Advice & Assignment guidance

For over 30 years, Stroom has been the partner for advice and guidance on commissioning, maintenance, management and programming of visual art in outdoor spaces. In this we work together with fellow citizens, artists, curators, cultural institutions, the municipality and organizations with diverse social backgrounds. Given our (inter)national network, fellow institutions from other municipalities and other countries regularly approach us for knowledge sharing and advice.

Stroom actively mediates and supervises the commissioning of art in outdoor spaces for large-scale urban development projects, such as the development of the VINEX locations Wateringse Veld, Ypenburg and Leidschenveen and infrastructural projects such as the Rotterdamse Baan. A separate category in the weight class of advice are monuments. These initiatives from The Hague city politics require extra attention, because here several social interests come together, such as the Monument for the Transatlantic Slavery Past. Stroom also initiates and realizes its own projects such as The Sculpture Gallery, Celestial Vault, as well as temporary projects such as Nils Norman's Edible Park (from 2010), Cyprien Gaillard's Dunepark (2009) and Michael Lin's Tulip Floor (2002).

Our expertise is like a toolbox in which we offer a mix of physical and business conditions (space, financial resources, organization, etc.), facilitating a socio-cultural context (through connection, relationships, creating engagement and research), as well as making projects visible or public.

Below you will find a selection of projects from Stroom's Assignment Consulting. The remaining archive will be added to this page soon.