POST POLLUTION—SWEET CRISTALINE
Do you feel burned out? Are you bored of mediocrity? Look no further, I am SWEET CRISTALINE. Infused with real sweet water pearls to kickstart your day and to elevate you from the rabble.
Artist Willem de Haan traveled to the Mediterranean Sea to collect 99 plastic bottles from the sea. Some were still intact, others worn down by the elements. These plastic bottles were distributed among 99 international artists, each invited to transform their bottle into an artwork and exchange it for a special-edition piece by Willem de Haan.
Waste transformed into something romantic and monetarily valuable: a message in a bottle from an artist.
Post Pollution presents these 99 artworks. If the artworks remain unsold at the end of the exhibition, they will reluctantly be thrown back into the Mediterranean Sea. In doing so, visitors are placed under pressure, confronted with questions about collective responsibility.
Post Pollution will be the first exhibition in a new art space by Gallery Vriend van Bavink, in addition to the gallery. Just a stone’s throw from the gallery, Raam art space Amsterdam will open. In this 8-meter-high glass space of 400 square meters, a rotating exhibition program will be presented, complemented by a broader cultural program.
Das Leben am Haverkamp contributes to this collection of artworks with the work SWEET CRISTALINE, also known as bottle 92. Materials: sweet water pearls, glass beads, intense manual labour, Cristaline PET and a touch of the ocean.
OPENING
28 November, 16:00—20:00 h
LOCATION
Raam Art Space, Amsterdam (NL)
OPENING HOURS
28 November 2025—14 February 2026
