Leonard van Munster
Encyclopedia
Leonard van Munster is a Dutch
contemporary artist making Site-specific
and Subject-specific work.
, the Netherlands.
The result was Private Room 02, Talking toilets (4) The toilets are equipped with all sorts of sensors. Not only talking to the visitor about how to behave, but also mixing up facts found on google.
2009, Under heaven 02, site specific installation in public domain, Location: Wiltzanglaan, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2008, The surrender of Reinaert the Fox, installation in the Green hart of the Netherlands.
2008, The dancing white man, installation in collection of artist. Amsterdam, NL.
2008, Abstede Damacy, object in neighborhood in Utrecht based on the game Katamari Damacy
2007, Great apes, exhibition in Second gallery. Boston
, Massachusetts
, U.S.A.
2006, Gran False, Geranium deluxe, Ragga tone selecta;
installations for group show about mobile phones. Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
, NL.
2005, Back up, a 3D game and installations build out of the game. Library Universiteit van Amsterdam
, NL.
2004, Under Heaven, a 9 meter high tree with tree house on the 50 meter high Stedelijk Museum
. Amsterdam, NL.
2004, Under Heaven, build a fata morgana
under a viaduct in Amsterdam Bijlmer.
With palm trees, banana trees and a waterfall. NL.
2004, Private room 02, talking toilet, de Balie, Amsterdam, NL.
2002, Blind Poetry, projections from a car equipped with video projector, Moscow, Russia.
Existing out of P. du Bois Reymond, M. Klaverstein and L, van Munster.
DEPT created graphic design, installations and video works.
They created art installations combining electronic and traditional media, and created large scale media-environments for art performances and large club events.
The dept site is incorporated in Graphic Design Museum Breda in 2008.
2000
- My Bricks Rule, interactive installation for the exhibition "For Real" in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- BEZET, designs for plastic bags, purchased by MOMA, San Francisco
- Project 2000, videoclip for a Dutch band,
1999
- FUSION ATTACK, solo exhibition for MU Art Foundation, Eindhoven
- On the short list for Most Beautiful Books 1998, for Cold Fusion catalogue, exhibited in Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- Radical Mixing, audio performance during Serial Drillers evening in Club de Ville, Amsterdam
- BIG SWITCH, installation for telephone company KPN Amsterdam
1997
- two stamps designed for the PTT post company the Netherlands
1996
- Design flyers and internet site for club Roxy in Amsterdam
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
contemporary artist making Site-specific
Site-specific art
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork...
and Subject-specific work.
Private room 02 - 2004-2006
During this time, he was commissioned in 2004, to create a piece for the toilets of cultural centrum the Balie in AmsterdamAmsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, the Netherlands.
The result was Private Room 02, Talking toilets (4) The toilets are equipped with all sorts of sensors. Not only talking to the visitor about how to behave, but also mixing up facts found on google.
Recent work
2009, City Island, site specific installation in public domain, Location: de Markt, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands.2009, Under heaven 02, site specific installation in public domain, Location: Wiltzanglaan, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2008, The surrender of Reinaert the Fox, installation in the Green hart of the Netherlands.
2008, The dancing white man, installation in collection of artist. Amsterdam, NL.
2008, Abstede Damacy, object in neighborhood in Utrecht based on the game Katamari Damacy
Katamari Damacy
Katamari Damacy is a third-person puzzle-action video game that is published and developed by Namco for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was first released in Japan, and then later in South Korea and North America...
2007, Great apes, exhibition in Second gallery. Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, U.S.A.
2006, Gran False, Geranium deluxe, Ragga tone selecta;
installations for group show about mobile phones. Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, NL.
2005, Back up, a 3D game and installations build out of the game. Library Universiteit van Amsterdam
Universiteit van Amsterdam
The University of Amsterdam or the UvA is a public research university located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1632 as the Athenaeum Illustre by the scholars Gerardus Vossius and Caspar Barlaeus, it is the third-oldest university in the Netherlands...
, NL.
2004, Under Heaven, a 9 meter high tree with tree house on the 50 meter high Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum
Founded in 1874, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is a museum for classic modern and contemporary art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It has been housed on the Paulus Potterstraat, next to Museum Square Museumplein and to the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw, in Amsterdam Zuid...
. Amsterdam, NL.
2004, Under Heaven, build a fata morgana
Fata Morgana (mirage)
A Fata Morgana is an unusual and very complex form of mirage, a form of superior mirage, which, like many other kinds of superior mirages, is seen in a narrow band right above the horizon...
under a viaduct in Amsterdam Bijlmer.
