Part of Eva Steynen.Deviation(s) Gallery since June 2015

Solo Exhibitions

May - June 2015

I want to give you a flower…

SEAS, Knokke-Heist, BE

July 2014

Documents of a False Memory

2.04 Gallery, St Petersburg, RU

Group exhibitions

July 2015

Transpositions

Pushkinskaya 10, St Petersburg, RU

June 2015

Old Songs, New SongsDuo exhibition with Syunsaku Hishikari

Eva Steynen.Deviations Gallery, Antwerp, BE

May 2014

Kunstsalon Sant

Bruges, BE

April 2014

Moscow Digital Show

Moscow, RU

February 2014

Kronstadt Stories

St Petersburg, RU

December 2013

Lab Out

Duo show with ATB Collective

Bains Connective, Brussels, BE

March 2013

In Hindsight

In Collaboration with Jill Vandorpe

Vzw de tweede helft, Turnhout, BE

December 2012

Kunstsalon Sant

Bruges, BE

April 2012

Vitrine 2012

Turnhout, BE

2009

Reproduced

H.I.S.K, Ghent, BE

2009

How It’s Made

Tilburg, NL

2009

Pracht

Jan Colle Gallery, Ghent, BE

Selections and Prices

2014

Kunstsalon Sant (Bruges, BE)

‘Sculpting Memory’ (2013, video), Second Price

2012

Kunstsalon Sant (Bruges, BE)

‘Attempts of Reconstruction’ (2011, installation)

2011

Nominated for Price Horlait Dapsens

2009

One Minutes Belgian Open

‘A Natural Morning’ (2009, video), Second Price

Residencies

July 2014

Pushkinskaya-10 Art Residency

St. Petersburg, RU

Oct. 2013

National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA)Kronstadt, St. Petersburg, RU

Dec. 2013

Bains Connective, Brussels BE

Education

2009-2011

Master Visual art (New Media)

Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent BE

2008-2009

Master Visual arts

LUCA School of Arts, Ghent BE

2005-2009

Bachelor Visual arts (Textile Design) LUCA School of Arts, Ghent BE

2011-2013

Specific Teacher Training

LUCA School of Arts, Ghent BE

Biography

° 09/08/1987

Brussels, Belgium

Van Wuytswinkel (°1987, Turnhout, Belgium) is an artist who works in a variety of media. With a conceptual approach, Van Wuytswinkel wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.

Her artworks appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. By questioning the concept of movement, she finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humour that echoes our own vulnerabilities. The artist also considers movement as a metaphor for the ever-seeking man who experiences a continuous loss.

Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.

Her works isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. Marieke Van Wuytswinkel currently lives and works in Brussels.

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