Dubbel Kwadraat

In Eindhoven, Dubbel Kwadraat belongs to the city’s public art collection and stands among sculptures in its parks. Margot Zanstra’s work brings geometric symmetry into a form that changes as you walk around it. Each viewpoint reveals another arrangement of surfaces and shapes.

Zanstra created the sculpture in 1980, and Eindhoven installed it in 1982. Her practice grew from ballet and choreography at the National Ballet before she turned to visual art. After leaving dance at forty-five, she explored materials through studio work, technical visits, and a TNO course on plastics. She worked directly with thin sheet metal, allowing forms to emerge through handling rather than fixed drawings. Mathematical structures gave those forms rhythm, balance, and variation.

That movement connects the sculpture’s changing appearance with Zanstra’s experience of dance. She wanted every side to offer something different, rather than repeating one fixed view. Walk around it, and symmetry becomes a sequence of distinct perspectives.