The Ponies is a research and design collective.
Their basic strategy is research through making, with every exploration taking material form. These forms occupy or are brought back to the places under study.
What is returned may not be immediately recognizable to the members of those communities – their work thus gives back what was never possessed in the first place, with research becoming an occasion for generous and eccentric exchange.1
The Ponies is a research and design collective.
Their basic strategy is research through making, with every exploration taking material form. These forms occupy or are brought back to the places under study.
What is returned may not be immediately recognizable to the members of those communities – their work thus gives back what was never possessed in the first place, with research becoming an occasion for generous and eccentric exchange.1
- Cǎihóng 彩虹 🌈 CN/WW
- Cornucopia ⛲️ US
- De Kapitein 💎🇪🇺 EU
- Drawing on Farnsworth 🧶 US
- Final Fantasy ⏳ NL
- Five to 2 0’clock 🪜 NL
- Flipside 📶 NL
- Formation 🔲 RU
- Freedom 🧔🏼♂️ NL
- Galvanize 💸 NL
- Gascoland 🦠 NL
- Golden Rock 🪨 BQ
- Goldmine 🐕🐩 NL
- Greater Detroit ⛪ US
- Islands in the Stream 💔 NL
- Kwak! 🦆 NL
- Malatang 🔪 CN
- Mining ⛏️ NL
- Nature’s Bounty 🌸 CH
- Nature’s Hobos 🪲 EU
- Nature’s Playlist ⚡ WW
- Okina Kutsu 👞 JP
- Podzemka 🌿 RU
- Secret Society of Plants ✉️ NL
- Silver Darlings 🐟 UK
- Spuiten of Hakken ⚒️ NL
- Steam 🍳 US
- Sterk Water 🍾 NL
- Supernatural 🍞🥐 NL
- The Still Life of Hot Memes 🪷🍑🪞 CN
- Thirty Meters 🖊️ NL
- Trainspotters 🛤️ EU
- Unda George Ta? 👀 CW
- Van Zwart naar Groen 🌲 NL
- Waar is Willemstad? 🧩 CUW
We work at the crossroads of research, design and society. Our projects are realized both in The Netherlands, and internationally, on locations where there is palpable friction between citizens and government. By making installations in public space our work creates a shift in perspective – thus reevaluating complex social issues.
Our oeuvre includes numerous self-initiated projects; often in cooperation with diverse organizations including The Dutch Ministry of the Interior, Amnesty International, Paradiso and a scala of local partners.
Projects from our collective have been published, and exhibited widely, including at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Het Nieuwe Instituut and the Kwaku festival – and in public spaces all over the globe. The Ponies regularly teach and lecture at art academies and universities.
1) homepage quote about the Ponies is from Andrew Herscher.
- BQ Sint Eustatius 🪨 Golden Rock
- CH Nanjing 🌸 Nature’s Bounty
- CN Beijing 🔪 Malatang
- CN Beijing 🪷🍑🪞 The Still Life of Hot Memes
- CN/WW Beijing 🌈 Cǎihóng 彩虹
- CUW Willemstad 🧩 Waar is Willemstad?
- CW Curaçao 👀 Unda George Ta?
- EU Brussels 💎🇪🇺 De Kapitein
- EU Europa 🛤️ Trainspotters
- EU Europe 🪲 Nature’s Hobos
- JP Tokyo 👞 Okina Kutsu
- NL Amsterdam 💸 Galvanize
- NL Amsterdam 🖊️ Thirty Meters
- NL Amsterdam ✉️ Secret Society of Plants
- NL Amsterdam 🍞🥐 Supernatural
- NL Amsterdam 🦠 Gascoland
- NL Heerlen 🧔🏼♂️ Freedom
- NL Heerlen 🌲 Van Zwart naar Groen
- NL Heerlen ⏳ Final Fantasy
- NL Heerlen ⛏️ Mining
- NL Heerlen 📶 Flipside
- NL Heerlen 🪜 Five to 2 0’clock
- NL Heerlen 🐕🐩 Goldmine
- NL Nijmegen ⚒️ Spuiten of Hakken
- NL Rotterdam 💔 Islands in the Stream
- NL Rotterdam 🦆 Kwak!
- NL Texel 🍾 Sterk Water
- RU Sint Petersburg 🌿 Podzemka
- RU St. Petersburg 🔲 Formation
- UK Scotland 🐟 Silver Darlings
- US Detroit ⛲️ Cornucopia
- US Detroit ⛪ Greater Detroit
- US Detroit 🧶 Drawing on Farnsworth
- US Detroit 🍳 Steam
- WW Worldwide ⚡ Nature’s Playlist