Drum Kit<\/em>\u00a0 (2004) he coupled up a hundred empty oil drums and placed them in the sea. The tangle of oil drums thus became an instrument played on by the sea, producing muffled, banging sounds. At the same time it showed the enormous power of the sea: after seven weeks the drums had been dented and rusted almost beyond recognition.<\/p>\nIt is not Zeger Reyers’s aim to pass moral judgement on e.g. the harmful influence of man on the environment. In his installations he makes the marvels and strength of nature visible in an intensified way; at the same time the visitor becomes strongly aware of the vulnerability of the man-made environment. Characteristic is Zeger Reyers’s intelligent and resourceful use of material, taking you by surprise and making you aware of the relativity of our certainties. He surprises the visitor and forces him to think, to reassess, while at the same time giving him the possibility to look at things once again with an open mind.<\/p>\n
A good example is his installation Aqua Boogie I <\/em>(2004), for which he had the basement of the GEM (Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague) flooded and set out black leather carps in the water. Also well-known are his works with MOSA porcelain which he first used in Good Intentions<\/em> (1999): a long table overloaded with porcelain plates, cups and saucers, which was shown on the 8th Biennale of Havana in 2003.<\/p>\nThis work is followed up by Hard Water<\/em> (2004), where the porcelain plates are piled up like a cascade from floor to ceiling. In 2007 Zeger Reyers received the Ouborg Award for his oeuvre.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]His famous Rotating Kitchen <\/em>was commissioned for the exhibition Eating the Universe<\/em>, dedicated to food in art, taking Daniel Spoerri’s table pieces (Tableaux- pi\u00e8ges) as a starting point. It consists of a life size fully equipped kitchen in which a cook first prepares food, after leaving the kitchen it slowly starts rotating around its own axis thus tossing and turning all the pots, pans and food in it. The work was premiered at the Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf in 2009 and was on show at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart till January 9th 2010. A video was made from the premiere in D\u00fcsseldorf, titled Rotating Kitchen <\/em>issued in an edition of 7.<\/p>\nIn 2011 Zeger Reyers built the installation Pavillion<\/em> at the Renaat Braempavillion located in the park of sculpture museum Middelheim in Antwerp, Belgium. In the pavillion with its typical organic and flowing forms Zeger Reyers constructed a sloping floor which was covered with earth containing spores of mushrooms. After a some days the mushrooms started growing as white beads on a pitch black background.<\/p>\nIn 2013 Zeger Reyers produced the work A Glance Through the Shades <\/em>for the exhibition Yes Naturally<\/em> at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Here for the first time he used hallucinogenic mushrooms that grew on blinds in front of a window. Later that year he presented a turntable prepared with oyster mushrooms in the exhition Flowers and Mushrooms<\/em> at the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.<\/p>\nRecently Zeger Reyers experimented with ceramics during a work period at the European Ceramic Work Centre at Oisterwijk The Netherlands. Here he produced almost surreal sculptures of hybrid monkeys containing ceramic mushrooms, that were purchased for the ceramics collection of Museum Het Princessehof\/Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1440507584491-628a5fac-75f2792d-ff9b”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
\n\n\n1966<\/td>\n | born in Voorburg , The Netherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
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\n<\/td>\n | \neducation<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1990 – 1995<\/td>\n | Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n<\/td>\n | lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n<\/td>\n | \nsolo exhibitions<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022<\/td>\n | Bee Embassy, <\/em>gardens at Castellum De Hoge Woerd, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021<\/td>\n | A Glance through the shades, the golden potato,\u00a0<\/em>ACEC, Apeldoorn, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2016<\/td>\n | Panorama Continu\u00fcm, <\/em>Museum Panorama Mesdag, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2015<\/td>\n | K-Hard Water Knowledge, <\/em>Media Matic Amsterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2010<\/td>\n | Pavillion, <\/em>Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2008<\/td>\n | In Context<\/em>, Bacinol, Delft, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2007<\/td>\n | Ouborg