b.  1965 Tilburg, Netherlands
Lives and works in Tilburg, Netherlands

EDUCATION
University of Amsterdam, Philosophy (MA) 1991-1996
University of Tilburg, Philosophy (BA) 1990-1991
Academy St. Joost, Breda 1984-1989 (cum laude)

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017
Scenarios of Desire, CCA Andratx, Kunsthalle, Mallorca (SP) (with Koen Delaere)
Someone Has Left Her Marks, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels (B)

2016
The Hyena is a striped Dog, who thought he was a laughing Horse, Halsey MacKay, East Hampton (USA)
Chicken n Waffles, The La Brea, Los Angeles (USA) (contribution Thomas Swinkels)
A Moveable Feast, Jerome Pauchant, Paris (FR) (with Steven Cox)

2015
Politics of Installation, part 2, P////AKT, Amsterdam (with Hans Demeulenaere)
Politics of Installation, part 1, Loods 12, Wetteren (B) (with Hans Demeulenaere)
ART Geneva, solo booth for Rod Barton, Geneva (SUI)

2014
NADA Miami, solo booth for Rod Barton, Miami (USA)
Ghosts and Spectres, RH Contemporary , New York (USA)
There It Is. Just There, Ginerva Gambino, Cologne (GER)
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
See You When You Get There, Hopstreet Gallery, Bruxelles
Wowee! Pretty Scary!, Arti Capelli, Den Bosch

2011
You’re so Beautiful, and so on…and so on….and so on…, Rod Barton Gallery, London (UK) (with Harm van den Dorpel)
Beside Itself, Duende, Rotterdam (with Martijn Hendriks)

2010
Organizing the Non-Obvious II, Rod Barton Gallery, London (UK)
Organizing the Non-Obvious I, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam
Art Rotterdam, ZINGERpresents, Rotterdam

2009
New Work, Gallery Kokon, Tilburg (cat.)

2008
But if Not, Not, Metafora, Barcelona, (Sp) (with Koen Delaere)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
KIJK!, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam
Bettie van Haaster, Bart van den Hurk, Marjolein Rothman (upcoming)

2017
Constellations, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki (FIN)
Anonymous, Andreas Behn-Eschenburg, Ann-Sofie Claesson, Matt Connors/Pre-Echo Press, Annie-May Demozay, Koen Delaere and Bas van den Hurk
curated by Fergus Feehilly

Wholesome Enviroment, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca (Sp)
Alex Da Corte, Bas van den Hurk, Daiga Grantina, Ed Fornieles, Indriķis Ģelzis, Jacolby Satterwhite, Jason Matthew Lee, Jonny Niesche, Justin Lieberman, Karla Black, Lucy Kim, Magali Reus, Patrick Hill, Philipp Timischl, Ry Rocklen, Takahiro Iwasaki, Yngve Holen

Claire Lieu, Viersen (Ger)
Peggy Franck, Evi Vingerling, Johan Tahon, Christiaan Korda, Jan Muche, Esther Tielemans, Bas van den Hurk, a.o.

Art Brussels, represented by Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels (B)

Intelligent Touch, Project Space Tilburg, Tilburg
Artun Alaska Arasli, Elena Capra, Koen Delaere, Aleana Egan, Joanne Greenbaum, Bas van den Hurk, Robin Kersten, Dan van Severen

2016
Colombo Art Biennale, PGIAR, Sri Lanka, curated by Alnoor Mitha.
Participating with the project ‘You May Say I’m A Dreamer’, curated by Sara Mahmood, including Mahbub ur Rahman, Poornima Jayasinghe, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Magda Fabianczyk/Tilly Fowler, Bas van den Hurk, Shreyas Karle, Wang Sishun, Awami Art Collective, Khanyisile Mbongwa

Bête Noir, Candyman, Neutra Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Lauren Elder, Dion Neutra, Koen Delaere, Mischa Doorenweerd, Erin Lawlor, Bas van den Hurk, Thomas Swinkels, Jeroen Doorenweerd, Marc Leblanc

