Harmen de Hoop

Date: 20 January - 27 March 2004

Is one allowed to pee on the street if one pees directly down a drainage hole? Why should anyone put up glue strips in the park to catch flies? What about someone searching the garbage containers looking for bottles and cans to be recycled?
In the brochure which Harmen de Hoop (1959, lives in Rotterdam) made of his self-made, daily routines on locations in The Hague, the artist shows that personal motives can come into conflict with the rules and regulations everyone is supposed to live by out on the street.
For more than ten years now, Harmen de Hoop has been making works on specific locations in public space. Usually he works anonymously and without asking for permission. Afterwards images of the work appear in publications and magazines. Stroom presented a survey of the projects Harmen de Hoop has made in the urban environment over the last 10 years.