‘I Am Still Alive’, metallic silkscreen, on view at the exhibition ‘Editions’, Moving Gallery, Mgr. v/d Weteringstraat 69, Utrecht. 7 - 28 December 2024. Opening: Sunday 8 Dec 16:00.

‘I Am Still Alive’ (Embroidery Photo Edition), C-print, on view at ‘Salon’, Arti et Amicitiae, Rokin 112, Amsterdam. 30 November - 5 January 2025. Opening: 29 Nov 19:00-22:00.

Recently, Martijn Sandberg's work of art in DPG Media's Dutch central office Mediavaert in Amsterdam, was unveiled. The metre-high, square artwork, created by Martijn Sandberg for the entrance hall of the new Mediavaert building in Amsterdam, marks, as a ‘sign on the wall’, the location, from afar and nearby. In the vertical lines of the figuration in relief, a message appears, from different viewing angles, chiselled in natural stone. It is a news message for every day, timeless and of all times - from yesterday, for today and tomorrow: ‘More Good News’.

On September 18, 2024, the art bridge by visual artist Martijn Sandberg was officially opened on the Boelegracht in Amsterdam Zuidas. Martijn Sandberg has created a bridge, where the artwork and the bridge form one whole. From the vertical line play of the free-standing, gold-coloured steel bars, a figuration emerges in relief: 'Opgelet! Kunstwerk! Opgelet!' (‘Attention! Artwork! Attention!’)

Atelier Rinzema and Martijn Sandberg started a project in the summer of 2020 that literally and figuratively builds on the earlier work of art ‘I Am Still Alive‘ in metal. The letters ‘I am Still Alive’ are now embroidered on a white piece of fabric, each time with two different colors of thread. Stitch by stitch, the figuration ‘I Am Still Alive’ slowly becomes visible in the handiwork. The time-consuming manual labor makes not only the maker, but also everyone who views the embroidered result, aware of the passage of time. ‘I Am Still Alive’ is a ‘memo’ that appears again and again in the pastime ‘medium’. The embroidered series ‘I Am Still Alive’ ‘reports’ life – from needle to thread.

With works by Martijn Sandberg, Daan Rietbergen, Guido de Boer, Max Kisman, Jean-Pierre Lebars and Rozemarijn Westerink. The exhibition, titled 'Zwart op Wit' ('Black on White'), features a selection of my cut paintings, including 'Sorry No Image Yet'.

On the 16th November, there was a festive unveiling of the artwork 'Kunst Met Een Draai' ('Art With A Twist') by Martijn Sandberg in the Oosterpark in De Draai, the new residential area in Dijk en Waard.

“Inside the Vishal, we see black aluminium creations by the artist Martijn Sandberg. Texts are concealed in the objects that you only see when you walk past them, or as soon as you take a photograph of them. 'Sorry No Image Yet' is the funniest.”

2023 is Couperus Year. Louis Couperus (1863-1923) was a Dutch novelist and poet. The site-specific artwork 'Melodie' by Martijn Sandberg, is an integral part of the masonry of the residential block Couperus, Ypenburg, Den Haag. The stanza from Louis Couperus' poem 'Melodie' (1886) is incorporated into the façade. The text in the unique, metres-high brick letter typeface, designed by Martijn Sandberg, encompasses the entire circumference of the building in length.

Book edition 'Spaarndammerhart - Een verhaal van de Stad'. Spaarndammerhart in Amsterdam is designed by the architectural offices of Korth Tielens and Marcel Lok_Architect, artist Martijn Sandberg, and the landscape architects of DS Landschapsarchitecten.

'Cut Painting!' is the title of the publication, published online as a sequel to the eponymous exhibition of Martijn Sandberg in the Burgerweeshuis, Amsterdam. The publication comprehensively displays the exhibition, with photos and Martijn Sandberg's notes on the cut paintings and his choices from the BPD Art Collection.

'Cut Painting!' - Works by Martijn Sandberg are on view in his exhibition 'Cut Painting!' at the former Aldo van Eyck Burgerweeshuis, BPD Kunstcollectie, Amsterdam. He has made a selection of his own works - the cut paintings - for this exhibition, as well as works of art from the BPD Art Collection.

