Frans van Hoek

Custom bowling ball made for Het Resort exhibition at Bowlcentrum Groningen.

RSVP Please, the__servers, The Hague. Series of 12 company mugs for bankrupt companies, from Toys R Us to the VOC. photo: Hannah Schleifer, Baroeg Mulder

A carnival shooting gallery installed in the project space. Stars are arranged in the flags of all countries currently in Major Conflict, defined by ACLED as 10,000+ casualties in 2024. To shoot, visitors had to donate €10 to a conflict-zone charity of their choice. The piece was accompanied by a selection of contemporary rap from all these countries. KunstpodiumT, POWERPOLYP

A badminton match between two opposing visions of the future: Eco-Capitalism and Democratic Socialism. Het Slotervaart, BIG ART

A Museumkaart preserved in amber.

Hand-made armor in the form of a NorthFace puffer jacket and Adidas pants.

National soccer jerseys for ancient civilizations wiped out by climate change.

Sportswear line to spark conversations about mental health in gyms.

A blank world-map relabeled by children.

A marathon (42.2km) run from Vincent van Gogh's house in Arles (FR) to his mental asylum in St. Remy.

Three interactive sculptures to allow visitors to inhabit the faceless past.

A stone-carving deep in the Swartberge mountains, South Africa, where there is no cellular service.

NART Venice Embassy Residency. Location: Kulgu, EE, facing the EE/RU water border. Two ordinary fisherman's garages are transformed into a live cinemas using a camera obscura. One overlooking the reservoir separating Estonia from Russia, bringing the beauty and tension of Baltic Poetic Realism of the 60's into the present moment. A slow, meditative yet quietly-political cinema where common people and the natural environment were the heroes.

I Still Care, Eurocenter Zuidas, Amsterdam. Installed on a cable processor in the Zuidas, Amsterdam. Participants could add a custom iCalendar to their phone which would notify them of related climate conferences in the area, as well as mundane tasks such as taking out recycling.

A situation-specific social sculpture for a university graduation, each kite carrying a phrase from r/LifeAfterSchool Reddit thread. i.e. "What if I never own a house?" "What if I get bored of my job?" "I'll be okay."

A massage chair is installed in the basement of the former U.S. Embassy in the Hague, in a room covered with insulation material. The chair contains a playlist of U.S. produced songs all titled Seeing Stars. Blurring the lines between pleasure and discomfort, the U.S.'s double ability to detain and entertain. The first ever massage chair was built from the rubble of Osaka City following American bombardment in WW2. WEST, The Hague

Creating a space to collectively contemplate extinction, the beginnings and ends of life on a grand scale. NEST, An Idle Escape

A recreation of Kolman Helmschmidt's 1510 armor for MacBook Pro. Thinking through notions of bravery and eternal rest in our current Neo-liberal capitalist era. NEST, An Idle Escape

NEST, An Idle Escape