The most beautiful open-air art in Haarlemmermeer

Two Steel Objects

• Artist: Piet Slegers
• Year of installation: 1989
• Description: The white spiers of Piet Slegers reflect in the water of the pond. It is an example of 'Land art', an American art movement in the 1923s that turns the landscape itself into a work of art. The extremes of earth and sun are always present in Slegers' work. He wants to establish a relationship between the two. Slegers: 'I want to create new space, a kind of cosmic tension.' Piet Slegers (2016 - XNUMX) was trained at the Art Exercise Academy in Arnhem. 

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• Artist: Marlène Staals
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: On the green strip of the Cor van der Meerstraat, on either side of the water, there are two works of art made of red-colored concrete. Artist Marlène Staals designed two play areas here as circles in the grass. Marlène Staals (1961) studied at the Rietveld Academy and then completed a two-year course at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In her work she wants to give nature back to the city dweller and restore a social fabric to urban anonymity. 

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• Artist: Rob Schreefel
• Year of installation: 1993
• Description: On a concrete pedestal lies a stone with an endlessly polished surface, the faint bend in the middle appears to be made by human hand. Rob Schreefel refers to dolmens and dolmens in works such as these; prehistoric funerary monuments that were built with monoliths in a manner and with techniques that still puzzle current researchers. Schreefel's work pays tribute to both these primitive cultures and the nature that produces these stones. Rob Schreefel (1953) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. 

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• Artist: Jaap Velserboer
• Year of installation: 1993
• Description: Two turrets made of blue enamelled sheet iron mark the entrance to the health centre. Because they stand crooked on their low concrete pedestals, it looks as if they are dancing a bit. With these two images, Velserboer wanted to elevate everyday life and add color to the somewhat boring, purely functional building. Jaap Velserboer (1953) completed a teacher training course at d'Witte Lelie in Amsterdam.  

Banks

• Artist: Dora Dolz
• Year of installation: 1992
• Description: When Dora Dolz settled in the Netherlands in 1965, she missed the color, warmth and vibrancy of her homeland. Her designs, from street furniture to paintings, carpets, rugs and glass objects, recall the colorful play of shapes by architect Antonio Gaudí. Dora Dolz de Herman (Barcelona 1941 - Rotterdam 2008) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam. 

Biblical Garden

• Artist: Karel Gomes
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: Commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church. parish of Saint John the Baptist, sculptor Karel Gomes made more than 14 statues in bronze. Together the group forms the stations ('stops') of Christ's Passion. Traditionally, on Good Friday, believers pray and sing along the images of the Way of the Cross. Previously there was a cemetery and a sheep pasture on this site. Pastor van Lent wanted to preserve this green oasis of peace and contemplation in Hoofddorp. Architect Frits van Loon made the garden design. The Groengroep from Boskoop then created the design. In the church garden of approximately 1,2 hectares. There are also herbs, plants and trees with Christian or Biblical symbolism. There is also a labyrinth. Karel Gomes (1930 - 2016) studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.  

Tree stump in the shape of a mill

• Artist: Albert Broekman
• Year of installation: 2020
• Description: Hundreds of poplars have been cut down on the Geniedijk in recent years. Commissioned by the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, tree artist Albert Broekman transformed a number of trunks into figures such as a kingfisher, a bunch of tulips, an eagle and also this mill. 

Tree stump in the shape of a bird

• Artist: Albert Broekman
• Year of installation: 2020
• Description: Hundreds of poplars have been cut down on the Geniedijk in recent years. Commissioned by the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, tree artist Albert Broekman transformed a number of trunks into figures such as a windmill, a bunch of tulips, an eagle and also this kingfisher.  

Boathouse and Sloop De President

• Artist: Jeroen Doorenweerd
• Year of installation: 2006
• Description: As a skipper's child, it was self-evident for the artist that he would establish a relationship between land and water. The wooden boathouse, which you walk to via a jetty, has the inverted shape and construction of the hull of the sloop that houses it. The place allows you to escape the hustle and bustle for a moment of being one with the elements. Jeroen Doorenweerd (1962) studied at the Fontys Academy for Visual Education in Tilburg and at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem. 

C element

• Artist: Martijn Soree, M2R agency
• Year of installation: 2013
• Description: This stainless steel seating element (C-element) was designed by architect Martijn Soree of BURO M2R. The construction was made by the Grijzen company.  

City Ranch

• Artist: Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: With the City Ranch, designers Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen wanted to create a yard in the city, inspired by the first farms in the Haarlemmermeer. There are 4 objects in the 'yard'; an open construction of beads that refers to a farmer's barn; an outdoor oven as an icon of solidarity; a reflective water tower made of stainless steel sheet material that works as a beacon of light and a low fence made of oak beams. The proposal was developed in collaboration with landscape architect Henk Schuitemaker from Bureau VLUGP.  

The event

• Artist: Ben Raaijman
• Year of installation: 1998
• Description: With the forty heads opposite the office buildings on Polaris Avenue, artist Ben Raaijman wanted to place 'a human footnote'. The group consists of seven different concrete faces on a terrazzo base. Some heads have a weathered surface, others are polished. The group is looking in the same direction; perhaps to the 'event' in the title. Ben Raaijman (1959) studied at the Academy for Art and Industry in Enschede. 

The Northerner

• Artist: Franz Bodner
• Year of installation: 2012
• Description: The colors of De Noorderling are characteristic of the work of Franz Bodner (Klagenfurt, 1966). After training as an art and ornamental blacksmith and metal designer in Austria, and a number of exhibitions, Bodner settled in Hoofddorp in 1995. With his paintings, sculptures and graphics, Franz Bodner hopes to make the viewer pause and reflect on the essence of life. 

La Perspective Amoureuse

• Artist: Karin Vervoort
• Year of installation: 1991
• Description: The artwork consists of 12 bronze spheres of different sizes. The smallest ones lie against a bronze disc in which four cavities have been made, as if the smallest balls should end up there. The largest balls are located on the outer edge, which, through the perspective distortion, makes it seem as if the distance between the balls is larger than in reality. The title refers to the painting of the same name by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte from 1935. In it, through a hole in a wooden door, you see a tree and a building with a sea in the horizon. Vervoort's image does not resemble the painting, but she recognizes the play with perspective and the confusion that scale relationships can cause. Karien Vervoort (Sint-Oedenrode, 1961) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.  

The connection

• Artist: Jan Hogervorst
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: If you walk clockwise around Jan Hogervorst's giant sphere, you will pass the Cruquius pumping station (one of the three pumping stations with which the Haarlemmermeer was pumped dry between 1849 and 1852), the control tower of Schiphol Airport, the Calatrava 'Citer' bridge about the Hoofdvaart in Nieuw-Vennep, the beach and lighthouse of Noordwijk and the pearl of the Bollenstreek, the Keukenhof. Also the client of this sphere; the Intercity hotel Amsterdam Airport, Hogervorst has not been forgotten. The route represents the connection between Haarlemmermeer and the Bulb Region. Jan Hogervorst has lived in Lisse (De Engel) all his life. He has always worked in the hospitality industry. Since his retirement he has taken up painting and drawing again. This giant bulb is part of the GIANT TULIP BULBS project, an initiative of Gildemeesters Bollenstreek. Since 2018, 71 spheres have been painted by 43 different painters. The goal is to ultimately place 80 giant bulbs from Leiden to Haarlem. The giant bulbs are 1,80 meters high and have the shape of a tulip bulb. All bulbs are painted by various artists from the Bulb Region. This means that each bulb tells its own story.  

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• Artist: Thomas Houseago
• Year of installation: 2004
• Description: This gigantic red baby creates a cheerful note among the office buildings. For the design, Houseago cut the shape from cardboard and had this done by a metalworking company. Thomas Houseago (Leeds, 1972) studied art at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and De Ateliers in Amsterdam. In his work the tension is palpable between fragility and robustness, between human and animal, between anonymous and inspired, between terrifying and familiar. 

The Sundial

• Artist: unknown
• Placement year: -
• Description: A sundial is an instrument to indicate time using the sun. The oldest known sundial dates from around 1500 BC. and was found in Egypt. This sundial is a modern interpretation of this age-old phenomenon.  

The Floating Man

• Artist: Stang Gubbels
• Year of installation: 2000
• Description: According to the title of the image, the man is floating, but according to the artist, this remains to be seen. 'The figure rises from the water, or it comes blowing in, you don't know. It is a movement that stands still and can still go in any direction. I like that.' Gubbels was inspired by the fact that the two buildings on either side of the figure are both related to aviation. Stang Gubbels (2) trained as a graphic designer at the art academy in Rotterdam and specialized in icons for public spaces; stylized images that make it clear to the visitor at a glance what they can find where; toilets, the bus, coffee.  

Dik Trom

• Artist: Nico Onkenhout
• Year of installation: 1973
• Description: Johan C. Kieviet, teacher in Hoofddorp at the end of the 19th century, made Dik Trom a child hero in his books. The village boy experiences many adventures, including riding a donkey backwards. Nico Onkenhout immortalized the story character in bronze at the moment when the boy holds the bucking donkey by the tail. The budget for the statue was raised by the local population in the 70s. Nico Onkenhout (1918 - 1989) was educated at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. 

