SAMUEL VANDERVEKEN
Date of birth: 19 August 1982
Lives and works in Brussels | Belgium
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 So’ham - सो ऽहम् | AVDAK Architecture Campus Sint Lucas | Brussels
(as part of the PhD research of architect Sam Dieltjens)
2020 A única inocência é não pensar | Shoobil gallery | Antwerp
Space rolled up like a deer skin | The Bries Space | Antwerp
2019 Panta Rhei | Kunst In Huis | Brussels
2018 Nothing but Energy | Stadsmuseum ‘t Schippershof | Menen
Blessed be our ship and those who sail her | White House Gallery | Lovenjoel (with Warre Mulder)
2016 ...it was difficult to understand her, but what she said... | Kusseneers Gallery | Brussels
2014 Absurd man does not cling to certainties | Kusseneers Gallery | Brussels
2012 Gute Fahrt | Demmering74 | Leipzig (D)
Viel Spaß | Freiraumgalerie | Halle (D)
2011 Lakense Memorabilia de Février | M’atuvu | Brussels
2010 Som We You Tof Hier | Yard-Gallery | Leuven
Lune I Vert Dei Cirq’Ohm Stances | Art Platform Zebrastraat | Ghent
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 What’s Behind | SAK Kunstbygning | Svenborg, Denmark
3 24 51 76 | Krugerplein13 | Antwerp
2019 Ronse Drawing Prize 2019 | CC de Ververij | Ronse
[H]echt | CCZwaneberg | Heist-o-d-Berg
My Biggest Small | Showhouse JAYJAY | Antwerpen
A question of place - no limits in a cellar | Stormloop | Herentals
2018 VERKNIPT | WARP Contemporary Art Platform | St-Niklaas
Exposition Prix Louis Schmidt | ULB Culture Salle Allende | Brussels
2017 BRIGHT | CCMechelen/DeGarage | Mechelen
2016 LaMontagne | LaVallée | Brussels
‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’ #2 | Kusseneers Gallery | Brussels
2015 Mechelen Muurt Slotexpo | CultuurCentrum | Mechelen
Temple of Maybe | Het Paviljoen | Gent
Intellekt und Humor | Westpol Air Space | Leipzig (D)
Pandaemonium | CC Het Gasthuis | Aarschot
2014 Magma crowded | Sint-Michielskaai | Antwerpen
2013 Winterrundgang | Spinnerei - Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) | Leipzig (D)
2012 Herbstrundgang | Spinnerei - Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) | Leipzig (D)
LIA Summer Show | Spinnerei - Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) | Leipzig (D)
Summer in the city lll | Cypres Galerie | Leuven
Gaverprijs | CC De Schakel | Waregem
2011 TO- GET- THER(E) | ASAP Foundation | Genk Lezen in de Lente | ‘t Uilekot | Herzele
2010 FrappantXpo Final | KBC-tower | Antwerp
FrappantXpo | Timmermans-Opsomer museum | Lier
2009 Belgian Paradise | Unit 4 | London (UK)
Footage on the move | Ruimte Frank Boni | Antwerp
A Certain Amount of Uncertainties | AADocks | Brussels
ITHAKA17 visual arts festival | Leuven
Tais-toi, soirée belle | MSK | Ghent
Gathering | EspaceLadda | Ghent
2008 Blijf in je kot! M.B. | ‘Kotroute’ | Leuven
Out of Control | Gallery’ | VUB | Brussel
Coming People | SMAK | Ghent
ITHAKA16 visual arts festival | Leuven
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2019 [H]echt | CCZwaneberg | Heist-o-d-Berg
2017 BRIGHT | CCMechelen/DeGarage | Mechelen
2015 Temple of Maybe | Het Paviljoen | Ghent
2013 Ergens tussen markt en maan | Korenmarkt | Mechelen
Group exhibition with 13 international artists
2012 Ladies and Gentlemen | we are floating in space - kc nOna | Mechelen
Multidisciplinary 4-day event with 33 participants
2011 TO- GET- THER(E) | ASAP Foundation | Genk
Exhibition project on invitation together with Oshin Albrecht | Pauwel De Buck |
Geert Koekoeckx | Warre Mulder & Yasmine Willems
Bedtime Duologues im Winter | Former mattress factory Devis | Mechelen Group exhibition with 20 participating artists
2009 Connected Divisions | Vedea | Mechelen
Group exhibition with 33 participating artists
The Birth of Opa Malyn | Mechelen
Group exhibition with 20 participating artists
ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC CV
2021 Masters degree in Art Education | LUCA | Brussels
2008 Masters degree in Visual Arts/Painting | LUCA (former St.Lucas Institute) | Ghent
2006 Exchange programme (four months) | Nottingham Trent University - Fine Arts Department
2003 Bachelors degree in Plastic Arts/Graphic Design | LUCA (former St.Lucas Institute) | Ghent
2009 - 2013 Chairman | organizer | curator | graphic designer and bookkeeper of npo “Opa Malyn” in Mechelen | Belgium
AWARDS | COMPETITIONS & RESIDENCIES
2019 Ronse Drawing Prize | selection for exhibition | CC de Ververij | Ronse
2018 Prix Louis Schmidt | selection for exhibition | ULB Culture Salle Allende | Brussels
Residency (1 months) | Stadsmuseum ‘t Schippershof | Menen
2012 Residency (6 months) | Spinnerei - Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) | Leipzig (D)
Gaverprijs | biennial competition for painting - selection final ten | Waregem
2011 ASAP Foundation Award - Nomination with exhibition project | Genk
Residency (one month) | M’atuvu | Brussels
2010 FrappantXpo - selection final ten | Antwerp
Artist of the month | Art Platform Zebrastraat | Ghent
2009 Award ‘Jan Van Rijswijck Centrum’ with residency and exhibition in London (UK)
2008 Coming People exhibition - selected as 1 of 8 graduates of 2008 | SMAK | Gent
PRESS / INTERVIEWS
2020 Grensgebied: Samuel Vanderveken | PULP DE LUXE
2019 Enfant terrible: Samuel Vanderveken, kunstenaar en curator | BRUZZ
2018 ‘Menen is Brussel in het klein’ | De Standaard
2017 Kunstenaar brengt positiviteit en verwondering in tijden van crisis |
Kunst brengt positieve kijk op ‘dit verzuurde leven’ | Nieuwsblad
2016 Interview Samuel Vanderveken by Brainard Carey | Praxis Interview Magazine
3 te ontdekken Belgische kunstenaars bij Kusseneers Gallery | the Art Couch