Electrolytes, interventions in the Linnaeusborg and Energy Academy

Perhaps you have noticed the drawings in and around the Linnaeusborg, on the walls, the floor and in the outdoor area? This is the work of Richard Bolhuis. Bolhuis (NL/UK) creates transdisciplinary installations in which his meditative soundscapes and organic drawings play a prominent role. Mystery and intuition are the primary elements in his practice. But why can we find his work on the Zernike campus and in the UG buildings?

Electrolytes

Electrolytes is a series of location specific interventions in the Energy Academy , the Linnaeusborg and the surrounding areas. Bolhuis collaborates with the Green Office to create awareness and to have a positive impact on the outdoor areas by making more room for biodiversity. For example, circles are milled out in which indigenous plants and trees will be planted in collaboration with ecological expert Henk Linde. 

Bolhuis also creates permanent and ephemeral drawing installations indoors and outdoors. Bolhuis's work naturally merges different disciplines. Ecological entanglements (for example between mycelial networks and plant roots) are a source of inspiration.

Sustainability Week

During Sustainability Week from 7-11 October, an extra dimension will be added to the installations. The works can then be experienced in combination with light and soundscapes in the courtyard of the Energy Academy. The Green Office cordially invites you to come and see, listen and experience!

Kollumerpomp

Over the next 20 years, as part of his regenerative project 'Kollumerpomp', Bolhuis is realising a series of publicly accessible, location-specific interventions on 4,000 square metres of land in which visual art and ecology enter into a symbiosis. In collaboration he will plant indigenous trees, and plants and is currently working on creating wadis, a bee hive, a butterfly garden, a series of locally collected tree stumps in which beetles can nest, organic drawing installations, visual installations with organic residual materials, and a series of soundscapes consisting of local field recordings.

Richard Bolhuis exhibited his audiovisual installations in V2_ Lab for Unstable Media (Rotterdam), Valkhof Museum (Nijmegen), Groninger Museum Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), The Model (Sligo, Ireland) and Hundred Years Gallery (London, England).