotterdamsedakendagen.nl/bovenopzuid/

    Flower splendor

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 22-06-2023 t/m 29-07-2023
    • In collaboration with: Handwerkskammer für Munich und Oberbayern.
    • Location: Galerie Handwerk HWK Munich, Munich
    • Exhibition of twenty international artists and designers whose work focuses on flowers and plants. Curator Michaela Breasel has looked for a wide variety of craft applications at the highest level, in which technology optimally serves the concept. The majority of the artists come from Germany, the Netherlands, France and Great Britain.
    • www.hwk-muenchen.de/galerie

    No One Is Illegal

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 06-06-2022 t/m 09-07-2022
    • In collaboration with: SMAK Ghent
    • Location: SMAK Ghent, Ghent BE
    • SMAK Gent has invited Driessens and van den Baar to present the project "No One Is Illegal" in Room 1. To 'fill up' the room, the artists' studio was transferred to the museum to create a new collection of Dunkirk works with volunteers (people who have some experience with textiles) in Room 1, which were sold to visitors during the exhibition. Of 80 works created there, 62 have been sold.
    • https://www.wandschappen.nl/project/no-one-is-illegal-smak-gent/

    'L'éloquence de l'art dans la diplomacy'

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 23-05-2022 t/m 26-06-2022
    • In collaboration with: Dutch Embassy Paris / Atelier Néerlandais
    • Location: Atelier Néerlandais, Paris
    • "The expressiveness of art in diplomacy" is a group exhibition curated by Philippien Noordman, from the art collection of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, commissioned by the Dutch Embassy in Paris. The Ministry of BuZa has a number of works by Driessens and van den Baar in its collection.
    • https://atelierneerlandais.com/

    Toxic Times - Clashing Colours

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 03-06-2022 t/m 09-07-2022
    • In collaboration with: Gallery Untitled
    • Location: Gallery Untitled, Rotterdam
    • The exhibition shows a new collection of Felt Plants, brought together in a dark gray room, with theatrical lighting. Dark times reinforce the need for beauty.
    • https://galleryuntitled.nl/

    "No One Is Illegal" @ OBJECT Rotterdam

    Project

    • 30-06-2021 t/m 04-07-2021
    • Location: HAKA Building Rotterdam M4H, Rotterdam
    • The Installation "No One Is Illegal" is a life size tent made of wool felt, fully furnished with wool felt household goods, as an impression of a temporary shelter of a refugee family in the forests around Dunkirk (FR), stranded here on their journey to England. This work serves as a teaser for the collection of Dunkirk works, A3 wool felt paintings presented on the wall, which are for sale for € 350, half of which is donated to help these refugees.
    • https://www.wandschappen.nl/project/duinkerke/

    Public Works Rotterdam

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-07-2020 t/m 09-08-2020
    • In collaboration with: Rotterdam Festivals, CBK Rotterdam, Droom en Daad Foundation, Rineke Kraaij, Joost Maaskant
    • Location: 430 locations in Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • Public Works presents "images instead of advertising", more than 400 works by Rotterdam artists in the city, in the form of A0 posters. They are for sale, only 8 copies per artist, € 35 each. Driessens en van den Baar donates the proceeds to Saar Depuydt and Nathalie Ruysschaert, who collect food and clothing for refugees stranded in the forests around Dunkirk.
    • https://www.publiekewerkenrotterdam.nl/

    Figures and More

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-06-2020 t/m 21-06-2020
    • In collaboration with: South Explorer, HOMMES Art and Projects Rotterdam, CBK Rotterdam
    • Location: Atelier WANDSCHAPPEN, Rotterdam
    • "Figures and More" shows the Corona Series 2020. In this series images are distilled from the large amounts of graphs and numbers about the Covid 19 crisis that come to us every day. The aesthetics of the gruesome numbers, related to our youthful enthusiasm for the great charts in De Grote Bosatlas, demand their own meaning.
    • https://southexplorer.nl/en/

    Summer Show Gallery Untitled

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2020 t/m 01-09-2020
    • In collaboration with: Carlijn Kingma, Floris Hovers, Sander Buijk, Johan Kleijnjan, Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk, Luuk Bode.
    • Location: Gallery Untitled, Koningsveldestraat 14, Rotterdam
    • Group Show during the summer, with an extended collection Feltplants. During these two months multiple lectures and musical performances have taken place, for small groups of people.
    • https://www.untitled2011.com/

