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De Binnenhof / Máximapark, Leidsche Rijn

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The artist had himself portrayed next to existing artworks in public space. Samson appears to ‘claim’ these objects, creating the illusion that he himself is the maker of these various sculptures in Dutch neighbourhoods, city parks, station squares or along motorways. Samson does not even mention the actual designers or artists.

• Photograpy: Jeronimus van Pelt
• Commissioned by: Concordia Enschede (Guest curator = Tinkebell)

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The welfare artist drew up the balance by taking up position in a coffin on the festival grounds. He asked his relations to deliver bouquets and words of condolence. Festival-goers were given the opportunity to view the expressions of mourning. The artist himself experienced the true confrontation. Daan Samson perceived the way in which he will be publicly remembered. He wished to obtain a glimpse of the mood around his own final departure.

• Commissioned by: Stichting Kunstblock
• Photo portrait: Jeronimus van Pelt

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• XL Photo print
• Offered to: Stichting Plaatselijk Belang Heeg
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt

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• Art intervention at 'Kasteel Keukenhof'
• Camera, editing, VFX: Koen Samson
• Music: Henri de Mooij

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Location of the celebration: an abandoned factory in the city of Vlissingen (NL).

• Closed performance, part of art program 'Eva ontbloot' at Cultuurwerf
• In cooperation with LENTE Cosmetics
• Photo print Baryta paper (120 x 90 cm)
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt

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The viceroys' kitchen in the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle dates back to the 16th century. Artist Daan Samson uses it to organise a photoshoot.

Digging through Facebook Daan Samson found two students at the reformed Christian university in Zwolle. The girls were asked to pose together with Dutch vegetables, spices and Magimix foodprocessors.

• Photo print (Baryta paper, 120 x 90 cm)
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt
• Sponsored by: MAGIMIX

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The excellence and the artist investigate biotopes in which concepts such as growth and succes are directly linked to terms such as 'natural compitition' and 'the individual urge to evolve'.

• Photo print behind perspex (120 x 90 cm)
• 2 framed plants (each 50 x 90 cm)
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt

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• Photo print (160 x 120 cm)
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt

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Different brands and companies were willing to make sacrifices for the benefit of arts, economy and the personal welfare of the artist. In a humble way, a pallet of enviable commodity goods is moved through the town center. After the pageantry tour and the following exhibition, all luxury items will find a permanent place within the Rotterdam residential property of the Rotterdam based artist.

• Sound design: Radboud Mens
• Art work: Han Hoogerbrugge
• Fashion: Henk Koers
• Photo's: Ruud van der Ploeg @NP3

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In this second edition of Samson & de With the former leader of the Dutch neoliberal party (VVD) Frits Bolkestein comes on a visit, accompanied by his twenty one years old granddaughter. Together they face a day filled with gifts, contemporary art, roasted coquilles and Down syndrome artists.

• PDF tabloid
• Circulation: 8.000 free tabloids 
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt

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At the international art fair Art Rotterdam prosperity artist Daan Samson and photograper Jeronimus van Pelt present a photo series showing delectable 'babes' in the contemporary field of art.

Eight female curators, theorists, artists, critics, museum directors and other art related women have agreed to be portrayed as sexual beings. Purpose of the photo series is to investigate if society grants intellectual women to show their sexual capacities.

• 7 art babes (each 90 x 120 cm)
• Lambda photo C-prints: on dibond / 3mm plexiglass
• Numbered: 7 each
• Courtesy: Torch Gallery (Amsterdam)

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Welfare artist Daan Samson publishes a tabloid. In the Rotterdam Witte de With neighbourhood he welcomes Dutch cult hero Ad Visser. With great interest, Daan Samson examines Ad Visser’s unorthodox, free-thinking attitude.

• PDF tabloid
• Circulation: 8.000 free tabloids 
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt

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As with other projects, Daan Samson has secured the sponsorship of a number of manufacturers of exclusive lifestyle products. Among fresh beach grass and bright orange poppies we see not only his new flip flops and an enviable design bicycle but also an eco-friendly set of pots and pans with a healthy non-stick coating.

• Part of the exhibition 'Applied Reality' in art centre HEDEN
• Fashion: Margreeth Olsthoorn
• Sponsored by: VANMOOF, CROCS and GREENPAN
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt and Ilya van Marle

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Like a present-day Cupid he is sending luxurious giftboxes to gallery owners, museum directors, art theorists and influential artists. Daan Samson doesn't make himself known as the sender of these luxury gifts, but instead he gives the names of other, unsuspecting, key players in the Scandinavian art world. It is a dream of Hollands most humblest artist to stimulate new connections, to build bridges, and to repair friendships gone sour.

• Intervention at Supermarket Art Fair 2010 in Stockholm
• At the invitation of NEST artspace
• Fashion: Margreeth Olsthoorn
• Sponsored by: KETEL ONE VODKA

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Daan Samson could relate to those feelings and took them as the starting point for a double portrait of his patrons. Using the motto ‘Surely, we are not like that?’ an extensive photo shoot followed on their leafy estate, preceded by a veritable metamorphosis, thanks to fashion label Ralph Lauren.

The finished art work was later revealed by the local Social Democrat (PvdA) alderman.

