Come build with Complex Compound's red blocks!
Have you ever built a house out of giant blocks? Or a tower as high as yourself?
With artist Robbert van der Horst's red blocks, you can make anything: a house, a tower, a stage or a grandstand. And they may seem heavy, but they are not that heavy. Anyone can join in.

About the artist
Robbert van der Horst is a visual artist, performer and radio archaeologist. For more than 20 years, he has been creating temporary artworks reminiscent of buildings, such as objects and installations you can move around in or use to build something. His work resembles architecture, but in an artistic, playful form.

He is particularly interested in how people feel connected to a place. What makes a place 'yours'? And what happens if you lose that place or have to start somewhere new? In his work, he investigates that sense of belonging - and what it means to lose it.

Robbert's installations are not just to look at. He makes art you can walk through, climb on or follow a route in. He finds it important that visitors move in and around his work, because it makes you look and think differently. That movement creates a new experience each time - and that is exactly what he wants to achieve.

What can you do?
Build something together with other children (or your parents)
Climb on it, crawl through it, walk around it
Make up your own game or story to go with what you have built
Look carefully around you - what do you see when you stand higher? What changes?

** Why is this so special?**
Because you get to decide what the artwork will be. Every day it looks different, because everyone builds differently. So together, we always create a new version of Complex Compound!