    Soundscapes @ OBJECT Rotterdam

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 06-02-2020 t/m 09-02-2020
    • In collaboration with: OBJECT Rotterdam / Anne van der Zwaag - Art Rotterdam Week
    • Location: HAKA Building, Rotterdam
    • This annual Art - Design Fair, curated by Anne van der Zwaag is part of the main program of Art Rotterdam Week 2020. We have presented our new series of wall felt works: Soundscapes. These are large scale wall objects, with a special acoustic application
    • http://objectrotterdam.com/

    Academy - Art The Hague

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 02-10-2019 t/m 06-10-2019
    • In collaboration with: Daan den Houter, Alex Jacobs, Maarten Bel
    • Location: Art The Hague - Fokker Terminal, The Hague
    • Bcademie presents a collection of small artworks on scaled pallets with a scaled forklit truck on a scaled catwalk during the five days of the art fair.
    • https://artthehague.nl/

    Light black Deep white

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-09-2019 t/m 22-10-2019
    • In collaboration with: Erwin Keustermans, Frank Halmans, Reinoudt van Vught, Renato Nicolodi
    • Location: Gevaertsdreef 01, Oudenaerde
    • Curator Erwin Keustermans assembled a show in the very particular spaces of Gevaertstraat 01, based on the theme of light and dark. We made some special black felt plant objects as contribution to this show.
    • http://www.gevaertsdreef01.be/archive.html

    Virtual Pleasures

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 06-04-2020 t/m 08-05-2020
    • In collaboration with: Hommes Art and Projects, Hugo Bongers
    • Location: On Line, Rotterdam and surroundings
    • The Netherlands has been locked down. The economy is storage. The corona virus holds us in an iron grip, and no one knows how long this will take. Exhibitions are canceled, counters and museum shops close, nothing needs to be decorated or tidied up. Artists immediately miss an income because of this, they often work as freelancers in the cultural sector. Therefor we've arranged this virtual show and meeting to sell smart art works.
    • https://www.facebook.com/Hommeskunstenprojecten

    Ventura Future 2019 - Solo Show

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 08-04-2019 t/m 14-04-2019
    • In collaboration with: Organization in Design - Margriet Vollenberg
    • Location: Base Milano, Milano
    • In the Annual Salone del Mobile, Ventura Future is the most autonomous and innovative show, for we were invited to make a solo show. New works, in the series Soundscapes have been presented there, together with a black collection of Feltplants.
    • http://www.venturaprojects.com/ventura-future-2019

    Premium Bohemian - Art Rotterdam Week 2019

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 08-02-2019 t/m 10-03-2019
    • In collaboration with: Gallery Untitled
    • Location: Gallery Untitled, Koningsveldestraat 14, Rotterdam
    • During Art Rotterdam Week 2019 Gallery Untitled has opened the group show Premium Bohemian with the artists of the gallery: Carlijn Kingma, Floris Hovers, Sander Buijk, Johan Kleijnjan, Atelier REM, and others
    • https://www.untitled2011.com/

    The Garden Project - Art Rotterdam Week 2019

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 08-02-2019 t/m 22-02-2019
    • In collaboration with: Milica Jovicevic - Vladimir Radujkov / CBK Rotterdam / Art Rotterdam Week
    • Location: De Achtertuin, Rotterdam
    • The garden project is show, curated by Milica Jovicevic and Vladimir Radujkov performing large size artworks connected to nature and garden.
    • https://artrotterdamweek.com/

    On Our Account - Here and There

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-10-2018 t/m 28-10-2018
    • In collaboration with: Wall Street Eindhoven - Dutch Design Week Eindhoven
    • Location: Wall Street, Eindhoven
    • Wall Street, the artist run space of Lucas Maassen en Margriet Craens presents the group show of designers and artists from Here and There Bangkok with students of the design department Fontys Tilburg. After a month of workshops and lectures with the students, the results are shown in Wall Street during the Dutch Design Week 2018
    • https://www.thisiseindhoven.com/nl/locaties/2040542495/wall-street

