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| First Name | Karen |
| Last Name | Hendrickx |
| Username | karenh |
| Bio | Karen Hendrickx is a visual artist from Belgium. Since 2017 she has been working on a series combining painting, dance and movement, for which she created the performance ‘Sketches of Emotion’ together with the Belgian choreographer Justine Copette. In this performance, dancer and painter play off of one another, Hendrickx’s abstract paintings spontaneously created in the moment. She is currently working with Justine Copette and the Belgian musicians Peter Geysels and Peter de Koning of TraumaSutra on a new performance, in which she explores the boundaries between dance, visual arts and music. She also gives workshops on dance and visual arts together with Justine Copette, in which participants are invited to switch off their thinking and create purely from their inner emotion. Her gestural and spontaneous way of working is strongly influenced by her collaboration with Justine Copette. For example, she often work with the canvas on the ground, literally using her whole body during the creation proces and creating a kind of dance on the canvas. As with the abstract expressionists, she makes the canvas more “an arena within which the action takes place”. The final work is then the result of what took place in the moment. Her choice of material is very diverse, ranging from charcoal, chalk, chinese ink, bistre, acrylic to oil paint, witch she applies to a variety of surfaces ; paper, canvas, even plexiglass. For her performances she is mainly inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock, Niki De Saint Phalle, Yves Klein and Trisha Brown. This is mainly expressed in the idea of ‘the act in itself’, without presupposing a certain result. Further sources of inspiration are the work of Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, the Gutai group,…. |
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| Country of residence | Belgium |
Statement
| Statement | Karen Hendrickx is a visual artist from Belgium. Since 2017 she has been working on a series combining painting, dance and movement, for which she created the performance ‘Sketches of Emotion’ together with the Belgian choreographer Justine Copette. In this performance, dancer and painter play off of one another, Hendrickx’s abstract paintings spontaneously created in the moment. Her gestural and spontaneous way of working is strongly influenced by her collaboration with Justine Copette. For example, she often work with the canvas on the ground, literally using her whole body during the creation proces and creating a kind of dance on the canvas. As with the abstract expressionists, she makes the canvas more “an arena within which the action takes place”. The final work is then the result of what took place in the moment. Her choice of material is very diverse, ranging from charcoal, chalk, chinese ink, bistre, acrylic to oil paint, witch she applies to a variety of surfaces ; paper, canvas, even plexiglass. For her performances she is mainly inspired by the work of Jackson Pollock, Niki De Saint Phalle, Yves Klein and Trisha Brown. This is mainly expressed in the idea of ‘the act in itself’, without presupposing a certain result. Further sources of inspiration are the work of, Wassily Kadinsky, Joan Mitchel, Cy twombly, the Gutai group, etc… |
Exhibitions
| Exhibitions | CV
June 2011 : Graduated in the higher degree of painting from the part-time art education at Sint Lucas academy in Kapellen June 2017 : Graduated in the specialization degree drawing of the part-time art education at the Royal Academy of Antwerp Exhibitions September 2023 : Open Studio Days Glogauair / Berlin August 2023 : Solo exhibition Kunst im raum / Berlin September 2022 : Group exhibition Borgerhart / Antwerp August 2022 : Solo exhibition Tour à Plomb / Brussels July 2022 : Solo exhibition Dorp / Bruges May 2022 : Group exhibition Guest festival Fameus / Antwerp April 2022 : Solo exhibition VZW Ensemble / Gent November 2021 : Group exhibition Bal D’Art galery / Brussels September 2021 : Solo exhibition ’t Werkhuys / Antwerp September 2021 : Group exhibition We.Art.XL / Elsene July– august 2021 : Solo Exhibition Maison La Poste / Tour and Taxis and March 2021 : Group exhibition during Act-Exhibition / Brussels January 2020 : Group exhibition Galerie Verbeeck-Van Dyck / Antwerp September 2018 : Open studio days: Morpho / Antwerp Competitions August 2021 : Shortlist of the Visual Art Open 2021 UK & International January 2021 finalist of the 10th “All women” Art Exhibition August 2020 : finalist of the Starvd Art Competition 2020 May 2020 : Selected with the movie ‘Sketches of Emotion’ for May 2020: Selected with the movie ‘Sketches of Emotion’ for the April 2020 : Selected with the movie ‘Sketches of Emotion’ for
October 2023 : Ravie festival / Brussels August 2023 : Glogauair / Berlin July 2023 : Lake studio / Berlin April 2023 : Kunstacademie Geraardsbergen September 2022 : Borgerhart / Antwerp August 2022 : Tour à Plomb / Brussels July 2022 : Het Entrepot Dorp / Bruges June 2022 : BEqual / Brussels May 2022 : Balade des gens heureux / Louvain la neuve May 2022 : Gast festival / Antwerp April 2022 : VZW Ensemble / Gand April 2022 : Parcours artiste / Jette October 2021 : Bal d’art / Bruxelles September 2021 : ‘t Werkhuys / Antwerp September 2021 : We art XL See u / Brussels September 2021 : DAP festival / Rotterdam September 2021 : Terrain vague / Anvers August 2021 : Park Poetik / Brussels August 2021 : Allee du Kaai / Brussels July 2021 : Tour & Taxis / Bruxelles July 2021 : La vallee / Bruxelles May 2021 : Act-exhibition / Bruxelles April 2021 : dag van de dans / Antwerp March 2021 : Act-exhibition / Bruxelles February 2021 : still standing / Liége October 2020 : L’Armande / Liége August 2020 : Van Buuren / Brussels
May 2023 : C-Takt / Neerpelt August 022 : Tour à Plomb / Brussels April / May 2022 : VZW Ensemble / Ghent January – June 2022 : Fameus / Antwerp June / july 2021 : Firm Art Lab / Brussels June / august 2020 : Archipel 19 Brussels Publications Catalog Open Studio’s Glogauair Bruxelles Art Vue Volumes of Darkness 2021 Art Hole magazine |
Interests and medias
| Interests | Painting |
| Painting medias | Oil |