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Kasper Bosmans

 
KASPER BOSMANS
Born 1990 Lommel, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels
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Education
2014
Higher Institute for Fine Arts, HISK, Ghent, Belgium
2012
Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
Awards and Prizes
2014
Nominee, Coming People SMAK
2012
Laureate M. Horlait Dapsens
2010
Nottebohn Award
2009
Proost de Barsy Award
Solo Exhibitions
2023
"Collection Display: Kasper Bosmans," De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2022
"Kasper Bosmans," Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, Netherlands
“Creatures,” Mendes Woods DM, São Paulo, Brazil
“Kasper Bosmans: Husbandry,” WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
“Drowsy & Torpid,” Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021
"Wolf Corridor,” De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
"Kasper Bosmans: A Perfect Shop-front,” Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
2020
"Kasper Bosmans: Four," Gladstone 64, New York
"Kas​per Bosmans," Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
2018
“Kunstintegratie Kasper Bosmans (In Frascati): Papegaaistraat,” Ghent, Belgium
“De Veemarkt,” Stad Lommel, Lommel, Belgium
“Das Verflixte 7. Jahr,” Fuerstenberg Zeitgenossich, Donaueschingen, Germany
“Chip Log,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2017
“The Words and Days (mud gezaaid, free range),” De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands 
2016
“Model Garden,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
“Specimen Days,” S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
“Decorations,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
“Cintamani Weavings,” Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels
 “Motif (Oil and Silver),” Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
 “Loot, Soil, and Cleanliness,” CIAP, Belgium
2015
“Correspondence,” with Rafaella Crispino, Unosunove, Rome
“Yesterday was different,” Komplot, Brussels
“Little Cherry Virus,” P/////AKT, Amsterdam
2014
"Made to Measure: Fishing Rod," Experimental Intermedia, Ghent, Belgium
"Summary; fox, milk, smoke, Kasper Bosmans," Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
2013
"Kasper Bosmans & Philippe Van Snick," Nightshop, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Knokke, Belgium
"MUHKALUMNI," M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
 
Group Exhibitions
2024
“Stories from the Ground,” Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium
“After Paradise,” Triënnale Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
“Equation de l’objet trouvé,” Place de la Justice, Brussels, Belgium
2023
"Linhas Tortas", Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
"A Manual of Errors", Sgomento Zurigo, Zürich, Switzerland
"Spark Birds & the Loneliness of Species", Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre, The Netherlands
"The 40th EVA International," Limerick, Ireland
“DAS 2023: Bonna,” Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh
“Imaginary Friends,” Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2022
"Barbe à Papa," CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
"Paradys,” Oranjewoud Forest, Netherlands
"Substance – SUBSTANCES," Collegium, Arévalo, Spain
2021
"I Think I Look More like the Chrysler Building,” De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
“Chants of a Gargoyle,” Waldburger Wouters, Brussels
2020
​"The Penumbral Age: Art in the Time of Planetary Change," Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
"In the Presence of Absence: Proposals for the Museum Collection," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"Together," M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
"Four Flags," public installation, Amsterdam
“Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe,” GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2019
“Blood and Soil: Dark Arts for Dark Times,” Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius 
“Real Beauty,” ADN Platform, Barcelona
“Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2019,” Palazzo Ca’ Tron, Venice
“Top Floor,” Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
“Feast of Fools: Bruegel Rediscovered,” Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek, Belgium 
“Young Artists in Europe: Metamorphosis,” Fondation Cartier, Paris 
“Kasper Bosmans, Mariana Castillo Deball, Jennifer Tee,” Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
2018
“Le Bel Été,” Noire Gallery, Turin, Italy
“Splendor Solis,” The Approach, London
“The Hum Comes from the Stumuch,” curated by Kasper Bosmans, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels 
“Kristi Kongi and Kasper Bosmans in Dialogue,” Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
“Mystic Properties,” Art Brussels, Brussels
“Stories of Almost Everyone,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2017
“Kathmandu Triennale 2017,” Maligaun, Kathmandu 
“Jahresgaben 2017,” Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
“All You Need is the Lavatory,” Croxhapox, Gent, Belgium
“Drawing Biennial,” Drawing Room, London
“A Temporary Futures Institute,” M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
“Neither,” Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
2016
“Poetica_Politica,” Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
“What’s the Riddle?,” Pi Artworks, London
“I Wish I Never Kissed that Frog,” Jeanine Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Terra Incognita: Familiar Infinity,” Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, Kuma Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2015
"Imagine Istanbul," BOZAR, Brussels
"Des hôtes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor," Spring Workshop, Aberdeen, Hong Kong, China
"Beyond Borders," Beaufort, Ostend, Belgium
"Other Ways and Means," Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
"Un-Scene III," Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
"Meditations on a hobby horse," Association for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium
2014
"ATLAS," Motinternational, Brussels
"Het Vierkantigste Rechthoek, Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort, Amersfoort, Netherlands
"Raving Disco Dolly on a Rock N' Roll Trolley," Envoy Enterprises, New York
"INBOX," A4 Multiple (4) van Lode Geens, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
"Het kanaal — le canal," Extra City Knusthal, Antwerp, Belgium
"Het kanaal — le canal," Espave 251 Nord, Liège, Belgium
"Coming People," Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"Write of spring," Paviljoen, Ghent, Belgium
"Paper Works," Galerie Tatjana Pieteres, Ghent, Belgium
"Re-art," Oud Klooster, Oudenaarde, Belgium
2013
Belgium Performance Festival, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten & MuHkA, Antwerp, Belgium
"MUHKALUMNI," M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
"21° eeuw buiten!," Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
"Operating Theater," in collaboration with ENSCI, Higher Institute for Fine Arts and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"The Gunshot," Marion de Cannière, Antwerp, Belgium
"Open Studios," Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2012
"The New Candour!," Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
"New Ways to Work," Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
"Koker Juffers," Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
"Symprovisation," Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
"A whitsun wedding," Galerie EL, Welle, Belgium
 
2011
"The Company of Humour," Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
Performances
2014
"Thiss," in collaboration with Marthe Ramm Fortun, Belgian Embassy, Beling
"Etcetera Etcetera," in collaboration with Marthe Ramm Fortun, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"O.perating T.heatre," in collaboration with Marthe Ramm Fortun, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"A-Rite Erratum, in collaboration with Marthe Ramm Fortun, M HKA, Antwerp Belgium
2013
"Too Not Only Specifically Allegorically Too," in collaboration with Marthe Ramm Fortun, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Institutional Collections
CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, Netherlands
Museum M Leuven, Belgium
Museum Schloss Fürstenberg, Germany
SMAK Gent, Belgium
Stavanger Art Museum, Norway