The Zuiderkerk Prize 2021 & the Abe Bonnema Prize 2021 have been awarded to the project Spaarndammerhart in the Spaarndammer district in Amsterdam. Spaarndammerhart is a collaboration between Korth Tielens Architecten and Marcel Lok_Architect with artist Martijn Sandberg and DS Landschapsarchitecten. Development and execution by Heijmans Vastgoed Ontwikkeling.

Project Spaarndammerhart is featured on the cover of magazine 'De Architect', June 2021. Spaarndammerhart is a collaboration between Korth Tielens Architecten and Marcel Lok_Architect with artist Martijn Sandberg and DS landscape architects for client Heijmans. More info on the project Spaarndammerhart with the integrated art by Martijn Sandberg can be found in section 'public artworks' at this website.

Project Spaarndammerhart is featured on the cover of the NAi yearbook edition 'Architectuur in Nederland 2020/2021' ('Architecture in The Netherlands 2020/2021'). Spaarndammerhart is a collaboration between Korth Tielens Architecten and Marcel Lok_Architect with artist Martijn Sandberg and DS landscape architects for client Heijmans. More info on the project Spaarndammerhart with the integrated art by Martijn Sandberg can be found in section 'public artworks' at this website.

On Wednesday 18 December, the artwork 'U Bevindt Zich Hier' ('You Are Here'), created by artist Martijn Sandberg, will be unveiled on the Oranje Vrijstaatkade, Amsterdam. The artwork honours prominent residents, groups or places highlighting the character of District Oost in the twentieth century.

On Thursday 6 December, the city of Amsterdam is organizing a symposium on post-war monumental wall art. In the past two years, Amsterdam's monumental wall art from the Reconstruction Period (1945-1975) has been inventoried and assessed at the request of the City Council. In this symposium, a number of speakers, a.o. Martijn Sandberg, will discuss post-war wall art from different angles.

Martijn Sandberg has been invited to develop a plan for a site-specific artwork to be realised at the location Werkspoorhal, Oostenburg, Amsterdam. The artwork by Martijn Sandberg will be an integral part of the pipe system in the interior of the former industrial complex Werkspoorhal.

The brick letters 'Forever Stoned' from Martijn Sandberg's artwork 'Forever in Stone' in Amsterdam, are on view in the documentary series 'Typo Safari', by French filmmaker Thomas Sipp. The complete series of typographic expeditions accross cities in Europe, with the episode on Amsterdam, can be viewed online at the website ARTE Creative.

The team of Korth Tielens Architecten and Marcel Lok Architect with project developer Heijmans Vastgoed, DS landschapsarchitecten, artist Martijn Sandberg and Fore installation consultants, has been selected to further develop their plan for the housing programme to be realised at the former Spaarndammer School site, Amsterdam. The Spaarndammer School site (Spaarndammerschoollocatie) is located in the Spaarndammerbuurt, an area of the city with listed residential housing, characteristic of Amsterdamse School architecture.

Martijn Sandberg has realised a site-specific artwork on the Southern facade of First, a new build project on the Weena in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The brick facade relief covers a wall surface measuring three and half metres high and twenty seven metres long. A message has been left on the wall, written in relief with brick letters two and half metres high: 'One more wall well done'.

Martijn Sandberg speaks about his artworks in public space and architecture at BNO, Utrecht, on Tuesday evening 25 March 2016.

Martijn Sandberg reacts to the call for the De Nederlandsche Bank to be demolished to enable the return of the Palace for National Industry (Paleis voor Volksvlijt) to the Frederiksplein in Amsterdam. Demolition of De Nederlandsche Bank, however, would imply that Peter Struycken's intriguing artwork would be permanently lost to the Amsterdam street scene.

The Zuiderkerk Prize 2013 has been awarded to the housing and renovation project Kraaipanschool in the Transvaal neighbourhood in Amsterdam. The design is by Architectenbureau Hoogeveen, commissioned by housing association Ymere. The paving artwork 'Tomorrow Everything Will Be Alright' by Martijn Sandberg is located on the new square of the Kraaipan project.

Martijn Sandberg reacts to the threatened disappearance of distinctive works of art created in the Seventies and early Eighties from several stations involved in the Amsterdam Metro East Line renovation. A short version of the text 'Demolition Ball and Battle of Waterloo' by Martijn Sandberg can be found in English and Dutch at the website's 'stories' section.