• Artworks
    • Bas van den Hurk A Laugh A Minute, 2017 Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. 40 x 30 cm.
      Bas van den Hurk
      A Laugh A Minute, 2017
      Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk
      15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
      40 x 30 cm.
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    • Bas van den Hurk An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing, 2018 Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk 43 3/8 x 33 3/8 in. 110.1 x 84.8 cm.
      Bas van den Hurk
      An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing, 2018
      Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk
      43 3/8 x 33 3/8 in.
      110.1 x 84.8 cm.
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    • Bas van den Hurk Cecile de Volanges #2, 2015 Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk in artist frame 59 x 47 1/4 in. 149.9 x 119.9 cm.
      Bas van den Hurk
      Cecile de Volanges #2, 2015
      Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk in artist frame
      59 x 47 1/4 in.
      149.9 x 119.9 cm.
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    • Bas van den Hurk Cecile de Volanges #3, 2015 Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk in artist frame 59 x 47 1/4 in. 149.9 x 119.9 cm.
      Bas van den Hurk
      Cecile de Volanges #3, 2015
      Silkscreen, oil paint and pigment on silk in artist frame
      59 x 47 1/4 in.
      149.9 x 119.9 cm.
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  • Biography
    Bas van den Hurk

    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." 

  • CV

    Born 1965, Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Lives and works in Tilburg, The Netherlands

    EDUCATION

    Academy St. Joost, Breda, The Netherlands
    MA, Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    BA, Philosophy, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands

    SELECTED 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, Spain

    SELECTED 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 Netherlands

    SELECTED 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 Boxtel

    SELECTED 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

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