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Biography
Artist Bas Van Den Hurk's silkscreens are covered in washes of color, their markings as delicate as shadows. Hazy and diffuse, they rarely have a fixed center. Instead, the compositions appear as allover fields of subtly expressed forms and tones. His work is process based, a reflection of the actions and collaborations that went into its making.
Van Den Hurk's artistic practice is a continually evolving intellectual inquiry, one that is perpetually unresolved. As a reflection of this, he considers all of his works to be technically unfinished; he believes that all artworks are in a permanent state of instability and development. A frequent collaborator with other artists, he says, "I'm in a permanent dialogue; my works can develop and appear and reappear in new contexts. I can discuss them in new ways; I can paint over them or reuse them."
Van Den Hurk is concerned with balancing his creative autonomy with his knowledge of the artists and artworks that have preceded him. "I want to create my own conditions or rules, but I'm not nostalgic or naïve," he says. "We live in a time that is dominated by networks and by media; I'm very aware of that. I strive to detangle myself from these contexts, while at the same time I'm aware that this is impossible."
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CV
Download van den Hurk CVBorn 1965, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Tilburg, The NetherlandsEDUCATION
Academy St. Joost, Breda, The Netherlands
MA, Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BA, Philosophy, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The NetherlandsSELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017
Scenarios of Desire (with Koen Delaere), CCA Andratx, Kunsthalle, Mallorca, Spain
Someone Has Left Her Marks, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2016
The Hyena is a striped Dog, who thought he was a laughing Horse (with Koen Delaere), Halsey MacKay, East Hampton, NY
Chicken n Waffles (contribution Thomas Swinkels), The La Brea, Los Angeles, CA
A Moveable Feast (with Steven Cox), Jerome Pauchant, Paris, France
2015
Politics of Installation, part 2 (with Hans Demeulenaere), P////AKT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Politics of Installation, part 1 (with Hans Demeulenaere), Loods 12, Wetteren, Belgium
ART Geneva, solo booth for Rod Barton, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
NADA Miami, solo booth for Rod Barton, Miami, FL
Ghosts and Spectres, RH Contemporary Art, New York, NY
There It Is. Just There, Ginerva Gambino, Cologne, Germany
Once Upon A Time You Dressed So Fine, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
2013
A Petite Fair representing Rod Barton Gallery, Jeanine Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
See You When You Get There, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Wowee! Pretty Scary!, Arti Capelli, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
2011
You're so Beautiful, and so on…and so on….and so on..., (with Harm van den Dorpel), Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
Beside Itself (with Martijn Hendriks), Duende, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010
Organizing the Non-Obvious II, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
Organizing the Non-Obvious I, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Art Rotterdam, ZINGERpresents, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2009
New Work, Gallery Kokon, Tilburg, The Netherlands (catalogue.)
2008
But if Not, Not (with Koen Delaere), Metafora, Barcelona, SpainSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Art Brussels, represented by Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Intelligent Touch, Whatspace, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2016
Colombo Art Biennale curated by Alnoor Mitha., PGIAR, Sri Lanka
Bête Noir, Candyman, Neutra Museum, Los Angeles, CA
A Full Open Hand, Drippings and Carefully Masked Lines, Jacob Bjorn Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark
Multiplicity curated by Frank Maes, Jerry Galle and Bas van den Hurk, Emergent, Veurne, Belgium
Contemporary - Grunewald, Hurk, Madsen, Nesbitt, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
You May Say I'm A Dreamer, VM Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
Objects From The Temporate Palmhouse, Bargain Spot, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015
Rod Barton, Brussels, Belgium
The Wrong Biennale, Sliversurfer Pavillion
Archeologia E Architettura, Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
Works on Paper, Hunted Projects, Tilburg, The Netherlands
