Din A4 - Marjan Verhaeghe

Education

Theoretical education: history of art. contemporary art.
Practical education: sculpture.

Professional activities

Employed as educational collaborator (active tours and workshops) in the MuHKA, the Antwerp Ethnographic Museum, and the Middelheim Open-Air Museum for Sculpture
Workshops about contemporary art by order of Artforum, Het Wiel (now ArtObe). Freelance docent for Wisper
Developed a workshop called “Creative Image Thinking”, focused on adults who are already involved in artistic creativity. These workshops are offered via the programme of several musea in the Flemish part of Belgium (S.M.A.K., MuHKA, Museum of photography, Open-Air Museum for sculpture Middelheim, MDD), OVSG (the post educative program for teachers in Art Schools (Belgium)), CAC (international artist association) / Docent master class of the European Academy for Culture and Arts.

Actually working at Verbeke Foundation (workshops en active tours)

Training course in 2004: Creative thinking (workshop organised by COCD, Edegem), Butoh (Japanese dance, teacher Tejo Janssen, Neerpelt)
Training course in 2005: computermodelling in 3D
Training course in 2006: web design & web log
Mentors: prof. C.Heyman, Jef Mouton, Ann Verhelst

Photo above - Project OW Belgie-China
“Composition with 3 outer forms” material: pink tissue, iron wire, on a carpet of black garbage sacks dimensions: L.: 12cm, Br.: 15cm, H.: 24cm. / form. 
2005 2006

Artistic activities. a selection from 1999 on:

• 1999 Enku workshop and presentation (wood sculpture under the guidance of Walter Bailey, sculptor, in the Antwerp Ethnographic Museum)
• 1999 Groei vormen (Growth forms). Exhibition of visual art in Galerie Drijfstroom, Antwerp
• 1999 Participation in  Kunstwand 99 (Art wall 99) project, Schriek
• 2000 Participation in  Biotoop (Biotope) and  Biotoop bis (Biotope bis) summer exhibitions, Gooik
• 2000 Participation in  Kunst op het water 2000 (Art on the water 2000) summer exhibition, Oud Heverlee
• 2000 Participation in project  Bureau voor Ontroerende Goederen (Office for Moving Property), Zoersel

 

• 2001 Participation in exhibition  Rudolfstraat 30, Antwerpen. pictures on the website of the organisation (http://www.hetei.be)
• 2002 Participation in exhibition  Fieldwork and Sculpture, Galerie Francis Van Hoof, Puurs. pictures on the website of the organisation (http://www.galerievanhoof.be)
• 2003 Participation in project  SWITCH, idea and realisation Edith Dove, MDD
• 2003 Naar het oosten gekeerd (turned towards the East), exhibition in new studio at Wachtebeke (B) No-made-n ®, CAC, Doom, The Netherlands
• 2004 Van nature… een vorm (by nature.. a form), exhibition linked at the “Day of the Monuments”, Cortewalle Castle, Beveren
• 2004 Binnenplek ®, start project on 3 locations in Vlaanderen (Antwerp, Wachtebeke)
• 2005 Binnenplek II, first presentation of the project with interaction, international competition of driving horses, provincial domain Puyenbroeck, Wachtebeke. (project will be active till 2010)

 

• 2005 Start  Project 0 / W, inauguration atelier and presentation recent works
• 2005 Locatie met verbeelding (location with imagination), environmental presentation at the opening of lndic bvba, Schelle
• 2005 Project 0 / W, workshop with visual artists in Belgium and China, presentation of the results and installation of own work, Well Gallery en Gallery Nordica, Kunming (China)

Photo above - Project SudEst Express, Hval(Oslo)
“Composition for 3 days” material: period of 3 days, train station, visitors, plastic bags, nylon wire, clay figure dimensions: various dimensions 2006

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• 2006 Please do not touch. Fragile, solo exhibition spatial work, galerie BudA, Asse)
• 2006 pARTcours 2006, Vice Versa, summer project Vlaanderen and Frans-Vlaanderen, Diksmuide (B) Esquelbecq (Fr)
• 2006 SudEst Express 2006, residence and presentation, Hval Culture Station (near Oslo, Noorwegen)
• 2006 Project O / W. Sober, presentation in Belgium: GalerY’, VUB university, Brussel)
• 2006 Project O / W. Sober, last presentation in Belgium: Gaanderij Vercammen, Hamme and a 2days workshop for children
• 2006 lecture about my work  Touch don’t touch. Looking with all sense-organs, RUG university Gent. symposium Karel Geirlandtstichting
• 2006 Project 0/W.Sober, presentation in Belgium: GalerY’, VUB university, Brussel
• 2006 Project 0/W.Sober, last presentation in Belgium: Gaanderij Vercammen, Hamme
• 2007 Hate - Love, participation in international Art Project, Slib vzw
• 2007 Butterfly, international internetproject with presentation in gallery, concept en curator.
• 2007 residence and solo exhibition  No-made-n II, a.i.r. Furasskolan & Designmuseum Formenshus, Hällefors, Sweden
• 2007 No-made-n I, solo exhibition, Oslo, Norway with workshops for children of the kindergarten

