Visitor & Contact address
Siriusstraat 5
2516AT The Hague

Studio Contact
+31 (0)6 50 68 86 30
info@philipvermeulen.com

Education

  • 2017 Bachelor ArtScience, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK).
  • 2015 Stage, Studio Zoro Feigl.
  • 2011 Beeldende Kunst, AKV|St.Joost, Breda.

Awards and nominations

Residencies

  • 2020 Autopiloot voor immersieve installatie, Spatial Media Laboratories, ism Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Rotterdam.
  • 2020 Interfan, iii, The Hague.
  • 2019 ‘Artist in Residence’, Universiteit Twente.
  • 2016 V2_ Rotterdam en Metamedia Croatia's Summer Sessions residency, ondersteund door Stimuleringsfond Creatieve Industrie, Pula, Croatia.

Additional Activities

  • Philip Vermeulen: 2017 – 2020 Member of iii (Instrument Inventors Initiative)

  • 2017 – 2018 Member of Arts/Science: Academy Honours Programme for Young Artists and Scientists, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • 2017 Speaker, Pecha Kucha, Leiden

  • Philip Vermeulen: 2017 – ongoing Member of iii (Instrument Inventors Initiative)

  • 2017 – 2018 Member of Arts/Science: Academy Honours Programme for Young Artists and Scientists, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • 2017 Speaker, Pecha Kucha, Leidena

Philip Vermeulen is an artist based in The Hague whose large-scale installations are part of his research in a lineage of Zero, sound, kinetic, and audio-visual art.

Vermeulen’s hyper-sculptures move in ways that alter our perception of their physical properties; walls seem to come alive (Pulse, 2021) fans spin at such a rate that white light is split into colors (Fanfanfan, 2019), soft materials ripple so fast they appear to stand still mid-air (Flap Flap, 2018), and with the stimulation of stroboscopic lights, ghostly images are summoned into the retinal surface (Int/Ext, 2015). Playfulness, seduction, self-destruction, and delirium place Vermeulen’s audiences on high alert as the work dissolves borders between mind and material.

Since graduating summa cum laude from the ArtScience Interfaculty in 2017, Vermeulen’s work has been acquired by the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, and exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, and Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst in Unna. In 2020, he was nominated for the Volkskrant’s Visual Art Prize, and his installation More Moiré2 was nominated in the Best Interactive category in the most prestigious film award in the Netherlands, The Golden Calf.