studio Claus Wiersma

Utopian Dreams

As part of “Rotterdam celebrates the city!”, collector and former museum director Reyn van der Lugt brings contemporary future fantasies of Rotterdam together. The extensive group exhibition Utopian Dreams provokes a wider debate on the future of Rotterdam.
Participants in this exhibition: Claes Oldenburg, Atelier van Lieshout, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, John Körmeling, Richard Hutten, Utopia, Elfie Tromp, Han Hoogervorst Bruges, Elian Somers, Wim Gijzen and architecture collective Cookies.

In the series of exhibitions devoted to great narrative directors such as Kubrick and Fellini, EYE presented a major exhibition focusing on director David Cronenberg, who acquired cult status with his idiosyncratic films about the relationship between body, mind, technology and mass media. His work is still very relevant in the current age of large-scale technological developments, often with unprecedented effects on the human psyche. The exhibition explored Cronenberg’s world through the main themes of his films: the physical and psychological transformation of his protagonists.

Highlights of this exhibition included the weird and wonderful special effects items from Cronenberg’s films, together with bizarre props, set photos and original costumes.

A major exhibition of the extraordinary work of the Quay Brothers. These American identical twins have built up an enigmatic and dark body of work that includes stop-motion animation, drawings, and performing arts productions.
This exhibition shows their films amidst many of their special sources of inspiration, including artefacts such as scientific collections, curiosity cabinets, and early-twentieth-century drawings by psychiatric patients.

The exhibition presents the universe of the Quay Brothers and, in addition to their films, also features small installations and wonderful diorama boxes, called Dormitorium, which contain the sets they use to make their films. These sets are often meticulously assembled out of used and time-worn objects.

Design for an exhibition on the history of the Dam square in the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

Interiordesign for the new office of the Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam.