‘In safe isolation or in anxious separation’ - Universiteitsbibliotheek UvA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2024)
Hidden under the busy streets of Amsterdam lies a world of history and secrets: amongst other objects old shelters and nuclear bunkers from the Cold War (Read More)
‘Radical Architecture for the End of the World’ - OMI Rotterdam (2023-2024)
During the Cold War (1954-1991) hundreds of nuclear shelters have been built in The Netherlands to protect the public for a nuclear attack. (Read More)
‘De Aanschouw #1154’ - Rotterdam, Netherlands (2023)
De Aanschouw since July 6 2001 by a showcase sticks as a parasite to one of the public places in Rotterdam, for example at a café. (Read More)
’Melting Rock, Still Wind’ - Yamanaka Suplex annex MINE 5F, Osaka, Japan (2023)
Melting Rock, Still Wind inquires into the interrelation of the changeable and the unchangeable: the seemingly static rock can be reshaped by external forces (Read More)
‘Vibrations of Dust’ - CP Project Space, New York, USA (2022)
The experience of living in a damaged world requires us to examine how humans, nonhumans, and environments relate to and affect each other. (Read More)
‘Art Seeds’ - Matsūra Historical Museum, Hirado, Japan (2021)
Exhibited in 2021 at the exhibition 'Art Seeds Hirado 2021' in Hirado, Japan. Two works were shown at the Kanuntei teahouse (Read More).
‘Towards a Foreword’ - ARTBAR, Rotterdam, NL (2020)
'Towards a Foreword', a group exhibition of the first manifestation of Notes on Hapticity Collective, in collaboration with Print Room in Rotterdam. (Read More)
‘Discover the secrets of the Cold War’ - former Airforce base Soesterberg, NL (2019)
Exhibited in 2019 at the exhibition 'Ontdek de geheimen van de Koude Oorlog' (Discover the secrets of the Cold War) at former Airforce base Soesterberg (Read More)
'Hidden Spaces' - De Compagnie, Veghel, The Netherlands (2019)
'De compagnie' is an exhibition space in former grain silos. Nowadays these silos are connected. I built two installations changing the space. (Read more)
'In Praise of Space' - Ayumi Gallery Cave, Tokyo, Japan (2018)
Space between objects. Objects placed in the space without any classification.
A constructed Landscape. One space, One floor, One environment. (Read more)
Exhibition for Mondriaan Fonds Art Rotterdam (2018)
In this project he researches the explanation of space as a language which is universally revealed in certain types of buildings. Van Leeuwen explores spaces which have no context without content and in which visitors can project their own ideas. (Read more)
‘De Geheime Bunker’ - G.A.N.G., Arnhem, NL
During this residency I have lived next to the nuclear bunker for a month. In opening the doors every morning as a ritual to let in the daylight of this dead space I realised that this former pump-station had no function anymore. (Read more)
‘De Woeste Gronden #7’ - G.A.N.G., Arnhem, NL
Results of the residency project 'De Geheime Bunker' (The Secret Bunker) Exhibited in an old military school at the former military terrain in Schaarsbergen. (Read more)
‘PULSE 10’ - Stichting O.M.S.T.A.N.D., Arnhem (2016)
Light and shadow, solo exhibiton in the former batteryspace from the electricity factory in Arhnem, in Museum 5VEP
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'Inside Isolation' - Genie Museum, Vught, NL (2014)
During his studies, Kees van Leeuwen did research on different nuclear bunkers and made the comparison between the museum space the White Cube versus the Black Cube. (Read more)