BRAM VAN BREDA
°1992, Lier, Belgium
Lives and works in Ostend, (BE)
The multiplicity of Van Breda’s work entails a study of the spatial narratives within the process of image making. Current research topics involve nature and landscape in the Anthropocene and the spatial qualities of the textile medium. Like an ethnographer he questions our environment, with a concern for the social and political conditions of places.
Through historical research, site-specific works and material studies, physical places are transformed into ‘environments’, where new spatial narratives can deploy like a ‘speculative fabulation’.
The use of fabulation as a way of fabrication brings him to the point of embodying ‘other’ and in doing so question the cultural significance of representation and its role in defining our belonging to the world. Through different media the artist seeks to manipulate spaces and invites us to reimagine our surrounding, with the clear intention to blur the sharpness of existing meanings and interpretations, in doing so free our mind to reach and invent new dimensions within the same physical appearance.
The fascination for how we experience and engage with spaces becomes tangible in Van Breda’s textile works. Tapestries bend and fold in multiple ways, covering and uncovering abstract images that suggest an impressionistic experience. Constructed by hand, directly working onto the canvas, the artist creates an intimate play of thread and colour, distinguishing Van Breda’s work from the common jaquard woven works and entangling the viewer far beyond the textile surface.
COLLECTOR'S EDITION
On the occasion of the solo exhibition ‘before it slips away’, by Bram Van Breda
a collector’s edition has also been published, including 10 unique textile works
with 10 copies numbered and signed from I to X.
EXHIBITIONS
2023
BEFORE IT SLIPS AWAY, solo exhibition Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou, BE
I TRY TO IMAGINE HOW YOUR TEXTURE FELT LIKE, group exhibition curated by Carina Diepens and Diana Franssen, Ypermuseum, Ieper, BE
STILLE LEVENS, group exhibition curated by Koen Broucke, Venetiaanse Gaanderijen Oostende, Ostend BE
LET'S FILL THIS TOWN WITH ARTISTS, group exhibition curated by Charlotte Crevits, AHWNN Gallery, Ostend BE
2022
COLLECTIBLE, group exhibition, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Vanderborght Building, Brussels BE
THE THINKING HAND, group exhibition curated by Tatjana Pieters and Marie Mees, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent BE
DESIGN FEST GENT, group exhibition, Design Museum, Gent BE
EVEN A STOPPED CLOCK IS RIGHT TWO TIMES A DAY, group exhibition, Les Brasseurs Art Contemporain, Luik BE
2021
ART AU CENTRE, Luik, BE
SPOREN VAN BINNEN EN BUITEN, duo exhibition, with Bram Van Breda & Jo Van Rijckeghem , Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Watou BE
WHAT MY BODY KNEW AND FORGOT TO TELL ME, Kunstenhuis, Harelbeke BE
group exhibition with Anaïs Chabeur, Maikel De Greve, Thuy Lê Thi Thu, Sander Misplon, Fieke Ruitinga, Juliane Schreiber, Bram Van Breda
curated by Camille Bladt and Margo Veeckman
ENTANGLED SPLENDOR, solo exhibition, Obsidian Gallery, Brussels BE
2019
INTO LIMBO, curated by Bram Van Breda, Cas-Co, Leuven BE
BONANZA a diorama of the near, by Bram Van Breda & Carolyn F. Strauss As the result of the four-month residency at Gastatlier Leo XIII,
Gastatelier LeoXIII, Tilburg NL
CROSOVERS, by Adorno.design, The Truman Brewery, London UK
INTERLUDE, intervening space between sound and weavings, by Bram Van Breda & Glenn Ryszko Vlaamsesteenweg 162, Brussels BE
TO HIT WHEN MOVING, by Bram Van Breda, Merel Cremers & Lut Pil Part of the research project What We Shape, Shapes Us, Nucleo, Ghent BE
BELOVED BODIES, by Sander Vloebergs KADOC-Ku, Leuven BE
RECONNAISSANCE, exploring space and its hidden layers, by Bram Van Breda, KADOC-Ku, Leuven BE
2018
ENCLOSED ENCOUNTERS, by Bram Van Breda, Merel Cremers & Lut Pil Part of the research project What We Shape, Shapes Us, Hotel Insomnia
Dutch Design Week 2018 DeFabriek, Eindhoven NL
PASSAGE 1, by Bram Van Breda, Merel Cremers & Lut Pil Part of the research project What We Shape, Shapes Us, Blancooo, Antwerp BE
FINI FANI, by Anja Veirman & Patricia Gérimont Regional Cultural Center, Dinant BE
ITHAKA ART FESTIVAL, Luxemburgcollege, Leuven BE
2017
LET YOURSELF FALL, Luca Biënnale 2017, by Ief Spincemaille Abdij Keizersberg, Leuven BE
MATTER OUT OF PLACE, by Bram Van Breda, Les Brasseurs Arts Contemporain, Liège BE
THE GRADUATE(S) - European design talent selected by Li Edelkoort, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Mayfair, Londen UK
KoeNST project - in collaboration with DeLoodsen Antwerpen BE
Arts in Society Award Cera & Luca School of Arts, Ghent BE
2016
THE PLIABLE MOMENT, Dutch Design Week 16 DeFABRIEK, Eindhoven NL
OUTSIDE (ÉCUME/SCUM), Les Brasseurs, Liège BE
CORRIDOR/BACKSPACE, by Bram Van Breda Croxhapox, Ghent BE
LUX - Luca Showcase, DeMarkten Brussels BE
YOUNG and MAD Design awards, MAD Design Center, Brussel BE
PUBLICATIONS
Patricia Gérimont, Anja Veirman (2018), Fini Fani, in dialoog met textiele maakprocessen in Mali, Graphius.
ISBN 9789490049089
Lut Pil (2019), RECONNAISSANCE, KADOC KU Leuven
ISBN 9789078192435
Lut Pil, Bram Van Breda, Merel Cremers, An-Valerie Vandromme (2019)
EVERY MOVE THEY MAKE dialogues between object & space, Lut Pil, Matter&Image -
Research Unit Image - LUCA School of Arts, Ghent; the author and the artisits.
ISBN 9789463963695
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BRAM VAN BREDA
before it slips away 24 Sep - 12 Nov 2023PUBLICATION & COLLECTOR'S EDITION On the occasion of the solo exhibition ‘before it slips away’ by Bram Van Breda a publication has been published, numbered and signed from 1 to...Read more -
BRAM VAN BREDA - JO VAN RIJCKEGHEM
SPOREN VAN BINNEN EN BUITEN 8 Aug - 5 Sep 2021A common theme in the art of Jo Van Rijckeghem and Bram Van Breda is their fascination for residual materials and their tactility. The closeness of the perceptible world around...Read more