A Full Open Hand, Drippings and Carefully Masked Lines, Jacob Bjorn Gallery, Aarhus, (DK)
Erin Lawlor, Koen Delaere, Bas van den Hurk, Daniel Schubert, Jenny Brosinski, Jan S. Hansen, Jeroen Doorenweerd, Manor Grunewald

Multiplicity, Emergent, Veurne (BE), curated by Frank Maes, Jerry Galle and Bas van den Hurk
Eylem Aladogan, Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke, KP Brehmer, Hedwig Brouckaert, Jo Caimo, Werner Cuvelier, Sue Ferge, Jerry Galle, De Geuzen, Rachel Koolen, Atelier Pica Pica, Eran Schaerf & Eva Meyer, Chris Swart, Thomas Swinkels, Bas van den Hurk, Koen Delaere

Contemporary – Grunewald, Hurk, Madsen, Nesbitt, Martin Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen (DK)
Manor Grunewald, Bas van den Hurk, Jesper Skov Madsen, Evan Nesbitt

You May Say I’m A Dreamer, VM Gallery, Karachi (PAK)
Bas van den Hurk, Mahbub ur Rahman, Poornima Jayasinghe, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Magda Fabianczyk / Tilly Fowler, Shreyas Karle, Wang Sishun, Awami Art Collective, Khanyisile Mbongwa

The Hyena is a striped Dog, who thought he was a laughing Horse, part II, Halsey MacKay, East Hampton (USA)
Steven Cox, Koen Delaere, Sheryl Donegan, Aleana Egan, Wade Guyton, Bas van den Hurk, Rachel Koolen, Wendy White

Objects From The Temporate Palmhouse, Bargain Spot, Edinburgh
Benoit Maire, Jesse Wine, Marie Toseland, Jack Brindley, Dunja Herzog, Bas van den Hurk a.o.

 2015
Rod Barton, Brussels (B)
Lauren Elder, Bas van den Hurk, Chris Hood, Guy Yanai

The Wrong Biennale, Sliversurfer Pavillion
Lorenzo Benedetti, Yong Yong, Mikkel Carl, Peggy Franck, Rumiko Hagiwara, Tiril Hasselknippe, Peter Lamb, Tiziano Martini, Jennifer Mehigan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Dieter Roelstrate a.o.

Archeologia E Architettura, Fondazione 107, Turin (IT)
Aaron Bobrow, Toby Christian, Ethan Cook, Bas van den Hurk, Paul Kremer, Duncan Macaskill, Haley Mellin, Mohamed Namou, Nika Neelova, Philipp Roessle, Les Rogers, Camilla Steinum

Neighbours, Studio Grunewald, Gand (B)
Danai Anesiadou, Eva Berendes, Giulia Censi, Steven Cox, Koen Delaere, Bas van den Hurk

My Other Car Is A Painting, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden (D)
Koen Delaere, Lisa Kränzler, Martin Mannig, Jugoslav Mitevski, Daniel Schubert, René Spitzer, Hiroki Tsokuda, Bas van den Hurk, Wendy White

2014
24/7, Monte Carlo, Miami Beach (USA), curated by Alex Bacon and Harrison Tenzer
Sigmar Polke, Will Boone, Martin Kippenberger, Philip Guston, Math Bass, Alex Ito, Alistair Frost, Anna-Sophie Berger, Bas van den Hurk, Sayre Gomez, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Claes Oldenburg, Benoit Plateus, A.R. Penck, Torey Thornton, Richard Serra, Nikolas Gambaroff, Jacob Kassay, Sofia Leiby, Amy Yao, Michael Bell-Smith, Darja Bajagić a.o

Episode 14, 173 EAST 94th STREET / CHAUSSÉE DE WATERLOO 550, Middlemarch, Brussels (B), curated by Alex Baconin collaboration with Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Darja Bajagic, Aaron Bobrow, Will Boone, Graham Collins, Ethan Cook, Paul Cowan, Keltie Ferris, Max Frintrop, Andrew J Greene, Bas van den Hurk, Dean Levin, Michael Manning, Landon Metz, Robert Motherwell, Nathlie Provosty and Jessica Sanders