Prijs, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n2006<\/td>\n | AMC Kunststichting, Amsterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n2004<\/td>\n | Aqua-Boogie<\/em>, GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague, NL \nHard water<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2000<\/td>\n | Prince of Leeuwarden<\/em>, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1998<\/td>\n | Lighthouse video<\/em>, Satellite Program, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL \nKerst Show<\/em>, Stroom hcbk, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1997<\/td>\n | Na-blijven (Saying After Hours)<\/em> Kunst-Ruimte, Kampen, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1995<\/td>\n | Jerusalemkapel, Kunstcentrum Burgvliet, Gouda, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n<\/td>\n | \ngroup exhibitions<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2022<\/td>\n | MOVING UP, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL \nRoyal Encounters,<\/em> Museum Escher in het Paleis, The Hague, NL \nPrecursors, <\/em>park garden Soestdijk Palace, Soestdijk, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021<\/td>\n | EQUIPE I,\u00a0<\/em>30 year anniversary Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2019<\/td>\n | Saudade<\/em>, Festival Watou, Belgium \nOff Art \u2013 Open Nights<\/em>, Athens, Greece \nTomb of the Ordinary Man,\u00a0<\/em>Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2018<\/td>\n | Ristretto<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL \nShadow<\/em>, Larisa, Greece<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2017<\/td>\n | Stuck in the Mud<\/em>, Suncheon Art Center, Korea \nDisruption, Remapping Nature, <\/em>LustWarande, Tilburg, NL \n<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2016<\/td>\n | Track & Trace I, II, <\/em>25 years Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL \nThe Way Things Go, About Cause and Effect, <\/em>Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, NL \n<\/em>New acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum s\u2019-Hertogenbosch. \nEuropean triennial for ceramics and glass. Mons\/Bergen Belgium \n<\/span>Art Rotterdam<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2015<\/td>\n | Expedition Land Art, <\/em>Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, NL \nAmsterdam Art Fair, BEELD, <\/em>Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL \nArte Concordia<\/em>, Rotterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2014<\/td>\n | \nThe Faltering Man, <\/em>curator Katja Vercouteren, Arti Et Amacitiae, Amsterdam, NL<\/div>\nSWITCH<\/em>, APT gallery, London, UK<\/div>\nThe Politics and Pleasures of Food,<\/em> ACC, Weimar, Germany \nDistance to Zero, <\/em>Garage Rotterdam, NL \nArt Rotterdam<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2013<\/td>\n | Flowers and Mushrooms, <\/em>Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria \nThe Politics and Pleasures of Food<\/em>, HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany \nYes Naturally, <\/em>GEM, The Hague, NL \nHuman Nature<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2012<\/td>\n | SCOPE Miami, <\/em>Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Miami, Florida USA \nContemporary Istanbul 2012, <\/em><\/em>Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Istanbul, Turkey \nSCOPE Basel, <\/em>Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Basel, Switzerland \nLiving – Being<\/em>, Song Zhuang Art Center, Beijing, China \npress conference DOCUMENTA 13, food performance, Kassel, Germany \nMembra Disjecta, (with Lee Ranaldo) hommage to John Cage, <\/em>Tonspur, Vienna, Austria & DOX Prague, CZ. \nExperimental Garden<\/em>, GANG, Arnhem, NL \nFata morgana<\/em>, Dolhuys Haarlem, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2011<\/td>\n | Twenty<\/em>, 20 years Galerie Maurits vd Laar, The Hague, NL \nSojourn<\/em>, castle d’Aspremont-Lynden, Oud Rekem, Belgium \nSCOPE Basel<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Basel, Switzerland \nArt Rotterdam<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2010<\/td>\n | Daire hosts Galerie Maurits van de Laar,<\/em> Galeri Daire Tophane, Istanbul, Turkey \nContemporary Istanbul 2010, <\/em>Galerie Maurits vd Laar, Istanbul, Turkey \nLicht Feld 10, <\/em>Basel, Switzerland \nEat Art, <\/em>Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, <\/em>Germany \nSCOPE Basel,<\/em> Basel, Switzerland \nAppetite for Destruction<\/em>, NEST, The Hague, NL \nEating the Universe<\/em>, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria \nOne on One<\/em>, Dum Umeni, Brno, Czech Republic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2009<\/td>\n | Eating the Universe<\/em>, Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany \nSalon #13, The