Time Crystals is an Amsterdam-based program initiated and organized by curator Suzanne Wallinga and designer Peter van den Hoogen. Together with a diverse range of collaborators including artists, musicians, scholars of performance art, sound artists, filmmakers, writers, and other creatives, they are crafting a dynamic live program that delves into the essence of performance art
AuthorPeter van den Hoogen
Shotgun Wedding (2022) — Lucas Hirsch / De Arbeiderspers
This book is about the author’s friendship with murdered lawyer Derk Wiersum. Design concept: personal memories of Derk Wiersum are overshouted by big screaming headlines in a scrapbook sort of composition.
•R•E•S•P•O•N•G•E• (2022) Exhibition handout for Isolde Venrooy
A handout designed for the Isolde Venrooy solo-exhibition •R•E•S•P•O•N•G•E• in De Fabriek in Eindhoven. The text takes unexpected detours following the line of ‘between’ in order to queer directions, a connecting theme in Isolde’s work.
Sam Samiee — Footnotes to Life (Best Dutch Book Designs 2020)
Cover picture by ©De Monsterkamer, Justina Nekrašaitė In many ways Sam Samiee’s way of working could be typified as ‘extended painting’. Samiee is connecting physical and virtual perspectives of painting, influenced by his background in psycho-analysis. To emphasize Samiee’s break from the tradition flat painting, I decided the book itself should be experienced like a three-dimensional
De Weinigen (2019)
Cover design with silver and gold foil for De Weinigen (The Few), a great novel by Lucas Hirsch about the secret side of banking. Concept: the title refers to a certain type of banker: a grey, non-descript, unnoted person. Someone who is blinded by money and has a reason to hide his identity.
Sensory Spaces Catalogue (2018) for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
This is the catalogue of Sensory Spaces, a series of 15 solo exhibitions in the Willem van der Vorm gallery in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. Every artist was invited to respond to the particular characteristics of this space. Design concept: The floor plan of the exhibition space (basically two walls) functions literally as a framework
— > Flyer / poster for PAKT: The Irretraceable Urge.
In this exhibition three artists referred to applied visual language from the past. One of them, Thomas Raat, is known for copying visuals from penguin paperback covers.
— > ‘Movie + Music’ Themroc poster for Delicatessen Zeeburg.
Copy and poster are made for an art evening, when Pop band The Ik Jan Cremers performed during the screening of the anarchistic cultmovie Themroc in which modern life is razed to the ground
— > Illustration of poster and brochure for Springdance Festival.
From the early days of COUP: one of the many illustrations used for Springdance. The toddler is daughter Afra, who is now a young woman of 18 years old.
— > Logo design and series of postcard flyers for Apice for Artists.
Apice for Artists produces art projects and stimulates dialogue in presenting artistic practices. Apice is Daniela Apice.