WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
Where The Streets Have No Name explores the hidden relationship between everyday consumption, personal movement and the city.
For this ongoing series, participants are invited to collect all their plastic waste during a single week. The discarded materials, packaging, bottles, wrappers and fragments from daily life, become the starting point for abstract compositions inspired by the structure of their city or neighbourhood. Using these collected remnants, Conrad van Tiggelen creates layered works that resemble aerial maps, urban grids and fragmented street patterns.
The project transforms personal waste into a form of cartography. What is normally thrown away becomes a visual
record of movement, behaviour and routine. Streets, crossings and city blocks emerge from materials that once
circulated unnoticed through daily life.
Although rooted in specific locations, the works avoid literal representation. The cities become anonymous landscapes shaped by traces of consumption and human presence. From a distance, the compositions may resemble satellite imagery or urban plans; up close, they reveal accumulations of discarded plastic and packaging materials.
The title refers to the disappearance of clear identity within contemporary urban life, where personal and collective patterns increasingly overlap. Each work reflects both an individual story and a broader system of global consumption, circulation and waste.
By reusing materials that would otherwise be discarded, the series also questions whether art itself can exist without creating additional waste. The works search for a balance between material beauty, environmental awareness and abstraction — transforming the overlooked remains of everyday life into new urban landscapes.
SAO TEOTONIO - november 2022
Mixed media on canvas
110 cm x 70 cm
43.3 inch x 27.7 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
SAN DIEGO I - may 2022
Mixed media on canvas
60 cm x 40 cm
23.6 inch x 15.7 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
SAN DIEGO II - may 2022
Mixed media on canvas
60 cm x 40 cm
23.6 inch x 15.7 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
NEW YORK I - IV - april 2022
Mixed media on canvas
(4 individual works as one piece)
100 cm x 100 cm
39.4 inch x 39.4 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
NEW YORK northwest - april 2022
NEW YORK northeast- april 2022
NEW YORK southwest - april 2022
NEW YORK southeast - april 2022
Mixed media on canvas
50 cm x 50 cm
19.7 inch x 19.7 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL - january 2022
Mixed media on canvas
180 cm x 120 cm
78.9 inch x 47.2 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
UDEN - january 2022
Mixed media on canvas
180 cm x 120 cm
78.9 inch x 47.2 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
ROTTERDAM II - december 2021
Mixed media on canvas
120 cm x 80 cm
47.2 inch x 31.5 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
AMSTERDAM - november 2021
Mixed media on canvas
100 cm x 80 cm
39.4 inch x 31.5 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
ROTTERDAM I - october 2021
Mixed media on canvas
90 cm x 70 cm
35.4 inch x 27.6 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
PHOENIX - october 2021
Mixed media on canvas
70 cm x 100 cm
27.6 inch x 39.4 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
OSLO - september 2021
Mixed media on canvas
100 cm x 80 cm
39.4 inch x 31.5 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
MALAGA - august 2021
Mixed media on canvas
100 cm x 100 cm
39.4 inch x 39.4 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
PARIS - july 2021
Mixed media on canvas
105 cm x 90 cm
41.3 inch x 35.4 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
BARCELONA - june 2021
Mixed media on canvas
110 cm x 95 cm
43.3 inch x 37.4 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
OOSTENDE - june 2021
Mixed media on canvas
50 cm x 50 cm
19.7 inch x 19.7 inch
series: WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
DEBRIS II - january 2020
Mixed media on canvas
100 cm x 70 cm
39.37 in. x 31.89 in.
series: SPACE ODDITY
SUNSET - january 2019
Mixed media on canvas
81 cm x 100 cm
31.89 in. x 39.37 in.
series: BEYOND THE SEA
AFTER THE HARVEST II - december 2018
Mixed media on canvas
60 cm x 100 cm
23.62 in. x 39.37 in.
series: HEIMAT
NORTHSEA 10 PM - november 2017
Acrylic on woodboard
50 cm x 38 cm
19.69 in. x 14.96 in.
series: BEYOND THE SEA
private collection - Rhoon
DEBRIS I - june 2016
Mixed media on canvas
100 cm x 80 cm
39.37 in. x 31.89 in.
series: SPACE ODDITY
private collection - Breda
MY FATHER'S LAND - february 2016
Mixed media on canvas
81 cm x 100 cm
31.89 in. x 39.37 in.
series: HEIMAT
private collection - Amsterdam
DEBRIS RAIN II - october 2015
Mixed media on paper
110 cm x 70 cm
43.3 in. x 27.6 in.
series: SPACE ODDITY