KOME, JEF GEYS PAR SYLVIE BOULANGER ET FRANCIS MARY
Révéler au public l’ensemble des KOME : Kunstwerken op meerdere exemplaren (œuvre d’art en plusieurs exemplaires) réfute la notion de multiple ou d’œuvre unique, au profit “d’œuvres d’art en plusieurs exemplaires”. Sous forme de pochettes perforées de classeurs, ces 290 KOME présentent le noyau du travail de Jef Geys axé sur trois éléments essentiels de la vie d’un homme : […]
FILM INA VANDEBROECK: HEALTHCARE WORKSHOPS WITH INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN BOLIVIA
You can watch the film about the healthcare workshops with indigenous communities in Bolivia here: http://youtu.be/d1tr96vnPwo http://youtu.be/mbIacEL_OK4 These movies were screened during ‘Woodward Avenue’.
FILM INA VANDEBROECK: ETHNOBOTANY AND CONSERVATION IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The Dominican Republic has a rich cultural heritage of plants for healthcare and biodiversity conservation. This video interview took place in Monte Plata in the Parque de la Biodiversidad and was part of the development of ethnobotanical trails for ecotourism in response to a request by the Dominican government. The video shows Mr. Pablo Mena […]
CHRIS DERCON – DIRECTOR TATE MODERN
INAUGURATION WOODWARD AVENUE – ANTWERP
QUESTIONS TO PETER CURRIE – NEW YORK
1. How did you become interested in Jef Geys’ work? I was in Brussels in the Spring of last year (2012) and I saw two exhibitions by Jef Geys — one at Galerie Greta Meert with his drawings lining the wall; and then his exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts which featured his Women’s Questions?! project along […]
GREETINGS FROM ERIKA AND ME
LETTER UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
The Mead Gallery at the University of Warwick is planning an exhibition with the working title Artists’ Plans for an Era of Finite Resources. It brings together works by contemporary artists that offer solutions to the issues that arise from an increasing world population and finite natural resources. Artists under discussion include Angela Ferreira, Nils […]
‘ARTIFICIAL HELLS’ BY CLAIRE BISHOP, ABOUT PARTICIPATORY ART
An excerpt from ‘Artificial Hells’, Verso, London, 2012.
LIESBETH DECAN – PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE WORK OF JEF GEYS
Liesbeth Decan wrote an article which provides a first selective overview of Geys’s photo-based work and shows how his specific use of the medium corresponds with the basic principles on which his oeuvre is built. Read it here. Below you can find the text as well. From his debut in 1958 onwards, Belgian artist Jef […]