Verbeke Foundation – Joep van Lieshout, Belgium

Thursday to Sunday opening, from 11h to 18h

BELGIUM Westakker 9190 Kemzeke (stekene)

Location 51° 13′ 39″ N, 4° 03′ 16″ E

Several exhibitions are organized every year in greenhouses
and sheds the Verbeke Foundation.
They can discover new creations as well as historical works.

Assemblages – Installations – Number & rsquo; object : env. 2 500

Foundation open in June 2007
the Verbeke Foundation is a private initiative of the & rsquo; contemporary art.

Located in Belgium, in the territory of the municipality of Kemzeke (stekene),

it offers more 20 000 m2 d & rsquo; covered spaces
on land planted with & rsquo; trees from 12 hectares.

Artists in Residence

The Foundation welcomes several artists in residence annually..

The d & rsquo program of artists in residence Verbeke Foundation began in 2008 !

and provides established and emerging artists an exciting opportunity to create works in situ. The foundation offers accommodation on site, full board as well as the & rsquo; access to & rsquo; workshop so that artists can devote himself entirely to art projects. The residences are self-managed and are intended for the production of new works of art and exhibitions. The artists in residence are selected on the basis of their requests. The Verbeke Foundation expresses a particular interest in the proposals of artworks that attempt to introduce innovations and are in line with the experimental spirit of the foundation.

You can even sleep in a work & rsquo; s !

You are invited to spend a night in a work & rsquo; s specially designed for you !

CasAnus l'installation de Joep van Lieshout designed to look like part of the large intestine, or Camping le Flat par Kevin van Braak or The Blob VB3. For those who have always dreamed of sleeping in a work of art, book a night in the giant sculpture of Joe van Lieshoots shaped large intestine has a bedroom and a bathroom.

L & rsquo; admission to the museum is included in the cost of & rsquo; accommodation. For dining out, we are happy to recommend some places close to the Verbeke Foundation.

Yes, you read correctly ! Humor and Belgian second degree ...

Camping Flat by Kevin van Braak

For those who are satisfied with a less comfortable accommodation, there is a possibility to stay in the CampingFlat .
L & rsquo; installation designed by Kevin van Braak is a building & rsquo; scaffold 12 meters high divided into four stages. Each floor has an artificial turf ground with a tent. The tower gives a magnificent view ! We provide both tents and air mattresses. Sleeping bags and pillows should be provided by the customers themselves. The toilet and bathroom are located near the Camping Flat . Night at Camping Flat only costs 35 € for two people or 50 € breakfast at Café Open House of the Verbeke Foundation.

Please make your reservation by email: info@verbekefoundation.com

CasAnus par Joep van Lieshout

This polyester sculpture, gigantic replica of the human digestive system, was designed by the & rsquo; Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout as an exclusive apartment. The forms and raw natural colors contrast with the & rsquo; immaculate white interior construction. The room contains a double bed, a table, shower and toilet. CasAnus is also equipped with & rsquo; lighting, d & rsquo; running water and electric heating. One night in the & rsquo; Joep Van Lieshout installation costs 120 € for two people. Breakfast and & rsquo; access to the museum are included.
Please make your reservation at least one week in & rsquo; advance by email: info@verbekefoundation.com

A new place to sleep to sleep too !
Blob VB3
a multifunctional design DMVA-architecten

Blob VB3 is located with a view of the & rsquo; pond and features & rsquo; one double and d & rsquo; running water. The toilets are in the museum.
A night in the Blob VB3 costs 90 €, breakfast and the & rsquo; entry for each guest.

Reservations: info@verbekefoundation.com

Taking advantage of the great outdoors of the foundation, artists develop their projects while remaining available for visitors of the foundation. The foundation becomes, more that & rsquo; a simple museum, a true workshop or dialogue reign, everyone can bring their knowledge and skills. Although this extraordinary venue has been almost 8 years, there is still little known to Lille ...L'entrepreneur flamand Geert Verbeke, great lover and collector of contemporary art, has offered fantasy operate a brownfield 12 hectares (between Brugge and Antwerp) to exhibit their collection for the least original. He started collecting works with his wife Carla for fun before devoting himself completely to this passion.