The Politics of Surface, Berthold Pott, Cologne (GER), curated by Alex Bacon
Graham Collins, Max Frintrop, Manor Grunewald, Bas van den Hurk, James Krone, Israel Lund, Colin Penno, Jessica Sanders

Marquee Moon, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York (USA)
Rachel Beach, John Bianchi, Amy Feldman, Derek Franklin,Ted Gahl, Dave Hardy, Toulu Hassani, Benjamin Horns, Bas van den Hurk, Tiziano Martini, Augustus Nazzaro, Rita Sobral Campos, Jamie Sneider

Whatbar #14, 511 West 25th Street, New York (USA)
Melanie Bonajo, Manor Grunewald, Chris Succo & Paul Wasserman, Taliabam!, Wendy White, Cheryl Donegan, Sleepers Work, Koen Delaere, Bas van den Hurk, Constantinos Taliotis, Henning Strassburger

Comrades of Time Comrades of Time Comrades of Time, Art Brussels, Brussels (B)
Chris Succo, Rachel Koolen, Koen Delaere, Michaela Eichwald, Bas van den Hurk, Daniel Schubert

2013
Comrades of Time Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London (UK)
Gabriele Beveridge, Paul Cowan, Bryan Dooley, Koen Delaere, Matias Faldbakken, Nikolas Gambaroff, Wade Guyton, Bas van den Hurk, Marlie Mul, Magali Reus

The Artist as Producer, Bewaerschole, Burgh-Haamstede
Joris van de Mortel, Lorenzo Benedetti, Renske Jansen, Rob van Kranenburg, Marijn van Kreij, Manor Grunewald, Remco Torenbosch a.o.

At the Edge of Abstraction, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Roman Liska, Shila Khatami, David Ostrowski, Dirk Krecker, Bas van den Hurk

Poppositions, Wiels, Brussel, Belgium
Hans Demeulenaere, Peter Fengler, Koen Delaere, Faux Pas, Rachel Koolen, Bas van den Hurk, Sanne Jansen, Thomas Rameckers

The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Thomas Zipp, Marlie Mul, Aids 3-d, Olaf Nicolai, Frank Nitsche, Tatjana Doll, Joep van Liefland, Katharina Grosse a.o.

2012
Artissima, Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Turin, Italy
The Autumn of Modernism II, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany (cat.)

Falke Pisano, Batia Suter, Katja Mater, Gwenneth Boelens, Sara van der Heide a.o
curator: Lorenzo Benedetti

Is There Life On Mars? Martin van Zomeren Gallery, Amsterdam
Martijn Hendriks, Anne de Vries, Navid Nuur, Bas van den Hurk, Fiona Mackay

Picasso Grid, Autocenter, Berlin (cat.)
Koen Delaere, Bas van den Hurk, Marijn van Kreij
curator: Joep van Liefland

Against Interpretation, Onomatopee, Eindhoven (cat.)
Wendy White, Wade Guyton, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Alexandra Leykauf, Sandra Kranich, Jens Wolf, Rory Pilgrin, Cherlyl Donegan, Evi Vingerling a.o.

Comrades of Time, Project Space Tilburg, Tilburg (cat.)
Josh Smith, Gedi Sibony, Koen Delaere, Rachel Koolen, Klara Liden, Thomas I’Anson, Amanda Ross-Ho, Bas van den Hurk

The Autumn of Modernism, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (cat.)
Falke Pisano, Batia Suter, Katja Mater, Gwenneth Boelens, Sara van der Heide a.o
curator: Lorenzo Benedetti

2011
What’s Up!, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht (cat.)
Evi Vingerling, Maaike Schoorel, Malin Persson, Claire Harvey, Carl-Johan Hogberg  a.o.

I Can’t, I Can, I Care, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
Vaast Colson, Dennis Tyfus, Koen Delaere, Peter Fengler, Martijn Hendriks

The Passenger, Paul Andriesse Galleries, Amsterdam (cat.)
Christopher Williams, Sol Lewitt, Daan van Golden, Maria Eichhorn, Gweneth Boellens, Oliver Laric, Ann Lislegaard, Ian Wilson, Sigmar Polke, Yutaka Sone a.o.

