Hedendaagse kunst

Superuse Studio’s (NL)

Super Studio’s Superuse Studios is a Rotterdam based architecture office of Cesare Peeren, Willem Coenen, Bart Lentze and Mel Feldmuller. They utilize the contextual potential for design. A design is not considered as the beginning of a linear process but as a phase in a continuous cycle of creation and recreation, use and reuse. Website: [...] Read More

STARTEL (Jan Starken, NL º1956 & Mark Schotel, NL º1965)

The Dutch artists Jan Starken and Mark Schotel breed flies together. These flies get food but walk through a flourescent matter. With this substance on their feet they walk on a black board. The traces they leave behind reflect light. This way they make a colored plate every day and for fout months…THE MEANING OF [...] Read More

Lieven Standaert (BE, º1976)

Aeromedeller2 Installations, 2007-ongoing Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Aeromodeller2 is a project of an autonomous, zero-emission, hydrogen-based airship that would never need to land. The artist designed it as a 90-meters-long flying machine that can travel all around the world without refuelling. The airship reproduces the fuel, creating hydrogen from wind and rain. When its [...] Read More

Alan Sonfist (VS, º1946)

Time Capsule work in progress, 2015 – ongoing Collection Verbeke Foundation Website: Alan Sonfist Time Capsule of Ancient Forest of Antwerp Belgium (2015) by Alan Sonfist measures 60ft x 10ft. It's immediately encountered when entering the Verbeke Foundation. A relic of the industrial age protects the growing forest inside. As climate change occurs, the forest will [...] Read More

Kor Smeenge (NL, º1980)

The Waterharpet is an autonomous instrument that is played by water. A continuous standing wave in the aquarium is measured and interpreted as a sinewave. The instrument uses these data to play the string and horn configuration located above the aquarium. This way the chaotic variations in wave patterns are made audible leaving the inert [...] Read More

Hannes van Severen (BE, º1979)

Cupboard 14 2006 Sculpture Collection Verbeke Foundation What ever was furniture that functioned in an Interior, he deconstructs to sculptures with a new plastic meaning. The massiveness of the dull wood cabinet furniture is countered by a very sharp cut from the original volume. Notions such as design and functionality are changed into a plastic [...] Read More

Paul Segers (NL, º1976)

Station 03 2007 Collectie Verbeke Foundation The station was developed for the ‘Doorsneden Landschap’ (‘Cut Through Landscape’) from A1 partners (Artlab Deventer, Art Centre Diepenheim and Art Centre Hengelo). When there is enough wind the wind generator produces power for the lights in the work. After the exhibition the Station is purchased by The Verbeke [...] Read More

Tineke Schuurmans (NL, º1962)

Dressed(un)dressed photography, 2004-05 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Science intersects, divides, classifies, makes everything a kit. Holism seems the antidote to that lust to determinate. With the Earth as a living being as summum, the primeval mother, the goddess Gaia. It’s easy to Tineke Schuurmans in that camp of the holisten. When you say that [...] Read More

Gust Romijn (NL, º1922 †2010)

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Ingo Botho Reize (DE, º1953)

In the greenhouses of the University of Cologne biologist and artist Ingo Reize since 2000 developed different techniques to handle algae as the basis for color and form arrangements on canvas. His passion for algae already dated from his childhood when he discovered how algae growth lay at the origin of all life on Earth: [...] Read More

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