Category: Street art

Nosey The green Idler’s Playground (2010) sculpture in Rotterdam is by Cosima von Bonin. It is a two-piece artwork. A Pinocchio look-alike boy sits on a tennis referee chair while bored and staring away. Meanwhile his nose grows longer until it sticks through the big green mushroom. Under the mushroom there is a bench that…

Run as fast as you can Another surprising artistic creation in Rotterdam is the Marathonbeeld (Marathon statue) by Henk Visch. This colorful artwork shows the variety of nationalities participating in the marathon. It is a gift from the local Marathon Foundation and part of the city’s street art scene. Exactly twenty colors cover the steel…

Help! With a height of 8.5 meters Cascade by Joep van Lieshout certainly draws the attention in Rotterdam. The dark green polyester artwork represents the depletion of planet earth’s resources. The sculpture Cascade is in Rotterdam from the year 2010. Altogether the 18 barrels leak oil in the shape of humans who fall and climb.…

Gigantic! The De Reus van Rotterdam sculpture (2011) is the Giant of Rotterdam. It tells the story of Rigardus Rijnhout (1922-1959). The sculpture is by Herman Lamers. With a lenght of 2.38 meters Rigardus Rijnhout carried shoe size 62 and weighed 230 kilograms. The bronze giant shows how tall he actually was. Furthermore the pair…