Feiko Beckers is a visual artist, working with video, performance, installation and text.
He graduated from Academie Minerva in Groningen in 2006 and in 2010 and 2011 he was a
resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In 2013 he was an artist in residence at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.
Feiko Beckers lives and works in Brussels (BE).
He graduated from Academie Minerva in Groningen in 2006 and in 2010 and 2011 he was a
resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In 2013 he was an artist in residence at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.
Feiko Beckers lives and works in Brussels (BE).
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For The Understanding of Nonsense, visual artist Feiko Beckers will be filling Beursschouwburg's exhibition space with a variety of huts on stilts, dwellings built on poles. In them, he will show sculptures, films, texts and even performances.
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FEIKO BECKERS
1983, Witmarsum, NL
Education
2010-2011 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2002-2006 Academie Minerva, Groningen, NL
2005 Californian College of the Arts, San Francisco, US
Residencies
2016 Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag
2016 Tembe Art Studio, Moengo, SU
2012-2013 Le Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Solo Exhibitions
2019 A brilliant idea, but a terrible chair, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Applesauce, Efremidis Gallery, Berlin, DE
2018 Bearable, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2017 You might actually learn something,Tenderpixel, London, UK
2017 The Understanding of Nonsense, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2015 Where everything is safe and sound, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2015 A conversation is a risk to lose your own opinion, Le CAP, Lyon, FR
2013 Liste18, Basel, CH (with Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL)
2013 Slow and Gradual, Meet Factory, Prague, CZ
2013 My Rock is Also Your Thing, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2012 The arranging of books by color, deServiceGarage, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Making a birthday cake with my mother, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibitions
2021 Des choses vraies qui font semblant d’être des faux-semblants, La Friche, Marseille, FR
2021 Tweetakt 2021, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, NL
2021 When dough flies through your kitchen, 76,4, Brussels, BE
2020 Hope for Sisyphus, Nieuwe Vide Art Space, Haarlem, NL
2018 Jumping the Shark, Het Resort, Groningen, NL
2018 ALMENDE, The Second Triennial of Beetsterzwaag, BE
2018 Moengo Festival of Visual Arts 2018, Moengo, SU
2018 Doing Things With Words, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
2018 Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
2017 Het Zalige Nietsdoen, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL
2017 The principle of least effort, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, NL
2017 Digifest 4, Durban, ZA
2017 And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Billytown, Den Haag, NL
2017 To Cover And Decorate, Feeeling, Brussels, BE
2017 A Space Called Home, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Rumors of Glory, basis, Frankfurt, DE
2016 The Inevitable Others, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, BE
2016 Game People Play, NEST, Den Haag, NL
2016 Cairotronica, Cairo, EG
2016 Welkom Thuis, Villa Zebra, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Paradocs, IDFA, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Tenderflix, Tenderpixel, ICA, London, UK
2015 Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, DE
2015 Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athene, GR
2015 Didn't Know It But Knew It All Along, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
2015 Liste20, Basel, CH (with Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL)
2014 Acting Truthfully Under the Circumstances, Tenderpixel, London, UK
2014 Layers: Die Arbeit, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
2014 Soft Machines, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL
2014 An elaborate set of keys, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Supermarket 2014, Stockholm, SE (met NEST, Den Haag, NL)
2013 IDFA 2013, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Narcissistic Tendencies, NEST, Den Haag, NL
2013 Apathy is not my friend, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne, AU
2013 Nouvelle Vague, Palais de Tokyo, FR
2013 Destiny: The B's, Galerie Anne Barrault, FR
2013 Biennale d’art contemporain d’Anglet, Anglet, FR
2013 Edible Glass, Western Front, Vancouver, CA
2012 I Fail Good, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2012 5x3 | Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, DE
2012 In Search Of...,Academie Minerva, Groningen, NL
2012 Not in a Million Years, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2012 TJCC Festival, Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Parijs, FR
2012 A Dutch Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
2011 RijksakademieOpen 2011, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Mijn vriend en ik, 21Rozendaal, Enschede, NL
2011 Abstraction Surface Air, Bureau des Videos, Paris, FR
2011 New Video Kids, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg, DE
2010 VideoProsjkekter, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, NO
2010 RijksakademieOpen 2010, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Deja-Vu, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL
Performances
2021 Moments, Rita Urso Gallery, Milan, IT
2020 Jump in the Line (Shake Senora), The Performance Show, Art Rotterdam, NL
2019 When I do what I like to do most, Het Resort, Groningen, NL
2018 When I do what I like to do most, Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, BE
2018 When I do what I like to do most, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
2018 You might actually learn something, 6th International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU
