Hedendaagse kunst

Michiel van Overbeek (NL, º1954)

The GNORC MONTGOLFIER project, installation, 2012 Courtesy of the artist Gravitation, gravity, is a ubiquitous and yet mysterious force. Although gravitation has a huge effect on human existence, is responsible for thousands of deaths every year and escape from this world, no one knows how impossible this attraction between two mass bodies exactly. Do scientists [...] Read More

Denis Oudendijk (NL, º1967)

Containosaurus 2009 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation This big-scale installation is built with use of disapproved windmill wings and containers. “We found a place in Holland where not usable windmill wings (for their intended function) were stored and felt that we needed to re-use them. Our idea to create an almost-flying dinosaur-installation in combination with [...] Read More

Marleen Oud (NL, º1971)

The proof of the pudding Installation with video, 2009 Collection Verbeke Foundation (given by the artist, 2010) A woman sits in a room. She eats her meal alone. Authentic dutch food. We see her prepare the food. The artist asks herself and the audience a question. Is this an innocent experiment or does she need to [...] Read More

Raphaël August Opstaele (BE, º1934 †2018)

Mass and Individual Moving (MAIM) Tuesday, February 20, artist Raphael August Opstaele passed away. In the years 1960-1970 he was the founder and leading figure of Mass and Individual Moving, our most important artist collective to express the mass and the individual on the move in a monumental way with the actual world serving as [...] Read More

Johan Opstaele (BE, º1954)

Black meets White sculpture, 1876 White and black opbergdozenSinds the summer of 2018, Black meets White by Johan Oberoi as a strong and recognizable image at the entrance to the Verbeke Foundation. On March 10, 2019, a heavy storm raged over the Waasland in Belgium. The 21 meter high artwork was blown down. A landmark [...] Read More

Zbigniew Oksiuta (PL, º1951)

Biological Habitat, Form No. 061108 2008 Installation Collection Verbeke Foundation BiologicalHabitat, Form No. 061108 was constructed using the Spatium Gelatum technology. This technology is studying the laws for forming liquid and gelified volumes from biological polymers. The convex form makes rotation within the liquid possible. The aim of the study is to transform organic shapes [...] Read More

Ronald van der Meijs (NL, º1966)

The work of Ronald Van der Meijs concentrates on the metaphorical and conceptual treatment of sound, space and equipment. It searches for the relationship we as Western man have with technique. This stands for the whole of interventions with which man tries to control his environment. In addition to our production management this also includes [...] Read More

Sjef Meijman (NL, º1978)

Gewichtstoename bij Bomen en Weegschaal 1 (Weight gain at Trees and Scale 1) 2009 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation “When I was working on weight gain at trees and scale 1, I found out that already in the 17th century the Flemish alchemist, physiologist and physician Jan Baptist van Helmont was working on an experiment [...] Read More

Kris Martin (BE, º1972)

Wahnsinn 2001 Dimensions variable 18.000 narcissus bulbs planted in the garden photography Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Kris Martin is a Belgian conceptual artist who lives and works in Ghent. Kris Martin’s practice is poetic, deeply contemplative and yet always situated within the traditions of conceptual art. With his monumental and small-scale sculptures, drawings, photographs, [...] Read More

Michael Linares (PR, º1979)

Artist statement (excerpted from the artist): Through a wide range of styles and media, my work reflects my determination to constantly review and question the possibilities of new relations between things and their meanings. I consider my practice to be a constant inquiry about what is considered art through its materiality, process and its relation [...] Read More

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