Biography
Born in 1984 lives and works in Boechout, Belgium. Kinsbergen creates work that explores the complexities of both individual and collective human experiences. His creations often navigate the interplay between the familiar and the mysterious, using metaphors such as mirrors and walls to examine themes of self-reflection and the challenges of understanding others. Guided by an intuitive approach, Kinsbergen selects subjects that deeply resonate with him, driven by a commitment to originality. His practice engages with both tangi-ble and enigmatic themes, reflecting his desire to deepen his insight into the human condition. Kinsbergen has recently exhibited at Pact Gallery Paris, Pal Project Paris, PLUS-ONE Gallery Antwerp, BLANK Gallery Shanghai, Gallery Oxholm Copenhagen and Schunck Heerlen.
Exhibitions
2025
Waking Up The Roads – Plus One Gallery, Antwerp (Solo Show)
2024
Art Antwerp 2024 – Plus One Gallery
‘Aesthetic Echoes’ – Plus One Gallery, Antwerp
Liquid Marks – Plus One Gallery, Antwerp
Art Brussels 2024 – Plus One Gallery
2023
Dream Aside – Galerie Pact, Paris (Solo Show)
Light at the end – Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (Solo show)
Art Brussels 2023 – Everyday Gallery, Booth6B-18
Flux Zone – BLANKgallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Lost For A While – Pal Project, Paris (Solo show)
CAN Ibiza 2022 – Booth A3, Presented by Everyday Gallery
Art Rotterdam 2022 – Everyday Gallery, Booth 84
Art Brussels 2022 – Everyday Gallery, Booth E.16
The Mental Traveler – Everyday Gallery, Antwerp (Solo show)
2021
Potluck – Everyday Gallery, Antwerp
The horse appeared to be a zebra, curated by Barry Camps – Huisgalerij Art Uur, Lier
Coup de Foudre
2020
The annual Christmas show – Galleria Oxholm, Denmark
In afwezigheid van de kunstenaar
My Mam’s name isn’t Carol – D’Apostrof, Deinze
2018
Arture #10 – Ressegem, Herzele
What will is, what will come Nightingale – Antwerp
Yugen#16 – Ghent
Nomadic Mountains, Schunck, Heerlen
Kunstvijver, Boechout
Kunstkastelenroute Collateral Event – Zottegem
Nothing But Good Park – Tilburg
2017
Wintersalon – Gallery Modulart, Vienna
Starring at the horizon of my bathtub Vooruit – Boechout
Into Beach Pool Palm Trees – Antwerp
2016
Dog Day Cabinet 2, An Elephant Pose Facing Nature – Le Clignoteur, Brussel
The Long Now
Art Space Flip Side, Eindhoven
Arture x De Filatuur
Art Space Knokke – Knokke
De Boechoutse Kunstvijver – Midzomernacht 2016, Boechout
Plein Publiek, Kunst/werk_2 – Antwerp
ATC ,Galerie Martin van Blerk – Antwerp
Exhibition Gaverprijs 2016 – CC De Schakel, Waregem
2015
Bozar De L’Abbatoir – Sambreville
17/10/2015 Bozar De L’Abbatoir – Bergen Aan Zee, Holland
Actuele Kunstenfestival 2015 – Haspengouw
Expo Still/Life, Thurn & Taxis – Brussel
Expo with Barry Camps – Not Art Space, Boechout
Expo with Luk Van Soom – galerie Lucano, Diest
2014
Curating Alpine club boechout – Mortsel
Open Studio’s – Antwerpen
Lets Find Gallery Expo – Boechout
2013
Alpine Club Boechout
2012
The Research and Destroy Department of Black Mountain College” – W139, Amsterdam
Diest playart – Galerij Lucanu, Heppeneert, Maaseik
Doas Zwolle Expo – Netherlands
Huis Hellemans Expo – Edegem, Antwerpen
Expo with Koen Broucke – Boechout
Expo in Zwart – Antwerp
Playart – Heppeneert, Maaseik
Work bought by the community of Boechout
2011
Art expo Istanbul
Lets Find Gallery – Boechout
Publication of illustrations for Deus Ex Machina magazine
2010
Lineart Flanders Expo – Gent
Artist Statement
Truly coming face to face with the unknown seems impossible today. We live in a world where even the most remote forests and inaccessible rivers have been carefully mapped, photographed, and mined. All of that is intimately connected to the dark history of colonialism: driven by control and greed it often resulted in the depletion and destruction of nature. Kinsbergen interest in rediscovering the world is anything but an at- tempt to reiterate this history. On the contrary. It is a desire to break out of that mold. It begins by renouncing control and embracing unpredictability as a fundamental aspect of how we relate to the world. In addition, Kinsbergen is interested in developing an imagery of nature that breaks with the representations we find on social media or in the romantic tradition. Unlike in the romantic tradition, Kinsbergen does not contrast a detached observer with an overwhelmingly wild naturescape; and unlike the glamorous nature shots we see all over social media, Kinsbergen shuns shiny representations of sunlit paradises.
His works usually depict desolate natural environment in which a solitary figure is fully immersed. They are not trying to control the world in which they are set, but they do engage with it; they are truly part of it. A smartphone is never far away, there is always the risk of turning the world into an image again. But in most of Kinsbergens works, the figures have not fallen prey to these technologies yet. As a final part of Kinsbergen’s attempt to establish a new encounter with the world, these solitary figures in his work deserve our attention. At first glance these appear to be little more than sketchy contours. They are semi-transparent, the world shines through them and their faces are deliberately underdefined. In fact, this is the point. The self, Kinsbergen suggest, is little more than a fuzzy contour that is permeated and shaped by the world around it. This is already a crucial step away from the individualistic mindset that drove both colonial discovery and our representation on social media. But there’s more. Within the contours of the figures in Kinsbergen’s work, we can sometimes discover a different landscape or a different world. Fully immersed in
their surrounding, these figures are also gateways to different realities – the inner world of the mind. Several worlds drift through these figures, interlocking. In this way, Kinsbergen creates a rich and layered understanding of the world, suggesting the possibility for different way of engaging with our world, a rediscovery even.