• Two duraclear dia's on perspex
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt
• Fashion: Ralph Lauren

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• Five photographic prints on aluminium (each 98 x 68 cm)
• Photography: Jeronimus van Pelt

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• XL-Photoprint (514 x 341 cm)
• Photography: Frank Hanswijk
• Commissioned by: ConClub

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• Planographic print on sulphat cardboard
• mailed in an edition of 450 copies

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• A contribution to the Oerol Festival 2008
• Photography: Koen Samson

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In front of a full house Daan Samson has five prominent figures the data about the theme ‘commitment in art’. On the large screen in shows a series of sponsored luxury products. People in the audience are able to obtain these must-have lifestyle goodies. All they have to do is get up from their seats and leave the theater. Those who are quickest to respond will be registered as the new owners of the products. Neither the audience nor the panel members have been informed of Daan Samsons ‘sponsor show’ beforehand.

Debaters:

• Jerome Symons (Artist)
• Hugo Bongers (Board for Culture)
• Ayatollah Musa (Engaged photographer)
• Jeroen Laureyns (Artcritic)
• Willem Schinkel (Sociologists).

Sponsors:

• BLEND (magazine)
• VERLICHTING-ONLINE (home lighting)
• PODIUM (publishers)
• HYPE (hairdressers)
• SONY (electronic products)
• MET DE FRANSE SLAG (restaurant)
• BUGABOO (baby strollers)
• UNION (bikes)
• GAMMA (do-it-your-self-stores)
• ROYAL VKB (thoughts for food)
• SMEG (Italian domestic appliances)

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The artist uses TENT’s educational project to send his letter of resignation to the PvdA offices by asking hundreds of pupils to come up with a motivation for him to end his membership of the party.

Daan Samson signs all of these letters personally and send them to the party headquarters in Amsterdam.

• Workshop + exhibition at TENT Rotterdam

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The artist has persuaded a large number of brands and companies to sponsor quality products. All of the exhibited objects are given as a present to Remko Theunissen, staff member of the CBK. When the exhibition ends, he alone goes home a richer man.

Sponsored by:

• BLEND (magazine)
• VEENMAN (publishers)
• HOSMAN VINS (wine importers)
• SJENKELS & SJENKELS (hair dressers)
• PRAGT (business acquaintances)
• STUDIO MAKKINK & BEY (architects)
• ROSSO (restaurant)
• BUDELS (brewery)
• KAOS INC. (fashion)
• DE BONTE KOE (chocolate art)
• SANTAS (espresso)
• KOEKELA (cookies, muffins and more...)
• DEPOT ROTTERDAM (interior studio)
• NEDERLANDSE MUSEUM VERENIGING (museums association)
• HISTORISCHE UITGEVERIJ (publishers)
• ARTXTRA (artistic business gifts)
• 010 PUBLISHERS (publishers)
• TIGI (hair styling products)

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All the while, three well-stocked fridges are on display on a brightly lit stage. These three fridges are all locked with a big, shining padlock. Daan Samson has sent the keys to three key figures in today's art world. Only when these three decision-makers show up at the party, the fridges will be opened and only then Daan Samson’s partygoers will get something to drink.

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• Double photoprint
• 100 x 120 cm

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The most important ingredient will consist of the handful of people that are allowed as contestants. As if they are already his very best friends Daan Samson receives an international group of leading critics, successful artists and influential museum directors. Under the watchful eye of the crowd these happy few will be extensively introduced to the etiquette and customs of this ‘noblest sport on earth’.

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Against the backdrop of the working-class houses in Bernadette Daan Samson transforms the neighbourhood park into an aesthetically designed golf course. During one thrilling day of competition the course is teeming with influential curators, artists, gallery owners and leading museum directors. Daan Samson, always a flamboyant host, makes sure that his guests are extensively introduced to the etiquette and customs of the world's best-known network sport.

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Daan Samson seized the occasion of the exhibition to restock himself with a new line of underwear and turned to the renowned underwear brand of Claesen’s. The artist requested the manufacturer to replace both his old assortment of boxer shorts and his collection of T-shirts with 14 brand-new, lilywhite specimen, all of ‘heavy duty quality’. The artist is also very pleased with the 14 pairs of socks that make up the triptych. Unlike his former lot, these new socks are all of exactly the same size and colour.

• 14 pairs of socks + 14 boxer shorts + 14 T-shirts
• Sponsored by CLAESEN'S

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• Barbara Visser,
• Jan De Cock,
• Iris van Dongen
• Erik van Lieshout.

But isn't Daan Samson mainly fooling himself here? The artist has arbitrarily tracked down a number of individuals with the exact same names as his successful colleagues and has invited these people as his guests for Christmas. When Daan Samson starts handing out a large number of tasteful presents, everything seems just as hunky-dory as in the famous Wham! video clip.

• Video-Performance
• Commissioned by SYB artspace in Beetsterzwaag

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On Brussels’ busiest shopping avenue, Daan Samson shows a number of carefully selected quality products. These sponsored articles are intended for specific individuals... the three currently most talked-about Belgian art curators:

• Eva Wittocx (1975, curator contemporary art at STUK, Leuven)
• Edith Doove (1963, independant art critic and curator, Brussels)
• Moritz Küng (1961, curator exhibitions at De SINGEL, Antwerp)

Via the media Daan Samson informs the three curators that they have been chosen to come and pick up their gift articles during the presentation in Brussels. What are the three decision makers going to do?

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The presentation thus becomes the baby's first introduction to the products that will surround him for years to come.

• Photo print behind perspex (100 x 100 cm)