    HOMO FABER - “Crafting a more human future”

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 14-09-2018 t/m 30-09-2018
    • In collaboration with: Michelangelo Foundation Geneva - India Mahdavi / Jean Blancherat - Dutch Consulate Milano
    • Location: Palazzo San Giorgio Maggiore Cini, Venice
    • Eight European curators have selected a group of European Artists and Designers out of a wide range of crafts to show how craftsmanship and creativity leads to exquisite artworks and design products.
    • https://www.homofaberevent.com/

    Waited for the Fish Corner

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 06-07-2018 t/m 08-09-2018
    • In collaboration with: Hommes Gallery
    • Location: Hommes Gallery, Kerksingel 12, Rotterdam
    • After a very intense period of eleven years of artshows in Gallery HOMMES, the gallery will close her doors at the Charloisse Kerksingel 14. “Waited for the Fish Corner” is the final show in which a large part of the artists that have ever shown their work in the gallery will present one artwork.
    • https://www.hommes.nl/

    On my way to the Galactic Supermarket, need anything?

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 12-07-2018 t/m 16-07-2018
    • In collaboration with: Bcademie - Garage Rotterdam
    • Location: Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • After a year of working with ten young artists of the Bcademie in our studio, we proudly present their and our work in Garage Rotterdam, together with the artists of the other Bcademie groups of 2018.
    • https://garagerotterdam.nl/

    Floral splendor

    • 16-06-2018 t/m 16-09-2018
    • In collaboration with: Musuem IJsselstein
    • Museum IJsselstein presents a show of art and design objects curated by Bob Negryn and Mary Waters. We made for this show a special black Bouquet to be presented in the Stadhuiszolder in the center of IJsselstein. Oher participants in the show are: Aldo van den Broek, Piet Hein Eek, Guido Geelen, Broersen & Lukács, Marc Mulders, Regula Maria Müller, Linda Nieuwstad, Louise te Poele, Maria Roosen, Reinoud van Vught, ao
    • https://www.museumijsselstein.nl/

    Master class - Folly or Trash

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 02-06-2018 t/m 10-06-2018
    • In collaboration with: Charlois Special 2018, CBK Rotterdam, DKC Rotterdam, Youth Fund Culture, Quilt Association De Nieuwe Nachtegaal
    • Location: Atelier WANDSCHAPPEN, ROTTERDAM
    • A group of 30 crafts women and children from the neighborhoods of Charlois have worked together with Nicole, Ivo and Perla on the design and production of the huge textile artwork. It was an intense and concentrated process accompanied by a lot of talking about each others skills, families and neighborhoods, resulting in “Folly of Trash”.
    • http://www.wandschappen.nl/project/folly-of-trash/

    100% Plant-Based

    • 07-03-2018 t/m 22-04-2018
    • Location: Gallery La Kaserna, Bad Nieuweschans
    • Group show, nature in art with: Arno Kramer, Arja Hop / Peter Svenson, Alida Everts, Christiaan Kuitwaard, Jacobien de Rooij, Marian Bijlenga, Mayke Swemle
    • https://lakaserna.nl/

    Here and There _ The residency and The Show

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 17-01-2018 t/m 05-02-2018
    • In collaboration with: Bora Hong - TCDC Bangkok - Creative Industry Fund NL - Dutch Embassy Bangkok - Ko van Kessel Bangkok
    • Location: Lhong 1919 and River City Bangkok, Bangkok
    • We invented the project: Art and Crafts Bicycle tour Bangkok: Sawa Dee Crafts Tour. For that we designed a tour for the Bicycle tour company Co van Kessel along local artists and craftsmen. Here and There Participating Dutch Studios: Makkink and Bey, Lucas Maassen, Marije Vogelzang, Lio de Bruin, Margriet Craens, Atelier NL and WANDSCHAPPEN
    • http://www.here-there.net/

    Home )

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-01-2018 t/m 09-02-2018
    • In collaboration with: Hommes Gallery
    • Location: Hommes Gallery, Kerksingel 12, Rotterdam
    • We have shown a selection of the new series of Art works, called Traces. Hommes: "With the exhibition T( huis ) we want to bridge the gap between those who do not have a home or experience their home in a negative way, in order to cultivate mutual understanding". Artists: Alex Smorenberg, Dennis Neumann, Driessens & Van den Baar, Nikos Kostopoulos, Roman Robroek.
    • https://www.hommes.nl/

