Jan van der Ploeg (NL) is internationally recognized for his monumental wall paintings that transform architecture into rhythm and space. With bold, geometric motifs and repeated graphic forms, his work doesn’t decorate but redefines—bringing the hidden structure and pulse of a place to light.
For Yellow Gallery in Leiden, he has created a new site-specific mural in the historic Kasteeltje, once home to scientific salons where figures like Einstein and Bohr gathered. Returning to the town of his childhood, Van der Ploeg infuses this charged space with a new visual order—an intervention that merges personal history with collective memory.
His murals function as spatial propositions: clarifying, recalibrating, and reactivating how we inhabit and experience our environment.