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About
Bram Vanderbeke is a Ghent-based, Belgian artist/designer. He graduated from the Design Academy, Eindhoven in 2016, complementing a prior training in Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent. His practice is diverse but consistent and stands out for its material, sculptural and monumental qualities.
Bram explores and transforms the possible interactions between an object, its architectural environment and its user, further challenged by raw materiality, form and functionality. His works are in the same time autonomous artistic manifestations and utile solutions, an ambiguity Bram deliberately aims for. He creates his Architectural Objects and rhythmic installations in varying dimensions, both in private and in public contexts. The works often influence the spatial perception of the environment they become part of, sometimes by extending an existing space through creating a new space within it.
Bram Vanderbeke is one of the founding members of BRUT, a collective of emerging Belgian designers. He also collaborates with Dutch Invertuals (NL), Gallery Hioco/Delany (BE), Galerie VIVID (NL) and Nilufar Gallery (IT).
Bram Vanderbeke creates Architectural Objects: monumental designs with a distinctive materiality and aesthetic. In doing so, Bram suggests considering the status of these works as intermediate. Not so much to declare them unfinished, but rather as an accentuation of their intrinsic potential – their capacity to vary and alter, according to the circumstances they may once become part of. The works introduce an interaction between space and object and between architecture and function.
Stacking is a vital word in relation to these Architectural Objects. Since it is this stacking – the deliberate and, above all, physical act of placing something on top of another – which is the foundation of many of them. When looked at from a distance, the Architectural Objects generously emphasise their context, revive its identity and introduce a new rhythm. Once in closer view, the objects also reveal their other qualities. On the one hand, this is the moment when the objects unveil their function and when an observer becomes a user. On the other hand, it is the point where materiality takes over, led by the textures and shades of the surfaces, the rawness and solidity of form and substance. They echo a process which is both experimental and intentional, bodily and mental.
Bram explores and transforms the possible interactions between an object, its architectural environment and its user, further challenged by raw materiality, form and functionality. His works are in the same time autonomous artistic manifestations and utile solutions, an ambiguity Bram deliberately aims for. He creates his Architectural Objects and rhythmic installations in varying dimensions, both in private and in public contexts. The works often influence the spatial perception of the environment they become part of, sometimes by extending an existing space through creating a new space within it.
Bram Vanderbeke is one of the founding members of BRUT, a collective of emerging Belgian designers. He also collaborates with Dutch Invertuals (NL), Gallery Hioco/Delany (BE), Galerie VIVID (NL) and Nilufar Gallery (IT).
Architectural Objects
Bram Vanderbeke creates Architectural Objects: monumental designs with a distinctive materiality and aesthetic. In doing so, Bram suggests considering the status of these works as intermediate. Not so much to declare them unfinished, but rather as an accentuation of their intrinsic potential – their capacity to vary and alter, according to the circumstances they may once become part of. The works introduce an interaction between space and object and between architecture and function.
Stacking is a vital word in relation to these Architectural Objects. Since it is this stacking – the deliberate and, above all, physical act of placing something on top of another – which is the foundation of many of them. When looked at from a distance, the Architectural Objects generously emphasise their context, revive its identity and introduce a new rhythm. Once in closer view, the objects also reveal their other qualities. On the one hand, this is the moment when the objects unveil their function and when an observer becomes a user. On the other hand, it is the point where materiality takes over, led by the textures and shades of the surfaces, the rawness and solidity of form and substance. They echo a process which is both experimental and intentional, bodily and mental.