The Spur of the Moment, Nest, The Hague
Ghislain Amar, David Bade, Remco Torenbosch, Femke de Vries, Tobias Hoffknecht, Michael Pirgelis, David Ostrowski a.o.

2010
Liste 15 Basel, ZINGERpresents, Basel (SUI)
A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH IT’S NOT, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Thea Djordadze, David Ostrowski, Michael Pirgelis, Jannis Varelas, Gerda Scheepers a.o

2009
Auf der Spitze des Eisbergs, Rod Barton Gallery, Londen, UK
Daniel Pasteiner, Michiel Ceulers, James Ryan, Bas van den Hurk

2007
GHB, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
curator: Phillip van den Bossche

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Martin Breuninger, Erfassen und Erfasst werden, Mallorca Magazin, August 2017
Annaïs Miró, Dos Artistes Holandesos al CCA Andratx, El Punt, August, 2017
Jan Verwoert, Walter Benjamin, 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, september-oktober 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
Music & Arts, Pt1, C-Print, A journal about contemporary art, December 2014
Image contribution, Highlike Book, A yearbook about global Art and Culture, December, 2014
Tate Modern Collection, London (UK), interview at NADA Miami, 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
Carlo Prada, Comrades of Time, Comrades of Time, conceptualfinearts.com, November, 2013
Comrades of Time, Comrades of Time, Wall Street International (online), October 2013
Peter Nijenhuis, Stomtoevallig en onontkoombaar, interview, DWWA (online), October, 2013
Ali Pankow, Kunst kan best zonder doel, PZC, interview for The Artist as Producer, August 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, april 2011
You’re So Beautiful, and so on…and so on….and so on…., Mousse Magazine (website), april 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
1998 – present     Theory tutor Academy AKV/St. Joost and MFA AKV/St. Joost Den Bosch / Breda
2008 – present    Co-founder and director Whatspace with Koen Delaere
2008 – present    Curator Leo XIII guest studio
2017    Master Talk, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, February
2017    Reading Group on Painting (ongoing)
2016    Artlead, ‘The Circus is in Town’, Edition of 10
2016    Guest artist, Schloss Ringenberg, Germany
2016    Artist Talk, Emergent, Veurne, Belgium
2015    Artist Talk, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Denmark
2015    Initiator of A Conversation between Jan Verwoert, Camilla Steinum and Aurora Passero, Ru van Rossemhuis, Tilburg
2015    Artist Talk, On Touching, with Just Quist, AGA, Amsterdam
2015    Curator The Cucumber Temple, Expo Plu, Nijmegen
2015    Guest tutor ARTEZ academie, Arnhem
2014    A conversation with Alex Bacon (curator) and Carol Kino (New York Times) Bas van den Hurk, RH Contemporary, New York, USA
2014    Initiator minisymposium: ‘Een Gastatelier als vrijplaats in eenneoliberale wereld. Het gemurmel van de artistieke menigte’, De Pont, Tilburg ; 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, Eygeny Morozov, Smàri McCarthy, Francesca Bria, M15 a.o.
2013    Initiator debate: Authenticity in the Act of Painting, De Pont, Tilburg; with: Giorgos Kontis (GR), Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (USA), Jonathan Miles, (UK), Koen Delaere (NL)
2013    Jury Art and Philosophy Price, BKKC, Tilburg
2013    Debate about Maurice Merleau Ponty, Oog en Geest, GalleryTegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam
2012    Initiator debate: In Its Autonomy Art Becomes Most Social, De Pont, Tilburg; with: Camiel van Winkel, Steven ten Thije, Lisette Smits, Merijn Oudenampsen
2011    Grand Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
2004    Grand Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
2004 – 2011 Commission member Art in Public Space, Breda
2000 – 2006 Course leader MFA Post St. Joost
1996 Built my own house

COLLECTIONS
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Netherlands
De Vleeshal, Middelburg Netherlands
Imago Mundi, Benetton, LP Denmark