Philip Vermeulen

Philip Vermeulen is a Dutch artist whose work Boem BOem (English: Boom BOom) was featured in Museum Voorlinden in 2023. Vermeulen presented his first large-scale solo exhibition Chasing The Dot at the Rijksmuseum Twenthe in 2024.

Biography
Vermeulen studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and graduated summa cum laude from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague in 2017.

Vermeulen’s work has been acquired by the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, and exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, and Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst in Unna, as well as at W139, Sonic Acts, and Art Rotterdam.

In 2020, he was nominated for the Volkskrant’s Visual Art Prize. During the same year, his immersive installation More Moiré earned a nomination for the Golden Calf in the Best Interactive category at the Netherlands Film Festival, the most prestigious film award in the Netherlands.

His piece Boem BOem was displayed in Museum Voorlinden in 2023. Boem BOem incorporates a mechanism that launches tennis balls towards sound boxes at 150 kilometres per hour. Boem BOem was previously known as the Physical Rhythm Machine. It was identified as the Artwork of the Week by de Volkskrant in late February 2023.

Vermeulen's work is featured in the book "A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands" by Sanneke Huisman & Marga van Mechelen.