Never before was one of my models for sale, could it be acquired. It is a beautiful way to let a project work physically and mentally in space and time, to become and be an ambassador of the installations. Collectible 1 is the design model of my project TOFUD #Trolley...
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...
Field Research Back in Chongqing China for an artist in residence at OrganHaus, supported by the Netherlands Embassy in Beijing. Thanks for that! OrganHaus is an art space that first was in the centre of Chongqing but now moved to the town Beibei 30 km north of 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...
KAPKAR / VD-560Border Chapel in the heart of the Schengen area Border Chapel, in the heart of Schengen Area with exact one leg = 50% situated in Germany in Hommersum and the other leg = 50% situated in the Netherlands in Ottersum. This Border Chapel honours and...
A mental and physical framework For 1000 years the sound of thumping hands resounded on many city gates. An announcement on the line between landscape and city, safe and unsafe. Residents, traders and travellers knocked on the door, strange and familiar faces looked...
KAPKAR / B'A-L11CUrban Shelter The architectural shelter KAPKAR/ B'A-L11C is based on the footprint of the Bao'An Airport by Fuksas and transformed into a new entity. With it's futuristic appearance and blue lights it speaks about new and playful ideas. The shelter...
In the gently rolling Brabant landscape just to the west of Sint-Oedenrode lies the hamlet of Rijsingen. Close by, at a spot where the Dommel River has cut through the sandy soil since time immemorial, stands the KAPKAR/TO-RXD landscape observatory. It forms part of a...
In conversation with 'Oude Willem' In a transitional phase, the installation connects a visual story of man’s monumental efforts to cultivate and to question the use of land. At the beginning of this century, after poring over its maps, the province of Friesland...
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,...
From unknown ground to crossing engagement Artist Frank Havermans' Art Mobile Brigade is based on the military vehicles of Major General De Ruyter van Steveninck Kazerne. Five mobile works of art based on five area-specific themes, which local residents, entrepreneurs...
Layers of knowledge There is a lot of information that is not immediately visible in a public environment. It is exciting to go into depth there. The light beacon KAPKAR / LB2-SV gives an extra layer to the location where it is located, based on the technical inventor...
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,...
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...
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...
Illegal rooftop installation KAPKAR / WVA-6F is a "rooftop structure" based on different spatial themes that play a role in Hong Kong. Illegal constructions largely determine the identity of the city. In addition to its formal high-rise architecture, Hong Kong is...
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...
School hub The municipality of Son en Breugel and EN/EN Architecten, the architects of the school, have the desire to add a bridge to the new building to connect with the adjacent green. An important condition is that the bridge will connect the first floor of the...
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...
24/7 Active force BORGER – When asked to dream up a new way to signal the presence of a modest – and soberly-designed – fire station in Borger, the Netherlands, Dutch multidisciplinary artist Frank Havermans came up with this bright red, alienesque lantern...
Informal and multifunctional table with a stage for a speech *unique piece *exclusive design year: 2011location: Rotterdam, Netherlandsclient: De Vrienden van het NAivenue: Nederlands Architectuur Instituutmanifacture: Studio Frank...
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...
Communication beacon Challenged by the commission of the district Corpus den Hoorn in Groningen to design a public art work in the park I developed a permanent utility sculpture that serves as a chat house. The work is located against the dike along the Noord Willems...
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,...
See and know where the food comes from is an essential value. How does the cowshed 2.0 look like? In other words: which in all respects sustainable and innovative alternatives are there for the barn, the most common type of barn that especially in the field of animal...
We have to stay vagilant and we know that. KAPKAR / DW-F370 is a landmark in the dunes, it is clearly visible. From a distance, it doesn't look like a work of art at first. It seems like a strange element. Yet it evokes recognition because the visual language is...
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...
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 -...
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...
A strong organizational element The commission to design a multifunctional cupboard formed part of the overall renovation of adjacent buildings for the X-Ingredient advertising agency in Den Bosch. The renovation is conducted by HilberinkBosch architects, who ask me...
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...
Shaping the rural area KAPKAR/ZZW-220 is a tree house I designed on an eighteenth-century farm in Westkapelle in Zeeland. During the summer months the farm’s owners, Lille and Edith, run a B&B here. They wanted a different kind of space to rent out, in addition to...
Stretching the space KAPKAR/SE-D2E, a space/furniture object, is made for the new De Effenaar pop podium building in Eindhoven. The building was designed by MVRDV architects. I was asked to design the interior for the secretarial office on the lower floor. This small...
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...
Living for one artist In the grounds of Huize Steenwijk in Vught is an old monastery of the Tilburg Friars. Redeveloped by Marx & Steketee architects, this monastery is currently used by ZIN in Werk, an organization concerned with bringing meaning to work. At the...
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...
A strong organizing element I was asked by HILBERINKBOSCH architects to develop a cupboard for their office. Its main purpose was to organize small items that were currently scattered over a number of drawers and cupboards. Dynamic look is essential. Natural...
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...
A strong organizational element I was initially commissioned to create wainscoting in the reception area, from material recycled from the old monastery. I made this more interesting, however, by incorporating the adjoining post room, allowing the establishment of a...
Phylosopher space. A 23 is a structural alteration to a private home in Eindhoven. The clients, who have lived in the property for 15 years, thoroughly refurbished the building in 1991. The component I was asked to restructure had a short programm of requirements: -...
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...
Listen, watch and be silent In a journey through the Dutch polder landscape I came up three, according to history, failed polder areas: Het Naardermeer, Marken en Het verdronken land van Saeftinghe. I decided to make three architectural interventions that optimize the...