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Education:

Higher education: Karel De Grote Hogeschool, Congres -Sint Lucas, Antwerp, Masters Degree painter, 1997-2002 (onderscheiding)

Hogeschool Antwerpen, teachers education 2001-2003

Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten (HISK) Antwerp, postgraduaat, 2004-2005


Exhibitions:

Solo exhibitions

November, December 2002: Fst Forward, Antwerp.

May 2004: Koraalberg / Fst Forward, Antwerp.

October, November 2005: “Foto Antwerp 2005”, Fst Forward, Antwerp.

Februari 2007: “Habitat”, Hedah, Maastricht (The Nederlands).

Januari 2008, “50/25”, Cypres gallery, Leuven



Group exhibitions:

May 1999: expositie Ter Marcke, Merksplas.

February 2001: Etalage, Driekoningenstraat, Berchem.

June 2002: graduation exhibition Congres -Sint Lucas, Antwerp.

September, October 2002: Out of Control 2002, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels.

September 2003: Feel estate, Minard, Gent.

May 2004: Open Studio’s, HISK, Antwerp.

July, August 2004: Zomerexpositie, Koraalberg, Antwerp.

September 2004: Rush, Oudenaarde.

November 2004: 2luik, Merksplas.

November, December 2004: Hotelkamer, Free space (NICC), Hessenhuis, Antwerp.

May 2005: Open Studio’s, HISK, Antwerp.

December 2005:”And lucy liked it!” HISK, Antwerp.

January 2006, Borderlines, Gent.

April 2006, “Ravenstein project”, Brussels.

May 2006, “Spring”, Antwerp.

June 2006, Borderlines, Straatsburg (France).

September 2006, Januari 2007: “Amusee vous” / “Ensor en de avant-gardes aan zee”, PMMK, Oostende.

Marge 2007, “Actionfields”, Neder-over-heembeek (Brussels)

August 2007, 50/25, Leuven


lectures: February 2005: De Appel, Amsterdam (The Nederlands) .

about his work:

Scale models and video installations
(A short explanation)

Scale models

My work discusses spaces. The interior is the key element of my work. I’ll briefly explain the way this works for me. I often use an interior as a metaphor for the persons that inhabit a space and/or the actions that take place there. These situations relate to things that trigger me in our society. Mostly I do this in an attempt to show, or have my own personal struggle with, a political or a social “problem”/event. The interiors I work on are nearly always copied or drafted out of reality and rebuilt as a scale model. This provides a method to investigate and analyze the selected space. In general I use these scale models as the core of my video installations.
Examples of these scale models are: a construction workers cabin, extremist right winged bar, the installation as a space itself, the living room, the room were a prisoner can have sex, a hotel room used as a pornographic set, etc …

  Video installations

The installations are used to enlarge the elements I discuss in my scale models and as an investigation of the medium installation itself. An example of enlarging the elements is the use of surveillance. It’s a nice way of showing the suggestion of the private (or invading it). It keeps a clear and save distance for the viewer. He or she has to deal with an image of a room shown on a monitor and has to make a mental reconstruction of that room. Where if it would be just the scale model the action would be less intense and the work would be consumed in a fraction of time. Instead, the viewer is forced to question what he’s looking at. The fact that the use of surveillance keeps a clear and save distance for the viewer can also easily be turned around. This happens when they’re forced to participate in surveillance based work. It creates a kind of power for the viewer and a kind of helplessness for the person being viewed. This is an element I like to play with.

The World Wide Web:
www.fstforward.be
www.beeldend.be
www.nicc.be
www.kunstopmaat.be
www.borderlines-fr.com
www.5025.be
www.actionfields.be
www.actionfields.blogspot.com

for more information
v.v.artpromotion@gmail.com
woestenborghs@hotmail.com