Bio & CV

AnneMarie van Splunter

1962, Vlaardingen, the Netherlands

Visual artist

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Short biography

AnneMarie van Splunter is a visual artist based in Amsterdam who engages with commissions in public space, sculptural environments, video, and local community projects.

Her artistic practice is very versatile, comprising video projects like A Day Such As This, where children reveal a view of Amsterdam or Amman, Jordan, from their window as they open their curtains in the morning or ephemeral installations like Salina, a floor relief made of 3800 kilos of salt.

Her sculptural, commissioned artworks in the public domain have an autonomous quality, yet often can simultaneously be used in different ways. The movement of the passer-by,  an invitation to play or dwell on that spot, plays an important part in the concept development.

Monumental and poetical are ondulating concrete playgrounds and a terrazzo flowerbench for schoolchildren, steel park gates and a citypark bench made of wood and local reed which constitutes a shared environment for humans and insects.

An architectural approach informed by mathematical patterns or modules, curved forms that recall nature and architecture and precise use of tactile materials, characterise AnneMarie’s work.

Resting on a deep interest how we, being within an urban environment, connect with nature, AnneMarie aimes to create beneficial, inviting places that enhance our sensory perception and evoke a poetical idea of lightness and serenity.

Commissioners include the Darat al Funun Museum in Jordan, the Dowse Art Museum in New Zealand and the Dutch Government Buildings Agency.

Recently she worked 3 months in Istanbul as a laureate of BeMobile-Create Together!,a programm of the French Institute in Turkey, the Dutch Embassy, the Goethe-Institute en the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.

Currently

2023 ART THE HAGUE

FrancisBoeskeProjects, Stand 36, 4-8 oktober

2023 Celebrating narratives

Nepal International Filmfestival, Kathmandu

2023 Exodus

Bijbels Museum i.s.m. Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen.

Short CV

Recent exhibitions

2023
Art The Hague

FrancisBoeskeProjects, Stand 36, 4 – 8 oktober

2023
Celebrating narratives

Nepal International Filmfestival, Kathmandu

2023
Exodus

Bijbels Museum i.s.m. Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen

2019-2020
Gewoon bijzonder (Bijzonder Gewoon)

Manifestatie parallel aan de Pieter de Hoogh tentoonstelling bij Museum Prinsenhof Delft, over het alledaagse verbeeldt door kunstenaars van nu, 38CC, Delft

2019
See Djerba+

ON Public Gallery,
Houmt Souk, Tunisia

2018
“The Future is Female”

Francis Boeske Projects /
Parts Project, Den Haag
14 juli 15.00 artist talk

link – www.francisboeskeprojects.nl
link – partsproject.nl/

2018
“Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light”

Darat al Funun,
Amman, Jordanië

link – daratalfunun.org

2014
Labportal 10: Salina

Zone2Source,
Amstelpark, the Netherlands

2013
A Day Such As This

Chinese European Art Center,
Xiamen, China

2012
Play: International design for children

Dowse Museum,
Wellington, NewZealand

2012
Przetwory (Recycle festival)

Soho Factory,
Warsawa, Poland

2012
Façade Festival

Plovdiv, Bulgaria

2011
THE MULTIPLE SHOW #2

Gallery VousEtesIci,
Amsterdam, NL

Recent Projects

2020
Seating element

IKC Prinses Amaliaschool,  Zoetermeer

link – Flower bench

2015
Buzzbench

Sculptural bench that doubles as bee biotope,
Amstelpark, Amsterdam.

link – Buzz bench

2013
Playmodules new edition

Museumsquare,
The NewDowse Art Museum,
New Zealand
I.c.w. Athfield Architects

link – Play Modules

2011
Rubbertree

Playground design of used rubber tyres,
Play for All,
Thailand

Honorable Mention in Innovation, Architecture for Humanity, U.S.

link – Rubbertree

2010
Reclaiming the Street

Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
Honorable Mention skateboarding playground

2009
Design fences sportpark

Municipality Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL

2008
Gate on bridge Klein Dantzig

Municipality Amsterdam O/WGM, NL

link – Gate on bridge

2007
Glasswork P.I. Norgerhaven

Dutch Government Buildings Agency