Dream court

• Artist: Joram Roukes and Shon Price
• Year of installation: 2022
• Description: A cool, larger-than-life image of a basketball player and skater has been painted on the concrete of the basketball court. With the text 'Have A Nice Flight' in large letters. 'That text primarily refers to flying high into the air that happens in both sports. But of course it is also a nod to the planes flying over to and from Schiphol," says Roukes. DreamCourts is the name of the project in which Joram Roukes and Shon Price transform playing fields at home and abroad into colorful works of art. The aim of DreamCourts is not only to make neighborhoods more beautiful and colorful, but also to involve children and young people more in their neighborhood. Creating the artwork took about three weeks. Roukes and Price applied the image in lines to the ground. Children and young people from the neighborhood could then get started with rollers and brushes to color the parts, after which the artists applied the finishing touches. Joram Roukes and Shon Price (both from 1983) met in the graffiti scene. Joram specializes in large murals, Shon is a traditional graphic artist. In addition to their own careers, a shared passion for art and basketball brought them together in the DreamCourts project.  

Three Birds

• Artist: Truus Menger
• Year of installation: 1980
• Description: The bronze statue by Truus Oversteegen shows three birds on a pedestal trying to escape the wet clay on their way to freedom. Oversteegen worked mainly in bronze, which was cast from a clay model. The sculptor's fingerprints can still be seen in the statue. Truus Oversteegen (1923 - 2016) was active in the resistance against the German occupation in Haarlem during the Second World War. She worked closely with Hannie Schaft, the 'girl with the red hair', who was executed by the Germans in 1945. The 3 birds may refer to the inseparable triumvirate of Truus and her sister Freddie and Hannie Schaft. After the war, Truus Menger-Oversteegen became a sculptor and received several commissions for war monuments due to her resistance history. Three birds is an assignment for the Pax (Vrede) residential area.  

Diving tower with human figure (The Diver)

• Artist: Stefan Strauss
• Year of installation: 1998
• Description: A bronze man intermittently spits out a stream of water from a tall red structure. With the spitting, but also with the shape of the spiral staircase, the artist refers to the water pumps with which the Haarlemmermeer was drained. Stefan Strauss (Germany, 1957) studied art in Linz and the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He has a preference for works of art in public spaces in which flowing water plays a role.  

Light needle

• Artist: Frans and Marja de Boer Lichtveld
• Year of installation: 1986
• Description: A stainless steel needle protrudes from the water. In the evening, neon light radiates from the opening that divides the needle vertically in two. The shiny steel is reflected in the water surface. The artist couple De Boer Lichtveld has marked various buildings with works of art. It is always about highlighting elements in the architecture or the environment. 

Love tree

• Artist: Franz Bodner
• Year of installation: 2006
• Description: In the garden of the Old Town Hall there is a brightly colored statue: the Love Tree. The Austrian artist Franz Bodner (1966) created the Love Tree on behalf of the municipality. The colorful image mainly represents optimism, positivity and the multicultural society. The image must evoke happiness in people, give them the feeling that they belong and feel comfortable and safe. The image contains a lot of symbolism. The bird in the love tree represents freedom in the mind and being free in general. The heart represents commitment, acceptance, tolerance and unconditional love. Finally, the lips stand for good communication and staying in touch with each other to prevent conflicts.

Folly

• Artist: Kullberg, Gusta
• Year of installation: 1992
• Description: A 'folly' is a fantasy structure with no practical use. In the 18th and 19th centuries, follies were popular as a romantic element on an estate. Kullberg was guided by the floor plan of the adjacent rose garden in the design. She had it cut out several times from one steel plate. The plates form the walls of the folly. They are offset from each other so that your eyes are always slightly deceived. The whole makes a robust impression due to the sheet steel, a contrast to the delicate roses in the border next to it. Up close, however, you can discover the irregular, hand-drawn cutting lines in the metal: Kullberg's own handwriting. Gusta Kullberg (1958) studied monumental design at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam.  

Photo wall

• Artist: Marin Kasimir
• Year of installation: 2004
• Description: The photographic panorama on the wall of the underpass offers a view of the station area and the station tunnel. Kasimir's rotating camera produces a series of distortions of the environment, making you experience the tunnel, the bus shelters, the passing buses and even the passers-by and those waiting as strange. If you look closely, you will see a wall near the Geniedijk on which boys spray graffiti. One of those figures is Kasimir himself. The photo transitions into a cartoon-like drawing showing office buildings in the area. Marin Kasimir (Munich, 1957) attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

Giraffe

• Artist: Iris Le Rütte
• Year of installation: 1994
• Description: The elegant bronze giraffe has been mercilessly divided in two by the artist. 'Anyone who looks at the image will tend to think of the two separate parts together. Only in the mind of the viewer can the image become complete,” says Rütte. The two narrow pedestals emphasize the slenderness of the giraffe. Iris Le Rütte (1960) studied at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. 

Homeplaces 

• Artist: Sannah Belzer
• Year of installation: 2011
• Description: Sannah Belzer's artwork covers a kilometer-long green strip, the IJtocht. Five elongated breakwaters connect the two opposite districts, referring to breakwaters on the coast. The five titles have to do with meeting and observation: Podium, Meeting, Conversation, View and Grandstand. There are benches and tables on the breakwaters where residents can meet each other and children can play. Sannah Belzer (1979) studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and trained in urban planning and architecture at the Berlage Institute. Sustainability and man's relationship with his natural environment are central to her projects.  

Helix

• Artist: Ruudt Peters
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: Bright orange metal ribbons intertwine along a three hundred meter long quay wall. White balls are attached to this. The structure depicts a DNA structure, with the white spheres as the enzymes, the essential building blocks for all life. For every newborn in the neighborhood, a sphere is added to the structure with the name and date of birth of the child. Jewelry designer and artist Ruudt Peters (1950) has created a growth ornament for the neighborhood with the elongated Helix, which will gradually fill with white balls.  

The Galleon

• Artist: Egon Küchlein and Jan Samsom
• Year of installation: 1991
• Description: The galleon in front of the police station appears to be lifted by a wave. Or has the ship of architect Egon Küchlein and visual artist Jan Samsom run aground on a sandbank? The 14 oars stand upright and have a light in the top, which makes the ship stand out even in the darkness. The ship is part of a three-part work of art. The other two parts are located in the hall of the police station: the same bronze galleon on a high pedestal, smaller and with horizontal oars. Behind it is a blue painting that depicts the vastness of water and sky. Jan Samsom's work is at the intersection of urban and landscape design and visual art. He also designed a red noise barrier at Lisserbroek.  

The Little Man of Hoofddorp

• Artist: Tom Claassen
• Year of installation: 2006
• Description: The 'little man' is a seven-meter high statue by Tom Claassen. The 22 polished aluminum parts are reminiscent of pebbles or cushions. The arms, more like wings, seem to be screwed on. A boyish crest on his head. The stacked parts may be uneven in shape, but as a whole they produce a balanced figure. The images of Tom Claassen (1964), who studied at the St. Joost School of Art & Design in Breda, always have something ambiguous: although monumental, they also evoke endearment.  

Hydrosculpture

• Artist: T. Fang King
• Year of installation: 1993
• Description: Water and wind keep the water artwork in the pond of Wijkpark Overbos constantly moving. A powerful jet of water sprays up from the pond, against the metal plate, and sets the arm in motion. The fountain jet fans out when it hits the metal plate, contributing to the shape of the artwork. Artist and designer Tjoe Fan King (Breda, 1955) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.  

Jacob and the Angel

• Artist: Ben Guntenaar
• Year of installation: 1959
• Description: Ben Guntenaar has depicted the Biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the angel in white-gray sandy limestone. The surface of the stone is roughly chiseled, which contributes to the impression of unrest. The story of Jacob and the angel symbolizes the struggle with the water in the Haarlemmermeerpolder, and the battle in the Second World War. Ben Guntenaar (1922 - 2009) studied sculpture at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.  

Art bench

• Artist: Franz Bodner
• Year of installation: 2021
• Description: Het Oude Buurtje received this bench on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the neighborhood association. Elements from the neighborhood have been incorporated into the mosaic of the bank. After training as a fine blacksmith and metal designer in Austria, and a number of exhibitions, Franz Bodner (Klagenfurt, 1966) settled in Hoofddorp in 1995. With his paintings, sculptures and graphics, Franz Bodner hopes to make the viewer pause and reflect on the essence of life. 

Mas d'Amar

• Artist: Herbert Nouwens
• Year of installation: 1993
• Description: All elements of the statue were once part of a ship's engine. They have been given a second life under the hands of sculptor Herbert Nouwens (1954). Discarded and rusted ship parts are Nouwens' favorite material. By welding, cutting, shearing and forging, skills he copied from both grandfathers and his father, he constructs new shapes in which you still recognize the origin of the material.  