With palm trees, banana trees and a waterfall. NL.
2004, Private room 02, talking toilet, de Balie, Amsterdam, NL.
2002, Blind Poetry, projections from a car equipped with video projector, Moscow, Russia.
Dept
Dept was an art,- and design,- collective from 1996 till 2001.Existing out of P. du Bois Reymond, M. Klaverstein and L, van Munster.
DEPT created graphic design, installations and video works.
They created art installations combining electronic and traditional media, and created large scale media-environments for art performances and large club events.
The dept site is incorporated in Graphic Design Museum Breda in 2008.
2000
- My Bricks Rule, interactive installation for the exhibition "For Real" in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- BEZET, designs for plastic bags, purchased by MOMA, San Francisco
- Project 2000, videoclip for a Dutch band,
1999
- FUSION ATTACK, solo exhibition for MU Art Foundation, Eindhoven
- On the short list for Most Beautiful Books 1998, for Cold Fusion catalogue, exhibited in Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- Radical Mixing, audio performance during Serial Drillers evening in Club de Ville, Amsterdam
- BIG SWITCH, installation for telephone company KPN Amsterdam
1997
- two stamps designed for the PTT post company the Netherlands
1996
- Design flyers and internet site for club Roxy in Amsterdam
Books
- Space Craft. Fleeding Architecture and hideouts. Lucas Feiress, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-89955-192-1.
- Debates & Credits Book and DVD. Eric Kluitenberg, Uitgeverij De Balie, Amsterdam 2003. ISBN 90-6617-298-3.
- Deep sites intelligent innovation in contemporary web desighn, Max Bruinsma, Thames & Hudson, 2003 ISBN 0-500-28384-2.
- False Flat. Aron Betsky with Adam Eeuwens, Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-4069-6.
Secondary sources
- 包装与设计.,'荷兰艺术家Leonard van Munster', 2008-05-15 00:00 [点击率:2826].ISSN 1007-4759
- De Volkskrant. 'Nergens aankomen / paradijselijke kunst onder de snelweg' in De VolkskrantDe Volkskrantde Volkskrant is a national daily Dutch morning newspaper, the leading centre-left broadsheet, although now in tabloid size.-History:...
. May 23, 2009. - Loorbach, Liedewij. 'Fata Morgana tussen schotels en beton.' in Het ParoolHet ParoolHet Parool is an Amsterdam-based daily newspaper. It was founded as a resistance paper during World War II by Frans Van Heuven Goedhart and Jaap Nunes Vaz...
. May 20, 2009. - Post, Gerrit. geluk onder een lelijk viaduct in TrouwTrouwTrouw is a Dutch daily newspaper. "Trouw" is a Dutch word meaning "fidelity", "loyalty", or "allegiance", and is cognate with the English adjective "true"...
. May 23, 2009. - Hoedemakers, Véronique. 'Fantaseren over de ultieme stad' in [LUCASX 2009#4]. October, 2009.
- NRC Handelsblad. 'Mobieltjes laten geraniums dansen' in NRC HandelsbladNRC HandelsbladNRC Handelsblad, often abbreviated to NRC, is a daily evening newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. The newspaper was created on October 1, 1970, from merger of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and Algemeen Handelsblad . In 2006 a morning newspaper, nrc•next, was launched...
. July 23, 2006.
Online
- Weekblad van de Technische Universiteit van Delft (The Netherlands, 01-11-07)
- UBA.UVA.nl, Interactive artproject in Libraries of the Universiteit van Amsterdam] (The Netherlands, januari 2005)
- ANP, volkskrant.nl, "Kunstenaar tikt viezeriken op vingers" in De VolkskrantDe Volkskrantde Volkskrant is a national daily Dutch morning newspaper, the leading centre-left broadsheet, although now in tabloid size.-History:...
(The Netherlands, 2004-08-26) - Kluitenberg, Eric debates.nl, "Look at what the mirror is saying!"(Russia, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, October, 2002)]
- Debates.nl, "The mischievous adventures of The Activator" (Russia, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, October, 2002)]
- Debates.nl, BeamMobile in Moscow, (Russia, Moscow, October, 2002)]
Television
- Vimeo.com, KunstUur- ned. 2(2009-10-10) by de AVROAvroAvro was a British aircraft manufacturer, with numerous landmark designs such as the Avro 504 trainer in the First World War, the Avro Lancaster, one of the pre-eminent bombers of the Second World War, and the delta wing Avro Vulcan, a stalwart of the Cold War.-Early history:One of the world's...
(The Netherlands)