“Sometimes, if one dreams hard enough, one’s surroundings will change of their own accord.” Lévi Weemoedt - “There is always more on this earth than a human soul can see, no matter how slow his pace.” John Ruskin -“Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.” Hans Christian Andersen - “The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” Walter Bagehot - “We have difficulty changing, even if it's only the position of our furniture.” George Perec

ÅLVIK - Kunstnarhuset Messen is situated in the village of Ålvik (Norway) by the Hardangerfjord. Many artists praise the beauty of the Hardangerfjord and the Hardanger bunad became Norway's national costume, but there is also a tradition of heavy industry in some villages at the fjord. During their stay as artists in residence in Ålvik Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer are developing new public art proposals which respond to national romanticism and tourism in the Hardanger area. More ...




UDEN - A visit to a museum has little in common with the physically demanding task of a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Taking this discrepancy as a point of departure, Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer developed their plans for the exhibition A path of stars… pilgrimage & Santiago in the Museum for Religious Art in Uden. Read more ...




GREAT YARMOUTH – During their stay as artists in residence* in Scheveningen and Great Yarmouth, Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé Beer sought out overseas links between the villages and developed plans in order to bring about new connections. For the Time and Tide Museum in Yarmouth they developed a plan to get sunburned seaside visitors into the museum. Read more...


FYKSE - In the beautiful cultivated landscape of Fyksesund Landscape Park Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer found some magnificent green stones. To their surprise they discovered the stones were industrial souvenirs.
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HARWICH/HOOK OF HOLLAND – The bottom of the North Sea is strewn with fossil relics. By incorporating fossils into the interior of the ferry between Harwich and Hook of Holland, or even adapting the interior to the forms of fished-up skeletons, mammoths can walk posthumously back and forth between England and The Netherlands.
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SCHIJNDEL – Challenging the usual contrast between the anonymity of the ring road around the Dutch village of Schijndel and the rich social life of this village, a roundabout and the adjacent sound barrier is transformed into an open air theatre which can be utilised for cultural events. A dance performance on the roundabout causes a spectator traffic jam. Read more ...

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MANNEVILLE-LA-GOUPIL – Desperate for a pee, Sjaak Langenberg and Rosé de Beer find themselves down a side road somewhere in Normandy. As he’s peeing against a tree, they discover an information sign showing a watercolour by Eugène Delacroix. This completely randomly picked piss-stop turns out to be hanging in the Louvre.
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