Allard van Hoorn was born on February 29th 1968 in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Investigating how we experience space by making scenarios and scripts that turn architecture into music or nature into code inviting us to re-think our relationship to our environment.
Allard van Hoorn is a contemporary performance-, sound- and installation- artist collaborating across the disciplines of architecture, music, theater and design choreographing scripts and scenarios for the urban environment and spatial structures investigating our relationship to the shared domain and our possibilities of negotiating co-ownership and appropriation of public space.
He has been shown at institutions like Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Gasworks, London, the Stedelijk Museum CS in Amsterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, The Moore Space in Miami, Museo de la Ciudad de México, the German Architectural Center (DAZ) in Berlin, the Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, CCCB in Barcelona and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
In 2011 he participated in the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Hear it! at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam & the Gwangju Design Biennale in Korea curated by Ai Weiwei participating in the Communities section elaborating on his project Urban Songlines.
In 2012 he will be showing the latest iteration of his project Urban Songlines at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and Skies over Snaefell at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam.
He has been featured in publications like the books Kapital K _ A Classless Character by Onomatopee, On Barcelona by Actar Publishers and Strategies for Reaching the Millennium Development Goals by BigPictureSmallWorld Inc. and the Buckminster Fuller Institute and a variety of magazines.
He is a guest tutor at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art in London and lectured on art as well as organized workshops and panels for, amongst others, Gasworks, London, Hogeschool sint-lukas, Brussels, Belgium, the Museo de Arte Moderna in Salvador de Bahia, the program Pensando en Voz Alta in Puebla, Mexico organized by Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, at Sheffield Hallam University and the university for architecture UIC / ESARQ in Barcelona.
Has created content for publications like Domus, Volume / Archis, Urban China, Glowlab and is editor of HTV De IJsberg.
Platform for Urban Investigation
He is the founder of the Platform for Urban Investigation, the nomadic, cross-disciplinary research facility investigating local urban environments around the world working with architects, designers, choreographers, musicians and visual artists. The Platform for Urban Investigation collaborates with the Rijksakademie Amsterdam and its RAIN Networks and is project collaborator for Urban China Magazine.
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HIGHLIGHTS on special projects, activities, solo and group exhibitions can all be found under:
allard van hoorn / projects
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COMPLETE INFORMATION on all projects, exhibitions, special activities, workshops, bibliography etc. can be found under:
allard van hoorn / biography
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AN OVERVIEW on all projects, exhibitions, special activities, workshops, etc. of the Platform for Urban Investigation (PUI) can be found under:
allard van hoorn / Platform for Urban Investigation
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