Mobile Horizontal

• Artist: Dick Box
• Year of installation: 1980
• Description: The three apparently floating beams are each placed on a movable pin. Under the influence of the wind, the three horizontal metal beams constantly change position. That slow movement seems like a kind of slow dance. The reflection in the pond creates a dreamy effect. Dik Box (Overveen, 1947) was trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In addition to being a sculptor, he also works as an industrial designer. In the XNUMXs and XNUMXs, Box wanted to show that art, like life, is always subject to change.  

Cloud horses

• Artist: Eric Claus
• Year of installation: 1974
• Description: When the mist rises above the meadows in the morning you can see them; horses huddled together seeking warmth. Sculptor Erik Claus wanted to capture that dreamy moment. His bronze mist horses seem to merge with each other as the pedestal lifts them slightly above the lawn, like the morning mist that obscures the legs. Erik Claus (1936) was educated at, among others, the Graphic School and the Rijksakademie for visual arts in Amsterdam. He worked as a professor at the latter institute from 1979 to 1990. He designed medals on commission for special occasions, such as the theater prizes Theo d'Or and the Louis d'Or, and he portrayed many celebrities, including Queen Beatrix and Johan Cruijff.  

Nike

• Artist: Ad Arma
• Year of installation: 1987
• Description: The artist originally placed 8 columns on the Muiderbos, with one of them the bronze statue of Nikè, the Greek goddess of victory. After the square was redesigned, only the column with the statue was retained. Ad Arma (pseudonym of Ad Robert Meerman), (Rotterdam, 1954) is a Dutch sculptor, graphic artist, painter and glass artist. He trained at Artibus, Utrecht University of the Arts. 

Philosophers Walk

• Artist: Karin Daan
• Year of installation: 2010
• Description: Karin Daan placed a steel line over a distance of 565 meters just above the surface of the canal. In doing so, she restores the straight line of the rear canal, which is interrupted by an ecological zone. The Philosophers Walk is the name of the monks' path between various temples in Kyoto, Japan. Daan created a route that invites reflection and meditation. The line is divided into three parts, each with its own theme. The first line is a landing strip for birds that can breed in 7 hives at the end. That is earthly life. The next steel line ends in two wooden benches, on which you can imaginary sit. Via the last line you reach a tilted plateau called the 'kite'. On it is written in stainless steel letters 'Height For Distant Thoughts'. It is an invitation to give your own world of ideas free rein. Karin Daan (1944) is considered one of the artists of the Arnhem School who created environmental art from the late XNUMXs onwards. She worked closely with urban planners and architects to make 'corrections' in the built environment, where human scale and character were missing. Daan's best-known work is the Homo Monument in Amsterdam. 

Polder boy

• Artist: Karel Gomes
• Year of installation: 1988
• Description: This polder worker, with moustache, cap and apron, appears to be looking out from his pedestal over the titanic work that has been done: the digging of the 36 kilometer long Hoofdvaart. This started the draining of the Haarlemmermeerpolder in 1840. The statue is a monument to all the men and women who made the Haarlemmermeer what it is today. Karel Gomes (1930 - 2016) studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. The 14 statues in the Biblical garden in Hoofddorp and the Ghandi monument in Amsterdam are also by him. 

Pommes de Pierre

• Artist: Ton Kalle
• Year of installation: 1992
• Description: Three pebbles lie together in a roughly chopped bowl like baked potatoes. The ridges in the edge of the shell are 'split holes'. In the past, one could split a block of stone by hammering steel pins into the boreholes. The outside was chiseled into a rough shape by Ton Kalle (1955) himself. The title of the work is a linguistic joke that turns the potatoes, pommes de terre, into stone: pierre.  

Snoopers

• Artist: Esther Derkx and Merel Maissan
• Year of installation: 2013
• Description: Artists Esther Derkx and Merel Maissan created a tile artwork for the 2 bicycle and pedestrian tunnels on the Liniepad. Residents of the Graan voor Visch district were actively involved in the design. In addition to art lessons, children from De Wegwijzer primary school were also assigned to collect material for a 'spunk'. A spunk can be anything, homemade, self-found, from crappy material, something everyday or something unique. As long as it fits in a jar. The jars were then photographed from above. All photos are placed on tiles in the tunnels. Esther Derkx studied fashion design and 3D design at the Utrecht University of the Arts. Merel Maissan studied photographic design at the Utrecht School of the Arts. 

Recreationalists

• Artist: Karel Gomes and A. Jonker (relief)
• Year of installation: 1983
• Description: A woman with a baby on her lap is chatting with an old man. Between them, on the bench at the edge of the lake, a girl enjoys the sun. Gomes wanted to emphasize the function of the relaxed atmosphere of the meeting place of the Haarlemmermeer forest. To entice the viewer to participate in the scene, benches have been placed on either side of the statue. Karel Gomes (1930 - 2016) studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. The 14 statues in the Biblical garden in Hoofddorp and the Ghandi monument in Amsterdam are also by him. 

Rio

• Artist: Dirk van Lieshout
• Year of installation: 2013
• Description: The work of art has a double function as shelter; When the sun shines, RIO interacts with light, color and shadow with beach guests. 

Rosettes / Bowls

• Artist: Maria Glandorf
• Year of installation: 1993
• Description: Two bronze sculptures on a low pedestal. They appear battered, as if used long ago, by a past culture. Sculptor Maria Glandorf (1952) trained as a filmmaker.  

Dishes

• Artist: Bas Maters
• Year of installation: 1988
• Description: Bas Maters' 'solutions' make a building, and therefore the environment, more attractive. He painted the walls of the gym in Schuilenburg light blue, with a dark blue skirting board, and the outbuilding orange. The 4 dishes on the roof are reminiscent of Olympic fire bowls. Bas Mater's (1949 - 2006) working method is typical of the environmental artist of the Arnhem School.  

Sculpture Grain for Fish

• Artist: Franz Bodner
• Year of installation: 2016
• Description: Franz Bodner's colorful creation was partly created in consultation with residents. They also contributed ideas, discussions and decision-making about the greenery on the roundabout. After training as a fine blacksmith and metal designer in Austria, and a number of exhibitions, Franz Bodner (Klagenfurt, 1966) settled in Hoofddorp in 1995. With his paintings, sculptures and graphics, Franz Bodner hopes to make the viewer pause and reflect on the essence of life. 

Seven Steps

• Artist: Jos Wong
• Year of installation: 1993
• Description: Seven Steps by Jos Wong seems to vibrate. The statue has no arms, the movement is concentrated in the head, torso and legs. Is the figure a dancer or a robot? Jos Wong Lun Hing (1928 – 2009) studied sculpture at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and was a teacher at the Rietveld Academy for a long time. 

Slavery Monument

• Artist: Joost van der Toorn
• Year of installation: 2019
• Description: What happened is not over. These words were spoken by the initiator of the monument, Mrs. Veldema of the Haarlemmermeer Participation Team (P-team). Sculptor Joost van der Toorn (1954) chose pillars of lava stone, because that stone is 'so full of emotion, it comes from the ground, it is hot, heavy, that is also slavery.' The monument was inaugurated by Rev. Stefan Bernard of the Haarlem Moravian Church, which expressed the hope that with this monument the ancestors will also find peace. 

UP

• Artist: Sidney Waerts
• Year of installation: 2021
• Description: For the mural on the stage tower of C., Sidney Waerts (1976) has chosen a design that connects with the sky around it. We see a child hanging upside down from a branch. Waerts: 'From this height she sees a new perspective; an optimistic and colorful future, where Schiphol (swans) plays an important role in the conservation of Mother Nature.' 

Story Pole LINE

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: The Geniedijk was constructed between 1888 and 1903 as part of the Defense Line of Amsterdam. When a railway line was added there in 1912, a solution had to be found for the flood defense. For this reason, a 'coupure' was constructed, a dike section that could be closed in an emergency. The denomination can be recognized by the concrete construction with 2 notches.  

Story Pole DIVE

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: The first swimming pool in Hoofddorp was located in the Achterkanaal where the ice rink was also located in the winter. The pool was in use from 1932 to 1972. Many older residents obtained their swimming diploma in the pool. Later it was named after Doctor H.D. Nanninga, one of the founders of the Committee for the Foundation of a Bathing and Swimming Facility.  

Story pole FARMER

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: The Graan voor Visch farm was located at Hoofdweg 802 in Hoofddorp. The name Grain voor Visch indicates that after the reclamation of the Haarlemmermeer, growing grain (read: agricultural products) replaced fishing as the main source of livelihood. 

Storypost AUTHORITY

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: On July 11, 1855, the municipality of Haarlemmermeer was a fact. The first town hall (secretary) was built in 1856 on the corner of Bennebroekerweg and Hoofdweg-Oostzijde as the home of the first town secretary, Dirk Eggink. The old secretariat burned down in 1915.  

Distant binoculars

• Artist: Egbertje Kiewiet
• Year of installation: 1975
• Description: The white enamelled steel sculptures by Bertie Kiewiet look out over the Haarlemmermeerpolder like two enlarged periscopes. The original title of the artwork was 'Beach Viewers' and was designed for a location on the water. But the municipality found the image too dominant at that location and the current location was chosen. The 'Distant Viewers' appear to be the first lookout post if the polder is threatened. 

