Umweltfarben (traktorreifen)
Tractor tyre, tree leaves, adhesive ø180 x 50 cm2024 Umweltfarben translates into something closest to 'environmental colours'. This piece was created during the 14th edition of If Paradise Is Half As Nice, hosted in an abandoned school building in the quaint village...
What are the odds
A pile of stone looking cubes at the top of a mountain in Salangen, Norway. ‘What are the odds’ consists of a pile of wooden cubes, pretending to be made of different kind of stones. Following the tradition of many people who make piles of stones at the top of...
Physical fittings for a mental view
A nondescript game, consisting of 35 numbered, concrete cubes, spread out over the area of the ruins of an iron factory at Salangsverket Norway. During If Paradise Is Half As Nice #13, which took place at the Salangen Biennale II, this work was one of my contributions...
Means to play (In dust things meet)
From the website of Kiosk24: The installation Means To Play by artist Ties Ten Bosch is set up in the exhibition space and invites visitors to a poetic view of seemingly familiar things. “Means To Play” is thus the 5th work in the series “In Dust Things Meet” by Ties...
All my thoughts on a square meter
Three square meters of wall, removed plaster, pencil, white paint. A work made on location, reflecting on the history of an old artist’s studio represented by a wall. Three square meters: one square where the top layer of plaster has been carefully removed, one square...
Pavilion
A site specific work made during If Paradise Is Half As Nice #10 in Rotterdam. The annual IPIHAN project took place this year on an extensive abandoned deserted concrete slab (betonplaat) in Rotterdam.Compared to the indoor derelict industrial buildings of former...
Every history tells a different story
A site specific work at ZQM, Berlin. A 50 cm high stripe sanded all around the room, revealing the history of all exhibitions and their wall colours of the past, completed with several white panels. year: 2018
Archive Afterlife
Found medical archive of the closed down Zitza factory in Zeitz, put in an old cupboard, 2100 hand-made paper sheets made from part of the found medical files, 45 binder mechanisms, a found role of decayed paper and a built-in shelf. During IPIHAN#9 we worked in the...
In a perfect world (24 years and five weeks of garbage in paradise)
A room filling installation of 225 cubes of compressed garbage. The If Paradise Is Half as Nice project #8 took place in Altenburg in 2018 in an old department store. The building collected garbage, thrown in by the people from Altenburg over the 24 years the building...