The Hangar Exhibition
The Barbar Temple in Bahrain was discovered, or more correctly re-discovered, in 1954, years after Captain E.L. Durand noticed a pierced limestone block protruding from the crest of a mound in 1879. Excavations continued until 1962, by which time three superimposed temples had been investigated.
In the Barbar series, Anne Holtrop resumes the same atmospheric language nostalgic of the Barbar Temple. It is a formal language, defined by straight lines and arcs that together form a loose pattern.
Holtrop has been awarded several grants from the Mondrian Fund, and has received the Charlotte Köhler Prize for Architecture from the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation. In 2015, Holtrop signed projects with the Museum Fort Vechten and the National Pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain for the Milan Expo 2015. He is a course director for the Master Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam.
Anne Holtrop lives and works between Amsterdam and Bahrain. He started his studio in 2009.