Art on Wageningen Campus

A Rose of Steel was created by Rob Logister (1959- ) and Marie Raemakers (1959- ) for a farm and sculpture tour through Zonnemarie, Zeeland in 1996. The work is 6.5 metres long and approximately 2 metres high. It was unveiled by the secretary of Wageningen University Theo Theijsse on 17 November 1997 at its […]

A stack of ten rounded stone discs with inscriptions of the Latin names of trees. The edges were left rough and the surfaces were polished smooth. The inscribed tree species are: Larix laricana, Catanea sativa, Tillia cordata, Populus nigra italica, Cedrus atlantica, Fagus silvatica, Quercus ilex, Fraxinus ornus, Platanus orientalis and Tectona grandis. The latter

This arched sculpture consisting of seventeen blue perspex windows installed in a steel frame is lit from below by a spotlight. It is 260 cm high and 230 cm wide. The diagonal base is made of two blue steel tubes, each five metres long. This work of art by Stefan Strauss (Germany, 1957- ) is

A bronze sculpture of stylised dancing women, the Hesperides. One of them clutches apples under her arm. According to Greek mythology, the Hesperides were three or seven nymphs who protected a tree that produced golden apples. The statue, cast in dark bronze, was created in 1967 by Nic Jonk (1928-1994) and installed on the lawn

This sculpture by Carel Kneulman (1915-2008) consists of several dark, interconnected and roughly hewn shapes, including a fossilised bird and perhaps the outline of a reclining human figure. Kneulman is considered one of the great sculptural innovators after 1945. His most famous work is Het Lieverdje from 1959, which was made famous by the Provo

Ceramic Frieze was created in 1980 by Henk Tieman (1921-2001) for the Biotechnion building on De Dreijen campus. It consists of grey, hand-formed tiles, some of which are thicker and with a different profile than the rest, causing them to protrude from the base. The ceramic was made by the Delft earthenware factory De Porceleyne

Along the western edge of the campus, behind Vitae, stands a large, curved, rust-coloured steel form. Some of the surfaces are covered in moss and the big steel plates have been bent in a way that makes them look flexible. The front of the artwork is open and bent forward. This piece could be described

‘Batara’ is Arabic for ‘cutting away’ or ‘carving’, which is a method used in building. Batara was created for the latest edition of the exhibition ‘Beelden op de Berg’, held in the Belmonte Arboretum in Wageningen in 2013. It is located near the pond behind Zodiac. Holtrop (1977- ), an Amsterdam-based architect and artist, drew

Man with Bull was created for the ‘Schoonoord’ Institute for Livestock Research (IVO) in Zeist. It was removed from its base in 1995 and relocated to Lelystad. In 2015, it was added to the Wageningen Campus art route. Artist Willem Berkhemer (Jakarta, 1917 – Bilthoven, 1998) has more works of art in Wageningen, such as

This sculpture depicts a tobacco flower. A perforated tobacco leaf (having succumbed to a virus) served as the now absent shield. The calyx resembles an old-fashioned gramophone horn. The sculpture was created by Vinh Phuong (1959- ) for the new Botanical Centre (De Banaan) near De Dreijen Arboretum in 1993. It was relocated in 2010