From a Painters Perspective Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Neighbours, Studio Grunewald, Gand, Belgium
My Other Car Is A Painting, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
2014
24/7 curated by Alex Bacon and Harrison Tenzer, Monte Carlo, Miami Beach, FL
Episode 14, 173 EAST 94th STREET / CHAUSSÉE DE WATERLOO 550 curated by Alex Bacon in collaboration with Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
The Politics of Surface curated by Alex Bacon, Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany
Marquee Moon, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
Whatbar #14, 511 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Comrades of Time Comrades of Time Comrades of Time, Art Brussels Off-Site, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Comrades of Time Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London, UK
The Artist as Producer, Bewaerschole, Burgh-Haamstede, The Netherlands
At the Edge of Abstraction, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
2012
Artissima, Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Turin, Italy
The Autumn of Modernism II, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany (catalogue)
Is There Life On Mars? Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Picasso Grid, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
Against Interpretation, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (catalogue)
Comrades of Time, Project Space Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands (catalogue)
The Autumn of Modernism, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands (catalogue)
2011
What's Up!, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (catalogue)
I Can't, I Can, I Care, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
The Passenger, Paul Andriesse Galleries, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
The Spur of the Moment, Nest, The Hague, The Netherlands
2010
Liste 15 Basel, ZINGERpresents, Basel, Switzerland
A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH IT'S NOT, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2009
Auf der Spitze des Eisbergs, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
2007
GHB, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The NetherlandsSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Muriel de Crayencour, Bas van den Hurk, Coupe Impeccable, MU in the City, April 2017
Jan Verwoert, Walter Bejamin, Okwui Enwezor, Camiel van Winkel, Steven ten Thije, Boris Groys, Maaike Lauwaert, design by Thomas Swinkels, 2008-2016 WHATSPACE, publication about 8 years of Whatspace, January 2017
2016
Birgit Cleppe, review Multiplicity, Emergent, Veurne, De Witte Raaf, nr 183, sept-oct 2016
Marc Segal, Dutch Artists at Halsey Mckay, East Hampton Star, March 17, 2016
Marc Leblanc, Daniel Springer, design by Thomas Swinkels, I'm Just, Whipping Maserati, publication to accompany Chicken n Waffles, January 2016
A Moveable Feast, Aujourdhui (online), January 2016
2015
Museum D'Hondt-Dhaenens, Booklaunch Politics of Installation, Villa van Wassenhove, with lecture by Angelique Campens, artist talk by Hans Demeulenaere, Marc Nagtzaam, Bas van den Hurk, moderated by Frank Maes, October 4, 2015
Alex Bacon, Laura Herman, Angelique Campens, design by Marc Nagtzaam, Politics of Installation, Roma Publication 220, October 2015
Machteld Leij, Kunst met een publieke verantwoordelijkheid, (H)Art, June, 2015
Saskia Monshouwer, Confronterende duo-tentoonstelling in PAKT Amsterdam, Monshouwereditions, June, 2015
Peter Richter, Ab nach….Dresden, Monopol 03, March, 2015
Uwe Salzbrenner, Dort Leuchtet ein Rosa Fleck, Sächsische Zeitung, 27 February 2015
2014
Image contribution, Highlike Book, A yearbook about global Art and Culture, December, 2014
Molly Osberg, Pulling Painting From its "Living Death" at RH Contemporary, Artsy (online), September 2014
Maaike Lauwaert, Whatspace: een netwerk collectief, Tubelight #91, May-June 2014
Once Upon A Time You Dressed so Fine, Mousse Magazine (online), March 2014
Once Upon A Time You Dressed so Fine, Cura Magazine (online) March 2014
Once Upon A Time You Dressed so Fine, This is Tomorrow with an interview with Ariane Belisle (online) March 2014
Once Upon A Time You Dressed so Fine, Copenhagen Contemporary (online) March 2014
Joris Lindhout, Tilburg Underground, Metropolis M Nr 1, February/March 2014
Julia Marchand, Comrades of Time, review, NYartsmagazine (online), January 2014
2013
Comrades of Time Comrades of Time, Mousse Magazine (online), December 2013
Anna-Lena Werner, Comrades of Time, curatorial interview, Artfridge (online), December 2013
Overview of work, Dust Magazine Online, December 2013
