Anne Holtrop

(b. 10 november 1977, The Netherlands), graduated cum laude in architecture from the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam in 2005. He has opened his practice in the same year and has been awarded several grants from the Fonds BKVB, as well as receiving the Charlotte Kohler Prize for Architecture from the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation. He has joined an artist in residence in Tokyo in 2009, in 2011 in Seoul and in 2012 in Copenhagen. He is course director of the master Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, and is editor of OASE, an independent architectural journal for architecture. His work ranges from architecture models to temporary and permanent buildings, on which he occasionally collaborates with the artists Krijn de Koning and Bas Princen.

collaborators

Arjen Aarnoudse, Francesco Apostoli, Gabriel Cuéllar, Stijn de Weerd, Sebastian Hürny, Samuel Jaubert De Beaujeu, François Le Coadic, Dora Loncaric, Akira Negishi, Shumpei Nitatori, Haruka Uemura, Roderik van der Weijden, Esther Vonwil

awards

2012 Stipend Fonds BKVB

2011 First Prize National Museum for the New Dutch Waterline

2010 First Prize Cinema Hill

2008 Charlotte Kohler Prize

2008 First Prize Work for Marne-la-Vallée

2007 Stipend Fonds BKVB

2005 Stipend Fonds BKVB

selected works

East Wing Gallery (2012) Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Villa Catalunya (2012 - ..) on invitation by Imaestri London, Catalunya (SP)

Some Spaces for Collecting Ideas (2012 - ..) office for The Soon Institute, Amsterdam (NL)

Pastoe (2012 - 13) felt pavilion for an exhibition, Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL)

Model Former Soesterberg Air Base (2012 - 13) i.c.w. Krijn de Koning, public art work, Soesterberg (NL)

Batara (2012) i.c.w. Bas Princen, model and photos, first shown in Copenhagen (DK)

Reverse Landscape (2012) i.c.w. Bas Princen, model and photo, first shown at Art / Object Rotterdam (NL)

Open Restaurant (2012) on invitation by Droog Design, proposal, Rotterdam (NL)

National Museum for The New Dutch Waterline (2011 - 14) first prize invited competition, Utrecht (NL)

Reverse Process of Mountain Digging (2011) model, first shown at Gyeonggi Creation Center Seoul (KR)

99 Islands (2011) proposal for 99 houses, on invitation by Tuan Chau, Ha Long Bay (VN)

Temporary Museum (Lake) (2010) built, Heemskerk (NL)

163 Rooms for a Work (2010) i.c.w. Krijn de Koning, built, permanent exhibition space Mondriaan & De Stijl, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (NL)

Cinema Hill (2010) first prize invited competition, Amsterdam (NL)

Floating Gardens (2009 - 15) spa wellness, Amsterdam (NL)

A tower (2009) model, first shown at ‘t Torentje, Almelo (NL)

Trail House (2009) built, Almere (NL)

Work for Marne-la-Vallee (2008 - 12) i.c.w. Krijn de Koning, first prize invited competition, public art work, Paris (FR)

selected exhibitions

Triggering Reality (2013) curated by Giampiero Sanguigni, Centro Pecci (IT)

Paris Photo Grand Palais (2012) by East Wing Gallery, Paris (FR)

Pictographs (2012) curated by Valerio Olgiati, Venice Biennale (IT)

Collaborations (2012) curated by San Rocco, i.c.w. Krijn de Koning, Venice Biennale (IT)

Batara (2012) solo exhibition i.c.w. Bas Princen, Leth & Gori Copenhagen (DK)

Mind the System, Find the Gap (2012) Z33 Hasselt (BE)

The Dutch Identity? The Power of Now (2011) Museum De Paviljoens Almere (NL)

Mondriaan & De Stijl (2011) i.c.w. Bas Princen, Krijn de Koning, Gemeentemuseum The Hague (NL)

Basic Instincts (2011) Villa Elisabeth Berlin (DE)

Architecture Now: Museums and Galleries (2011) Victoria & Albert Museum London (GB)

Reverse Process of Mountain Digging (2011) Gyeonggi Creation Center Seoul (KR)

Speak, Memory (2010) Stroom The Hague (NL)

La Carte d’apres Nature (2010) curated by Thomas Demand, Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (MC)

West-Arch: A New Generation in Architecture (2010) Ludwig Forum Aachen (DE)

Architecture of Consequence (2010) curated by Ole Bouman NAi Rotterdam (NL)

A Tower (2009) solo exhibition, ‘t Torentje Almelo (NL)

Open Studio (2009) Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama (JP)

Unknown Territory (2009) Museum De Paviljoens Almere (NL)

selected books

Triggering Reality (2013) exhibition catalogue published by the architecture observer

Mind the system, find the gap (2012) exhibition catalogue published by Z33

OASE #84 Models The Idea, the Representation and the Visionary (2011) editors Job Floris, Anne Holtrop, Hans Teerds, guest editors Krijn de Koning, Bas Princen, NAi Publishers

La Carte d’Après Nature (2010) exhibition catalogue with texts by Thomas Demand, Christy Lange, Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, René Margritte & Luigi Ghirri, MACK

West Arch (2010) exhibition catalogue by Brigitte Franzen, Marc Günnewig, Florian Heilmeyer, Jan Kampshoff, Andrea Nakath, Anna Sophia Shultz

Trail house (2009) artist book published by Museum De Paviljoens, with contributions by Christophe Van Gerrewey, Kirsten Algera & Lorenzo De Rita

Architecture of Consequence (2009) exhibition catalogue, text by Christophe Van Gerrewey, NAi publishers

I am interested in a possible architecture. In my work I start with form or material that often comes from outside architecture. In the conviction that things can always be re-examined and reinterpreted, they can also always be seen as architecture. The way someone can see a butterfly or a lake in the ink blots of a Rorschach test. I want to try to look freely at material and form and work with it in an intuitive way – more or less without a plan. Or as the Belgian architect Jacques Gillet put it: ‘The function for me, is in the doing.’ It is a process in which accident, along with coincidence, takes the lead. I want my work to remain interpretable, exactly the way it originated. Not to form a singular conclusion, even when I am no longer working on it. In this way, architecture emerges by imagining a next step to the previous steps that have been taken.