Froukje de Boer

Upcoming:

Artist Residency – Vrouw Muskens: Hospice de Volckaert

17/08/2026 – 20/09/2026

Froukje de Boer

Selected Work

Als Verlangen Dansen / Longing to Dance – 2026

Picture: Jona Harnischmacher

*Als verlangen dansen* begon bij mijn fascinatie als kind voor het sprookje *De rode schoentjes*. Als kind bracht ik uren door in de balletstudio, totdat ik op mijn twaalfde door een blessure moest stoppen met dansen. Veertien jaar lang raakte ik mijn spitzen niet aan, maar het verlangen om te dansen bleef.
Jaren later keerde ik terug naar de balletstudio en werd ik onderdeel van een groep vrouwen die blijven dansen, ondanks de veranderingen, beperkingen en imperfecties van hun lichaam en leven. Versleten voeten, een burn-out, een zwangere buik of het moederschap doen niets af aan hun verlangen om te dansen.

Voor Bosch Parade 2026 werd dit gedeelde verlangen *Als verlangen dansen*: een drijvende performance-installatie over het verlangen om te blijven dansen.

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*Als verlangen dansen* began with my childhood fascination with the fairy tale *The Red Shoes*. As a child, I spent hours in the ballet studio, until an injury at the age of twelve made me stop dancing. For fourteen years, I stayed away from my pointe shoes, but the longing to dance remained.
Years later, I returned to the ballet studio and became part of a group of women who continue to dance despite the changes, limitations and imperfections of their bodies and lives. Worn-out feet, burnout, pregnancy or motherhood do not diminish their desire to dance.

For Bosch Parade, this shared longing became *Als verlangen dansen* (*Dancing as Longing*): a floating performance installation about the desire to keep dancing.

Houd mij vast zolang als je kan/ Hold Me as Long as You Can – 2026

Pictures: Peter Cox
Onderdeel van groepsexpositie States as Suspension – Willem Twee Kunstruimte

Zoetigheden / Sweet Treats – 2026

Mijn oma Nelleke zei altijd: ‘Bak je zorgen weg.’
Dat deden we. Koekjes, taarten, complete suikerwerken.
Toen haar geheugen haar steeds meer in de steek liet, werd samen bakken onze manier om contact te maken. Zo kwamen de verhalen van vroeger weer naar boven.
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My grandmother Nelleke always used to say, “Bake your worries away.”
And that’s what we did. Cookies, cakes, elaborate sugar creations.
As her memory began to fail her more and more, baking together became our way of connecting. In this way, stories from the past began to resurface.

Zoetigheden ontstond tijdens gezamenlijke baksessies met bewoners van een woonzorgcentrum in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Aan de hand van lievelingsgebak van vroeger werden herinneringen en persoonlijke verhalen gedeeld. Deze ontmoetingen vormden het vertrekpunt voor een onderzoek naar de manier waarop zoete recepten herinneringen kunnen dragen. De gedeelde recepten en verhalen zijn samengebracht in het receptenboek Zoetigheden: een verzameling persoonlijke verhalen waarin bakken een manier wordt om iets van vroeger tastbaar te maken en vast te houden.
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Zoetigheden emerged from a series of baking sessions with residents of a care home in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Using their favourite cakes and pastries from the past as a starting point, memories and personal stories were shared. These encounters became the starting point for an exploration of how sweet recipes can carry memories. The shared recipes and stories have been brought together in the recipe book Zoetigheden: a collection of personal stories in which baking becomes a way of making something from the past tangible and holding on to it.

Prototypes of the Non-logical Spatial Side – 2023

Phase 1.0: visual research project on the Pulse Generator of a Deep Brain Stimulation

The first outcome is a visual observation and belongs to the first phase of this project, focusing on these non-visible objects in the body. In display brain scans and reproductions of an old pulse generator.

A Pulse generator is a programmed battery that is replaced about every 5 years, and is part of a Deep Brain Stimulation. It is a medical device linked to electrodes in the brain, and is used for example as a treatment method for Parkinson’s disease.

Remote: Please Do Not Turn It On or Off -2022

Intrigued by closed systems as isolated spaces of protection.
In display; a water system for mouthwash.

24 liters of mouthwash guided by 12 tubes are woven through 24 frames of glass, each frame contains 6 perforations. Whenever a tube will crack a tube-guard will protect them. Impulses are sent every 3 minutes by timer to keep the circular movement.

Integrated systems are based on;
– The Pulse-generator of a Deep Brain Stimulation
– The Digital Impression of a Mouthguard

Deze afbeelding heeft een leeg alt-attribuut; de bestandsnaam is Foto-20-06-2022-om-21.05-768x1024.jpg

https://2022.thecurrent.is/project/collapsing-in-comfort

Within The Glassbox_Glassbrick – 2021

Site-specific project located in Liege (BE) supported by Artspace Les Brasseurs. Within 2 weeks 22 glass bricks were brought to different locations in Liege carefully picked by mapping. Getting a grasp of a structure using the system of physical encapsulating. As translation: labeled bricks filled with water of the city were displayed and constructed in the window of Les Brasseurs.

Walking around with backpacks filled with glassbricks, to different spaces; lakes, fountains, rivers, a swimming pool and an aquarium to collect water.

http://www.lesbrasseurs.org/p/de-boer-en.html

Moved back and fort 22 Times 0,25 of a Second – 2020

“Moved Back and Forth 22 Times in a Second” is referring to the speed of physical movement by data storing an image on a hard drive.

[Apprentice Master Project Kunstpodium-T 2020 Group Exhibition: Returns from the Web – TAC Eindhoven]

Silica – 2019

– Every hour the dispenser ejects silica gel into the space. The original colour of the silica gel is orange. When its fully absorbed by moist from the air, it turns into green. When silica gel falls into water it explodes, makes a ticking sound and turns purple. –

Tower of Glasses Build with Water – 2018

– Glasses of water are placed upside down on plastic plates, vacuum. In time, the weight of the tower will slowly let the plastic plates bow and some glasses will start to leak. This can take hours or days. At a certain point, the tower will collapse in pieces. From the remains it will be build up again. –

Moister Absorbers – 2018/2019

– 100 moister absorbers transform moister from the space / air into “water” –

Polyacrylic Acid Powder – 2019

– At the surface is a volume of polyacrylic acid powder, a drip irrigation watering system is situated above. The space contains 1200 gram of powder, which can transform to 120 kg by water-

Other Projects

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Hold Me as Long As You Can – NOCK NOCK Art Fair

29 juni 202417 september 2024

Watervondsten van Wandelaars / Water Finds by Walkers

By collecting objects from various situations, an impression of the past begins to emerge. “It’s not just about what you find, but the circumstances in which the object is found.” This context gives an archaeological find its meaning, and allows us to map out something that has occurred. During this project, a collection was created …

Lees verder “Watervondsten van Wandelaars / Water Finds by Walkers”

1 december 20231 januari 2024

The Sacred Space

Interdisciplinary Making Days Inversie, WOLK and jump! @ Kruisruimte Eindhoven In collaboration with Rick van Strien, Isamo Thissen and Cube Pictures: Marcel van Buck