Art
Art is a way to stimulate self-reflection, to stimulate our perspective of time and space where self reflection is always in reflection to another, to the world around.
Art, activism, stories reflect on us and the other way around.
The elephant in the room, Museum Arnhem NL, June 22 until July 14, 2024
A 20 day art performance, turning 7.705 pages (printed on colourful paper) of the IPCC (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) working groups I, II and III reports of the sixth assessment cycle and the Synthesis Report, into confetti as an example of the lack of sense of necessity.
Ctrl-alt-del,
Ctrl-alt-del, a soft reboot.
2020 - 2021, years that felt as a soft reboot, with all the knowledge and experience I’ve gained so far at that moment.
New steps in a familiar world, with the focus on the environment, where art and activism come together.
Combining all my passions, about art, nature, landscaping and food, a diverse blend in my one man company with so many inspiring people in all kind of ways around me, and I couldn’t do it without all of you.
It’s adventure it’s research, it are the cross pollinations in life.
Johannes-Harm Hovinga @ Studio Hovinga,
Where it all started..
Fragmented society 2 Trier D, 2013
In 2012 the organisation of the Elephant parade in Trier Germany contacted me to be part of this outdoor exhibition and auction in Trier Germany in 2013 to raise awareness for need of elephant welfare and conservation,
For this I made this work based on Fragmented society 1.
The orange shoaling fishes on the elephant are a representing of the people in our society who are very well connected trough social media by facebook, twitter, instagram.. But more and more people stand alone in our fragmented society, and we are more
divided than ever.
Fragmented society 1 Emmen NL, 2012
Where it all started in 2012, temporarily mural 70m2, Emmen the Netherlands.