Thanks for the Sky blue/orange
diameter 970 x 110 mm
Acrylic glass, electronics, leds
Arnout Meijer lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied Industrial Design Engineering at the Technical University Delft, at the Design Academy Eindhoven and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is represented by gallery VIVID in Rotterdam. His self initiated and commissioned work covers several disciplines ranging from artworks, public sculptures, texts, product design and architecture.
Meijer’s work explores the physicality and philosophy of perception. By sculpting with light, he manipulates its spatial and sensory properties while illuminating the aesthetics and immateriality. What we see is a presentation based on experience rather than an actual representation of the world derived from analyses of images. In visual perception optical illusions are therefore not merely sensorial exceptions, but precisely the visual effects that shape the reality as we see it. For him these same illusionary effects dominate the world of imagery. In his work Meijer tries to question the systems that control our ways of seeing and the value of perception. The relation between reality and illusion in vision and culture is the basis of his artistic practice.
New Store with Nieuwe Instituut | October 2023
Dubbelgas | September 2023
Minor Moon / with: Urban Echoes | 2023
Random Studio Second Sun System | 2022
Pendry Park City Hotel | 2022
Pendry Chicago Hotel | 2021
Trouw Essay publication | 2021
18 Septemberplein / with: UNStudio, ABT, SI-X | 2019 - 2020
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal /
with: KAAN Architects, Lamela, ABT, Ineco | 2018 - 2024
Modular Light Grid / with: Random Studio + Rene Wassenburg | 2020
46020 ft³ cyaan/yellow | April 2018
Thanks for the Sky blue | December 2017
Dutch Invertuals | October 2017
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal - Proposal | September 2017
336 m³ blue/orange | February 2017
Second Spade, in collaboration with Saskia Noor van Imhoff | December 2016
One Point Perspective | December 2016
196 m³ magenta/green | September 2016
180° white 360° red | July 2016
Thanks for the Sky blue/orange - Galerie VIVID | June 2016
8-bit Universe | November 2015
16 Feet of Twilight | October 2015
The realism of illusion, on the reality of visual perception | October 2015
Thanks for the Sky white/green/blue - Galerie VIVID | June 2015
Every Cone, Every Torus, Every Cylinder Lighting series | April 2015
Object O collaboration Paul van Laak | December 2014
Light is a vector (projecting a line) | October 2014
Star Polygon Lamp | October 2014
Random Studio - Concept development, Art direction | September 2014
Theater Walhalla - Concept, Lighting Plan, Lighting Design | August 2014
Thanks for the Planets | February 2014
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag Interior Design - Richard Hutten Studio | January-July 2014
Thanks for the Sun Series | October 2013
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Exhibition Lighting - Beersnielesen | August 2013 - January 2014
Sticky Fingers Restaurant - Concept, Lighting Plan, Light Installation | June 2013
Get ready for the Launch | April 2013
StadsSalon - Light Plan Concept | December 2012
Photon Vortex | December 2012
Collections
Second Spade 04, in collaboration with Saskia Noor van Imhoff | ABN AMRO Art Collection
Grants & Awards
Granted - Stimuleringsfonds ‘Design Grant Programme’ / 2023
Granted - Stimuleringsfonds ‘Design Grant Programme’ / 2020
Awarded - Tender Competition ‘Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal’ / 2018
Granted - Stimuleringsfonds ‘Design Grant Programme’ / 2016
'30 under 30', Forbes | January 2016
'Top 25', Eigen Huis & Interieur | October 2015
Granted - Closed Call, GLOW Next / 2015
'Every Light Series', nominated for the Design Parade 10 | July 2015
Awarded for Stimuleringsfonds grant Talent Development | 2014-2015
