Projects
Paintings

Santiago de Chile, Hecho en Casa festival

Opening De Lawei

Kissing Eggs, Donghu Lake, Wuhan, China

Masterclass St. Petersburg

Car for KIKA

Ladybugs, St. Petersburg

Above water, shoppingcentre Bataviastad, Lelystad

Invasion of ants

Art eggcident Leeuwarden

The Blue Road

Credit Crisis

Lamp Santiago

Santiago de Chile, Hecho en Casa festival

Opening De Lawei

Strange figures appear everywhere in town. The whole city became a theatre. A skater, a banker, a lady with a little dog, a boxer,.... 45 figres. On may 23th 2015 they all suddenly stoot up, at the theatre and they opend the new rebuild theare De Lawei in the centre of the Dutch town Drachten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DitGC2aVmdQ&feature=youtu.be

Opening De Lawei

Kissing Eggs, Donghu Lake, Wuhan, China

Masterclass St. Petersburg

In May 2013, Henk Hofstra gave a masterclass to ten students from Russia in St. Petersburg. The selected Proarte students came from art academies from all over Russia. Each student was given a box of 100x100x100cm. The assignment was to do something with that box ..... The results were surprising and stood for a time in the Peter and Paul Fortress

Marina Vinnik made a graffiti box which anyone could write freely and scratches,

Ilya Grishaev left his box disappear into the grass where he stood, and yet not,

Zhenya Machneva made an impressionistic box that protested against the planned relocation of all Impressionist paintings from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg to a museum in Moscow,

Ivan Tuzov put Lenin and Stalin to look as if they had stepped straight out of a computer game

Serge Krylov put a man in the box, and had a hand stabbing,

Pavel Brat made of three boxes the black heart of Russia,

Anna Andrzhievskaya made the labyrinth that is in her head,

Alexandr Tsikarishvili let out a box full of mud grow new onion Russia,

Nastya Pavlitskaya left two new shiny boxes created from an old black box

It was for me a great honor and a pleasure to ten days to work with this very talented and now graduated artists. Especially when you see under what circumstances they should operate. I hope that in the future many of them will see and hear.

Masterclass St. Petersburg

Car for KIKA

Kika (Children Cancer Free) has existed for 10 years in 2012. For this anniversary Henk Hofstra has a ten-year-old Volkswagen Beetle completely restyled. Not only the exterior has been thoroughly, but also the inside features a full leather interior. Black and red leather, trimmed with bright yellow trim and features the KiKa logo.

The Beetle is made available by Autoland Van den Bridge, Care has him painted white, Dock 23 plastered and the interior is done by Schuro. All parties were working for free.

The car is 'pushed' by a number of known and unknown Dutch, including Foppe de Haan, Tjitske de Vries, Iris Kroes, Riemer van der Velde and many others. On March 22, 2012, this car, artwork, was auctioned and sold at Corpus in Leiden for 33000 (thirty-three-thousand) Euro.

Car for KIKA

Ladybugs, St. Petersburg

Above water, shoppingcentre Bataviastad, Lelystad

A blue square of 1,500 square meters, a head of 5 meters tall with water to the lips and on top of a man with a briefcase. It is in the City Museum Lelystad, in the square between Batavia and Batavia Harbour Town. Courtesy of City Marketing Lelystad, Bureau for Reuring, VKN projects and Linea Recta.

"Most people keep their heads above water, but some people keep their heads above water more than others." (thanks to George Orwell)

Above water, shoppingcentre Bataviastad, Lelystad

Invasion of ants

About 500 ants are spread in the city of Drachten, most of them came together in front of the theatre De Lawei. Henk Hofstra painted them because of the 50th anniversary of the theatre. Each ant is three meter in length and two meters wide.

Invasion of ants

Art eggcident Leeuwarden

8 large eggs mirror 30 meters in diameter and ten egg yolk with a diameter of 7.5 to 2.3 meters form a work of art 14000 square meters on the Wilhelmina Square / Zaailand in Leeuwarden. Finally the egg is laid, and the square is addressed. The dull emptiness gets a destination. I hope it is a meeting place where there is room for art. Art that is different than a framed picture on the wall or a notorious image in bronze. Art that makes us look with new eyes makes us wonder, makes us angry or happy. Art that allows photographers to grab their cameras and journalists excites. Art that spectators upsets, makes you laugh or makes desolate. Art that shows things and let be what it is.

Art eggcident Leeuwarden

The Blue Road

"Art has to touch, excite, amaze and surprise you, make you laugh, cry, angry or happy...because art is emotion. Alook at all the comments makes clear that this artproject has been successful. We look at it, but we don 't understand."

I found this anonymous reaction about WATER IS LIFE on the internet. A good and beautiful sum up.

In April 2007, het Moleneind, a road in Drachten, The Netherlands, is painted blue to symbolise the water. It is 1000 meters long and 8 meters wide. It was created to form an urban river and recreate the path of a waterway that used to be where the road currently runs. They will start to dig a new canal here in 2008. The text WATER IS LEVEN is written on the blue road. The water will bring back life again in the centre of Drachten.

A lot all around the world is published about it.

Keep checking Google Earth and keep checking this website for further projects.

The Blue Road

Credit Crisis

On 23 October twenty wrecks located on the square in Ahoy Rotterdam. Nineteen are "Fortis red" painted, they are for the debts. The only blue car is the loner who is still in the positive state.

Credit Crisis