Rinus Van de Velde Belgium, b. 1983

Overview
Rinus Van de Velde explores circular narratives in virtual, actual and parallel universes by encompassing paintings, installations, sculptures and videos. He builds a unique artistic universe in each work based on primary historical sources such as photographs taken or collected by himself, images clipped from the media, and documentation of historical figures. In particular, the work in which a character with a similar appearance to the artist attracts the concepts of doppelgänger and parallel universe to his artistic practice and finds the expandability of paintings.

His work features a structure of a combination of upper images and lower texts that seems to borrow classical media layouts such as newspaper. By borrowing this traditional layout, he encourages audience to reconsider reality of the situations which the artist describes in his paintings and to continuously infer an allegory between the image and the text. The sentence from Van de Velde operates as a monologue adding a calm, contemplative mood in the image. Through the continuous exploration of materials, the artist has recently presented color drawing using colored pencils and oil pastels. Rather than describing details, the mystery with a dreamy atmosphere is added with an abstract expressions by the characteristic of oil pastel.

Rinus Van de Velde lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. He received his master degrees at Sint Lucas Antwerpen in 2006 and at HISK (Hoger Instituut Voor Schone Kunsten - Vlaanderen) in 2010. He has held solo exhibitions at numerous prestigious museums such BOZAR (2022) in Brussels, Kunstmuseum Luzern (2021) in Luzern, Frac des Pays de la Loire (2021) in Nantes, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Malaga (2020). His works are in the collections including S.M.A.K., Belfius Art Collection, Royal museum of Fine Arts in Belgium, Kunstmuseum Den Haag Den Haag and Museum Voorlinden in Netherlands, CAC Málaga in Spain and Art Sonje Center in Korea.
Works
  • Why am I still here...
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Why am I still here..., 2020
  • The deadline is approaching
    Rinus Van de Velde
    The deadline is approaching, 2019
  • Damn Claude, …
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Damn Claude, …, 2024
  • Suddenly a darkness came over me...,
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Suddenly a darkness came over me...,, 2024
  • Mask
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Mask, 2019
  • I would proceed a little faster if I were you, ...
    Rinus Van de Velde
    I would proceed a little faster if I were you, ... , 2023
  • Nothing, really nothing came to me. …
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Nothing, really nothing came to me. …, 2023
  • I am forced to move ...
    Rinus Van de Velde
    I am forced to move ..., 2022
  • La Ruta Natural
    Rinus Van de Velde
    La Ruta Natural, 2019-2021
  • The negotiation
    Rinus Van de Velde
    The negotiation, 2020
  • In the warm window filtered sunlight ...
    Rinus Van de Velde
    In the warm window filtered sunlight ..., 2021
  • Maybe this might work, …
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Maybe this might work, …
  • Damn, it must have been somewhere here that left my car.
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Damn, it must have been somewhere here that left my car., 2023
  • Eventually I realised that the recent bad changes in my work ...
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Eventually I realised that the recent bad changes in my work ..., 2023
  • A Life in A Day
    Rinus Van de Velde
    A Life in A Day, 2021-2023
  • Prop, Model 1
    Rinus Van de Velde
    Prop, Model 1, 2022-2023
Exhibitions
News
Video
Publications
Enquiry

Send me more information on Rinus Van de Velde

Please fill in the fields marked with an asterisk