Besiendershuis 500 yearsEen bijzonder jubileum voor het Besiendershuis: in 2025 is het 500 jaar geleden dat het werd gebouwd. Dat wordt groots gevierd met een verjaardagsfeest én een spraakmakend kunstwerk rondom het huis.' 500 jaar staat het Besiendershuis in...
IJsselbiënnale 2025'info follows' Op dit moment wordt er hard gewerkt aan de voorbereidingen voor IJsselbiënnale 2025, die van start gaat op 21 juni 2025. Het thema van IJsselbiënnale 2025 is ‘grenzen’. Grenzen markeren, verdelen én verbinden; of ze nu...
As long as trade moves The historic Dutch Fort Zeelandia (TW) plays a crucial role in the design of the central object that is moved on the electric trolley through Taipei and its markets. Using the map of the fort as cargo, Frank Havermans moves through the...
KAPKAR / H3H-YPB | Gate Bridge PavilionBeing mutually invisible is part of the mystery. * By using reused wood that can be reused again, the Gate Bridge Pavilion is 100% sustainable. During the joint walk in the Benedictine sisters convent garden, it was said by the...
FLOW (Active Heave Compensation) The exhibition at Oudezijds Voorburgwal 131 brings together two art projects in progress by Edwin Zwakman and Frank Havermans. The two artists imagine, each in their own, distinctive way, a future in which we move our habitat to...
'A cultural activity with an irreversible impact on the behaviour of its own species.' Building. One of the greatest driving forces of mankind. Although building may not have been passed on as the first survival strategy in the genetic programming, mankind itself has...
A social space for multifunctional hospitality Shenzhen is a city that was founded only 40 years ago, the area however has been inhabited for hundreds of years and has a military history of more than 600 years (1394 A.D.). This awareness should be much more part of...
KAPKAR / GTO-B10Urban Surveyor KAPKAR / GTO-B10 is looking for new places within the urban fabric that could be of importance in the development of the city. It unfolds evolutionally from the second dimension to the third, from one of the first buildings in the area,...
Work space in the air Commissioned by the AkzoNobel Art Foundation for the Art Space, KAPKAR/ WS1P- AN redefines this communal area giving it new meaning. Executed with our coatings, Haverman’s workspace represents a unique fusion of common and personal ground....
KAPKAR / ZM-S*B3-JH | Transitional installationThe need for transitional spaces In Heerlen, as well in the rest of the province of Limburg, most of the industrial heritage from the former mining industry aboveground was demolished with true Dutch efficiency,...
solo exhibtion Frank Havermans has a clear concept of art creation. Almost all of his works are named in the same manner - the names of his architectural works usually start with ‘KAPKAR,’ followed by a number, and the names of his works related to urbanization...
The Studio's hardware in 134 models Next to his transitional installation KAPKAR/ ZM-S*B3-JH, Frank Havermans was asked to make a second installation in the 30-meter-long store window of Schunck Glaspaleis. He designed KAPKARTOFUD # Noordvitrine, a modelexhibition...
TOFUD # Chongqing | BangBangWho is the megapolis actually being built for? I see building as a cultural activity and a phenomenon with a strong driving –force, with a thriving and sometimes devastating affect on our environment. What’s the affect to the direct...
Strategic intervention When the relentless doors of airplane bunker Shelter 610 open with a lot of noise, a black colossus slowly drives out. Secret Operation 610 is a response to a redesignation assignment commissioned by the province of Utrecht to use this former...
An architecture that is both more imaginative and free 'We are not interested in architecture as the manifestation of a formal style, but rather as an instrument of self-government, of humanist civilisation, and as a demonstration of the ability of humans to become...
A space for small cultural events KAPKAR / SF-P7S is a temporary and relocatable pavilion for a flexible programme of performances, debates, presentations and small exhibitions suited for up to 50 persons. It has been designed for Stichting Fabrikaat to use during...
A manifesto for taking a new approach to area-defining heritage. With the industrial architectural installation KAPKAR/DY-K92, Frank Havermans explores two site-specific features of a former shipyard, which is now being transformed into a normal, standard urban...
What lies beneath you.. Ten artists made new works for this exhibition, with the theme ‘contemporary follies’. On Beeckestijn, I note that everything is back in excellent condition thanks to a thorough restoration. Part of the history of the country estate, namely the...
Is the human ingenuity of pioneer spirit that created this rural life and the hoists the same force that is now destroying it 150 years later? The Markham Museum lies on the edge of the former pioneer village of Markham, which has long been annexed by Toronto. Just...
AIR GM8 AmsterdamDrawings Cityscapes Gallery generous invited me to an Artist in Residence project at GM8 Gabriël Metsustraat in Amsterdam. A contemplation time during six weeks for drawing and thinking about urbanism. The result of the residency in GM8 is...
Truss construction A construction based on the anchor beam, the change of the landscape and the typology of rural buildings. After a successful period of thousands of years, the classic wooden truss construction of the farm has largely disappeared or been replaced by...
TOFUD # Shenzhen | Urban VillagesCycling the city by Paula Orrell The realm of the everyday is in fact the most alive, vivid and dynamic terrain for invention and innovation. The street, the urban landscape becomes an immediate space where Frank Havermans...
Marshalling yard hut Een zwevende slaapplek in de draaicirkel van het rangeerterrein in de Spoorzone, het centrum van het dorp De Vlek. Wie durft hier een middagdutje in te doen? Het Huttenfestival De Vlek gaat over bouwen in vrijheid en de romantiek van het bouwen,...