Charlotte Dubois, See You When You Get There, review, (H)Art, December 2013 Comrades of Time, Comrades of Time, Wall Street International (online), October 2013
Peter Nijenhuis, Stomtoevallig en onontkoombaar, interview, DWWA (online), October, 2013
Booklaunch ´Against Interpretation´, San Seriffe Bookstore, Amsterdam, June 2013
'Against Interpretation, a project that builds upon abstract relations in the public domain' publisher Onomatopee, Eindhoven. Design by Remco Torenbosch, with texts by Susan Sontag, Freek Lomme and Wendy White, May 2013
Fenceless, Column, Metropolis M, No 2 - April/May 2013
2012
The Passenger, exhibition catalogue, text: Marijn van Kreij and Noor Mertens, Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Domeniek Ruyters, Comrades of Time, review, Metropolis M, No4 - Aug/Sep 2012
Autumn of Modernism, text: Lorenzo Benedetti, Roma publication 181
Comrades of Time, Contemporary Art Daily, published June 2012
Comrades of Time, Mousse Magazine (website), published June 2012
Domeniek Ruyters, Comrades of Time, review, Metropolis M (website), May 2012
Eveline Nieuwveld, Comrades of Time, review, Tubelight, website, May 2012
Some Triangles, Bas van den Hurk & Thomas I'Anson, Individually composed edition of 17 mono and stencil printed bound and boxed prints, edition of 10
Leen Bedaux, Herfsttij van het Modernisme,review, De Witte Raaf, nr.156, maart-april 2012
Ester Darley, Herfsttij van het Modernisme, review, Kunstbeeld, nr. 3, 2012
Domeniek Ruyters, Herfsttij van het Modernisme, review, De Volkskrant, February
2011
Arjan Reinders, What's Up!, review, Kunstbeeld, december 2011-januari 2012
What's Up! catalogue, text: Moniek Peters
Booklaunch, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, with: Evi Vingerling, Paula van den Bosch and Frank Maes
One Work After Another, publication with text by Jan van Woensel, design by Remco Torenbosch
Jenny Cusack, Bas van den Hurk & Harm van den Dorpel, Dazed Digital, Apr 2011
You're So Beautiful, and so on…and so on…and so on…, Mousse Magazine (website) Apr 2011
Braktalk 2, Duende, Rotterdam, mini symposium with Edward C. Thompson, Sjoerd Westbroek, Lee Welch and Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy (March)
Quinn Latimer, Going Dutch, Artforum (website)
Lilian Bense, The Spur of the Moment, review, (H)art #79
2010
Colin Perry, Bas van den Hurk at Rod Barton, Art Review, April
Jan van Woensel, Muddy Disco, An Introduction to the Work of Bas van den Hurk, essay
2009
JJ Charlsworth, Auf der Spitze des Eisbergs, Time Out, August
Marijn van Kreij, Met lege Handen, Endless Lowlands, March
Bas van den Hurk 2005-2009, publication with text by H. van BoxtelSELECTED OTHERS
2017
Master Talk, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2016
Artlead Editions, 'The Circus is in Town', Edition of 10
Guest artist, Schloss Ringenberg, Germany
Artist Talk, Emergent, Veurne, Brussels
2015
Artist Talk, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Denamrk
Initiator of A Conversation between Jan Verwoert, Camilla Steinum and Aurora Passero, Ru van Rossemhuis, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Artist Talk, On Touching, with Just Quist, AGA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guesttutor ARTEZ academie, Arnhen
2014
A conversation with Alex Bacon (curator) and Carol Kino (New York Times) Bas van den Hurk, RH Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Initiator minisymposium: 'Een Gastatelier als vrijplaats in een neoliberale wereld. Het gemurmel van de artistieke menigte', De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
with: Pascal Gielen, Martijn in 't Veld, Anita Hrnic, Rachel Koolen
2013
Participation Internet Identity Ecosystem Conference, Teatro Valle Rome, Italy
with: Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Rob van Kranenburg, Stefano Rodotà, E Eygeny Morozov, Smàri McCarthy, Francesca Bria, M15 a.o.
Initiator debate: Authenticity in the Act of Painting, De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Jury Art and Philosophy Price, BKKC, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Debate about Maurice Merleau Ponty, Oog en Geest, Gallery, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012
Initiator debate: In Its Autonomy Art Becomes Most Social, De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2011
Grand Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008-now
Co-founder and director Whatspace with Koen Delaere
Curator Leo XIII guest studio
2004
Grand Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
2004-2011
Commission member Art in Public Space, Breda
2000-2006
Course leader MFA Post St. Joost
1998-now
Theory tutor Academy AKV/St. Joost and MFA AKV/St. Joost Den Bosch / Breda