Resistance monument Hoofddorp

• Artist: Ger Zijlstra
• Year of installation: 1982
• Description: Ger Zijlstra (1943) makes a bronze disc emerge from a rough boulder, reminiscent of a rising sun. It is an abstract way of indicating that hope emerges after suffering, just as day breaks after every dark night. The polished part of the stone represents our civilization, which will always emerge from the chaos of rough society. Zijlstra, also an amateur archaeologist, with his resistance monument goes back to the prehistoric grave monuments that were built with monoliths in a manner and with techniques that still puzzle current researchers. 

Statue of Liberty Hoofddorp

• Artist: Nicolas Dings
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: On a round plateau of black terrazzo are two bronze urns from which a man and a woman rise. A pink-red bench, also made of terrazzo, flanks the stage. There is a bronze suitcase on it. Two doves made of lightly patinated bronze have perched on the heads of the couple in the urns. The artwork is one of ten figurative freedom monuments on the occasion of 60 years of liberation in 2015, commissioned by the Haarlemmermeer 5 May committee. Nicolaas Dings (1953) studied at the City Academy of Visual Arts in Maastricht and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Another well-known work by Dings is the statue of Spinoza for the Amsterdam town hall.  

Wind Sword

• Artist: Wim Poppinga
• Year of installation: 2014
• Description: The Wind Sword rises 33 meters above the landscape like a beacon. It is a measuring instrument that can be used to read wind force and direction. The pointer moves playfully through the wind and is always at a different angle. At night the mast is illuminated and, like a lighthouse, shows the residents the way home. Poppinga wanted to create something that refers to the history of this area and that contrasts with the flat polder landscape. That is why he was inspired by the siege of Haarlem (1572 - 1573). The Dutch Sea Beggars tried to liberate the city of Haarlem from the Spaniards from the Haarlemmermeer. Poppinga: 'On the water, the masts of the ships were visible beacons on the horizon.' Wim Poppinga (1967) studied design at the Berlage Institute and the Design Academy in Eindhoven. He designs designs for parks and landscape spaces. 

Seven Beacon

• Artist: Peter Schoutsen
• Year of installation: 1998
• Description: Seven floats that have to compete against the surrounding high office buildings. Due to their size - the largest extends 9 meters above the surface - and the bright colors, the group - literally and figuratively - remains standing. Schoutsen hopes that people who work in the area can express their own thoughts on it, and that looking at it works as 'a meditative orientation point.' Peter Schoutsen (1959) studied at the St. Joost School of Art & Design in Breda. In his work he refers to everyday objects and likes to leave the meaning to the audience. 

Sun mirror

• Artist: Wout Maters
• Year of installation: 1972
• Description: The sculpture 'Sun Mirror' was initially a real mirror; the two bronze shapes on either side of the column were intensively polished and varnished so that they shone like mirrors. Due to the influence of the elements (sun, wind, water, frost), the surfaces became increasingly dull, after which it was decided in consultation with the artist to grind off the lacquer layer. A pointed obelisk protrudes from the bronze-colored 'mirrors'; in ancient Egypt a symbol for the connection between earth and sun. A branch appears to sprout from one mirror. Wout Maters (1930 – 2017) trained as a sculptor at the Vrije Academie Artibus in Utrecht, where he later worked as a teacher. Germination and growth is the subject of the abstract images he has made since the late 60s.  

Sundial

• Artist: Elvire Minekus
• Year of installation: 1993
• Description: A sundial is an instrument to indicate time using the sun. The oldest known sundial dates from around 1500 BC. and was found in Egypt. With the sundial in Overbos, Minekus wants to draw attention to a more modern phenomenon. The gold-colored plastic roofs that reflect the sunlight refer to the solar panels that were first used in this neighborhood in 1993. Each roof has a different position in relation to the sun, so that a different surface always lights up during the day. Elvire Minekus (1954) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

Story post VILLAGE

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2002
• Description: The Haarlemmermeer was created by peat extraction and subsidence of the soil. The village of Nieuwerkerk was located on a spit of land between the old Haarlemmermeer and the Spieringmeer. However, this became increasingly narrow and in 1467 the village disappeared into the waves for the first time. The village was rebuilt several times but did not last.  

Wittebrug

• Artist:-
• Placement year: -
• Description: 

Cancellation Worker

• Artist: Hans Bayens
• Year of installation: 1989
• Description: With his Schaftende Arbeider, Hans Bayens has emphasized the everyday. Parts such as face, hands, clothing and food package have been worked out in detail. The surface of the bronze is modeled in a lively way. Hans Bayens (1924 - 2003) trained at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp and settled in Amsterdam in 1951. Against the spirit of the times, Bayens managed to reach a large audience with his accessible images. He is therefore classified among the Independent Realists, a group of artists who oppose abstraction and experiment.  

Story post FRUIT

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: Stephanus de Clercq (1826 - 1886) bought a large piece of land in the polder immediately after the reclamation and started a farm there. De Clercq's grandson planted new orchards with dozens of apple, pear, plum and berry varieties. The Olmenhorst is one of the few farms that is still family owned since the reclamation.  

Statue of Liberty Lisserbroek

• Artist: Jeroen Henneman
• Year of installation: 1998
• Description: The bronze artwork is a cut-out of part of a door that is slightly ajar. Through the crack you can see the inside of a second, mirrored door part, which is also slightly ajar. A crack can close and open. With this, Henneman expresses the idea 'that freedom does not exist without unfreedom.' Jeroen Henneman (1942) studied at the Institute for Applied Arts in Amsterdam. Other well-known works of art by Henneman are The Kiss on the Bijlmerdreef and the monument for the murdered Theo van Gogh in the Oosterpark, both in Amsterdam.

Without title

• Artist: Frans Hage
• Year of installation: 1997
• Description: Street furniture made from 3 slabs of polished granite with yellow-red ceramic strips on top. A circular plate of stainless steel fills the 3 intermediate spaces and offers 3 seats for passers-by. Frans Hage (1948) studied at the Free Academy in The Hague, the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Hage often works on commission for governments, companies and private individuals. 

Arabesque

• Artist: Nic Jonk
• Year of installation: 1976
• Description: The arabesque is a ballet position and also a motif from Islamic art. With his bronze sculpture in soft curves, the sculptor Nic Jonk has depicted a dancer who adopts such an arabesque with her body. Arabeske is Jonk's tribute to the gracefulness of the female body. Nic Jonk (1928-1994) trained at the Institute for Applied Arts Education and 3 years at the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam. Jonk was particularly fascinated by birds, mythological figures and women. He was involved with Wessel Couzijn, Mari Andriessen and Theo Mulder, among others, in the founding of the artist training course Ateliers '63.  

Blue Tower

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier.  

Bright Eyes

• Artist: Wim Poppinga
• Year of installation: 2010
• Description: Wim Poppinga was inspired by the landscape, the rolling green strip on the northern edge of Nieuw-Vennep, and the wide panorama that this place offers when designing the 'binocular benches'. The benches are lifted slightly off the ground by steel legs, making the white round shapes appear to float in the landscape. The cast concrete produced in Spain contains pieces of glass that glitter in the sun. Wim Poppinga (1967) studied design at the Berlage Institute and the Design Academy in Eindhoven. He designs designs for parks and landscape spaces.  

Building Vocabulary II

• Artist: Michael Jacklin
• Year of installation: 2016
• Description: The work of art is a rectangular framework of welded together strips of sandblasted, sprayed and coated steel on a concrete base. Michael Jacklin (1956) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Ateliers63 in Haarlem. He makes abstract objects in iron. His work has been purchased by the Stedelijk Museum and for various corporate collections. Jacklin calls his work 'post-minimalist', referring to the influence of American artists of the Minimal Art of the XNUMXs. Jacklin is inspired by the world around him: buildings, bridges and in his images with round shapes, by nature. 

Boxwood

• Artist: Hans Roebers
• Year of installation: 1996
• Description: A 33 meter long steel pipe hangs between two apartment buildings. The construction on which the gold-colored tube hangs is made of colorless steel. With this object, Hans Roebers (1941) reflects the outside light under varying conditions. The steel object also fills the space between the two apartment buildings.  

Consumer Heaven

• Artist: Hans van Bentem
• Year of installation: 2002
• Description: With their outrageous design and striking colors, the 9 benches by Hans van Bentem effortlessly remain upright amid the visual violence of the shopping center. They are shaped like an oversized bottle of cleaning product, a bottle of champagne from 'Chateau Getsewoud', a mobile phone and a slice of cake. An example for Van Bentem are the ceramic benches by the Spanish architect Gaudí in Park Güell (1914) in Barcelona. Hans van Bentem (1965) studied at the Royal Academy in The Hague. With a reference to the visual language of cartoons, he calls himself Artoonist, the name of the Rotterdam artist group of the same name.  

