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Jalila Essaïdi (NL, º1980)

2.6g 239m/s Bio-Art project, 2011-2013 Courtesy of the artist Jalila Essaidi and the Forensic Genomics Consortium Netherlands  won the Designers and Artists 4 Genomics Award with their project 2.6g 329m/s. 2.6g 329m/s is the maximum weight and velocity of a .22 caliber Long Rifle bullet as well as the performance standard for bulletproof vests. In [...] Read More

Jeroen Eisinga (NL, º1966)

Sehnsucht, 2002 16mm-film overgezet op HD-video, zwart-wit, zonder geluid, 8min, 47 sec Sehnsucht is a German noun translated as “longing”, “yearning”, or “craving”, or in a wider sense a type of “intensely missing”. However, Sehnsucht is difficult to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. A dead zebra lies on a black and white [...] Read More

Moritz Ebinger (SW, º1961)

Vriend 1996 Installatie Collectie of the Verbeke Foundation “Originally from Switzerland, I’ve been working for many years as a visual artist in the Netherlands. Thanks to the freedom as an artist offers me, I can experiment with a variety of materials and forms of expression. I take full advantage of this opportunity, using crackers, dance, [...] Read More

Boris Duijneveld (NL,º1975)

Polaris M polyester silo, heating pipes, polycarbonate, wood and foam rubber, 2011 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Mobile Urban DesignUrban City Designer Boris Duijneveld, studied at the HKU, school of the arts in Utrecht. The principle of waste architecture is designing and sketching with the materials and objects which are available. Playing with form, material [...] Read More

Marcin Dudek (PL, º1979)

Cathedral of Human Labour Leading out from an inconspicuous spot beside the Belgian motorway in Kemzeke, this underground sculpture provides a permanently open hidden passageway into the grounds of the Verbeke Foundation. Cathedral of Human Labour (2014) is a cheerfully collaged piece of land art, built from approximately 60 tons of wood initially used as [...] Read More

Bart van Dijck (BE, º1974)

Bart van Dijck is trained in free graphics, sculpture, film and video (Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and IKA Mechelen). He sees the artist as a medium or a shaman who expresses the invisible and subconscious through images, installations, videos and documentaries that are all “part of one great story”. Interesting is the vision of [...] Read More

Delphine Deguislage (BE, º1980)

Nulle-part/Partout Installation Plexiglas, mdf, belettering, aluminium, 2006 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation ‘Non-lieux’ (non-places) are places that you may encounter everywhere. They refer to the uniformity in design, that you encounter in big cities. Along the installation with the words ‘ Nulle-part’ (nowhere) and ‘Partout’ (anywhere) you enter the Verbeke Foundation. The work consists of two [...] Read More

René van Corven (NL)

Driving garden, Victor Mobilae 2003 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Victor is a vehicle that moves with the speed at which climate zones in Netherlands moved to the North as a result of global warming. 6.1 km per 10 years, 1.67 m per day. That seems like a lot and it is. However, Victor moves [...] Read More

Leo Copers (BE, º1947)

The work of Leo Copers is always different. Every work that he makes must be new. He makes objects and installations that always have several meanings and express opposites. Interview with Leo Copers by Hilde van Canneyt (in Dutch) Read More

Stefan Cools (NL, º1981)

United cemetry battlefield Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Autodidact, videomaker and visual artist. He worked at the glass-ovens in Mol for twenty years. Today he makes video’s and artprojects with homeless and unemployed people and migrants, often in collaboration with schools. He uses everyday consumption materials for his work, is against intellectualism: he wants to [...] Read More

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