Artist, instrument inventor, media researcher, teacher, occasional curator investigating perception

Quantum Mirror (upcoming)

Quantum Mirror allows the concept of quantum state to be experienced through the gaze of two observers. A double mirror, from which an algorithmic pattern is cut out, is held simultaneously by two persons opposite to each other. While one sees 50% of their own reflection, the other 50% are the direct image of the…
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Light Space Modulator (upcoming)

Light Space Modulator is a project for a kaleidoscopic tunnel that rotates around the visitors as they walk through. While the visitor’s body is free to walk, its image is multiplied by the reflecting walls inside the tunnel. Thereby one experiences an extension of their movement, deconstructed and inverted multiple times. The mechanism of the…
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Ostraka (on show)

Ostraka is a kinetic sound sculpture that explores the spatialisation of sound in the engine hall of the Technical Museum Oyfo in Hengelo (NL) on show till 05-2025. For this work, Mike Rijnierse has repurposed an old parabolic dish transforming it in two reflecting moving heads. Once an antenna for satellite communication, this instrument is…
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Sunset in the Woods

Sunset in the Woods is the new iteration of Sunset, a collaboration between Mike Rijnierse and Ludmila Rodrigues, presented by Hangar Y, in the southwest of Paris. Curated by Aurélie Baron, the exhibition Prendre le Solei (Seize the Sun) examines the ever familiar, and yet sometimes taken for granted central body of our solar system.…
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Sunset in Paris

How many times is the sunset registered every day around the world? Can one actually capture its splendor and magnitude? Sunset in Paris was presented on Saturday, 3 June 2023, during Nuit Blanche. Sunset is a light sculpture created in collaboration with Ludmila Rodrigues, previously seen in The Hague, and in Delft. Sunset subverts the…
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Sunset in The Hague

Sunset in The Hague, from 6 to 9 October 2022, featured in BlowUp Art Den Haag and the Museumnacht (the night of the museums) on October 8th. Sunset is an on-going collaboration between Mike Rijnierse and Ludmila Rodrigues. Sunset subverts the iconic image of the sun sinking into the horizon by placing it within the…
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Piano / Forte

Exhibition at OYFO Techniekmuseum, in Hengelo (NL) from 23 April to 28 August 2022. The work was installed in conjunction of the showing of Mariska de Groot’s sound sculpture BROM. Piano / Forte is a sound sculpture in which two piano harps – the pianos stripped of the keys and supporting parts – swing in…
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Sunset in Delft

Sunset in Delft is a sculpture that reenacts the everyday phenomenon of the sun sinking into the horizon, and it does so, inside of a city. This massive glowing body of light has been placed on the water, precisely at the crossing of three canals in the idyllic town of Delft – the place where…
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Volver

Volver is a light sculpture that reflects itself into infinity. A light source situated at the bottom of a cylindrical mirror bounces around by the rotation of two other smaller mirrors, drawing an ever evolving light image on a round surface of 1,5 m diameter. This continuous process of reflection offers the impression of a…
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Sapo boi

Sapo boi is a performance guided by field recordings of the Bull toads (Rhinella diptycha also known as “sapo boi” or “sapo cururu”) made in Serra da Canastra (Minas Gerais, Brazil). As a metaphor of the region’s vibrant nature – a plateau where waterfalls flow in plenty – in this performance scented water is dripped…
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Sino

Sino is a single-bell belltower where a bronze bell is engaged via an electronic transducer / resonator. Sino is a collaboration with Rob Bothof. In western culture, the bell initially had a crucial function as a call for alarm or a signal indicating the closing of city gates. In Sino the bell is placed upside…
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Halo

Halo is a light sculpture that manifests itself in the sky as an atmospheric light phenomenon. The interaction between projected light in relational to atmospheric constellation determine this ephemeral light sculpture. Halo is a sculpture that exists by interacting with the elements in the present. It explores the relation between atmospheric optics and the human perspective.…
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