• 2007 Hate - Love
• 2007 residence and solo exhibition No-made II
• 2007 No-made I
• 2007 The F Variations. A selection
• 2007 Contagious Love

Photo above - Omvorm rode wol, 2009, 1 deel, locatie : Söralgen lake, 2009, Sikfors (Sw)</ >

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• 2008 artistic intervention at a dance production Ay¨n. La baignoire du diable, artiste Louise Chardon, dramaturge Luk Van Den Dries (connected to Troubleyn vzw). Work title intervention outer form {paraffine} dance.
• 2008 A presentation of snow, residence presentation, Hällefors, Sweden
• 2008 Hate - Love, participation in travelling group exhibition of international Art Project, guest at L5, Roermond (Nl)
• 2008 PlantSedan, design portable garden for Plot Shift, a project of Barselgrad, Fykse Skule, Steinstø (Bergen), Norway
• 2008 DIN-A4 Total, participation in internationaal project (drawings), Stedelijk museum, Roermond, Nederland
• 2008 No-made III, residence (project with schools, new work) and presentation, Houdain, North France
• 2008 Participation in A4 Collettiva Internationale, organized by MIDAC Museo Internazionale Dinamico di Arte Contemporanea, Belforte del Chienti, Italia 2008
• 2008 One minute festival brazil en offline exhibition, participation with video RGB from The F Variations, Brasilia
• 2008 Home, participation in 5 years Gallery budA, with Pierre-Philippe Hofmann, Benoît Félix, Bob Verschueren and Capucine Levie. Cooperation with the Finnish singer Jukka Leppilampi.
• 2009 Four seasons. Participation exhibition with Chinese artists, Loft 101, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
• 2009 Isstjärnan. Starting up the first Ice festival as teacher (students AKI art academy The Netherlands, STOAS Floral design The Netherlands, FIDU preparatory design Sweden) & participation as artist, Hällefors, Zweden.
• 2009 Woman. Winter, participation exhibition with Chinese artists, Building 99 Art space, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
• 2009 Art against Bulldozers, intervention in the Caemermanstraat 10, Doel. Cooperation with Monique Thomaes.
• 2009 Cuesta 09, exhibition with Philippe Gouwy, Gilbert Degryse and Ditmar Bollaert, Kasteel Blauwendael, Waasmunster, Be.
• 2009 in extension Hate – Love, participation group exhibition in 3 galleries, Luik, Be
• 2009 participation in Project DIN-A4 (tekeningen), Kulturmodell, Passau, Germany
• 2009 Cuesta Revisited, re-take of exhibition after demolition in park, Galerie Montanus, Diksmuide, Be
• 2009 participation in DIN A4 Archivos Abiertos, Archivo Municipal Malaga, Sp
• 2009 Forme et Mouvement. Solo exhibition, Centre Balavoine, Arques, Fr
• 2009 Butterfly, international internetproject, Monumental, Be
• 2010 Isflamma, ‘where my carpet is, ther’s my home’ (nomadic expression), 2de ice festival, Hällefors, Sweden
• 2010 Spring, participation exhibition with Chinese artists, Nordica Art Space & Jinpin Gallery, Yunnan (China)

Photo above - Composition with 264 elements, ice and wool. 1.30 x 2.75 m. near lake Grythyttan, Sweden. 02 – 2010

Other artistic activities

• 2002 -2003 masterclass workshop Creative Image Thinking for artists of various disciplines, symposium CAC, Doorn, The netherlands
• 2005 Project O / W, workshop with visual artists in Belgium and China, curator presentation of the results and installation of own work, Well Gallery en Gallery Nordica, Kunming, China
• 2006 lecture about my work Touch don’t touch. Looking with all sense-organs, symposium Karel Geirlandtstichting, RUG university Gent
• 2006 Project O / W. Sober, curator presentation in Belgium: GalerY’, VUB university, Brussel
• 2006 Project O / W. Sober, curator last presentation in Belgium: Gaanderij Vercammen, Hamme and a 2days workshop for children
• 2007-2008 Butterfly, international internet project, concept and motivator.
• 2007 No-made I, solo exhibition, Oslo, Norway with workshops for children of the kindergarten on the same theme
• 2008 No-made III, residence with project in schools (kindergarten, primary and secondary school) on the same theme, presentation of the results, Houdain, North France
• 2009 Isstjärnan. Starting up the first Ice festival as teacher (students AKI art academy The Netherlands, STOAS Floral design The Netherlands, FIDU preparatory design Sweden) & participation as artist, Hällefors, Zweden.
• 2009 an A4 sheet, contribution to the work of Nico Dockx, The Pass on Show, NICC, Antwerp
• 2010 Isflamma, 2nd ice festival as teacher, Hällefors, Sweden

Collections

Private collections in Belgium, The Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, China, Norway, Germany, Sweden, France

Preparing

• 2009 Chaos, participation group exhibition, G.A.S. Station, Berlin Kreuzberg / Wien
• 2010 Butterfly , international internetproject, Gamle Banken & Art Centre Messen, Norheimsund & Alvik (Bergen), Norway
• 2010 Butterfly mini, international internetproject, Galerie De Buck, Gent, Be
• 2010 Casaterra fragile, workshop and presentation recent work, South Italy