'Object O', awarded for Amsterdam Light Festival | 2014
'Thanks for the Sun series', nominated for D3 Award imm Cologne | January 2014
Teaching/Lectures
Design Platform Rotterdam podcast | 2022
Rietveld Academie | 2022
Stimuleringsfonds Advisory Committee | 2020 - present
Academie of Architecture / Master Program | Amsterdam 2016
Dutch Design Daily / Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam 2016
New Window / Radio Podcast | Amsterdam 2016
Exhibitions (selection)
Dutch Design Week | Eindhoven, October 2023
Solo Show Gallery VIVID | Rotterdam, September 2023
Buitenplaats Doornburgh | Maarssen, March 2022
Collectible | Brussels, May 2021
Into the Great Wide Open | Vlieland, 2021
Looiersgracht 60 | Amsterdam, May 2019
Dutch Design Week | Eindhoven, October 2018
Frans Hals Museum | Haarlem, August 2018
Vizcaya Museum | Miami, April 2018
Victor Hunt – Design Miami 2017 | Miami, December 2017
VIVID – Design Miami 2017 | Miami, December 2017
Kazerne | Eindhoven, November 2017
Pamono | Berlin, November 2017
Dutch Invertuals | Eindhoven, October 2017
VITRINE Basel | Switzerland, June 2017
Galeria Francisco Fino | Lisbon, May 2017
Gallery Fons Welters | Amsterdam, April 2017
Solo Show Gallery VIVID | February 2017
Zuiderzee Museum – 10 Year Thomas Eyck | Enkhuizen, December 2016
Victor Hunt – Design Miami 2016 | Miami, December 2016
VIVID – Design Miami 2016 | Miami, December 2016
Brussels Design September | Brussels, September 2016
Design Basel 2016 – VIVID | June 2016
Kazerne ‘NEXT UP – Jeroen Junte’ | Eindhoven, February - September 2016
Galerie VIVID | Rotterdam, January - March 2016
ARCAM | Amsterdam, November 2015 - April 2016
Design Miami – VIVID | December 2015
GLOW Next | Eindhoven, November 2015
To See The Sound - Toadys Art / NCCA | Moscow Biënnale 2015
No Static - Dutch Invertuals | Eindhoven, October 2015
In No Particular Order - Stimuleringsfonds | Eindhoven, October 2015
Musée des Arts Décoratifs | Paris, September 2015
Design Parade 10, Villa Noailles | Hyeres, July 2015
D' DAYS | Paris, June 2015
Design Basel | Basel, June 2015
Victory over the Sun, Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam, June 2015
GLASS - Het Nieuwe Instituut | Rotterdam, April 2015
Body Language - Dutch Invertuals | Milan, April 2015
Spazio Rosanna Orlandi| Milan, April 2015
PROOFLab Magazine | Milan, April 2015
Transnatural | Milan, April 2015
Design Days | Dubai, March 2015
Open Mind | Kazerne, Eindhoven - February / June 2015
Reflexion, Gallery S. Bensimon | Paris, January 2015
Noordbrabants Museum | 's Hertogenbosch - January -April 2015
SOLO | Oode, Amsterdam - January -February 2015
Domestic Affairs Passagen | Cologne - January 2015
Illuminade |Amsterdam Light Festival - December 2014 / January 2015
Cohesion – Dutch Invertuals | Dutch Design Week 2014, Eindhoven - October 2014
Open Mind | Kazerne, Eindhoven - October 2014 / January 2015
Design in Full Colour | Dutch Design Week 2014, Eindhoven - October 2014
Dee Dee Wee Doom Pa Di Dee | Dutch Design Week 2014, Eindhoven - October 2014
Galerie VIVID | Rotterdam - July / August 2014
DMY Berlin at Tempelhof | Berlin - June 2014
‘Selected: it’s just Design’ at Designhalle | Graz Design Month - May 2014
‘O’ at Salone del Mobile 2014 | Milan - April 2014
‘Self Unself’ at Salone del Mobile 2014, group exhibition DAE | Milan - April 2014
PAD Paris by ToolsGalerie | Paris - March 2014
OBJECT Rotterdam | Rotterdam - February 2014
nominee D3 Contest, imm cologne | Cologne - January 2014
Dutch Design Year | Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam - 2013
Priveekollektie | Group exhibition, Heusden November-December 2013.
Inside Design ELLE Decoration | Group Exhibition, Amsterdam - November 2013
Graduation Show Design Academy Eindhoven | DDW, Eindhoven - October 2013
Smalle Haven | Dutch Design Week 2011, Eindhoven - October 2011
Publications (selection)
diameter 970 x 110 mm
Acrylic glass, electronics, leds