Bert Timmermans (BE, °1976),

holding a PhD. in the History of Art, is a historian and artist. Timmermans deals with the stratification of history, its memory and amnesia, along with all of its replete as well as void spaces, and how these metamorphose reality. Timmermans’ artistic practice is rooted in the tradition of pioneering image archeologists Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, who studied the nexus between iconology and media, image and history. Works are created in multiple sessions, through procedures that build on the practical theory and theoretical praxis of montage. Timmermans works alternately with mixed media, paint, ink and collages or montages.

Bert Timmermans is founding member of WorkPlace (Antwerp) and collaborated with Tramway Anversois (Antwerp), MX 7 Gallery (Antwerp) and Roberto Polo Gallery (Brussels). The Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art of Castilla-La Mancha (CORPO) contains two series of his works.

Publication

Bert Timmermans. Exorcising the Metropolis, Brussels (Roberto Polo Gallery), 2015, pp.88

Projects

Redukt (2007-2009)

2 Gramm Licht (2009-2010, 2013, 2015)

K. S. und R. H. schreiben im Kino eine Oper. Annotations for an archeology of the Groβstadt-Sinfonie (2012<)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo-expo Of Mud and the metropolis, Shoobil Gallery, Antwerp, 2022

With Margarida Garcia, Van Eyck Diagrams. The exhibition, De Bijloke, Ghent, 2021

Group expo WorkPlace at SEA Foundation, Tilburg (NE), 2016

Solo-expo Exorcising the Metropolis, Roberto Polo Gallery, Brussels, 2015-2016

Group expo Crossing Lines #03, WorkPlace, Antwerp, 2014

Solo-expo 2 Gramm Licht. Zwischen Fragmentierung und Relektüre, CCHA, Hasselt, 2013

Group expo Urban landscape, WorkPlace, Antwerp, 2013

Solo-expo Topographien eines Nullpunktes, MX7 Gallery, Antwerp, 2011

Solo-expo 2 Gramm Licht, MX7 Gallery, Antwerp, 2010

Group expo Galerie Zuid, Lineart, Ghent, 2009 

Solo-expo Nieselregen/Acts without words, Tramway Anversois, Antwerp, 2007