The victory

• Artist: Atelier van Lieshout
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: Bright green men work their way up a lamppost by standing on each other's shoulders and heads. The monochrome bodies appear identical. They are so-called AVL men (Atelier van Lieshout) that visual artist and entrepreneur Joep van Lieshout (1963) designed as a standard size. But they also indicate how Van Lieshout thinks about society: as a rat race in which only the strongest reach the top. 

Green Liane

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier. 

Hert

• Artist: Tom Claassen
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: The deer made of dark patinated bronze is more reminiscent of a hippopotamus with antlers. The images of Tom Claassen (1964) are monumental and endearing at the same time. The tail, torso, legs and head with antlers were cast in bronze in one go. Tom Claassen studied at St. Joost School of Art & Design in Breda.  

Ice Age 

• Artist: Adam Colton
• Year of installation: 2014
• Description: Adam Colton (Manchester, 1957) studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London, at the Manchester Polytechnic and at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem. Colton received the Charlotte van Pallandt Prize for sculpture in 1987 and the Sandberg Prize from the Amsterdam Arts Fund in 1991. 

Klok

• Artist: Jan Hein Daniëls
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The kilometer-long light sign is in the shape of an anchor. The slightly continuous, longer vertical follows the grid of the polder. At right angles to this, a curvature interrupts the straightness. This ends at the ends in a light artwork on two buildings. By linking large-scale works to the landscape, environmental artists Jan Hein Daniëls (1946) and Marcel van Vuuren (1945) want to give an extra dimension to the daily lives of residents and visitors.   

Artwork Roundabout Getsewoudweg

• Artist: unknown
• Placement year: -
• Description: Two cubes of approximately one meter each, rotated on top of each other.  

Leida and the Swan

• Artist: Bert van Loo
• Year of installation: 1998
• Description: Although in this story from Greek mythology Zeus impregnated the king's daughter Leda in the guise of a swan, Bert van Loo (1946) regards the woman as the seducer. A block of stacked glass plates is held together by powder-coated steel in a pattern of swans and naked women. Van Loo says: 'You should never try to compete with nature, you should try to (...) add a detail to it.' Bert van Loo (1946 - 2016) graduated as a sculptor at the Rietveld Academy and then took the glass course. 

Liquid Light Serum Highlighter

• Artist: Adam Colton
• Year of installation: 2014
• Description: Adam Colton (Manchester, 1957) studied at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London, at the Manchester Polytechnic and at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem. Colton received the Charlotte van Pallandt Prize for sculpture in 1987 and the Sandberg Prize from the Amsterdam Arts Fund in 1991. 

Man on Combine / Lectern

• Artist: Leo Andries de Vries
• Year of installation: 1961
• Description: He is a large figure, this man on a combine, a mobile agricultural implement for threshing and mowing. The heavy, dark bronze and the block-shaped structure of the statue make the farmer a sturdy and unyielding perseverant. With the statue, sculptor Leo de Vries wanted to pay tribute to the predominantly agricultural community that Haarlemmermeer once was. Leo de Vries (1932 - 1994) trained as a stonemason at Man de Rijksomscholen Haarlemmerweg and studied sculpture at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.  

Modern Man

• Artist: Atelier van Lieshout
• Year of installation: 2006
• Description: In a cage without bars stands a figure, a 'modern man' according to the title. The modern man represents the man who wanted to move up the social ladder, had his affairs in order and looked to the future. The man in the cage is a standard measure with which Joep van Lieshout determines the proportions of his works of art. Joep van Lieshout (1963) is the founder of Atelier van Lieshout. From his earliest works of art, he has worked with the notion of industrial seriality and the place that the individual has in it. In addition to works of art, Van Lieshout also designs toilet areas, bars, mobile homes and furniture that rigorously emphasize the functional function: without frills and reduced to the essence of purpose. 

Orange Object

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier. 

Out of season out of order

• Artist: Rob Birza
• Year of installation: 2009
• Description: Four almost man-sized bronze sculptures by Rob Birza form peculiar combinations of people, animals and buildings. They are reminiscent of images from Hindu visual language. Rob Birza (1962) received his art training at the St. Joost School of Art & Design in Breda and at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem. Characteristically, he combines mass culture and art, blurring the distinction between 'high' and 'low'. 

Peanut Building

• Artist: Joost van den Toorn
• Year of installation: 2008
• Description: Sculpture of a skyscraper with a large peanut on top, although you could also see a cloud in it. Joost van den Toorn (1954) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In his work he is inspired by ethnography and outsider art in combination with popular visual language such as cartoons.  

Penguin Helmet

• Artist: Joost van den Toorn
• Year of installation: 2008
• Description: A helmet in the shape of a bird's head, with large beak and cartoonish eyes. On top of that a church on legs. Joost van den Toorn (1954) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In his work he is inspired by ethnography and outsider art in combination with popular visual language such as cartoons. 

Polder figure

• Artist: Richard van Os
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: There are 6 polder figures along the main roads in the park; historical persons who contributed to the development of the Haarlemmermeerpolder. At this place: Baron Barthold Arnold Verschuer (1809 – 1901). Verschuer was an agricultural entrepreneur and one of the first landowners after the reclamation. On his farms he applied and gave demonstrations of revolutionary agricultural methods, such as the use of a steam threshing machine. Richard van Os' polder figures are approximately five meters high and indicate the NAP, the average sea level, at the various locations. The NAP level is where the Corten steel base ends. The figures are given a face through the holes with LED lights burning behind them.  

Polder figure

• Artist: Richard van Os
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: There are 6 polder figures along the main roads in the park; historical persons who contributed to the development of the Haarlemmermeerpolder. At this location: Ir. Jan Anne Beijerinck (1800 – 1874). As a hydraulic engineer, Beijerinck was involved in the reclamation of the Haarlemmermeer. Commissioned by the ministry, he designed the De Cruquius, De Leeghwater and De Lynden steam pumping stations in 1837. Richard van Os' polder figures are approximately five meters high and indicate the NAP, the average sea level, at the various locations. The NAP level is where the Corten steel base ends. The figures are given a face through the holes with LED lights burning behind them.  

Polder figure

• Artist: Richard van Os
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: There are 6 polder figures along the main roads in the park; historical persons who contributed to the development of the Haarlemmermeerpolder. At this location: one of the polder boys who dug the Hoofdvaart between the Leeghwater and Lijnden pumping stations. Richard van Os' polder figures are approximately five meters high and indicate the NAP, the average sea level, at the various locations. The NAP level is where the Corten steel base ends. The figures are given a face through the holes with LED lights burning behind them.  

Red Gates

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier. 

shrine

• Artist: Atelier van Lieshout
• Placement year: -
• Description: An abstracted sculpture of a pig in bronze. Shrine is part of New Tribal Labyrinth, a Gesamtkunstwerk by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL). Van Lieshout foresees the emergence of a new tribal world, a primitive society in which production is central and our relationship with materials - which has now been lost - is restored. In this new world, rituals will be valued again. AVL is anticipating this future by producing worship supplies.  

Play objects, four figures and four animals

• Artist: Ossip Snoeck
• Year of installation: 2012
• Description: Four figures dance across the lawn like a pleasantly mismatched family. The sheet steel they are made of is colorfully painted, just like that of their pets. The figures were originally placed at a school. Ossip Snoeck (1952) learned the trade from his father, the artist Jan Snoeck. He himself says: 'I have nothing to do with art movements and I know nothing about them. I am self-taught.' With his images of people with disabilities, Snoeck wants to show that there is a world outside the normal.  

Chair

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the Euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier. 

Three Way Passage II

• Artist: Michael Jacklin
• Placement year: 
• Description: The statue consists of stainless steel strips that are attached to each other in a grid shape with rivets. Jacklin stacked volumes of different sizes on top of each other, according to fixed proportions. This created a transparent cube of 100 x 50 x 50 cm containing 6 spaces. Michael Jacklin (1956) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Ateliers63 in Haarlem. He makes abstract objects in iron. His work has been purchased by the Stedelijk Museum and for various corporate collections. Jacklin calls his work 'post-minimalist', referring to the influence of American artists of the Minimal Art of the XNUMXs. Jacklin is inspired by the world around him: buildings and bridges (as in this image) and, in his images with round shapes, by nature. 

Owl hairstyle

• Artist: Tom Claassen
• Year of installation: 2012
• Description: The images of Tom Claassen (1964), who studied at the St. Joost School of Art & Design in Breda, always have something ambiguous: although monumental, they also evoke endearment. The Mannetje van Hoofddorp, on the Burgemeester van Stampplein, is also by him.  

Story Pole RESIST

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: The Boogaard family, the residents of the 'De Zorg' farm at Oude Sloterweg 1253 (the current Rijnlanderweg), provided shelter to more than 70 people in hiding during the Second World War. Many people in hiding were arrested and deported during a raid by the occupying forces. Father and son Boogaard also did not survive.  

Story Pole DEEP

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: On a height map of the Haarlemmermeerpolder from 1866, lot O 21 is located 4.30 meters below Amsterdamsch Peil. Was this the deepest point of the polder? Lot O was sold last; perhaps because the lowest part of the polder was also the wettest.  