    This Art Fair

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 27-12-2017 t/m 30-07-2017
    • In collaboration with: This Art Fair
    • Location: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
    • The International Art fair for artist to show and sell their work and for collectors to talk to artists and buy art.
    • https://thisartfair.com/

    Traces of Existence

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-06-2017 t/m 16-07-2017
    • In collaboration with: Gemma van Bekkum - Hugo Bongers
    • Location: Gallery NL = US, Rotterdam
    • Solo Show of the Wall Art Work series "Traces". These works show the piles of bulky waste left on the streets of Rotterdam South, after people had to leave their houses, forced to look for a new place to stay on their way to start a new live in Europe. It's a collection of textile and expoxy resin works.
    • https://nlisus.com/

    Commission Felt plant collection

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-04-2017 t/m 15-05-2017
    • In collaboration with: Universität Osnabruck
    • Location: Bibliothek Universität Osnabruk, Osnabruck
    • For the library of the Universaty of Osnabruck we've developed a collection of white plants, appearing as a "weed" traces between the thousands of books.
    • https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/

    Unhurried Masterpieces

    Task

    • 10-06-2017 t/m 28-07-2017
    • In collaboration with: Kooku Gallery
    • Location: Kooku Gallery, Bialystok
    • Group show of Dutch artists and designers, selected from Ventura Lambrate 2017, with Maarten Baas, Paul Heijnen, Piet hein Eek, and others.
    • https://www.kookudesign.com/

    Contemporary Art Fair - Art Rotterdam Week

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 08-02-2017 t/m 12-02-2017
    • In collaboration with: Bob Smit Gallery
    • Location: World Trade Center, Rotterdam
    • Art Fair presentation with Bob Smit Gallery, during Art Rotterdam Week 2017
    • https://artrotterdamweek.com/

    TRACKS

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 04-04-2017 t/m 10-04-2017
    • In collaboration with: Organization in Design, Ventura Projects
    • Location: Ventura Lambrate, Milano
    • Ventura projects has invited us to present the new collection Felt art works and Felt Plants at Ventura Lambrate Milano, during the Salone del Mobile. If people are able to start a new life, after being fled for wars, natural disasters or suppression in their homelands , they'll install plants in their new houses to start feeling at home. If they don't succeed, the plants will be the first traces left on the streets.
    • http://www.venturaprojects.com/

    Dunkirk - No One Is Illegal

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 06-10-2020 t/m 31-12-2023
    • In collaboration with: Saar Depuydt - Refugees around Dunkirk FR - Gallery Untitled
    • Location: Atelier Driessens en van den Baar / Gallery Untitled, Rotterdam
    • Dunkirk is the series of art works made about refugees in the forests around Dunkirk FR who try to reach England by boat. Saar Depuydt and her friends from Ghent drive up and down every weekend to help them with food, tents and clothes. Three pictures of Saar have been used to develop three felt artworks, made over and over again (like Saar's work every weekend) to sell. Half of the €350 per work is sent to Saar. The collection still grows, from the 120 artworks, 84 have been sold.
    • https://www.wandschappen.nl/project/duinkerke/

    Le Vin Herbe

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-09-2021 t/m 01-04-2022
    • In collaboration with: Ulrike Quade Company Amsterdam, ICK Amsterdam, Cappella Amsterdam, Dutch String Collective Amsterdam
    • Location: Muziektheater aan het IJ Amsterdam, Stadsschouwburg Leiden, Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht, Theater Het Vrijthof Maastricht, Theater De Bijloke Ghent (BE), various cities
    • Concept for the scenography and costumes for singers, dancers and puppets for the chamber opera Le Vin Herbé, commissioned by Ulrike Quade Company. Made designs in close collaboration with Ulrike Quade based on the music and the lyrics and performed them between September 2021 and March 2022 in the studio in Rotterdam with three assistants. The performances took place in March 2022.
    • https://www.wandschappen.nl/project/le-vin-herbe-2/

