Ronald van der Meijs (1966) lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied architectural design and graduated cum laude in 1993 at the Academy of Arts St. Joost, Breda in the Netherlands where he also was a teacher in spatial design for 3 years. From 1993 he had his own practice and focused primarily on architectural design. Since 2001 his work shifted to autonomous work in which architecture, art and sound have come together. He received several architectural and art grands of the Mondriaan Fund. He had exhibitions in various museums, galleries, art foundations and triennials worldwide. Such as NAI - Rotterdam, Central Museum Utrecht, Oerol Festival - Terschelling, Dordrechts Museum, Gorinchem Museum in the Netherlands. Martinez gallery - New York, SIM House - Reykjavik, Verbeke Art Foundation - Belgium, Fabbrica Europa 2012 - Florence, Centro de Arte Complutense - Madrid and the International Triennial of New Media Art in the National Art Museum Of China NAMOC - Beijing. He also received several art commissions of the Dutch Government including a major sculptural assignment of Atelier Rijksbouwmeester for the new HQ of Europol in the Hague, Netherlands. constructs site-specific installations and sculptures that questions how people relate to their environment by technology. “It’s fascinating to see how we try to control our lives and even nature itself by using and relying completely on technology" Natural and unpredictable processes are part and subject of many of his works. It’s a dialogue between nature and technology or nature versus culture. Nature has it’s own order, time and rhythm. Each work is a metaphorical and conceptual treatment of sound, space, time and material. It is to lend a narrative quality to the machine-like character of the work, causing them to transcend their merely technological nature and raise the question to what extent our actions and expectations are conditioned. undefined

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