Resistance monument Nieuw-Vennep

• Artist: Theo Mulder
• Year of installation: 1984
• Description: This bronze sculpture group of four figures is a tribute to the people who took great risks during the war for the approximately 3500 people in hiding in Haarlemmermeer. A man pushes three figures, a woman with her two children, as they look back attentively. The artist has not elevated the life-size figures on a pedestal, but allows us to stand face to face with these heroes. Theo Mulder (1928 - 2017) was taught by sculptor Mari Andriessen. Andriessen and Mulder were both involved in the art course Ateliers '63 (nowadays De Ateliers).   

Galvanized Arches

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the Euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier. 

Butterfly dome

• Artist: Frank Halmans
• Year of installation: 2014
• Description: Frank Halmans (1963) compares the metamorphosis of a piece of music with that of a (night) butterfly. Just as the caterpillar develops from a chrysalis into a butterfly, the performance of music undergoes a metamorphosis. It starts as a note from the composer, which is rehearsed by the musicians and then performed in front of an audience. This moment lasts as long as the music plays and what remains is the memory of something special; fleeting and temporary like a butterfly. Frank Halmans (1963) continues this image in his design for the music dome for Harmonieplein. We see the different stages in the development of the insect in a different part of the (architectural) space: the chrysalis just below ground level, the caterpillar between the vegetation and the air and finally the butterfly that explores the limitless space of the inhabit heaven. 

Statue of Liberty Nieuw-Vennep

• Artist: Patrick Corillon
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The natural stone pavilion by Patrick Corillon (Belgium, 1959) is part of the neoclassical block of houses by the Belgian architect Charles Vandenhove. Corillon wants to express freedom of thought with the monument. The numbers in the natural stone tiles refer to the hundreds of anonymous and free thoughts that have arisen in this place over a week from passers-by and visitors. It is an inventory of a spiritual activity that continues despite oppression.  

Worldly Tree

• Artist: Esther van der Voorn
• Year of installation: 2015
• Description: Ceramics on a concrete base made by Esther van der Voorn. The sculpture is located on Harmonieplein, in front of the entrance of C. 

White Bow

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the Euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier. 

Black Greenhouses

• Artist: Heleen Dijkman and Francy van den Heuvel
• Year of installation: 2003
• Description: The duo Francy van den Heuvel (1958) and Heleen Dijkman (1966) designed a series of steel beacons as landmarks in the business park. We recognize a chair, a gate, a pergola, a plant, a castle with battlements, a tower, an abstract image of circles (referring to the Euro) and a house. Each object has its own color, which makes recognition even easier. 

Linquenda Bridge

• Artist:-
• Placement year: -
• Description: This bridge connects the Linquenda district with the part of Nieuw-Vennep that is located east of Nieuw-Vennep. Given the location of this bridge, the Linquenda Bridge was chosen. Within the 'Give bridges a name' project, residents participated in coming up with a name for bridges without a name. The name of this bridge was also invented by residents.  

Railway bridge

• Artist:-
• Placement year: -
• Description: Many people from Venne already call this bridge the Railway Bridge. There is also an old postcard of this bridge with the name “Railway Bridge” on it. Within the 'Give bridges a name' project, residents participated in coming up with a name for bridges without a name. The name of this bridge was also invented by residents.  

Pieter Bakkerbrug

• Artist:-
• Placement year: -
• Description: Pieter Bakker died in 1957 and was a well-known contractor in Nieuw-Vennep. He built many houses here, including the house at Nieuwstraat number 2 where he also lived. 

Family

• Artist: Sybille Krosch 
• Year of installation: 1961
• Description: Three bronze human figures on a stepped brick base; mother and child sitting, father kneeling in front of them. Krosch wanted to portray the closeness of the Haarlemmermeer population with this family. Sybille Krosch (Germany, 1924) settled in the Netherlands in 1948 and studied sculpture at the Royal Academy in The Hague from 1956 to 1960. She worked figuratively with everyday life as the subject. She also made portraits of famous Dutch people.  

Waves

• Artist: Peter Koelemeijer
• Year of installation: 1996
• Description: With hard blue waves flowing under a bright red gate, artist Peter Koelemijer wanted to depict the taming of the water of the original Haarlemmermeer. The gate and the waves are milled from sheet steel. Material and production method symbolize both the power of the natural elements and the determination with which the polder was constructed in the nineteenth century. The work of art reminds local residents that the land on which they now live was not created without a struggle. Peter Koelemeijer (1953) was educated at the d'Witte Leli teacher training college and at the Amsterdam School of the Arts. People and nature are central to his work, often in abstracted form. He works with the materials wood, stone and steel.  

V for Victory

• Artist: Bert Neelen
• Year of installation: 1999
• Description: The Statue of Liberty is a bronze tree with a branch that extends into the sky like a V for Victory. A tree as a marker of a historical event is an old custom and goes back to freedom and maypoles. Neelen mentions three different sources of inspiration for his design. In addition to Churchill's famous V-sign during the Second World War, these are the ladders from the Malian Dogon culture and the 'endless column' by the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957). Bert Neelen (1950) studied Architecture at the MTS and then completed the teacher training course d'Witte Leli and the Amsterdam Academy for Visual Arts. He completed his studies at the Monumental Painting department of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.  

Resistance monument Burgerveen

• Artist: W. Maarse, jr.
• Year of installation: 1949
• Description: The monument on the Leimuiderdijk is a masonry column of 2 meters high with a natural stone plaque. The column is enclosed on three sides by a low brick wall, covered with a sandstone slab. The monument commemorates the 3 men from Burgerveen who died after the German capitulation on May 5. Dirk Hennink was killed near the bridge to Leimuiden during a firefight with the occupying forces. Resistance fighter Pieter Hoogvlied was shot by the occupying forces when he tried to help a seriously injured German. The monument was unveiled on May 4, 1949. On May 4, 2010, the name of Jeremiah Cornelis Boer was added to the monument; a person in hiding who was mistakenly killed by the Domestic Forces.  

Tail monument KLM and Fokker

• Artist:-
• Placement year: -
• Description: An aircraft tail of a KLM aircraft on a pedestal on the station square at Schiphol-Oost.

Sun in the Wings

• Artist: Jits Bakker
• Year of installation: 2008
• Description: Sun in the wings shows a man and a woman, leaning back as if in ecstasy. Depending on the position of the observer, they lift a globe or dome with colored glass above them, but they can also be wings or kites. Sculptor Jits Bakker (1937 – 2014) worked in bronze, granite and marble. In 2002 he was commissioned to create a sculpture for the main building of Schiphol.  

Schiffe für Schiphol

• Artist: Ludger Gerdes
• Year of installation: 1999
• Description: The artwork consists of two islands in the shape of ships, with temple-like buildings of concrete pillars with a traditional wooden roof on a purple plastic edge. Gerdes found his inspiration in English landscape architecture 'in which art and nature are still peacefully united'. Ludger Gerdes (1954 – 2008) studied at both the Academy of Visual Arts in Münster and Düsseldorf.  

Dellaert

• Artist: Jeroen Henneman
• Year of installation: 2006
• Description: On the occasion of Schiphol's ninetieth anniversary, Jeroen Henneman made a statue of the founder of the current Schiphol, Jan Dellaert. He allows the harbor master and later director of Schiphol to look out from the eaves of Schiphol Plaza over the dynamics of the modern airport, with Henneman using the sky as a drawing board. Jeroen Henneman (1942) studied at the Institute for Applied Arts in Amsterdam. Other well-known works of art by Henneman are The Kiss on the Bijlmerdreef and the monument for the murdered Theo van Gogh in the Oosterpark, both in Amsterdam.  

Eight Columns in A Row 

• Artist: Sol LeWitt
• Year of installation: 1995
• Description: This sculpture by Sol Lewitt consists of open and closed columns of concrete stone and plays with horizontal, vertical and diagonal shadow lines. It can be seen in green at the A4 exit. Lewitt's work is considered minimal art. As with other conceptual art directions, the meaning lies more in the idea behind it than in its material elaboration. Lewitt often uses basic shapes such as sphere, triangle and cube, usually in smooth and white material. Sol Lewitt (1928 – 2007) studied art at Syracuse University. In 1953 he moved to New York.  

Fibonacci sequence

• Artist: Maria Merz
• Year of installation: 1997
• Description: The radiant red-white artwork on the southwest facade of Schiphol's headquarters is one of Mario Merz's 'Fibonacci series'. The number sequence of the medieval mathematician Fibonacci is a symbol for eternal growth. This is the largest work of neon art that Mario Merz has created. The Italian artist Mario Merz (1925 – 2003) was a representative of Arte Povera, an art movement from the 70s of a number of young artists who made installations with simple materials.  