2018 A disappointment you can rely on, Manifesta, Amsterdam, NL
2018 When I do what I like to do most, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2018 You might actually learn something, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2018 Deadpan and Disco, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, Billytown, Den Haag, NL
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, A Rose is Rose is a Rose, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Deadpan and Disco, basis, Frankfurt, DE
2017 Deadpan and Disco, The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, Performatiek | Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, Living in Dreams, De Bond, Brugge, BE
2016 Take Up Your Space, Kai10, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
2015 Lundi a Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2015 Deadpan and Disco, Marres, Maastricht, NL
2015 Being surprised is admitting you were wrong, Land Art Live, Zeewolde, NL
2015 Tomorrow Never Knows, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Friendly Takeover, PACT Zollverein, Essen, DE
2015 Didn't Know But Knew It All Along, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
2015 50 Hours, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2014 The exact opposite of the exact opposite, Tenderpixel, London, UK
2014 Deadpan and Disco, LiveWorks, Centrale Fies, Dro, IT
2013 No cause for celebration, De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Educating Artists? GNYP Art/KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2013 Cinq saynètes pour deux, Glassbox, Paris, FR
2013 Liste18, Basel, CH (with Galerie Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL)
2013 Accident with red car, Art13, London, UK (with Yeo Workshop, Singapore)
2012 Accident with red car, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, DE
2012 An evening with Feiko Beckers, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2012 No chance of success whatsoever, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2012 A story about my fathers heart attack..., STUK, Leuven, BE
2012 Advantages and disadvantages, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2012 Deus ex Machina, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2012 No chance of success whatsoever, Theater Frascati, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Three Options, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Making sense of my horoscope, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2011 A story about my fathers heart attack..., Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Cracker #01 International Performance Festival, Self Service Open Art Space, Stuttgart, DE
2008 International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT
Awards
2018 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Stipendium Established Artists)
2018 Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, Schiedam, NL (nomination)
2017 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Grant International Presentations)
2014 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Stipendium Established Artists)
2012 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Artist Project Grant)
2012 Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts, Amsterdam, NL
2011 dr. Hendrik Muller Vaderlandsch Fonds, Den Haag, NL
2010 dr. Hendrik Muller Vaderlandsch Fonds, Den Haag, NL
2008 Foundation BKVB, Amsterdam, NL (Starters Stipend)
2008 International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT (3rd prize)
2008 Klaas Dijkstra Foundation, Groningen, NL (nomination)
1983, Witmarsum, NL
Education
2010-2011 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2002-2006 Academie Minerva, Groningen, NL
2005 Californian College of the Arts, San Francisco, US
Residencies
2016 Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag
2016 Tembe Art Studio, Moengo, SU
2012-2013 Le Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Solo Exhibitions
2019 A brilliant idea, but a terrible chair, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Applesauce, Efremidis Gallery, Berlin, DE
2018 Bearable, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2017 You might actually learn something,Tenderpixel, London, UK
2017 The Understanding of Nonsense, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2015 Where everything is safe and sound, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2015 A conversation is a risk to lose your own opinion, Le CAP, Lyon, FR
2013 Liste18, Basel, CH (with Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL)
2013 Slow and Gradual, Meet Factory, Prague, CZ
2013 My Rock is Also Your Thing, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2012 The arranging of books by color, deServiceGarage, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Making a birthday cake with my mother, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibitions
2021 Des choses vraies qui font semblant d’être des faux-semblants, La Friche, Marseille, FR
2021 Tweetakt 2021, Fort Ruigenhoek, Utrecht, NL
2021 When dough flies through your kitchen, 76,4, Brussels, BE
2020 Hope for Sisyphus, Nieuwe Vide Art Space, Haarlem, NL
2018 Jumping the Shark, Het Resort, Groningen, NL
2018 ALMENDE, The Second Triennial of Beetsterzwaag, BE
2018 Moengo Festival of Visual Arts 2018, Moengo, SU
2018 Doing Things With Words, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
2018 Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
2017 Het Zalige Nietsdoen, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL
2017 The principle of least effort, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, NL
2017 Digifest 4, Durban, ZA
2017 And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Billytown, Den Haag, NL
2017 To Cover And Decorate, Feeeling, Brussels, BE
2017 A Space Called Home, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Rumors of Glory, basis, Frankfurt, DE
2016 The Inevitable Others, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, BE
2016 Game People Play, NEST, Den Haag, NL
2016 Cairotronica, Cairo, EG
2016 Welkom Thuis, Villa Zebra, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Paradocs, IDFA, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Tenderflix, Tenderpixel, ICA, London, UK
