December 21, 2018

The Ocean Breathes Sealight 2018

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.

 

November 22, 2018

Elisabeth van Thüringen Fund Exhibition 2018

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

 

 

 

 

October 15, 2018

Aphrodites Garden train station NS Zandvoort 2011

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.

 

 

September 20, 2018

Sealight III 2018

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. 

September 20, 2018

Ignis Fatuus Apeldoorn (NL) 2016

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.’  

 

November 10, 2016

Fluitend door de Kerksteeg Zandvoort 2010

Measurements: 20 m x 2,5 m

 

Whistling with blue and golden sparrows..

 

The community of Zandvoort has commissioned Margot Berkman for a ceramic tile artwork in the Kerksteeg. Tiles with this motif of the blue and golden sparrows can also be seen in the artwork ‘De Dame en de Muse’, designed by Berkman and Janssens in Bos en Lommer in Amsterdam ‘.

November 10, 2016

artworks of Berkman en Janssens – archive 1997-2010

ARCHIVE

Berkman en Janssens realized more than 30 large art commissions for public area from 1997 until 2010. Margot Berkman continued working solo.

 

Commissioners (a selection):

Prorail en projectorganisatie Betuweroute, Stadsdeel bos en Lommer, RET Rotterdam, Gemeente Utrecht, Gemeente Zandvoort, Daniëlle Lokin, Directeur gemeentemusea Delft, NS Vastgoed, IKEA Holding, Woningbouwvereniging Rochdale Amsterdam, Gemeente Vianen, Rijkswaterstraat, Prorail, GZH, Gemeente Delft, Provincie Utrecht, Provincie Noord Holland, Schildersbedrijf Joh. Van Doorn de Bilt bv, De Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Burgemeester Annie Brouwer-Korf, gemeente Amsterdam

 

For more information: https://www.margotberkman.nl/archief/