Salami

• Artist: Carel Visser
• Year of installation: 1967
• Description: In 1967, the airport moved from Schiphol-Oost to Schiphol-Centrum. Salami is one of the first works of art of the 'new Schiphol'. It is an example of a geometrically stacked work; a massive long straight beam shape, where the stacked parts shift slightly in position. Carel Visser (1928 – 2015) studied architecture at the Technical College in Delft and then sculpture at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. From 1966 to 1998 he was a teacher at the Ateliers '63 in Haarlem and Amsterdam. 

Mercury Monument

• Artist: Johan Polet
• Year of installation: 1930
• Description: This artwork depicts a winged Mercury, the Roman god of trade, travelers and profit. Mercury stands on a bronze globe. The statue was designed on behalf of the municipality of Amsterdam, in honor of the scheduled service that KLM started to Batavia in 1924. 90 years later, the statue was moved to Schiphol-Centrum. Johan Polet (1894 – 1971), together with contemporaries Hildo Krop and John Rädecker, was an important representative of the emerging expressionism within Dutch sculpture. Polet was the son of a stonemason and further learned the trade at the Applied Arts School. In 1919 he succeeded Hildo Krop as sculpture teacher at the Haarlem School of Applied Arts.   

Pavilion

• Artist: Jan Jacobs Mulder
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: Jan Jacobs Mulder (1940 - 2019) was educated at the Institute for Applied Arts Education in Amsterdam. He was initially active as a painter and had his studio in the Stompe Toren in Spaarnwoude. After 1970, Mulder focused on spatial work and is a self-taught sculptor. In addition to being an artist, he was a teacher at the Arnhem Academy of Architecture (1973-1984).  

Frame construction

• Artist: Iede Reckman
• Year of installation: 2019
• Description: For the artwork Spantenbouw, Iede Reckmann was inspired by the history of the site where a shipyard once stood. When viewed from below, the woodwork takes on the shape of the hull of a boat. The wood is bascalorus, a type of wood from Suriname. The posts have already had a long life as a mooring post. Iede Reckmann was born in Scotland and studied at the Glasgow School of Art and at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague.  

Story post STOMP

• Artist: René Knip
• Year of installation: 2019
• Description: The Stompe Toren in Spaarnwoude dates from the 13th century. It was built on an elevation in the landscape, a beach wall from after the last ice age. The church was burned down by the Spanish in 1573, but the tower was preserved. The current church was built against the tower in 1764.  

Unfamiliar

• Artist: unknown
• Year of installation: 2012
• Description: The cycle path was named after Walter B. LeClerc, the pilot of the B-17 Flying Fortress 'No Balls at All' who made a heroic belly landing at that location on February 24, 1944. The bomber was on its way back from a mission to Germany where the war industry was being bombed. When all 4 engines failed, LeClerc managed to land with his nose in the IJtocht. The entire crew survived the crash.  

Without title

• Artist: G. Brüning
• Year of installation: 1970
• Description: Design for an image in the landscape' was the working title that writer and artist Gerard Bruning gave to the artwork. Apparently, according to the maker, this did not fully cover the load, given the final designation. The bronze statue is top-heavy, like a tree or an overly muscular man. Although abstract in its execution, this image is also rooted in the figurative and cultural tradition within which Bruning developed. Gerard Bruning (1930 – 1987) studied silversmithing and monumental art at the School of the Arts in Arnhem.  

Arc

• Artist: R.W. van de Wint
• Year of installation: 2004
• Description: As a monumental gate, Arc welcomes residents and visitors to the Stellinghof district. The steel pipes gracefully drain rainwater from the outwardly arched roof. Arc (gate) is part of a group of 5 sculptures by artist Rudi van de Wint. In addition to Arc, these are Poetics (poetry), Dynamics (movement) and Speira (spiral, circular) and Statics (immobile). The 5 elements form beacons of recognition in the new residential area. Rudi van de Wint (1942 – 2006) trained as a painter at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Van de Wint's well-known work is the large paintings in the meeting room of the House of Representatives and the ceiling paintings of the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Amsterdam courthouse. 

Can't see the wood for the trees

• Artist: Richard Deacon
• Year of installation: 2002
• Description: 'Can't see the forest for the trees' is the meaning of the title of the 12-metre-high stainless steel sculpture by British sculptor Richard Deacon. Deacon often depicts proverbs in his works of art. Richard Deacon (Wales, 1949) studied at the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, the St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art, both in London. In 1987 Deacon won the prestigious Turner Prize. He belongs to the generation of British artists who, around 1980, rebelled against the strict conceptual art of the previous decade. 

The Horn of Plenty

• Artist: Hans Koetsier
• Year of installation: 1972
• Description: 'The Horn of Plenty' represents the economic prosperity in the 70s. Koetsier, however, placed the white horn with the wide opening downwards, pointing out that wealth comes from the ground: Dutch wealth mainly came from natural gas revenues. The statue was made in 1972 on behalf of the Tax Authorities in Amstelveen. When the office was demolished, a new purpose was sought. The statue was restored and placed in a pond in Beukenhorst-Zuid in 2010. Because it did not do justice there, the work moved to the Kunstfort near Vijfhuizen. Hans Koetsier (1930 - 1991) started as a graphic designer. As a conceptual artist, he combined the obviousness of the everyday with social criticism in his work.  

The Stekeltrekker

• Artist: Karel Gomes
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: A man in clogs and a cap is bent over using a scissor-shaped tool, a so-called spike puller, with which he weeds. The statue is a monument to journalist Jan Mastenbroek who published columns entitled 'Stekels' for the Hoofddorpse Courant under the pseudonym 'Stekeltrekker' in the 1930s. In this, Mastenbroek stood up for the residents of Vijfhuizen, who were often in dire circumstances at the time. For example, he advocated better housing and care and exposed abuses. Karel Gomes (2016 - 14) studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. The XNUMX statues in the Biblical garden in Hoofddorp and the Ghandi monument in Amsterdam are also by him. 

Dynamics

• Artist: R.W. van de Wint
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: On the edge of the neighborhood there are two steel 'trees' in a small field, surrounded by real trees. Dynamics (movement) is part of a group of 5 sculptures by artist Rudi van de Wint. In addition to Dynamics, these are Poetics (poetry), Arc (gate) and Speira (spiral, circular) and Statica (immobile). The 5 elements form beacons of recognition in the new residential area. Rudi van de Wint (1942 – 2006) trained as a painter at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Van de Wint's well-known work is the large paintings in the meeting room of the House of Representatives and the ceiling paintings of the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Amsterdam courthouse. 

Unfamiliar

• Artist: unknown
• Placement year: -
• Description: Wooden structure on 3 pillars, approximately 9 meters high. Made in honor of the Floriade. 

National Monument MH17

• Artist: Ronald Westerhuis 
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: The National Monument MH17 is a special landscape object and memorial forest that aims to keep the memory of the 298 victims alive. In the park-like oasis, 298 trees have been planted in a green ribbon in memory of the victims; one for each victim. It is a place to come together and has room for reflection, comfort and hope. The forest is surrounded by a wreath of sunflowers and features an intimate amphitheater and an impressive monument. Every year on July 17, a memorial is held at the National Monument by parents, friends and acquaintances of the deceased victims. During this commemoration, the monument and the memorial forest have limited access.  

Poetics

• Artist: R.W. van de Wint
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: Poetica consists of nine narrow copper shapes that bend slightly in the wind. Partly due to the green oxidation color of the copper, they are reminiscent of waving grass. Poetics (poetry) is part of a group of 5 sculptures by artist Rudi van de Wint. In addition to Poetics, these are Dynamics (movement), Arc (gate), Speira (spiral, circular) and Statics (immobile). The 5 elements form beacons of recognition in the new residential area. Rudi van de Wint (1942 – 2006) trained as a painter at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Van de Wint's well-known work is the large paintings in the meeting room of the House of Representatives and the ceiling paintings of the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Amsterdam courthouse. 

Speira

• Artist: R.W. van de Wint
• Year of installation: 2012
• Description: Speira (spiral, circular) is reminiscent of the double helix of a strand of DNA, the genetic code of all life on earth. Speira is part of a group of 5 sculptures by artist Rudi van de Wint. In addition to Speira, these are Dynamics (movement), Poetics (poetry), Arc (gate) and Statics (immobile). The 5 elements form beacons of recognition in the new residential area. Rudi van de Wint (1942 – 2006) trained as a painter at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Van de Wint's well-known work is the large paintings in the meeting room of the House of Representatives and the ceiling paintings of the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Amsterdam courthouse. 

Static

• Artist: R.W. van de Wint
• Year of installation: 2005
• Description: The Corten steel tower is 13 meters high and has an expressive 'fold' on each corner that protrudes outwards. The hole pattern of narrow oval circles creates an alternating moiré pattern as you move around the tower. At night, the tower is illuminated from within and forms a beacon for the neighborhood. Statica by artist Rudi van de Wint is part of a group of 5 sculptures spread throughout the district. In addition to Statica (immobile), these are Arc (gate), Poetica (poetry), Dynamics (movement) and Speira (spiral, circular). Rudi van de Wint (1942 – 2006) trained as a painter at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Van de Wint's well-known work is the large paintings in the meeting room of the House of Representatives and the ceiling paintings of the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Amsterdam courthouse. 

