Henk Zoeteman (NL)

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• Mar, 21, 2017
• Ivan Baetens
• Hedendaagse kunst

De ConvecToren The trick is to make something beautiful with simple means. The Convector is an example and this striking work can be found in addition to the workshops of the Verbeke Foundation. The Convector is a Visual experiment to show how simple it is to get warm water. It came from an idea of [...] Read More

Adam Zaretsky (VS)

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• Mar, 21, 2017
• Ivan Baetens
• Hedendaagse kunst

In the Glovebox of Adam Zaretsky, visitors are invited to create sterile art. Adam Zaretsky is both a qualified biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an artist. Since more than fifteen years he develops unique work in which he structures the behavior of human beings in relation to other living organisms. Website: www.emutagen.com Read More

Jason van der Woude (NL)

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• Mar, 21, 2017
• Ivan Baetens
• Hedendaagse kunst

Open space, Open function Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Jason van der Woude, when Visual Arts student at AKV/St. Joost te Breda worked as artist in residence at his master-work. For the collection of the Verbeke Foundation he made an open space, without a specific function. Artists and curators that work at the Verbeke Foundation [...] Read More

Ronald De Winter (BE, º1956)

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• Mar, 21, 2017
• Ivan Baetens
• Hedendaagse kunst

Sculptor (training Sint-Lukas Brussel). Works especially as “animalier” (sculpting of animals). Well-known images are in the Zoo of Antwerp and Plankendael (gorilla picture and bonobo family). Read More

Mariken Wessels (NL, º1963)

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• Mar, 21, 2017
• Ivan Baetens
• Hedendaagse kunst

Permastore II 2008 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Installation from originally two containers: refer game between inside and outside. A container is a beautiful metaphor for travel, around the world and DNA-deep. He saves and transports goods but is also the black box of the memory. What is left us as he opens? Mariken Wessels Read More

Stan Wannet (NL, º1977)

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• Mar, 21, 2017
• Ivan Baetens
• Hedendaagse kunst

From one of our reporters 2007 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Hamster-driven generator 2008 Collectie Verbeke Foundation De hondenmepper (detail) 2009 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation So Lebt er hin…(detail) 2010 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation De doctorandus [he would become a doctor] (detail) 2011 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Civilized aspirations in art, monkeys, [...] Read More

Erki de Vries en Tim Vets (BE)

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• Mar, 21, 2017
• Ivan Baetens
• Hedendaagse kunst

Tim Vets Poltergeist II 2008 Installation Collection of the Verbeke Foundation poltergeist: a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises (as rappings) The installation consists of several identical units, each holding an electromagnet used as a hammer that hits the surface it is placed upon. Depending on the location the number [...] Read More