Paulien van Vredendaal

Since 1954, this statue of a kneeling woman by Fri Heil (Surabaya, 1892 – Oosterbeek, 1983) has adorned the façade of the former CILO (Central Institute for Agricultural Research) building on the campus road that is now known as De Elst. The woman can be seen kneeling while harvesting a cornfield. She holds a fruit […]

Krijn Giezen (1939- ) is known for transforming locally collected garbage and waste into landscape art. With Bat Cave, the idea was to recycle the surplus building materials used to construct the Lumen building. But the design sketches and material proposals weren’t received with enthusiasm. It simply wasn’t considered art. Yet art it certainly became,

This sculpture was made in 1970 by Aart Rietbroek jr. (1929-1985) for the newly built forestry testing station De Dorschkamp in Wageningen. The artist was commissioned to create a decorative piece in line with the 1% scheme. When commissioned, the chief government architect gave instructions on how to treat the Javanese teak. Unfortunately, at the

Fugue is the Latin word for flight, but in this case refers to the musical term denoting polyphonic music in which a theme constantly appears and disappears. Ubbo Scheffer (1925-1998) expressed this through two converging L-shapes, one in wood and the other in stone. Scheffer’s talent was two-fold: in addition to sculpting, he also had