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Wachten op hoog water

‘Wachten op hoog water’ (Waiting for high water) is a statue by Jan Ketelaar. About the statue The statue consists of two metal welded 5…

Kerend Tij

Kerend Tij (Turning Tide) Sense of Place is presenting two new exhibitions, both of which will open at venues in Leeuwarden on April 4, 2018….

Camera Batavia

From the dizzying heights of the Camera Batavia watchtower – located on the Waddendijk dike near the Frisian village of Ternaard – you can observe…

Dijk van een Wijf

Another startling work which challenges people’s perceptions of the land and its uses is artist Nienke Brokke’s ‘Dijk van een Wijf’, a huge sculpture of…

Blije Kerk

This exhibition of the ‘Blije Church’ photography project by Maarten Boersema, a pastor in the Frisian town of Blije-Holwerd, tells the story of the life…

Korenbloemen

This project by artist Esther Kokmeijer features a sea of cornflowers stretching from the village of Holwerd all the way to the Wad (mudflat). The…

Drie Streken

Drie Streken (Three points of the Compass) is a wooden structure created by the visual artist Marc van Vliet that changes with the tides. The…

Dobbepaarden

This new walking route will take you along a site known for a memorable episode in Friesland province’s recent history. When a huge storm surge…

De Kromme Horne

The Kromme Horne has it all: an abundance of light, vastness, serenity and spectacular panoramas. If you enter this curved pier at the village of…

Escher in het graan

Het Bildt wheat fields art project. Picture this: summer 2018, wheat fields rippling in the wind in het Bildt; the clay land along the Frisian…

Mannen van Holwerd

The ‘Men of Holwerd’ installation, created by artist Linette Raven, is a tribute by Sense of Place to the four initiators of the ‘Holwerd aan…

Terp fan de Takomst

“Mound of the future” Mounds (terpen) are an important feature of the Frisian landscape. Their long and rich history in the area appeals to the…

We want our clay back!

Few people are aware that a large number of the nearly 1,000 mounds (terpen) found in Friesland province at one time have been excavated, with…

Bildtstars and Eigenheimers

The photo installation ‘Bildtstars en Eigenheimers’ gives an identity to the potato farmers from the provinces of Friesland and Groningen. Potato farming is one of…

Bildtstars and Eigenheimers

De Nollen

The De Nollen landward dune area in Den Helder is home to the ‘landscape of the imagination’. De Nollen is an existing art project featured…

Mondriaankwelder

Inspired by Piet Mondrian’s ‘Pier and Ocean’ painting, we are restoring and developing 30 hectares of new salt marshes on the southern end of Terschelling…

Windwork

‘Windwerk’  is an installation where human actions and forces of nature captivatingly meet each other. Inspired by the metamorphose-drawings by M.C. Escher the geometric landscape of marram…