2015 Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel, DE
2015 Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athene, GR
2015 Didn't Know It But Knew It All Along, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
2015 Liste20, Basel, CH (with Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL)
2014 Acting Truthfully Under the Circumstances, Tenderpixel, London, UK
2014 Layers: Die Arbeit, WORM, Rotterdam, NL
2014 Soft Machines, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, NL
2014 An elaborate set of keys, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Supermarket 2014, Stockholm, SE (met NEST, Den Haag, NL)
2013 IDFA 2013, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Narcissistic Tendencies, NEST, Den Haag, NL
2013 Apathy is not my friend, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne, AU
2013 Nouvelle Vague, Palais de Tokyo, FR
2013 Destiny: The B's, Galerie Anne Barrault, FR
2013 Biennale d’art contemporain d’Anglet, Anglet, FR
2013 Edible Glass, Western Front, Vancouver, CA
2012 I Fail Good, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2012 5x3 | Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, DE
2012 In Search Of...,Academie Minerva, Groningen, NL
2012 Not in a Million Years, Gallery Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2012 TJCC Festival, Théâtre de Gennevilliers, Parijs, FR
2012 A Dutch Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES
2011 RijksakademieOpen 2011, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Mijn vriend en ik, 21Rozendaal, Enschede, NL
2011 Abstraction Surface Air, Bureau des Videos, Paris, FR
2011 New Video Kids, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg, DE
2010 VideoProsjkekter, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, NO
2010 RijksakademieOpen 2010, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Deja-Vu, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL
Performances
2021 Moments, Rita Urso Gallery, Milan, IT
2020 Jump in the Line (Shake Senora), The Performance Show, Art Rotterdam, NL
2019 When I do what I like to do most, Het Resort, Groningen, NL
2018 When I do what I like to do most, Bruthaus Gallery, Waregem, BE
2018 When I do what I like to do most, Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE
2018 You might actually learn something, 6th International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU
2018 A disappointment you can rely on, Manifesta, Amsterdam, NL
2018 When I do what I like to do most, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2018 You might actually learn something, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
2018 Deadpan and Disco, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, Billytown, Den Haag, NL
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, A Rose is Rose is a Rose, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Deadpan and Disco, basis, Frankfurt, DE
2017 Deadpan and Disco, The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, Performatiek | Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2017 A disappointment you can rely on, Living in Dreams, De Bond, Brugge, BE
2016 Take Up Your Space, Kai10, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
2015 Lundi a Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2015 Deadpan and Disco, Marres, Maastricht, NL
2015 Being surprised is admitting you were wrong, Land Art Live, Zeewolde, NL
2015 Tomorrow Never Knows, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Friendly Takeover, PACT Zollverein, Essen, DE
2015 Didn't Know But Knew It All Along, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
2015 50 Hours, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2014 The exact opposite of the exact opposite, Tenderpixel, London, UK
2014 Deadpan and Disco, LiveWorks, Centrale Fies, Dro, IT
2013 No cause for celebration, De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Educating Artists? GNYP Art/KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2013 Cinq saynètes pour deux, Glassbox, Paris, FR
2013 Liste18, Basel, CH (with Galerie Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam, NL)
2013 Accident with red car, Art13, London, UK (with Yeo Workshop, Singapore)
2012 Accident with red car, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, DE
2012 An evening with Feiko Beckers, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2012 No chance of success whatsoever, Beursschouwburg, Brussel, BE
2012 A story about my fathers heart attack..., STUK, Leuven, BE
2012 Advantages and disadvantages, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
2012 Deus ex Machina, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2012 No chance of success whatsoever, Theater Frascati, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Three Options, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Making sense of my horoscope, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL
2011 A story about my fathers heart attack..., Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Cracker #01 International Performance Festival, Self Service Open Art Space, Stuttgart, DE
2008 International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT
Awards
2018 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Stipendium Established Artists)
2018 Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, Schiedam, NL (nomination)
2017 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Grant International Presentations)
2014 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Stipendium Established Artists)
2012 Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL (Artist Project Grant)
2012 Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts, Amsterdam, NL
2011 dr. Hendrik Muller Vaderlandsch Fonds, Den Haag, NL
2010 dr. Hendrik Muller Vaderlandsch Fonds, Den Haag, NL
2008 Foundation BKVB, Amsterdam, NL (Starters Stipend)
2008 International Prize for Performance, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, IT (3rd prize)
2008 Klaas Dijkstra Foundation, Groningen, NL (nomination)
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