Lieke Muis van der Meer

installation - public space - social - urban - artistic research

Lieke van der Meer does social-spatial projects and makes art installations. She analyzes and speculates about social phenomena in the city, sustainability and mobility. She disrupts or celebrates the patterns found with her installations that often involve and activate the viewer. Her work is often in public space.

After studying Liberal Arts and Sciences at Utrecht University, she studied Spatial Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy, where she graduated in 2021. She currently has her studio in Rotterdam.

  • Portfolio
  • Activities
  • Contact

    • Arts festival Watou

    Residencies / exchange

    • 10-07-2023 t/m 14-07-2023
    • In collaboration with: Arts Festival Watou and Municipality of Poperinge
    • Location: , Watou
    • Residence in the village of Watou in Belgium in preparation for my now selected proposal for the 2024 Arts Festival. Jury members included artist Koen Vanmechelen, curators James Putnam, Edit Doove and Sabiha Keyif, and art historian Jo Coucke. Curator for the 2024 Arts Festival is James Putnam.
    • https://www.kunstenfestivalwatou.be/nl/watou-2023/open-call/

    Shaping Patterns

    Task

    • 01-10-2023
    • In collaboration with: Villa Zebra
    • Location: Rotterdam, Rotterdam, among others
    • For the European program Shaping Patterns, I am currently working with Villa Zebra on a traveling intervention that will be presented in relevant institutions: Arts in Denmark, PLATO in the Czech Republic, Sideviews in Germany and Yellow Brick in Greece.

    Celestial body

    Task

    • 01-10-2022
    • Location: IJsselland Hospital, Capelle aan den IJssel
    • Assignment for a permanent work in the atrium of the IJsselland hospital. It is a light installation with three volumes, constructed using the tensegrity construction technique.
    • https://studiomuis.hotglue.me/?hemellichaam+installatie/

    Imagine

    Other

    • 14-04-2023
    • In collaboration with: The Climate Museum
    • Laura van Putten interviewed me about my work and made a podcast.

    Sidewalk squares

    Residencies / exchange

    • 16-04-2022 t/m 18-04-2022
    • Location: the Sportkantine, Rotterdam
    • During my mini-residency in the run-up to the opening of the Sportkantine in Feijenoord, I made these sidewalk squares.
    • https://studiomuis.com/?affordance-copy

    Zebra Machine

    Project

    • 01-05-2020
    • Location: Public Space,
    • The Zebra Machine is my graduation work from the Willem de Kooning Academy. In the past 3 years I have done several performances with the painting machine. At the Hour Zero theater festival, among others, and for the UvA in Amsterdam. For my graduation work I was nominated for the Threshold Prize Autonomous Practices.
    • https://www.studiomuis.com/?zebra%2Bmachine

    Pecha Kucha Night

    Reading

    • 17-11-2022
    • Location: Bluecity Rotterdam,
    • A presentation about my work the Zebra Machine.

    Pointing with your eyes closed

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 09-07-2021 t/m 08-08-2021
    • Location: Cinetol, Amsterdam
    • The exhibition Looking at the End of Your Index Finger was a collaboration between philosophers and artists at the Cinetol Art and Culture House Foundation. I made a hanging object.

    Bounding Volume

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2019 t/m 01-09-2023
    • Location: Weelde Rotterdam,
    • Permanent installation in the garden of Weelde.

    Acknowledgments

      Publication

    • Metropolis M: Graduation Shows 2021– Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam

    • 2021
    • digital magazine
    • -Manuela Zammit
      Publication

    • Bird Free Cyclist: The Zebra Machine

    • 2021
    • Shops
    • -Suzanne Brink
      Publication

    • The zebra machine: a true story, retold by Thalia Verkade

    • 2022
    • picture book
    • -Thalia Verkade
      Publication

    • Looking at the End of Your Index Finger

    • 2019
    • book
    • - Tobias Servaas