2023 - The Curtain, story of an artistic friendship in times of war
Graphic story illustrating how the full scale invasion of Ukraine deeply affects my collaborations and friendship with Varia Karamushka. Presented during the...
2023 - Denkend aan Oekraïne / Thinking About Ukraine / З думкою про Україну
3 week exhibition, including meetings and an open-air dinner in/near my house and studio in Eindhoven, and in the auditorium of Van Abbemuseum.
Featuring...
2023 - XL bag 'I AM REAL' i.c.w. Varia Karamushka (UA)
Drawing 'I am Real' printed and sewn on bag in Ukraine, by Varia in Kharkiv area, Ukraine.
2023.
Edition of 15 pieces.
45€ (ex. shipping).
Small pocket i...
2022/2023 Some Body Help - book project
Some Body Help is a publication around 6 drawings, set up in Covid Times.
I invited 3 writers to associate words to the drawings:
Leon Heuts - Fuck The Pain...
2022 - NEW BAGS MADE IN UKRAINE - Stop War Start Bees
Bags realized in full war time. With my friends Varya Karamushka and Vitaly Dushka, who live in eastern Ukraine, in the Charkiv region.
big bag 'Stop War Start...
2023 - Hoogovens/Tata Steel - portretten
Ik tekende live portretten van oud-medewerkers van staalbedrijf de Hoogovens, aka Tata Steel. Deze mensen waren allen bezoekers van de theatervoorstelling 'Onder de...
2020/2021 - KRASJ5, Ninove (BE) curator
I had the honor to curate the 5th KRASJ art biennial {in Ninove Belgium, KRASJ.
Title I chose: 'Het kind in u' (The Child within you'). The event was meant to...
The Call of Chtulhu 2.0.2.0. - A3 drawings
14 drawings made during the Covid pandemic, while spending a lot of time alone, pondering on the situation and my life, and how to connect those two.
The title...
2022 - Infinity Walks @STRP Festival - curator/concept
Local artists taking the audience on a slow walk. I conceptualized and curated 'Infinity Walks' for STRP Festival 2022 'The End of Infinity' in Eindhoven.
The...
2021 - KONT05 magazine 'Welcome The artist/Verwelkom de kunstenaar' - Director
Together with designer-artist Sunjoo Lee, I curated the 5th issue of KONT magazine 'Welcome The Artist/Verwelkom de kunstenaar''. 5 teams of artists and nonartists...
2020 - KONT04 magazine 'The City as a Baby - case study Eindhoven' - Director
Together with Jolanda Kooimans, I curated the 4th issue of KONT magazine 'The City as a Baby, case study Eindhoven'. 5 teams of artists treated 5 famous Eindhoven...
2019 - KONT03 magazine 'A Manual for Celebrating the Year' - Director
For KONT03 magazine, I invited Bart Van Dijck as co-curator and Casper Fitzhue as graphic designer and photographer. My reason to invite Bart to work on an issue...
2018 - KONT02 Magazine - Director
I invited designer Annegret Bönemann and art student Wessel Verrijt to co-curate KONT02 with me. We created these teams who collaboratively realized new work for ...
2017 - KONT01 magazine - Director
I founded KONT magazine in 2017, as an annual magazine. As an attempt to research how to create an alternative collective vehicle to connect artists of all kinds...
China is Coming, installation for Festival Cultura Nova, Heerlen (NL)
An installation for outdoor exhibitiion Night Shift : 'China is Coming' in an empty store in Heerlen.
During Festival Cultura Nova, 14 empty storefronts in...
Commentaar op Kunst als Vrije Tijd
Deze video maakte ik in 2020, toen de Nederlandse Provincie Noord-Brabant besloot de kunstsector te bundelen met andere sectoren in de Vrijetijdssector.
A drawing as a tool for dialogue @Royal Academy Art Book Fair Antwerp
I made a drawing to color, in order to make the KONT visits to Art Book Fairs more lively. Visitors were asked to 'color' what they think an artist needs to do...
Are You Gay? No I am an engineer. Drawings for Compass @TU/e
Concept and realization of a series of drawings commissioned by Compass TUe (Technical University Eindhoven) on the occasion of Diversity Week.
The Walking Fish Academy (project for KONT magazine)
Project for KONT magazine in collaboration with nonartist and marketeer Jorn Smeets. We reflected on the position of the artist vs. the nonartist and came up with...
Het is niet niks - maandelijkse rubriek in ZOUT magazine
Van juli 2021 tot en met februari 2023 vulde ik de rubriek 'Het is niet niks' in Cultureel maandblad ZOUT magazine. Getekende reflecties op het (kunstenaars)leven...
Ik denk aan snoep - beeldessay op Drawing The Times
Een filosofische mijmering over waarom we snoep gerust kunnen inroepen om ons de pandemie-ellende een beetje te helpen dragen. Het meebewegen met mijn tekenwerk in...
300 bags icw Ukrainian friends for Museum Dhont-Dhaenens
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (BE) ordered 300 bags that I realized with my Ukrainian friends Varya and Vitalij, 2015.
The bags were given as a present to their...
Publication Flag for Ukrainian friends in KAJET Journal /issue 'On Utopias' - 'Leave Me Alone'
In 2018, KAJET published the concept behind my work 'Leave Me Alone', a flagline I conceived in Ukraine in 2015, while staying with my colleagues and friends Varya...
Leave Me Alone/не беспокоите меня - flagline to protect my Ukrainian friends - 2015
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM INVADERS WITH THIS FLAGLINE !
Do you have enough of the increasingly shameless interference in your own life? Enough of the confusing...
Intervention 'I know we are not different', Kiev, Ukraine, icw Gijs van Bon
Invited by art organization Izolyatsia, I particpated in 'Zahoplennya', a mobile project in 2014, shown in Kiev, Ukraine, as Izolyatsia had been driven away from...
NO WAR poster exhibition, curator, Onomatopee, Eindhoven
To support my friends from 4th Block and Varto during the war in Ukraine, I hosted an exhibition with 'No War' posters by designers from all over the world....
Bags i.c.w. Ukrainian couple
Ever since 2012 I am creating bags in collaboration with a Ukrainian couple, Varia and Vitaly, and some ladies in their village Korotich (Charkov area). Over the...
'The Transparent Self' - curator/artist of group exhibition
'The Transparent Self' was an exhibition inspired by 'The Transparency Society' by Corean-German philosopher Buyng-Chul Han. All works were projected, there was no...
#Kanikweg, solo exhibition
Drawings, poems, photos and a performance around the theme of 'where to belong-being away-longing...'. A solo summer exhibition in the region I was born, in Ninove,...