Studio Philip Vermeulen

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Studio Philip Vermeulen

Philip Vermeulen is a The Hague-based Dutch artist who makes large-scale installations.

22/10/2025

Rrrr Rrrr is a kinetic sound installation created specifically for the exhibition De Cycloop at

The show explored the nostalgic idea of the marble run, which the studio transformed into a hypnotic choreography of moving glass marbles.

Visitors can activate the work by pressing a button. A deep, rumbling sound emerges from a machine that functions both as a speaker and as a surface covered with hundreds of tiny glass spheres. The vibrations make the marbles bounce, dance, and scatter in constantly changing patterns.

There are eight different small-sized compositions made for the little marbles.
Sometimes, a little marble jumps out of the tray in excitement.

01/03/2025

And a last post, for now, of Chasing The Dot with some stills from the documentary, showing the process of creating the works, made especially for the exhibition.

The immersive installation Chasing The Dot (2021-ongoing) is an intense multi-sensory experience, exploring immense depth and physicality of color, in the setting of a large Ganzfeld space.

While enveloping the audience – comfortably seated on a custom shaped couch – in a diffuse, glowing field of light and color, eliminating the horizon and making the shape and boundaries of the light-filled space disappear, visitors are confronted with the concept of “watching with your ears and listening with your eyes”.

Synesthesia, a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to unexpected experiences in another, is a strong theme in Vermeulen’s body of work. As part of ongoing research, the artist creates various poems of light, color and after images; each exhibition comes with bespoke compositions, as part of an experimental process, resulting in a constantly evolving choreography.

As color manifests in Chasing The Dot, light becomes material, and visitors will experience a large, fluctuating dot appearing right in front of them when allowing themselves to dissolve in Chasing The Dot. From that moment on, wherever you look, the dot is right there – in the center point of your vision.

Chasing The Dot comes from chasing phenomena, from after images to flicker-induced hallucinations – once intensity occurs, the work finally takes over the viewer’s perception and experience of the space.

30/12/2024

10 years of *10 Meters of Sound* (2014-ongoing).

10 Meters Of Sound is an audio-visual kinetic composition for high-speed rotating elastic cables and the interference of their wave patterns. Two elastic cables attached to motors are stretched 10 meters across a room and rotate at different frequencies in a composition of waves and flickering moiré patterns, all the while making ‘whooshing’ sounds through the air. Moiré patterns appear when two similar patterns overlap each other and create a third pattern.

Next to having shown this installation in The Hague, Rio De Janeiro, Unna, and Caen, it’s been on display at Rijksmuseum Twenthe since 2018 in their semi-permanent exhibition Ars Longa, Vita Brevis — soon closing, the work is ready to be traveling the world again. 10 Meters of Sound whooshing for 10 years! 💨

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23/12/2024

Bookssss! 📚 What many people don’t realise, is that some of our studio experiments often linger for a longer period of time, as I’m ruminating and thinking after reading, when many first ideas come to mind.

A few examples (on display here in the reading room of the currently running solo-show at Rijksmuseum Twenthe) are this publication by ; ActieReactie, celebrating 100 years of kinetic art; Reflections on Color by Carlos Cruz-Diez; van Eck’s Between Air and Electricity really really good one as well with a great website; Josef Albers’ Interaction of Color; and Quantum, De Oerknal en God van Maarten van Buuren.

04/12/2024

“Two immense propellers. Blades cutting through the air at a dizzying speed – more than 900 times per minute. A projector emitting relentless white light. Stormy winds fill the space, while powerful engines pulse like breathing machines. Sound and light overpower every thought”.

~When KUNSTKERK Dordrecht asked me to take over their exhibition space, I found this the perfect opportunity to upscale Wether Weather, which has seen various places around Europe already, and for this hypersculpture to be accompanied with my new work You Are Here (2024).

Showing these works in dialogue, it’s an experience to undergo – a ritual in which perception seems to lose itself. At the heart of this experience is light. Not as a metaphor, but as a material. In the very center of Wether Weather, white light is torn apart by slicing propellers. What remains is an explosion of color, a fragmentation in which the space seems to sigh and be reborn. The colours move through the space like liquid: they slide, shift, stutter, as if they are no longer light but a physical substance – something you can almost touch, but can never grasp.