    Acknowledgments

      Collection

    • KLM

    • 2018, Schiphol
      Collection

    • ING

    • 2019, Amstelveen
      Collection

    • LYFT Headquarters

    • 2019, San Francisco USA
      Collection

    • University of Osnabruck

    • 2017, Osnabrueck
      Collection

    • Court of Rotterdam

    • 2016, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Vitra Design Museum

    • 2016, Weil am Rhein DE
      Collection

    • Rabobank

    • 2017, the Netherlands
      Collection

    • Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

    • 2015, Amsterdam
      Collection

    • University of Wageningen

    • 2015, Wageningen
      Collection

    • Private Collection Family Swaans

    • 2014, The Hague
      Collection

    • Mr. van Enk

    • 2013, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Private Collection Family Schrijer

    • 2014, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Michelangelo Geneva Foundation

    • 2018, Geneva
      Collection

    • SWIFT

    • 2018, Zoeterwoude
      Collection

    • City office of the Municipality of Utrecht

    • 2017, Utrecht
      Collection

    • Private Collection Family Van Oranje Nassau

    • 2016, The Hague
      Collection

    • Missoni family

    • 2015, Milan
      Collection

    • Van der Valk Exclusive

    • 2020, Amsterdam South Axis
      Collection

    • Abbott Biologicals

    • 2020, Olst
      Collection

    • Private Collection Merks and Dirks

    • 2020, The Hague
      Collection

    • Private collection Vloeimans and Specken

    • 2020, Doesburg
      Collection

    • Private collection Patrick Altink

    • 2020, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Private collection Hugo Bongers

    • 2020, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Private collection of Van Hooren and Pennings

    • 2020, Barendrecht
      Collection

    • Collection Ministry of Foreign Affairs NL

    • 2023, The Hague
      Collection

    • Collection Centraal Museum Utrecht

    • 2021, Utrecht
      Collection

    • Collection Ministry of Foreign Affairs NL

    • 2021, The Hague
      Publication

    • Fabric Paintings

    • 2020
    • Newspaper article
    • AD Rotterdam - Arie Westeng
      Publication

    • WANDSCAPES

    • 2019
    • Magazine article
    • Own Home & Interior - Marianne van Doodewaard
      Publication

    • Style exercise

    • 2019
    • Magazine Photo Report
    • Own Home & Interior - Theone van der Eerden
      Publication

    • Changing Artistry

    • 2019
    • Book / Dissertation
    • Leiden University - Dr. Rina Visser
      Publication

    • GAY FABER

    • 2018
    • Catalogs
    • Fondation Michelangelo Geneva - Christopher Johnson-Ferguson
      Publication

    • Here and There Bangkok

    • 2017
    • Catalogs
    • Foundation Here and There - Bora Wong & Lidia Vajda
      Publication

    • Here and There Chiang Mai

    • 2017
    • Magazine article
    • Wallpaper Thailand - Chiang Mai Design Week
      Publication

    • Personal

    • 2017
    • Interview Magazine Financieel Dagblad
    • FD - Elsbeth Grievink
      Publication

    • Kunstloket Jeroen Bosch Hospital

    • 2016
    • Interview Newspaper
    • Brabants Dagblad - Jeroen de Bruijn
      Publication

    • Le Banquet - Revelations - Grand Palais

    • 2015
    • catalog
    • Crafts Council - Willemien Ippel - Marion Poortvliet
      Publication

    • Holanda - Diseno para un mundo mejor Protagonismo social del diseno en un barrio de Rotterdam

    • 2015
    • Interview Magazine
    • Experimenta '69 - Alberto Penalver Menéndez
      Publication

    • Memento Mori

    • 2015
    • Review Newspaper
    • NRC - Sandra Smets
      Publication

    • The Fab Mind

    • 2015
    • Article Newspaper
    • Shibun Tokyo - Ikko Yokoyama
      Publication

    • The Fab Mind

    • 2014
    • Catalogue
    • 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo - Ikko Yokoyama
      Publication

    • Self Self

    • 2013
    • Catalogue
    • Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven - Thomas Widderhoven
      Publication

    • Dutch Design Yearbook 2013

    • 2013
    • Catalogue
    • Dutch Design Awards - Various
      Publication

    • Hand Made

    • 2013
    • article newspaper
    • NRC - Nienke Simon Thomas