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For many years, the work of the Belgian artist Angel Vergara (*1958, Mieres, Spain) has used different media such as drawing, video, installation and performance, allowing him to explore and broaden the limitations of painting both from an aesthetic and socio-political perspective. His more recent works make use of film and video and it is…
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Housed in a renovated war-time building at Oud Vliegveld in Ostend (Belgium) is one of the finest collections in the world dedicated to post-conceptualist European and American art. Started in 1998, Mark Vanmoerkerke, a private equity and real-estate investor, has accumulated and reselected an impressive collection of over 1,000 pieces in less than 15 years.…
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Taking self-portrait as his sole subject, Philip Akkerman (*1957, Vaassen, NL) decided to pursue a career in painting at the tender age of 18 when the others were announcing heroically to him the tragic death of painting. “I paint myself, so I paint the whole of mankind”. Find out how here.
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Mr. Walter Vanhaerents started collecting art in the mid 1970s. Over the years, the collection has grown vast, multi-layered and cross-generational which allows confrontations between works of emerging artists with those of more established artists by whom they were inspired. When Walter sat down in front of his library for the interview, he gave me…
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Jessica Warboys’s practice employs a variety of media, ranging from sculpture, film, and performance to large format canvases including “sea painting”. Her work often departs from personal or collective memories, be it historical, mythical or fictional. Revisits to these lost and twisted memories or legendary and unknown figures shed new light on their symbolic significance in our contemporary socio-political and psychological life.
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The Belgian collector, Alain Servais, started collecting art in the late 1990s. In 2000, he moved into a 900-square meter old factory which he transformed into a three-storey loft, located in a working-class neighborhood of northern Brussels. This is where he lives and works, as well as showing his contemporary art collection. “There are two…
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The work of Hans Op de Beeck (*1969, Belgium) encompasses sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, photography, video animated film, and short story writing. It is his quest for the most effective way of presenting the concrete contents of each work that determines the medium that the artist ultimately selects.
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Behind the young and dynamic art gallery, Meessen De Clercq, are two men of opposite but complementary talents and temperaments. Jan De Clercq has the physique of a rugby player while Olivier Meessen gives one the impression of a fantasy writer. Economist by education and strategic planning expert by profession, Jan teams up with the…
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Baroda born and Mumbai based, Hema Upadhyay (*1972) uses photography and sculptural installations to explore notions of personal identity, dislocation, nostalgia and gender. Upadhyay draws on her own personal and family history of migration to express her concerns and this is expressed through the way she portrays herself in her works and the urban slums in her installations.
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Studied sculpture in the UK in early 1990s, Sofia Hultén (*1972, Stockholm) has been influenced by the idea of sculpture as an expandable media with a performative potential. Instead of producing objects, Sofia is interested in changing the state of existence of her ready-made material. Her work is therefore four dimensional where time becomes an…
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