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Birthe Leemeijer

Artist Birthe Leemeijer created the perfume L’Essence de Mastenbroek, a portrait in scent of life on a Dutch polder, in collaboration with residents of the area. She often works with large groups and says she feels most at home playing director. “I’d rather develop a work on location, together with others," Leemeijer says, “preferably in such a way that the collaboration takes on meaning within the work itself."

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Exhibitions

2006 - ENTRÉE, a choreography for the audience, with Krisztina de Châtel, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands
2005 - Launch of L’Essence de Mastenbroek, De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam, and visitor's centre, Mastenbroek, the Netherlands
2004 - Werfhuis, Museum voor achtergelaten dingen, Dordrecht
2003 - Blindgangers en voetzoekers, Utrecht; Dreamscapes Beelden op de berg, Wageningen, the Netherlands; Jardins D'Amis, dDe Zonnehof, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
2002 - 5, de Natuurlijkheid Galerie de Keuken, Haarlem, the Netherlands; Thrasholding, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam; Commitment, een keuze uit drie jaar Fonds BKVB, Las Palmas, Rotterdam; Time, Nature Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, the Netherlands; Beelden van banken, Zonnehof, Amersfoort, the Netherlands; Tuin van verbeelding, Arboretum, Doorn, the Netherlands
2001 - You never walk alone, Stroom HCBK, The Hague; 111 ontwerpen voor het Museumbos, Stadhuis, Almere, the Netherlands
2000 - Een landschap in drie delen, Plus Min, Renesse
1999 - De Toekomst van de Hoeksche Waard, NAI, Rotterdam
1999 - Lara Almarcegui en Birthe Leemeijer, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam

Awards

2001 - Second prize, design, Museumbos Almere
1997 - Basisprijs Prix de Rome, art and public space
1996 - GRAP, de Gerrit Rietveld Academie Prijs

Project: L’Essence de Mastenbroek, Birthe Leemeijer
Artist Birthe Leemeijer has created a perfume that expresses life on a Dutch polder through the medium of scent. Working closely with local ...
Interview: The Smell of the Landscape
Birthe Leemeijer, L’Essence de Mastenbroek

Designing a perfume for Mastenbroek, a late-medieval Dutch polder in the province of Overijssel where many cattle farmers make their homes and ...
Image: Behind the Scene in Milan
View on 'L’Essence de Mastenbroek' by Birthe Leemeijer