Hans Op de Beeck (Turnhout, 1969) lives and works in Brussels and Gooik, Belgium. He has shown his work extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world.
He produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. His work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of meaning and mortality that resonate within it. He regards the man as a being who stages the world around him in a tragi-comic way. Op de Beeck is keen to stimulate the viewers’ senses and invite them to really experience the image. He seeks to create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder, silence and introspection.
Related artist videos
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- Title
- Staging Silence (3)
- Gallery
- Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 44 min
- Format & Technical
HD video.
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- Title
- The Girl
- Gallery
- Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
- Year
- 2017
- Duration
- 16 min
- Format & Technical
Animation film, Full HD
Colour and sound
Edition of 10 + 2 AP (#5/10)
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Galerie Ron Mandos
- Address
- Prinsengracht 28, 1016 HJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Phone
- +31 (0) 20 320 7036
- info@ronmandos.nl
- Website
- www.ronmandos.nl
Founded in 1999, the last decade has seen Galerie Ron Mandos develop an ever more ambitious exposition program at its spacious location in the Amsterdam gallery district. It has forged close relations with internationally renowned artists such as Hans Op de Beeck, Isaac Julien and Jacco Olivier and has been keen to draw in emerging international names such as Anthony Goicolea, Daniel Arsham and Levi van Veluw to its program. Ron Mandos´ policy is directed towards presenting actual developments in contemporary art. It seeks to give a platform to those works where the complex interrelations of artist, artwork and everyday experience are played out and where new and dynamic ways of representation are continually sought so as to shed light on the unexpected and previously hidden aspects of everyday experience.
Galerie Krinzinger
- Address
- Seilerstätte 16, 1010, Vienna, Austria
- Phone
- +4315133006
- Website
- www.galerie-krinzinger.at
Galerie Krinzinger was founded in 1971 by art-historian Dr. Ursula Krinzinger. Since then, she has organized at least 500 exhibitions of national and international artists, mounting solo, group and thematic shows. The main interest and source of the gallery program stems, on the one hand, from international performance and body related art on the other hand, from Viennese actionism. Additionally, the gallery has been working with national and international artists. Besides the gallery program, Ursula Krinzinger organizes and curates exhibitions in various spaces outside the gallery, including the gallery’s second space: Krinzinger Schottenfeld, which was founded in 2002 as Krinzinger Projekte. Internationally orientated, group and topic exhibitions define the program, which quickly earned an international reputation. Krinzinger Schottenfeld joins Galerie Krinzinger in inviting young national and international artists to take part in the gallery’s artist-in-residence program.
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Hans Op de Beeck. ‘Blender’
26 May — 10 June 2016
- Artists
- Hans Op de Beeck
- Venue
- Cercle del Liceu
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Blender (1999) by Brussels-based artist Hans Op de Beeck (1969) opens with a view of a deserted carousel. After a short while, the carousel slowly begins to turn, spinning faster and faster, the horses and the carriages blending into a single image, becoming blurry and indistinct as the speed increases. When the speed decreases, the image of the carousel reappears and the fairground ride comes to a standstill.