This exhibition opens a tiny window into my world, revealing some of the possibilities of working with light and movement. Different to Wether Weather, You Are Here pulsates and mixes various colors fluidly through a thick resin plate, showing the result of extensive experiments at the studio over the past year.

Wether Weather inside Weather opens Saturday December 7th (preview at 18:30, public opening 20:00) at KUNSTKERK Dordrecht.

25/11/2024

Wooosh TOMORROW! PAN Amsterdam x Art Fix, Tuesday November 26 at 18:00 at RAI - excited to show my new work _You Are Here Too_ at PAN art fair, which will be available through the Art Fix platform in two colors: Pink and Mushy Green, which both come in a limited edition. There’s cold drinks, and I’ll be speaking with Isa Huizing. See you there 🧿

12/11/2024

Mega hyped to welcome ArtFix members to Rijksmuseum Twenthe last weeked, to experience Chasing the Dot. Thrilled to collaborate with ArtFix on a new work.

You Are Here Too (2024) is the result of extensive studio research on color, material, and light, aiming to “freeze” the dot that emerges in one’s field of perception when immersed in the Ganzfeld environment of Chasing the Dot. The sculpture explores fluid color transitions, with light slowly pulsing through a spectrum, inviting a unique play of perception and spatial awareness.

Coming soon: You Are Here Too (2024), a light sculpture building on You Are Here (2024). Follow to stay in the loop on this upcoming release!

21/10/2024

You Are Here Too (2024) ⁠
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The moment has arrived! I’m thrilled to introduce a new work — You Are Here Too (2024) that comes in a special edition, available for collection soon. ⁠
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This release also marks the beginning of a collaboration with , and I can’t wait to share more information. ⁠Stay tuned, as I’ll be sharing more details as well as a look into the process of how this came about 🧿⁠
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09/08/2024

NEW WORK! 🌪️ Flying is a kinetic installation composed of two fans whirring swiftly on cords; as they spin faster, they command increasing attention, drawing viewers into a deep focus on their movement and the space they occupy.

Premiered at Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Flying’s frenetic energy raises questions about safety and risk: how secure is the environment, and how precarious does it become as the velocity increases?

01/08/2024

Pausing for a much-needed summer break after a whirlwind of creativity, intensity, and the thrilling process of bringing new works into existence—culminating in the launch of *Chasing The Dot* at . 🌍

A huge thanks to the incredible team that made it all happen during those final, sweaty weeks: Erik, Willem, Freek, Stef, Krelis, Ronald, Deejay, Lucas, Gideon, Milan, Juniper, Wouter, William, Sjam, and the amazing Museum crew—Annelien, Josien, Wilma, Willem, and Caroline. Your collaborative spirit and collective intelligence are what made this possible. 🙏

📸 Behind-the-scenes (except the last photo) captures by Eric Brinkhorst for NCR newspaper, documenting the process as it unfolded.

Eager to get back into the studio, where ideas evolve and new narratives emerge. The story is never static; it’s always in motion. 🌀

15/07/2024

[rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr] ⚠️ here some stills of a beautiful video essay / short film that Touchy Studios made and was directed by the wonderful Julia Schmitz and captured by Lola Mooij.

It’s showing as part of my solo show Chasing The Dot in Rijksmuseum Twenthe. Go viiiiiiiew 🧿

11/07/2024

Whether Weather just returned back from LAM Budapest, after previously showing at Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst in Unna and W139 Amsterdam. 💨

Inspired by the Dutch windmills, Whether Weather is a hyper-sculpture: mechanically shattering and scattering white light into thousands of pieces of color.

Thank you Light Art Museum Budapest for showing this work at Superluminal the past months, alongside Maotik, Nohlab, Sébastien Robert, Gabey Tjon a Thamn, Victor Vasarely and many more.

Curators: Barnabás Bencsik, Borbála Szalai Curator assistant: Dalma Kovács

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