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Ilke Cop Paints So She Can Start Afresh Again and Again
7 May 2024
For Ilke Cop the role of an artist in a crumbling world is to create something from nothing. For a long time, the white canvas scared her, but now she sees all the potential at the point of beginning. It’s also the moment when she feels most aligned with herself. “When I paint, there’s no long
Rafaël Rozendaal Bridges The Gap Between The Online And Offline World
22 February 2024
With an oeuvre at once connected to art history and contemporary technology, Rafaël Rozendaal has made a name for himself as a prominent digital artist. His works often also take physical form, raising exciting questions about the relations between the online and offline world.
Hilde Onis Balances Objects and Meaning
18 January 2023
Dutch artist Hilde Onis considers her installations a kind of arithmetic sums: the addition of objects, plus the space itself, plus the viewer. She doesn't like hierarchy, and the boundary between person and thing within her work is often blurred.
Artistic Resistance as Liberation: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s Visual Language and Image of Women
3 January 2023
Over the past fifty years, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has built up an oeuvre that is not only extensive, colourful and futuristic, but also layered, feminist and strongly critical of society. Assisted by modern software, her work has attained even greater subtlety in recent years.
Jaya Pelupessy Draws Attention to the Construction That Lies Behind the Photo
9 June 2022
Unique works of art all about reproduction processes: the wonderful paradox at play in the work of Dutch artist Jaya Pelupessy. In two exhibitions by the same name, he was displaying work from his most recent project Manufactured Manual – focusing on photography without taking any pictures himself
Form Follows Function? For Artist Kevin Bauer It’s the Other Way Round
28 April 2022
Kevin Bauer's sculptures are all unique and simultaneously flirt with the uniform imagery of mass production and the concept of ready-made.
There’s a Particle Accelerator in Salim Bayri’s Throat
1 April 2022
Salim Bayri prefers working with materials that he’s never used before. Bayri was born and raised in Morocco and eventually ended up in the Netherlands via art school in Spain. Media, cultures and languages collide in his mutually diverse works of art.
On the Road With Armchair Voyager Rinus Van de Velde
24 February 2022
Too famous now to still be considered the rising star of Flemish art, Rinus Van de Velde brings a selection of his latest work to the high-profile show Inner Travels at Bozar in Brussels.
Vera Mennens Challenges the Boundaries of Time, Facts and Fiction
2 February 2022
Vera Mennens wonders how you can research historiography as an artist. She moves between art and research, between natural landscapes and historical archives. In her video essays, she goes for walks with a long-dead pioneer in the field of nature conservation. In this way, the boundaries between pas
Laurens Legiers Distils the Essence From Dream Images
29 September 2021
Antwerp painter Laurens Legiers (b. 1994) takes animals, plants, and sailing boats, and formalises them, creating motifs that repeat through his paintings. Heavily stylised, with a strong sense of symmetry, they could be dream images, or cards dealt from a surreal tarot.
The Porous Paradises of Bram Demunter
23 September 2021
‘Everything exists side by side and can be shown as such’, says encyclopaedic painter Bram Demunter of his first solo exhibition. Demunter’s work is simultaneously comical and analytical, it confuses and provides comfort. Ancient Alligator Swimming from the Sea to the River remains on show unt
Maika Garnica Conjures Soundscapes From Clay
2 September 2021
Maika Garnica (b.1992) translates form and material into sound, building objects in clay and playing them to produce atmospheric soundscapes. Some of her objects resemble traditional musical instruments, others are more abstract, playable sculptures that produce sound when blown, scraped or struck.