Hedendaagse kunst

Idiots (Afke Golsteijn en Floris Bakker, NL, º1975)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull taxidermy seagull, forged iron, 2006 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation The Amsterdam artist Afke Golsteijn makes sculptures of self stuffed animals combined with materials like glass, wrought iron, and textiles. With her sculptures, she creates a world in which the transience is shut down and in which the animals live on as [...] Read More

Lodewijk Heylen (BE, º1989)

Concrete Evidence: 1m 1 meter highway according to Belgium standard, 2012 Collection Verbeke Foundation Heylen is fascinated by the effects and impact of large scale building projects in our post industrial environment and the process of regulation, standardisation and normalisation associated with it. In his conceptual work, the transcendence of humanity through the means of [...] Read More

Mateusz Herczka (PL/SE, º1970)

Puddle Drive-Through Simulation Installation, 2011 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation For Puddle Drive-Through Simulation, Mateusz Herczka created the biggest artificial killifish habitat ever made. He recreated a puddle which can be easily found in the middle of a road in Guyana, with a truck wheel rolling through it, as it happens every day in South [...] Read More

Ivan Henriques (BR, º1978)

3′ Installation, 2012 Ivan Henriques’ work centres on questions related to time and memory. 3′ is a time difference between the present moment of Goldfish’s existence and its past moments produced with the use of camera and picture signal-delaying apparatus. Therefore, thanks to modern technology, the fish is given a unique opportunity to face its [...] Read More

Jan Henderikse (NL, º1937)

Bottle Wall Wooden beercrates and beerbottles, 1962 (reconstruction 2008) Website: Jan Henderikse Read More

Happy Famous Artists (BE)

ART MACHT FREI metal, 2002 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Blessed are the peacemakers, suicide commando mixed media, 2007 Collectie Verbeke Foundation This group of artists works in a conceptual and multimedia way. They make “bad art for bad people”. Their inspiration comes from science, philosophy and psychology, of political and social phenomena, and of [...] Read More

Peter Greenaway (UK, º1942)

No title props from the opera The death of a composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama, 1999 Collectie Verbeke Foundation Website: Peter Greenaway Read More

Wim Gijzen (NL, º1941)

A visit to all 863 municipalities of Holland – 1972 Collection Verbeke Foundation In every Dutch municipality Wim Gijzen photographed himself, with a panorama camera on a tripod, at the Town Board. It is therefore a picture registration of Netherlands in one year, 1972. In the village or city he bought two postcards, one sent [...] Read More

Sven Fritz (NL, º1983)

Gastroliths photo-installation, 2011 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation 1 bird 1088 gastroliths This is the stomach contents one capercaillie. This is a bird that lives in coniferous forests. Most herbivorous birds pick up stones on to seeds and buttons that they eat to be able to grind. These stones come from a capercaillie that is [...] Read More

Zoro Feigl (NL,º1983)

Loop Installation, 2007 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Swingwings Installation, 2015 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Website: Zoro Feigl Read More

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