INTERVENTION WITH TREE HOUSES

Villa Zebra in Rotterdam develops interventions in close collaboration with artists and children. This ensures that an artist who often works alone in his studio comes to an intervention in close collaboration with children. Artist Peter de Boer, for example, is a painter. Tree houses often appear in his work. He has arrived at a three-dimensional landscape with tree houses.

An intervention works well and requires as little maintenance as possible if the material is consciously chosen. Here, for example, a small piece of paper that determines the maximum size of the hut, certain colored pencils (no markers that can be used to draw everywhere), self-adhesive paper (no messing around with glue). The instruction is carefully formulated and adjusted if necessary.

This intervention was part of the exhibition Welcome Home in Villa Zebra, in which children aged 7-12 years, in interaction with ten different works of art and installations, explored what is important to feel at home somewhere.

Children are guided in this interaction by employees of Villa Zebra who stimulate the imagination of the children by means of open questions. Villa Zebra deliberately opts for contemporary art, because it stems from the time in which the children themselves live. Moreover, we think it is important that we allow artists to collaborate with children.