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the Anemones I made thousands of pictures of anemones for a period of more than two years, searching for those that looked like watercolors. More…

the Anemones

BeyondtheMoon For some time now I have been working on a series of portraits of women. I made hundreds of pictures of each person in the same position in 15 minutes. More…

BeyondtheMoon

the Oranges The Oranges belong to the same series of pictures as the Reds&Greens;: all pictures of food. More…

the Oranges

The Water Water has always played an important role in my life. As a young boy I would spend a lot of time helping my grandfather at the market close to the harbor. More…

The Water

Reds&Greens Every day in the media and on the internet I see images, lots of images. I filter what I have seen and delete in my head as much as possible. More…

Reds&Greens

New York The New York pictures were made a couple of years ago on the streets of that city. More…

New York

the Flowers XS In 1993 I went to Tokyo for the presentation of my “Table No 1” at the Tokyo Furniture Fair. More…

the Flowers XS

the Trees A year long I made photographs of the same branches of the same trees we can see from our window. More…

the Trees

the Tulips Groups of children from primary schools, disabled people from institutions, the elderly and many more participated in the Tulips project. More…

the Tulips

Berlin The sketch for a table with 4 chairs, not 2 dimensional but 3 dimensional, not made with a pen but with scaffolding material. More…

Berlin

the River When the Fisherman was brought to its permanent location in 2006, one of the members of the Board of the City of Rotterdam came up with the idea to donate a second Fisherman to Istanbul. More…

the River

the Fisherman The concept for the Fisherman was born during a trip to Dunkerque. It felt like something was missing near the heavy industrial areas along the channel between France and England. More…

the Fisherman

the Boat For a long time I have been fascinated by boats, large passenger boats. When I was younger I often used to visit the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam. More…

the Boat

a House of Frozen Water This proposal is about a “house” made of 1000 tons of ice. The blocks of ice will be sawn from the frozen river at the end of the winter. More…

a House of Frozen Water

a Table & 4 Chairs This Table & 4 Chairs are part of a series which includes “A Transparent House” in Turku, Finland and “A Fisherman” for Helsinki and Rotterdam. More…

a Table & 4 Chairs

a Transparent Dream For a number of years I have been very interested in models for houses. I started with those models in the early 80’s. More…

a Transparent Dream

300 Grams of Wool A simple installation consisting of 300 grams of knitting wool connecting small metal hooks screwed into the walls, the floor, and the ceiling. More…

300 Grams of Wool

the Magic Restaurant In just one and a half weeks a restaurant was conceived, designed, created, and organized in Oulu, Finland in 1994. More…

the Magic Restaurant

Full House While working in Pori on the House Project, the idea was conceived of filling up an apartment completely with wooden scaffolding material sticking out in all directions, so that the apartment would be totally inaccessible and uninhabitable. More…

Full House

the House Project The House Project in Pori, Finland took place in 1993 in close collaboration with the staff of the Pori Art Museum, local artists, and volunteer workers. More…

the House Project

Table No 1 Table No 1 was made out of 1000 meters of wood, 1/2” x 1” thick, cut in all different lengths without any predetermined measurements. More…

Table No 1

HCAK A house and its contents can be considered a collection of spaces and containers: rooms, cupboards, cellar, attic etc. More…

HCAK

5 Spaces The 5 Spaces with 5 Dancers project- or to speak in simple and minimalistic architectural terms 5 rooms and 5 inhabitants - got realized in 1991. More…

5 Spaces

the Crate House I was invited by the Rotterdam Art Foundation in 1990 to make an installation in “Theater de Unie” in Rotterdam. More…

the Crate House

Teylersmuseum In 1990 an architectural competition was organized for the extension of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. More…

Teylersmuseum

Interiors For a number of years I worked as an architect/builder, designing and carrying out renovations in close cooperation with clients and other builders. More…

Interiors

Models The word models here means “thinking” models of houses as a way to start a design and a manner to get out of traditional ways of thinking. More…

Models

226 It was at a birthday party where I met someone who asked me what I did. I told her I made furniture and was interested in architectural experiments. More…

226

Furniture For a number of years I worked at different housing companies and organizations and studied the housing norms and standards throughout Europe. More…

Furniture

the House The work on the house has been a continuous process that started in 1983. Initially our resources: time, money, experience, and helpers were limited. More…

the House

GER C. BOUT
HAS GREAT CURIOSITY FOR THE WORLD AROUND HIM AND BEYOND.

EXPLORE THE WORLD THROUGH HIS EYES AND FEEL ENRICHED.

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