An object usable for all Exhibition space for contemporary art De Bewaerschole in the tourist village Burgh Haamstede, asked me to develop an autonomous object in the front garden that would attract the gaze of the passenger as goal to enter the garden and thereby the...
On the cutting edge of visual art and architecture Frank Havermans himself classifies his work as ‘architectonic constructs’. On the cutting edge of visual art and architecture, his edifices take the form of a space that can be (temporarily) occupied, like a tree...
How to display a ceramic collection? The museum has selected 55 pieces of representative and important European ceramists from the Collectie van Haaren. Collection van Haaren. (J.W.M. van Haaren was the collector and founder of the SMs ceramic collection.) The...
Stage for an orchestra, singer-songwriter and a dancer In 2010 Stichting G.A.N.G. asked me to design and produce the head stage for the traveling cultural festival Brachen Siedlung. KAPKAR/ PBS-X4 is the result, made of used plywood with striking heavy beam...
Renewed attention for the truss as a construction and building toolKAPKAR / GBT-3S is a temporary architectural installation in the prelude to the new expansion area Veghels Buiten, an urban development project by Buro B + B, which will be resurrected between 2012 -...
TOFUD # Amsterdam ZuidasUrban Research Model My project on the Zuidas was realized in TOFUD: my ‘Temporary Office For Urban Development’. I set up this office every time a concrete situation presents itself. This time it was in the Sint Nicolaas chapel, part of the...
A strong desire to become true by Jens Maier-Rothe, 2018 Precious truss constructionFrank Havermans originally developed this work as contribution to a cross-disciplinary art festival by the name of flux-s, which is taking place annually since 2009 inside an old...
Heritage between nature and culture This temporary installation was developed for the exhibition ‘Retreat’, on invitation by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, UNStudio. The theme retreat makes me think in the first instance of people who withdraw from the world for a...
Tangible celebrating it's own existence KAPKAR/ TT-C2P was my contribution to the seventh São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, produced at the invitation of the NAi. It formed part of the Tangible Traces exhibition which later travelled to Vienna, Hongkong...
TOFUD # Spoorzone Eindhoven TOFUD Your-Space by Freek Lomme Frank Havermans (Breda, 1967) lives in Heeswijk where he works in his studio. But he also likes working on location. He is currently presenting his TOFUD, or Temporary Office For Urban Development, for...
TOFUD # OFFICEResearch office in the museum Charles Esche invited me for a 'Your Space Van Abbe' in Van Abbemuseum. I proposed a TOFUD project AIR inside the musem, he liked the idea, so it happenend. For this occasion I have build an office to work in. Here I studied...
Fourteen designers on display The museum shows the fourteen candidates for the Rotterdam Design Prize 2007: Couturelabel Marga Weimans, Inside Outside, Irma Boom Studio, KapteinRoodnat, Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum, MattonOffice, Philips Design, Ranj Serious Games,...
TOFUD # Amsterdam IJburgHow to make the islands more exciting? Oeke Witteveen of Gallery Witteveen generous invited me to an Artist in Residence project at M4 Guest Studio in the Tetterode building in Amsterdam. The TOFUD project was born of the realization that...
TOFUD # Vlissingen'Havermans surveys the grounds of De Schelde' by Rolf Bosboom, PZC March 3, 2006 City planners carried out three 'surveys' of the future development of the grounds of 'De Schelde' ('The Scheldt', a former shipyard in the centre of Flushing). In the...
Sharping the vision on industrial heritage in urbanism 'The heavy sheet metal workshop is a funny place: it's quite an impressive hall, but there is a lot of visual noise because of the internal construction and the use of the building. As an artist you want to grasp...
Unseen residual spaces and structures in the dense fabric of the city center.Although 's-Hertogenbosch is an old city, founded in the 12th century in the Duchy of Brabant, hardly anything remains from the actual Medieval part. Only its urban structure, the street...
It's a pity to hide structural elements Normally I visit a space if I’m asked to make a work there. I take photos, absorb the space and measure it. This gives me an insight into it's dimensions, scale and proportions. It’s a set ritual. Since the Clark gallery is in...
When decisions receive a different interpretation, other images, spaces and buildings are created.The Oude Kerk, Amsterdam’s most ancient monument, is located in the middle of the Wallen, the city’s red-light district. As soon as you enter the church from this hectic...
An extrapolated and reinterpreted element based on the dimensions of the concrete structureKAPKAR/TW-3902 is an installation in the Watertoren (water tower) in Vlissingen. I have known this water tower from an early age, for my grandfather was sub-contracted to build...
Reversal of the architectural principle of the iron constructionThe central exhibition space at De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, an artists’ initiative in Helmond, is the oldest room in this late nineteenth-century industrial building. The dimensions are 16.79 x 10.03 x...
The shortest elongated farmhouse Every summer an art festival is held in the grounds of De Germinahof, an artists’ initiative in Sterksel, Noord-Brabant. Looking for a location my eye immediately fell on a ‘marginal’ place to the rear of the low, elongated farmhouse...
Table and chair for one person KAPKAR/TS-1P was originally developed for De Kamer, a small exhibition space for design in De Krabbedans centre for visual art and design in Eindhoven. Although De Witte Dame, the old Philips factory in which De Krabbedans is...
At no point does the installation touch the interior space.The Argument artists’ initiative is based in the former bicycle shed of an old school in the centre of Tilburg. This relatively small, somewhat tapering space of 15.2 x 6.7 x 2.8 m, with low ceilings, is...
A model and a 'real' spatial structure are not the same.This temporary installation in De Overslag artists’ initiative in Eindhoven is actually the first KAPKAR, although this concept had yet to be born. After a number of years in which I mainly produced drawings, I...