I miss you, home


is a collaborative art project that tackles the housing crisis in The Netherlands. It researches into the subculture of students squatting empty houses for living.

Ben Maier
Dario di Paolantonio
Lina Selg

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I miss you, home


is a collaborative art project that tackles the housing crisis in The Netherlands. It researches into the subculture of students squatting empty houses for living.

Ben Maier
Dario di Paolantonio
Lina Selg


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Works ︎

Home sweet hole 

Framed photographs showing the students’ life inside various squatted houses. With an intimate visual language, these pictures present living situations that are not imaginable for most people.




The Oude Haagweg case

A documentary about the curious case of an attempt to squat a giant building. This work includes a documentary video, online research, self-made tools and photographs.




Portraits and stories

Large scale portraits of squat residents and terrible stories about student housing that we collected.




A squatting story

Documentation and diary entries of a night dedicated to squatting. Reconstruced story, visualized with photographs and handwritten text on red paper. 




Cats and courtcases

Various collected documents (mails, verdicts, etc.) and cat pictures that were taking during ‘house-sitting’.




Souvenirs for the landlord

Objects left in a squat that got evicted within 72 hours after the verdict. Shown as dias with an old dia projector.




Table of curiosities 

Legal forms, court evidence, lockpicking tools and communication with neighborhood.  




Exhibition guide

Letters sent to a missing dear house, from house seekers, with love.