Bruno Doedens
Bruno Doedens (1959) studied at the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, specializing in Landscape Architecture. In 1990 he won the basic prize Prix de Rome – Landscape Architecture. In 1993 he founded the DS agency together with Maike van Stiphout, which won the international competition for two parks on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. Both were realized. In 2005 Doedens continued independently, and since 2007 as initiator and artistic director of Slem. In all his projects, in addition to expertise and craftsmanship, imagination is the central element. The fascination to ‘make the impossible possible’, or ‘to turn water into wine’, and the attention to the long term and social and cultural values, predominate. Doedens investigates the mutual relationship between art and landscape. How visual art, film, music and literature can enrich and transform landscapes and their natural laws, and processes that are always in motion. His new, temporary landscapes amaze, surprise and astonish. The public is participant and spectator at the same time, nature is a co-artist. And it is always big and a lot, like the landscape itself.
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