Education:
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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:
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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
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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
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lectures:
February 2005: De Appel, Amsterdam (The Nederlands) .
about his work:
Scale models and video installations
(A short explanation)
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Scale models
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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
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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.
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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
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for more information
v.v.artpromotion@gmail.com
woestenborghs@hotmail.com
