Hedendaagse kunst

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

Roger Claessens (BE, º1949)

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

Frank F. Castelyns (BE, º1942 †2017)

Collection Verbeke Foundation Frank F. Castelyns studied at the Academy of fine arts Antwerp. For decennia already he collects discarded objects. Thus he builds small scenes that may or may not refer to actual events. His collection is piled up in various places in Antwerp. It moves piece by piece to a construction of 7 [...] Read More

Ad van Buuren (NL, º1951 †2014)

Geluidsinstallaties Kinetic installations, 1993-2014 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation The aim of Ad van Buuren’s installations is to generate sequences of haphazard, unpredictable and chaotic sounds. Tones are evoked by artificial neural networks comprising circuits with relays. The work of these analogue circuits is programmed to resemble the activity of neurones in a human brain. [...] Read More

Heath Bunting (UK, º1966)

Natural Reality SuperWeed kit 1.0 SuperWeed Kit 1.0 is a lowtech DIY kit capable of producing a genetically mutant superweed, designed to attack corporate monoculture. SuperWeed kit 1.0 contains a mixture of naturally occuring and genetically mutated (GM) Brassica seeds (Oilseed Rape, Wild Radish, Yellow Mustard, Shepard’s Purse). If these seeds are allowed to germinate [...] Read More

Sjoerd Buisman (NL,º1948)  

“Just like a traditional painter or sculptor explores the properties of paint and stone, I work with the possibilities of plants and explore their properties.” Website: Sjoerd Buisman Read More

Peter Buggenhout (BE, º1963)

Eskimo Blues I prepared cow stomach over a core of debris, 1999 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Read More

Berlinde De Bruyckere (BE, º1964)

Kooi (Cage) Sculpture, 1989 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation In the beginning of her career Berlinde De Bruyckere made cages. The inner need to make the cages is also still present in her current work. The work is in fact figurative, even if it might seem to be rational, abstract and minimalist. In that time [...] Read More

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