Story post DUCK

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: The duck decoy in Vijfhuizen consists of two hectares of coppice forest with a rectangular pond of approximately 40 x 40 meters. Surrounding it are meadows from which the (wild) ducks and teals were caught in the trap at the end of 1 of the 4 catch pipes. 

Story Pole BATTLE

• Artist: Atelier René Knip
• Year of installation: 2018
• Description: During the siege of Haarlem in 1573, the Dutch water beggars fought against the Spaniards to relieve the city. This Battle of the Haarlemmermeer failed and in July the starving population of Haarlem surrendered.  

Petrified Water - Drop

• Artist: Joos Clijsen
• Year of installation: 1999
• Description: The drop-shaped statue is made of sand-colored terrazzo mixed with coarse red stone. For this work of art, Clijsen was inspired by man's relationship with nature in the Haarlemmermeerpolder. Clijsen: 'In this work I was strongly influenced by the idea that the place where it is located belongs to the water: it is stolen territory. In my opinion it is still a bit like the sea.' Joos Clijsen (1942 - 2005) was trained at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. In her work, Clijsen points out that humans are in a constant relationship with nature and must show themselves humble in that position. That one petrified drop could easily be followed by a deluge and turn the polder into an inland sea again.  

Statue of Liberty Vijfhuizen

• Artist: Berenice Witsen Elias
• Year of installation: 1996
• Description: On a spherical base stands an egg-shaped ball from which four white flowers sprout. The skin of the bullet is of dark patinated bronze and is enlivened by protrusions placed evenly over the surface. Witsen Elias has used the metaphor of nature for her liberation monument: the (cactus) fruit or egg may be reminiscent of a bullet, but is also a symbol for new life. Berenice Witsen Elias (1951) attended the VL/VU drawing teacher training course and then the Rietveld Academy, specializing in sculpture.  

Stray image

• Artist: Hans van Lunteren
• Year of installation: 1992
• Description: The welded copper statue by Hans van Lunteren (1945) lies like a harmonica at the Kunstfort. Previously, this statue could be found on the Raadhuisplein. The image can be experienced from different positions, allowing it to be understood in different ways. Hans van Lunteren (1945) studied at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch. 

Dancing Farmers

• Artist: Karel Gomes
• Year of installation: 1995
• Description: With a freedom monument in the shape of a dancing farmer's couple, Gomes wanted to portray the elation and celebration of the liberation; not only that of the German occupiers in 1945, but the couple's timeless clothing reflects the celebration of freedom in general. Karel Gomes (1930 - 2016) studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. The 14 statues in the Biblical garden in Hoofddorp and the Ghandi monument in Amsterdam are also by him. 

Lighthouse

• Artist: Rene Knip
• Year of installation: 2010
• Description: The gray steel tower recalls the time when Weteringbrug, before the reclamation of the polder in the 19th century, was on the shore of the Haarlemmermeer. Four-letter words have been milled into both the concrete base and the orange fire basket: look, sweet, open, round, hard, to, long, ring, search. At the request of designer René Knip, poet and novelist K. Schippers (4 - 1936) selected sound words that can be associated with love and physicality. René Knip (2021) studied graphic design at the St. Joost School of Art & Design in Breda. In his type designs we see something of the Russian Constructivism of the 1963s. He also designed his own type for the Vuurbaak.  

cluster

• Artist: Michael Jacklin
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: Michael Jacklin (1956 (NL) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Ateliers63 in Haarlem. He makes abstract objects in iron. His work has been purchased by the Stedelijk Museum and various corporate collections. Jacklin calls his work 'post-minimalist ', referring to the influence of American artists of Minimal Art from the XNUMXs. Jacklin is inspired by the world around him: buildings and bridges and, in his images with round shapes, by nature. 

Private Galaxy III

• Artist: Michael Jacklin
• Year of installation: 2017
• Description: Michael Jacklin (1956) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and Ateliers63 in Haarlem. He makes abstract objects in iron. His work has been purchased by the Stedelijk Museum and various corporate collections. Jacklin calls his work 'post-minimalist', referring to the influence of American artists of the Minimal Art of the XNUMXs. Jacklin is inspired by the world around him: buildings and bridges and, in his images with round shapes, by nature. 

Targets

• Artist: Michael Jacklin
• Year of installation: 2016
• Description: Michael Jacklin (1956) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Ateliers63 in Haarlem. He makes abstract objects in iron. His work has been purchased by the Stedelijk Museum and various corporate collections. Jacklin calls his work 'post-minimalist', referring to the influence of American artists of the Minimal Art of the XNUMXs. Jacklin is inspired by the world around him: buildings and bridges and, in his images with round shapes, by nature. 

Statue of Liberty Zwaanshoek

• Artist: André Kruijsen
• Year of installation: 2002
• Description: With this freedom monument, artist André Kruijsen wanted to express the contrast between the chaos of a war situation and the peace that freedom offers. For Kruijsen, the blue glass in the windows symbolizes the uncertainty in a period of occupation and oppression. For the crooked walls, the artist was inspired by the church Notre Dame du Haut (1955) in Ronchamps, France by architect Le Corbusier. André Kruijsen (1967) was educated at the Vrije Academie and the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.  

Female figure

• Artist: Charlotte van Pallandt 
• Year of installation: 1965
• Description: The girl who served as the model for this statue was a student of ballet dancer Sonja Gaskell, Van Pallandt's neighbor in the studio houses in Zomerdijkstraat in Amsterdam. Charlotte van Pallandt (1898 – 1997) trained at the Ealing School of Art & Design and at the André Lhôte and Ranson academies in Paris. In 1980 she was awarded the Singer Prize and in 1992 she received the Oeuvre Prize Fonds BKVB for her entire work. 

Swan

• Artist: Wim Goedkoop and M. Kroon
• Year of installation: 1988
• Description: Steel swan on concrete base with the coat of arms of Haarlemmermeer and a coat of arms with text. Design by Wim Goedkoop. Forging by M. Kroon.  

Ginkgo

• Artist: Piet Warffemius
• Year of installation: 2022
• Description: In their final stages of life, many want to be close to those they loved during our lifetime. During the corona pandemic (2020 - 2023), this was not possible for everyone. Some people have had to say goodbye to loved ones from a distance, without holding hands, sometimes even from behind glass. Under the Ginkgo they can come together and be close in spirit to the people they have lost. The Ginkgo tree is seen as a living fossil. It is the last surviving species of an order of which many more existed during the Mesozoic era (248 to 65 million years ago). In the Far East, the Ginkgo symbolizes immutability, hope, love, magic, timelessness and longevity. Piet Warffemius (1956) was trained at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and works as a wall painter, painter, screen printer, sculptor and ceramist.  

Turkish Airlines Memorial

• Artist: Joost van der Toorn
• Year of installation: 2009
• Description: On Wednesday morning, February 25, 2009, Turkish Airlines flight TK1951 crashed in a meadow, just one and a half kilometers from the Polderbaan runway. The plane left Istanbul at 8.30:120 am local time. The crash killed five passengers and four crew members, including the three pilots in the cockpit. XNUMX passengers were injured. The monument was erected in memory of the victims and consists of a stone stump with a natural stone slab and gold lettering. In addition, nine trees have been planted: one for each victim.   

Zwanenburg Resistance Monument

• Artist: J. Brugman - de Vries
• Year of installation: 1960
• Description: A man awaits his execution with his gaze downcast and his hands cuffed. The statue is a monument to the five Dutch people who were shot by the Germans in Zwanenburg in February 1945. The proximity of the man, at the eye level of the viewer, makes the drama palpable. Sculptor Janny de Vries - Brugman (1918 - 2006) was trained at the Arnhem academy. She made statues, sculptures and mosaics for various parks and buildings, mainly in the East of the Netherlands.  

Statue of Liberty Zwanenburg

• Artist: Louise Schouwenberg
• Year of installation: 2000
• Description: Freedom is a concept with universal meaning. At the same time it reflects very personal dreams from dictatorships, war situations, but also from an inner struggle or an abusive situation. Artist Louise Schouwenberg counts herself among the lucky ones who have never known war and seeks her expression of freedom in the human dimension. Freedom to move, think and feel, freedom from bondage, space in relationships and human contact. Louise Schouwenberg (1954) studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Since 2010, she has been head of the Contextual Design master's program at the Design Academy Eindhoven and teaches at various art academies, including the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. 

Swans

• Artist: Theresia van der Pant
• Year of installation: 1968
• Description: Swans are graceful birds when gliding over the surface of the water, but furious when they feel threatened, especially during breeding season. Van der Pant has depicted this with her bronze couple of swans. While the female incubates the eggs, the male swan rises and hisses with outstretched wings to chase away intruders. Theresia van der Pant (1924 – 2013) was taught by the traditional sculptor Piet Esser at the National Academy of Arts in Amsterdam. In 1955 she took a course with the Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzú. Combined, this resulted in a style that is often referred to as 'figurative abstraction'. Van der Pant's oeuvre shows a great love for animals, especially for swimming and flightless birds.