More than 2 000 works including collages, paintings, sculptures… are installed in wild meadows, the ponds, clearings and huge industrial warehouses partly glazed. Eclectic choices, surprising and callable ... In addition to the permanent collection, Annual exhibitions are proposed. An outdoor museum surrounded by nature.

You quickly feel a predilection for art bio. Works that form through to animals and plants. Thus on the sculptures of the Flemish Jef Faes, bees build their cells.

Atelier van Lieshout

Atelier van Lieshout, (detail) Slavic University (Female),
2006, mousse polyester, textile / wood, painting
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam

Female Slave University 2006 (model)
carton, wood, textile, mousse, painting; 520 x 450 x 150 cm

Workshops View Van Lieshout to Keilestraat (2011)

ATELIER VANLIESHOUT

L & rsquo; Atelier Van Lieshout (or AVL) is an artistic cooperative created and directed by the & rsquo; artist Joep Van Lieshout Dutch designer (born in 1963). It is located in the suburbs Keilestraat Rotterdam (Netherlands). Workshops are composed & rsquo; d & rsquo a twenty, artists and designers who work under the direction of Joep Van Lieshout1. His works question togetherness, community life and the place of & rsquo; man in the world.

The Verbeke Foundation is pleased to & rsquo; host the largest exhibition of Theo Jansen.

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1995, Atelier Van Lieshout (Joep van Lieshout 1963), Mobile Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

Go see : THE ARTICLE OF MY DEAR MARC SIMONNET !

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Skull Wellness

Skull wellness by Atelier van Lieshout 2008

Under the Wellness skull skull, there is a sauna for eight people. Steam can escape through the orbits. In the neck The area can be bathed in a small bath with hand shower. A shower is also attached to the outside.

The work was originally created for an exhibition in Germany. In an interview, Van Lieshout has a bit of intimidation that year [in respect of another work of art] that art can have a role in disrupting. And about the Wellness skull: ” It's a job that can be interpreted in different ways “.

The bath skull appears to be a symbolic installation to purify the soul and purify the conscience. A more subtle interpretation: it could be a reference to the human characteristic to smooth everything that does not match its expectations set out above (dissonance cognitive), smoothing head or washing, until the image you can continue with yourself. Cleaning can be done individually (for example, something that seems unattainable: "I do not want to have anyway") or collectively (something that would not have happened is: 'We did not know it'). So, through the spiritual cleansing, life remains viable.

The experience of a visitor: "By penetrating into the skull, you shall put away the worries of contemporary society and you will dive into the thought of life, death and emptiness of our physical. It's like an instant dose or an existential meditation. “

The skull is the symbol of death, finitude of life, and on many paintings of "vanity" centuries ago, He is represented. Derived from this c & rsquo; is also the symbol of victory over the & rsquo; enemy, and the pirate flag symbol of freedom that is celebrated and taken over others. The brain is also considered to be the residence of the & rsquo; mind, l & rsquo; soul lives in the legs dome with windows and passages of the & rsquo; ear to the outside world. L & rsquo; mind can do everything in its sphere, it can forge plans, develop theories, initiate activities. But it can also withdraw, reflect and develop his own perception.

Van Lieshout seems to refer to all of these aspects in its various works skull. In 2009, he directed two shelters for Dordrecht as d & rsquo; an egg and d & rsquo; a skull symbolizing the beginning and end of life. Sa sculpture & lsquo; Much Lead’ from 2010 The Hague is an echo of the victory celebration by headhunters. In 2005, he made a cell as d & rsquo; a skull in which a single person can work concentrated and a comfortable armchair skull closing key in 2007 to escape the & rsquo; agitation to & rsquo; outside the skull and wellness where & rsquo; spirit can be cleaned.

The artist collective whose interventions touch the art, the design and architecture was founded by Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout, born in 1963 to Raventein, a Hollande.