OPCW Memorial to all victims of chemical weapons (design: Voebe de Gruyter)
Location: World Forum The Hague
Memorial on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the OPCW
(Organisation for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons). This place should
give comfort to everyone who feels affinity with the victims of
chemical weapons and stands for 'Peace and Hope'. The memorial was inaugurated by Queen Beatrix on May 9, 2007.
The memorial after a concept by Voebe de Gruyter (1960, Den Haag) consists of three trees:
1. a living tree (8 meters high) which inhales carbon dioxide and exhales pure oxygen.
2. solar-cell tree, which powers a webcam that films the trees.
3. a virtual tree: www.thismeldingtree.org (website
online from May 9, 2007). The website tree grows with
the trees, through successive visitors who can leave their own traces
in a network of the memorial.
Voebe de Gruyter
Lives and works in Brussels and
Amsterdam. She studied at the Rietveld
Academy and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam and spent a year in New York
on a scholarship. Her work is included in the collections of Stedelijk
Museum Amsterdam, Museum for Modern Art Arnhem and the Bouwfonds
collection.
website Voebe de Gruyter
World Forum The Hague
This area was designed by DS landschapsarchitecten.
Website DS landschapsarchitecten
Website OPCW
Click here to go the Webdossier
May 23, 2007, 8 pm
location: Hogewal 1-9
Discussion between the artist Voebe de Gruyter, philosopher Rob van Gerwen, light scientist Kobus Kuipers and
journalist Anna Luyten. Language: Dutch!
- 09 May '07

photo: Stroom Den Haag

photo: Voebe de Gruyter

photo: Voebe de Gruyter

photo: Voebe de Gruyter

photo: Voebe de Gruyter