Exhibitions
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Doel Festival
Seating Area - Doel (BE)
NEIGHBOURS / STORIES UNFOLD
Rubenskasteel Zemst - Zemst (BE)
State of Play by Stand Van Zaken
Horst Arts & Music festival - Horst (BE)
Casted Objects
Gallery Hioco Delany - Antwerp (BE) (solo expo)
Leolux - Alcova
Milan Design Week - Milan (IT)
At the edge of everything
Cabin Gallery - Berlin (DE)
10/10
Platform 6a - Keteleer Gallery - Otegem (BE)
Art Rotterdam
Galerie Vivid - Rotterdam (NL)
Makers
Caselli 11-12 - Milan (IT)
Ulterieur
Avee Gallery - Kortrijk (BE)
Art Cologne
Galerie Vivid - Cologne (DE)
Doel Festival
Duoshow with Arnaud Eubelen - Doel (BE)
Magellan
Atelier Ecru / Barbe Urbain - Dr De Beir House - Knokke (BE)
Co/rizom
Design Miami/Basel - Basel (CH)
Confessions
Tableau CPH - Milan (IT)
(s o o n ) Gallery
Antwerp (BE) (Solo Expo)
Making Matter
D'Apostrof - Deinze (BE)
Collectible
BRUT - Brussel (BE)
Art Rotterdam
Galerie Vivid - Rotterdam (NL)
Design Fest Gent
Design Museum Gent - Gent (BE)
Re Presented
Galerie Vivid - Rotterdam (NL)
Of(f) the grid
Salon Salon - Rotterdam (NL)
BRUT City Remnants
Carwan Gallery - Athens (GR)
Potluck
Everyday Gallery - Antwerp (BE)
BRUT Depot
Haptic House, Antwerp (BE)
Pragmatic Sculptures
Atelier Ecru - Ghent (BE) (Solo Expo)
Prelude
Belgian Art & Design Fair - Ghent (BE)
Format
Z33, Scenography, Hasselt (BE)
Colors Etc
Tripostal Lille, Lille (FR)
FAR 2020
Brassless, Nilufar Gallery, Milan (IT)
Kleureyck
Design Museum Ghent, Scenography, Ghent (BE)
Collectible
Brut Collective, Brussels (BE)
Alert Objects
Galerija Vartai, Vilnius (LIT)
Moving Traces
Atelier Ecru, Ghent (BE)
Inside/Outside
Architectural Objects, Artecetera,
Tielrode (BE) (solo expo)
alu!
MDR Gallery, London Craft Week, London (UK)
FAR
Nilufar Gallery, Milan Design Week, Milan (IT)
Dutch Invertuals
Circle, Milan Design Week, Milan (IT)
Brut
Bodem, Milan Design Week, Milan (IT)
Turn on me Now…
Side Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
Collectible
Brussels (BE)
Atelier Jespers
Architectural objects, Brussels (BE) (solo expo)
Henry van de Velde Awards
Brut Collective, Young Talent, Brussels (BE)
Young Talents
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
Baars & Bloemhof
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
Brut
Interieur Biennale, Kortrijk (BE)
Kanal
Centre Pompidou, Brussel (BE)
Maison & Objet
Milk Decoration stand, Paris (FR)
Influence
Biennale du textile contemporain, Oloron St Marie (FR)
Brut
St Vincents, Antwerpen (BE)
Frozen Fountain
Amsterdam (NL)
Brut
Milan Design Week, Milan (IT)
Poème Brut
Design Museum Gent, Gent (BE)
Collectible
Brussel (BE)
BAD
Ghent (BE)
Tools Galerie
Paris (FR)
Kazerne
Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, Eindhoven (NL)
Kazerne
Valuables, Dutch Invertuals, Eindhoven (NL)
Fundamentals
Dutch Invertuals, Eindhoven (NL)
Envisions
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
Hardcore Exhibition
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
Week van Ontwerpen
Kortrijk (BE)
London Design Festival
Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, London (UK)
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
The Graduate(s), London (UK)
Musée des Arts
Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, Paris (FR)
Harvest
Dutch Invertuals, Milan (IT)
Graduation show Design Academy Eindhoven
Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven (NL)
Power Play
Dutch Invertuals, Eindhoven (NL)
Dutch Design Week
Sectie C, Eindhoven (NL)
Interieur Biennale
Kortrijk (BE)
Ventura Lambrate
De Invasie, Milan (IT)
Broelmuseum
Kortrijk (BE)
Interieur Biennale
Kortrijk (BE)
design & development by atelier Haegeman Temmerman