Hedendaagse kunst

Andrea Branzi (IT, º1938)

Grande Vaso 1999 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Since 1999 the giant vase, designed by the architect Andrea Branzi, was standing  in the courtyard of the Design Museum in Ghent. The vase would be destroyed, because the museum now had other priorities and the renovation would be too expensive. Geert Verbeke was reading the news [...] Read More

Kevin van Braak (NL, º1975)

Kevin van Braak’s work is set around politically and ideologically problematic issues. In recent years, he turned his attention to the visibility and invisibility of the display of power in buildings, people, location, and artifacts and how our historical consciousness functions in relation to the history behind it. He is particularly interested in reproducing, restoring [...] Read More

Matthijs Bosman (NL, º1976)

Within the framework of the investigation ‘archive for the future’ Mathhijs Bosman got the command to think about his legacy, with as a result this monument. In ‘Archive for the future’ the bkkc together with the Verbeke Foundation examined the issues around the conservation and management of oeuvres of contemporary artists. The project consisted of [...] Read More

Pomodoro Bolzano

Pomodoro Bolzano is an open art project, founded in 1993 by Max D. Well and Chris Wittkowsky. During the journey of over 20 years the group worked in several fields and with different formats like communication art, art scenarios, art manœuvres, media art, performance, mixed reality and multiples. Since 2000 they take part in the [...] Read More

Martin uit den Bogaard (NL º1944)

Archiflab Installation, 1989-2015 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Martin uit den Bogaard reduces death to controllable works of art. Using animal carcasses, their foetuses as well as other objects, the artist takes a closer look at the process of decay. He slows it down by encasing birds, mammals, reptiles, food, bones as well as blood [...] Read More

Arjen Boerstra, NL º1967

The work of Arjen Boerstra consists of a mix of buildings, installations, happenings, photos, video and performance. At an early age he already started with the tinkering of model boats and planes, building huts and with all kinds of wanderings in nature. In a search for the open-mindedness of those days, and as memory experiment, [...] Read More

Will Beckers (NL, º1967)

Re-cover installation, work in progress, 2011 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Re-Cover is an innovative and ambitious environmental growing project made with eight old timer willow trees, which were rescued and replanted at the Verbeke Foundation in January 2011. The project will change and grow as the natural boundaries of the structure develop. This project [...] Read More

Paul Rutger Bastiaan (NL)

De Bathyscaaf 1999 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation ‘De Bathyscaaf’ is a deep-water laboratory, washed ashore. It is a submarine suitable for research on huge depths of the ocean. The captain Paul Reintjes lives and works here surrounded by books on nature, shipping, an extensive set of instruments and the necessary drinks and tobacco. In [...] Read More

Brandon Ballengée (VS, º1974)

Brandon Ballengée’s artistic research ‘Malamp Reliquaries’ shows the decline and genetic abnormalities at amphibians. His work is the result of cooperation with other researchers and hundreds of people from the local community where his research took place. The deviations from the amphibians are chemically modified so they color very bright. As a result, the preparation [...] Read More

Art Orienté Objet

Art Orienté Objet France www.artorienteobjet.com En Cas d’empoisonnement Installation, 1993 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Dutch sky, a strip of grass, and a stuffed cow. Without the inscription “do not take anything and certainly no milk” this could be an idyllic landscape. En Cas d’empoisonnement was exhibited for the first time in 1993 in a [...] Read More

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