ABOUT
Following a long and strong tradition of street art and community activism, the Hope Box Angels travel around the world exploring borders and making art and friends. Enthusiasm and strong local reaction to the HBX projects inspires them to injecting positive imagery and conscious collaborations all over the globe.
Created in 1991 by artist Rienke Enghardt, Hope Box aims to employ art in a manner faithful to the diversity of all forms of realism. While it began as a single project, Hope Box has grown into a method, a process that hundreds of artists from dozens of countries have participated to which involves travel, performance, and a hunger for communication. The collective noun, naming the sum of many of her projects, Hope Box (HBX), is to its artists, what it is to its observers: a non-exclusive, open-faced interaction. Hope Box Angels hold a variety of passports and are in constant motion, not satisfied with virtual information, but in need of sensual and social phenomenological input.
“Hope Box grew into what it is now. Its seed was planted more than three decades ago. I wish it to be pure and true, big and warm something that faces reality, takes action and at the same time reminds people of the beauty of the world, the good things in life. A collective effort to present a more complete image of reality in our works of art to make life more colourful, just, and positive.”
Weather Report Foundation organizes the Hope Box Mobile Art Projects. Weather Report foundation is a typical independent artist organisation founded in 1995. Its board is very small and effective, and its network of participating artists is large and active. Everyone works for free (unpaid), and the work gets done.
Weather Report Foundation is named after the longest running HBX project Weather Report www.weather-report.nl
COLOPHON
Design
Some of the artists connected to our projects created our infamous graphic design. Like Peter Verheul, Esther Vinke, Slaven Lunar Kosanovic and Tak Qerkini
Photo’s
Many artists connected to our projects made photo’s. Most of the photos on this website are made by documentary photographers Ilse Schrama, Ivo Kosanovic and Marc Faasse.
Website Weather Report
Daan van Tulder
Website Hope Box
Jaike van Twuijver