Insightful, confrontational and connecting projects consist o.o. of (interactive) installations, light, film and digital works.
The installations and social cultural art of Andrea Haandrikman-Schraets art is based on some of the following theme’s: a.o. freedom, story-telling, connection and technology.
The art on this website gives an overview of the last 5 years. More info.
“Lady of Free Birds”
The 21st part in a series of art works dedicated to powerful women
o.o. mixed media, free birds, juten, bark and light.
Art installation
180 bij 300 cm.
17-10-2024
Part of the Exhibition “Tears on my Pillow”
Tha Banque Art Gallery
Bergen (NH)
Starts October 17th 2024
“Free birds “
A collection of ca. 100 unique and handmade, birds who spread light and freedom. A new material is developed to create a lightness and glow for them to spread their wings and fly away.
A flock of birds has temporarily settled under the skirt of the “Lady of Free Birds”
“9 Birds for Oya”
The 20th part in a series of art works dedicated to powerful women
o.o. mixed media, free birds embroidered in brass, copper wire and light.
“Lili’s Dress”
The 19th part in a series of art works dedicated to powerful women
o.o. mixed media, leaves, tree bark and Fresnel lens embroidered in brass and copper wire and light.
“Free birds for Mária”
The 17th in a series of art works dedicated to powerful women
o.o. mixed media, birds embroidered in metal wire, juten and light.
Commission for VenloVerlicht.
Info: https://www.venloverwelkomt.nl/locatie/venloverlicht-andrea-haandrikman/
Part of an artproject, which consists of 53 art works, or reproductions of art works, exhibited as part of three art routes within Venlo.
“Free birds for Mária” is exhibited in Arcen, from the 7th September 2024 until March 2025:
https://www.venloverwelkomt.nl/kaarten/venloverlicht-arcen
“Dress made of light and Free Birds/ For Mária (2)”
The 18th part in a series dedicated to powerful women (2024)
o.o. o.o. mixed media, birds embroidered in patinated copper wire, brass, tree and light.
Out of your mind
Contribution on: Get Out Of Your skull 2.0
2024
3-19 May: Zilverhof, Ghent, Belgium
1-5 July: ArtSpace at Arti et Amicitiae Foundation, Amsterdam
8-17 July: de Cultuurhoek, Driebergen
12 Oktober – 3 November: byBranderhorst, Dordrecht
House 2
An installation filled with glimmers of hope.
The rooms in House 2 will be filled with small works of arts. They represent small moments of happiness and hope of/for people while enduring hardship.
The rooms reveal themselves through distant movement and sensors.
Exhibited:
-November 2022. “Art Month Ameland”
-August 2022. Het Franz Pfanner Huis, Arcen: “De wondere wereld van Andrea”
99 participants shared their stories, their sparkle of joy .
43 Are preserved as small art works, inside the rooms of House 2.
Do you want to participate?:
https://andreahaandrikman.com/participation_deelname/
Open Call:
What is the small thing that makes you happy or gives you hope, when you’ve had enough?
Mail your story to info@andreahaandrikman.com
Your contribution might become a glimmer of hope in a house filled with hope for the future.
Caminostones
Caminostones is an Art Project which connects and inspires people by their stories and miniature painted stones.
The traveling and resting stones are layed out on International Art Routes.
2015: Project Stone Espalion (Fr.) – Santiago de Compostella (ES)
2016: Floris5- Trail (NL)
2017: Pieterpad (NL)
2019: Maastricht (NL) – Santiago (ES)
2021: Caminostones Via de la Plata (ES}
Info
Northern light
Prototype of an ongoing project. A semi-transparant painting, which combines solitude and a real time moving Aurora.
Participation: (technics)Jelle Haandrikman.
A Forest awakening
2020
Acrylic paint, tree bark, rice paper, linen, LED lighting.
Inside the box, outside
Interactive video-installation which presents freedom in Limburg (the Netherlands), through an overview off 75 interviewed people. It confronts the viewer with it’s own reactions to these stories…..
The participation of: Jacqueline Martens (Film) and TDvenlo (technics), o.a. Jelle Haandrikman.
Exhibit:
8-9 December 2019, ECI Roermond: Vrijheid in Kunst, in honor of 35 years of Art Circle Artimosa.
2020:
-9-12 January: Limburg Film Festival
-June – July 2020 Museum van Bommel van Dam, Klaasstraat 38, 5911 JR Venlo
Free Birds 2
An inviting for participants to meet their own sense of freedom through an uniquely created free bird sculpture…
The Free Birds projects consists of a flock of 128 birds.
2019
Free Birds 1
Installation which combines freedom, painting, sculpture, light and semi transparancy.
2019
Mixed media, canvas, lace, juten and light.
ca. 210 x 80 cm.
Winterlicht
A 120 days Art project. Through the dark Winter Days every day one miniature was painted and one haiku written.
After 120 days, this time lapse revealeda complete painting.
Info and 120 miniatures and haiku’s in detail.
2016-2017
45-84 cm. Canvas
Contrasten
Participation:
-Jelle Haandrikman
-Robert van den Munckhof.
-Music by Scott Altham “Never Heard a Rhyme Like This Before”
2015