Wandering exhibition, NAI Rotterdam, NL \nLingam,<\/em> Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2008<\/td>\n | Contemporary Istanbul<\/em>, Galerie Maurits vd Laar, Istanbul, Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2007<\/td>\n | Museo de la Ciudad, Quito, Equador \nArt Rotterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL \nPaul Thek, in the context of today’s contemporary art<\/em>, Zentrum f\u00fcr Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany \nGalerie Maurits van de Laar, (with Martina Florians), The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2006<\/td>\n | Room with a View<\/em>, Jubileumtentoonstelling, Bouwfonds collectie, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, (September), The Hague, NL \nAirconditioning<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL \n1st Shift<\/em>, 15 years Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2005<\/td>\n | Stand van zaken<\/em>, stroom hcbk, The Hague, NL \nArt Rotterdam<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2004<\/td>\n | Vloedmerk<\/em>, sculpture project on the beach at Heemskerk, NL \nToekenning 018<\/em>, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL \nDefine Yourself, Definitions of Space’ <\/em>(with Pietertje van Splunter),\u00a0Kunstenlab Deventer, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2003<\/td>\n | Flora en Fauna<\/em>, Quartair, The Hague, NL \nOttavo (8th) Bi\u00ebnnale de Havana<\/em>, Havana, Cuba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2002<\/td>\n | Galerie 54, G\u00f6teborg, Sweden \nCrystal World<\/em>, Outline, Amsterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2001<\/td>\n | WSSNOHTE<\/em>, galeri F15, Moss, Norway \nWSSNOHTE<\/em>, TENT, CBK Rotterdam, NL \nLosing my mind once again<\/em>, Begane Grond, Utrecht, NL \nEendemanden<\/em>, Spoorsingel Rotterdam, NL \nOnder-tussen II<\/em>, Hortus Conclusus, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL \nGalerie 68-elf, Cologne, Germany \nEen huis voor de gemeenschap<\/em>, Oud-Beyerland, NL \nManual<\/em>, Five years gallery, Londen, UK \nThe collector in the Studio II<\/em>, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2000<\/td>\n | Changing rooms<\/em>, Archipel, Apeldoorn, NL \nPartie 8<\/em>, Int. kunstforum Drewen, Germany \nJubilee exhibition 10 years. Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1999<\/td>\n | Uitgelicht<\/em>, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, NL \nNew years resolution<\/em>, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland \nKamerschatten<\/em>, in 11 houses, KW 14, Den Bosch, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1998<\/td>\n | Die H\u00f6llandische Welle<\/em>, Galerie Lutz Fiebich, Berlin, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1997<\/td>\n | Uitgelicht 2<\/em>, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, NL \nSome kind of home-coming<\/em>, Collective gallery, Edinburgh \nSummer show, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1996<\/td>\n | Onder-tussen<\/em>, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL \nLicht in het hoofd<\/em>, Art-Is, Den-Bosch, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1995<\/td>\n | Donck<\/em>, Villa Alckmaer, CBK, Rotterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n<\/td>\n | \ncommissions<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2020<\/td>\n | Weidsheid (Vastness),\u00a0<\/em>rooftop of parkinggarage Leidsche Rijn, developed by Broos (Pietertje van Splunter & Zeger Reyers), \ncommissioned by municipalitiy Utrecht, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2009<\/td>\n | Ygdrasil \u2013 a parallel world, <\/em>developed by Broos, <\/em>RIVM (National Institute for Health & Environment) Bilthoven, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2008<\/td>\n | Anas Penelope, floating church at pond \u2018the duck\u2019, Kamerik, developed by Broos, commissioned by CBK Utrecht, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \n2007<\/td>\n | Buren (Neighbours) A1 – Landscape cut through<\/em>, developed by Broos, Deventer, NL \nPlay\/Loo Park, plan for sewer water cleanage park, developed by Broos, Moerenburg, Tilburg., NL \nDesign for the collection exhibition Sur Place<\/em>, Fortis Bank, Amsterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2006<\/td>\n | Back Up<\/em>, commissioned by CBK Zeeland, Middelburg, developed by Broos, Fort Ellewoutsdijk, NL \nColumba Exercitus<\/em>, assignment Van Haeftenpark, developed by Broos, Apeldoorn, NL \n200 years Rijksbouwmeester, developed by Broos, Facade of the Ministry of VROM, The Hague,NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2001<\/td>\n | Duckbaskets, <\/em>in canal Spoorsingel Rotterdam, NL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/td>\n | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |