About

Sander Hagelaar is an artist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. What fascinates him the most are the materials and movements the natural world encompasses. Harnessing these components, he seeks out the right environments or settings to facilitate these innate occurrences. Anything can happen in this process, which is precisely what he aims for, creating a framework in which the material or movement is free and unpredictable. This endeavor also takes on a social dimension as it is supposed to elicit the same reaction in a child as it would in an adult. Hagelaar’s particularly conceptual and experimental practice often channels different aspects of physics in “living” objects and installations. His interactive populations can either be kinetic or based on controlled chemical reactions. The shared experiences these projects facilitate also center on the notions of chance and unexpected reactions. The designer often incorporates intangible forces like light, gravity, and air.

contact: hagelaar.sander@gmail.com
instagram: @sanderhagelaar

CV

2024

• Brushes of Light, Window of opportunity, museum Singer Laren, Laren



2023

• Arid, ChaXartXams, Amsterdam
• Motion design commissioned by Tanja Smeets, Textielmuseum, Tilburg
• Dochter x Kika Sprangers, September Me Festival, Amersfoort
• Dochter x Kika Sprangers, Kleine Willem, Enschede
• Dochter x Kika Sprangers, Apeldoorn
• Dochter x Kika Sprangers, Grachtenfestival - Door open space, Amsterdam
• Guidance, Cyfest, Yerevan (Armenia)
• Kika Sprangers Large Ensemble x Sander Hagelaar, Light installation, Tivoli, Utrecht



2022

• Last Fall, Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven
• So It Goes, Certosa Initiative, Milan design week (Italy)
• I'm Trying, Light installation for Sansouni, De Havenloods, Utrecht
• I'm Trying, Light installation for Sansouni, Ekko, Utrecht
• Motion design commissioned by Tanja Smeets, Schurend Paradijs, KAdE, Amersfoort
• A moment of saturation, Dutch Invertuals, MAKK Museum of Applied Art Cologne (Germany)



2021

• When timeless arrived, I moved by Dansan, in collaboration with Danika van Kaathoven, Yamanashi short movie festival, Kofu (Japan)
• 2009, Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
• When They Fall, Lynfabrikken, Aarhus (Denmark)
• Fluid Current, Isola, Milan design week (Italy)
• Puff, Isola, Milan design week (Italy)
• Winner Innovation in Design Award - Isola 🏆



2020

• Toch komt een keer de tocht, in collaboration with Danika van Kaathoven, Uitgeverij Komma 📖
• Motion design commissioned by Tanja Smeets, Chapter Three, Het Hem, Zaandam



2019

• When They Fall, Dutch Design Week, Kazerne, Eindhoven
• Let's Dance, multiple moving objects, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• All Falls Down, Design is Human, Atlanta (US)
  
• SAMSARA, Dance Performance, Utrecht
  



2018

• GLOW, Kazerne, Eindhoven
  
• 180 places, Licht, Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden
  
• All Falls Down 3.0, Ongoing Dialogue, Dutch Design Week, Kazerne, Eindhoven
  
• Art of Losing, De Nieuwe Bibliotheek, Almere
  
• Arty Party, Melkweg, Amsterdam
  
• Artez Finals, Arnhem
  
• Graduated: ArtEZ Institute of the Arts 🙌
  



2017


• Seeing Space / Andrea Bos & Sander Hagelaar, Cinetol, Amsterdam
  



2016


• Internship: Pieke Bergmans
  
• Scent(-ing), CASA, Arnhem
  
• Resourcefulness, CASA, Arnhem
  



2015


• Please Obese, Artez Finals, Arnhem
  



2014


• Canal Collection, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
  
• Geur, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam
  
• Tulp, top finalists in the Royal Netherlands Embassy’s Dutch Design Competition, MAD Museum, New York City (US)
  



2013


• Lamp, Sint Nicolaas kerk, Amsterdam