Allard van Hoorn was born on February 29th 1968 in Leiden, the Netherlands. Van Hoorn investigates how we relate to our environment working with the disciplines of architecture, design, music and dance. He visually, acoustically and spatially transcodes our usage and perception of the built environment and nature in order to question preconceptions and experiences of the spaces we live and work in. Through mapping -and subsequently re-ordering of- embedded rituals, rules and routines in buildings and and other objects in the public realm he investigates their form and function taking into account the inherent impossibility of an accurate description of our world through man-made systems.
Select solo performances and exhibitions
include Castagnino MACRo Museum Rosario,
Argentina,015_Urban_Songline (2014); Thomas Kerk,
Amsterdam, NL, Thomas Open - 023_Urban_Songline (2014);
Art Rotterdam, Focused Artist - 018 Urban Songline
(2014); Buildering | Misbehaving the City, Rosenthal Centre for
Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, US, 020 Urban Songline
(2014); Istanbul Biennial Turkey, ITU, Architectural Faculty, FCK
Lab, Parallel Event, 016_Urban_Songline (2013); Istanbul
Biennial,Turkey, SumaHan Lounge, Parallel Event, In Praise of
Shadows (2013); Galerie Donatz, Munchen, Germany, Allard
van Hoorn (2013); Forum Transitorium, Eindhoven, NL,
Symphonie Industrielle (2013); BoetzelaerNispen Gallery,
Amsterdam, NL, Forward/: l_o_ (2013); The Storefront for
Art and Architecture, New York, USA, 007_Urban_Songline
Latitude: 40.721514° N - 40.721384° N / Longitude: -73.997295° W -
-73.996943° W (2012); de Appel arts center, Amsterdam,
NL, Skies over Snaefell (2012); Tempelhof, Berlin,
Germany, 012_Urban_Songline (2012);Pasinger Fabrik,
Munich, Germany, 006_urban_songline as part of city - stadt -
toshi by E324 (2012); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich,
Germany, 006_urban_songline as part of city - stadt - toshi by
E324 (2011); The Gopher Hole, London, UK, Domus Mixtape
Live #6: THE SOUND OF LONDON by Scanner + Allard van Hoorn,
Beatrice Galilee (2011); Novy Most / Space Gallery,
Bratislava, Slovakia, 008 Urban Songline Latitude: 48.136593° N
- 48.252827° N / Longitude: 17.104458° N - 16.374822° N
(2011); Impakt, Utrecht, NL, Impakt Event: Things to Come: Oral
Sight-seeing (2011).
Select group exhibitions include 14th Venice Architecture Biennale,
US Pavillion, OfficeUS, Giardini, Venice, IT, Outpost
(2014); Buildering | Misbehaving the City, Blaffer Art Museum,
Houston, US, Urban Songlines (2014); Art Rotterdam,
Boetzelaer | Nispen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, Groupshow
(2014); ISCP, Brooklyn, US, Open Studios (upcoming)
(2014); CentroCentro, Madrid, ES, Transportar un Edificio
(2014); Buildering | Misbehaving the City, Rosenthal Centre for
Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, US, Urban Songlines (2014);
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism & Architecture, Shenzhen,
China (2013); Bursa Photofest, Bursa, Turkey,
MATCHMAKER (2013); Le Leé, Metz, France,
001_urban_songline as part of Soireé Courts (2013); ATEA,
Mexico City, Investigación Urbana - Fronteras Invisibles - with
SMS.MXS // Archis RSVP // Citámbulos // PUI (2012); G104
Espacio de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina, URRA Open Studios
International Residency Program (2012); Galeria Infinito Del
Arte, URRA International Residency Program (2012); SPACE
Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, Crazycurators Biennale IIII
(2012); Galerie der Künstler, Munich, Germany, Under
Construction (2012).
Select awards and grants include
Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, Cultural
Grant, Buildering: Misbehaving the City, Rosenthal Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, US (2014); Consulate General of
the Netherlands in New York, Cultural Grant, Buildering:
Misbehaving the City, Rosenthal Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, US (2014); Mondriaan Fund, Flexible Working
Fund, Buildering: Misbehaving the City, Rosenthal Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, US (2014); Consulate General of the
Netherlands in New York, Cultural Grant, Storefront for Art
& Architecture, NYC, US (2012); Mondriaan Foundation,
Travel Grant, Storefront for Art & Architecture, NYC,
US (2012); Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and
Architecture, Flexible Working Fund, International Residency
Program, URRA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2012); Netherlands
Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Matching Grant
(2011); Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and
Architecture, Basic Stipend (2010).
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art