Measurements: 650 m2
Bike with the bears….
The thousands of bears and the large colored tableaux are glazed by hand in the delftware factory De Porceleyne Fles in Delft.
These four tunnels designed by Berkman en Janssens are a safe and cheerful environment during day and night thanks to this tile art.
Art gives identity to no man’s land.
‘The Desire’ consists of an ensemble of 16 two-dimensional white steel sculptures, from 2.5 to 4 meters high, on both sides of the Holterbergweg, as a corridor over a length of 80 meters near the Duivendrecht station.
The (animal) figures symbolize a phase of ‘the human desire’. These white images are inspired by the meaning of figures on the 16th-century carpet series ‘La Dame à la Licorne’, as in earlier works by artist duo Berkman and Janssens in ‘Hortus Conclusus’, Bleiswijk (2006) and ‘The Love Letter’, Delft (2007).
In this series of images in Amsterdam, the source of inspiration is processed into allegorical images. On each side of the road the series is opened and closed by a monkey standing on an arcade arch. Between them are elegant vases, stately flowers of the ‘Fritelliara Imperiales’ and two watching dogs. The images can be interpreted as: lust, shame and innocence protected through loyalty.
The images, which are reminiscent of paper-cuttings, are not only visible to cyclists and motorists who use the Holterbergweg, but train and metro passengers traveling from the Duivendrecht station can also see the images clearly.
‘het Verlangen’ – ‘Desire’ is replaced in 2019 in a new composition at the corner of Holterbergweg -Amsterdam – Duivendrecht.
Measurements: 112 m x 2,5 m
Dancing golden Monkeys in the nature reserve ‘Leersumse Veld’ in the Province Utrecht, Holland.
The artwork of Berkman en Janssens in the bicycle tunnel consists of 500 m2 of decorated tiles and a fence with a total length of 112 meters.
The title is derived from the carpet series ‘La Dame à la Licorne’, about the meaning of the senses in the concept of desire.
Measurements: 15 m x 3 m x 3 m.
Interactive light artwork in the Oncology Centre of the Spaarne Gasthuis in Hoofddorp
A hanging sculpture with the name ‘The Ocean Breathes – Sealight’ is placed in the entrance.
Visitors of the Oncology Centre are free to change the color of the lights like luminescent, floating seaweeds. This gives the artwork a meditative quality. The branch-like form is spread in the open space of the vide, so you are able to admire it from every floor.
measurements: 3 m x 3 m x 3 m
Breathe with the Ocean
A nature of form that takes you to different thoughts
I wanted to create a contemplative world in the 20 meter high church.
A world in which your eyes feel the warmth of the wool on your skin.
The lines of the branches play in the church-light.
Your hands can change the color of the light, to reinforce the image you want to see
In your favorite color
Algae and seaweeds give the world oxygen, much more than the rainforests.
Do you know someone to whom I can add oxygen?
Exhibition ‘Art from Care’ about healing art in Dutch hospitals
Measurements: 1,50 m x 1,2 m
Finds made during daily beach walks result in a pootseries ‘Catch of the Day’ as a source of inspiration for drawings, paintings and sculptures. The seemingly simple life-forms of seaweed symbolize survival and are the source of our existence.
Measurements: 120 m2
On the platform you look in the garden of Aphrodite
I consider the kiosk at train station Zandvoort as a sea-aquarium, where the underwaterworld full of mythological animals becomes visible. I am inspired by the collection of 16th and 17th century books from the library of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, in which strange sea creatures are described and drawn, including the Metamorphoses of Ovidius.
Together with my finds of algae on the beach, I turned it all into large drawings. “Venus swims with a mirror to the Sea-Unicorn, Neptunus joins the Sea Elephant and it seems that the Seadeer is very happy in the proximity of Lady Fortuna.
Providing Oxygen…
Seaweed and algues provide more oxygen in the world than the rainforests. Margot Berkman brings attention to the big kelp forests with seaweed I.
7 statues: 3,30 m x 1 m x 1 m
Nietzsche would no doubt argue that an encounter with the ignis fatuus is inescapable in the course of attempts at human self-realization.
The inspiration for the statues was the local saga about a horseman, in which the rider in the forest of Apeldoorn was misled by a wandering light. The ‘Ignis Fatuus’ is used as a statue for transformation in the visual art like, Anselm Kiefer, Louise Bourgeois, Vincent van Gogh, Willem Elsschot en Goethe. The statues from Margot Berkman are solidified memories from the good light. They show you the way.
Philosopher and curator Karja Rodenbrug curated the exhibition ‘Wandering further, wandering light, about Ignis Fatuus and Orpheus.’
Measurements: 3 m x 3 m
Algae lights the deep
People who live by the sea are often closer to nature. The weather shows herself in every way. The sea can be fierce and raging to smooth and calm. A lot of things wash up on the beach: wondrously shaped pieces of wood, pieces from boats, seaweeds like bladderwrack and sea lettuce, blue jellyfishes and small glass-like jellyfishes, pieces of fishnets, plastic forms and clams with barnacles.
The commissioner gave all the freedom for making an artwork for their dune villa. Seven oval shaped bronze objects in different sizes are attached to the wall by the entrance. At day the color refers to the azure of the sea, but at night there is a lightshow like the luminescent algae (lat. Noctiluca) light up in the underwaterworld.