Roeland Tweelinckx 1970
Lives in Kontich - Antwerpen (BE). Works in Kontich - Antwerpen (BE).
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Galerie van den Berge
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THE REALITY UNDER HIGH VOLTAGE
A key lifts a wall in the middle.
A radiator seems almost melted by the heat it generates. A plate grows out of the wall.
It is quite an alienating universe that Roeland Tweelinckx (° 1970) puts down.
He does not invent a new world, but starts from the existing one, to which he adds a few new accents or shifts existing elements. Accupuncture of the space, as someone (Beatrijs Eemans) once aptly put it.
Tweelinckx creates surreal situations and short circuits with minor interventions.
He lets pillars float, bends steel beams and makes a knot in a PVC pipe.
Somewhere between John Massis and David Copperfield.
The artist does not work with marble or bronze, but with sockets, electricity cables, pipes, fuses, trestles and baseboards.
His attention shifts from the painting on the wall to the actual wall. As a plumber or electrician of conceptual art.
Tweelinckx plays with our optical perception and perception. "Read, it does not say what it says," wrote the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff.
At Roeland Tweelinckx, that becomes: "Look, it doesn't say what it says."
The artist encourages us to take a closer look at the reality that surrounds us.
With his minimal interventions, he sharpened our perceptive capacity, it is going to be fine. He transforms the daily reality that we are so used to that we no longer pay attention to.
These light, domestic disruptions are often accompanied by moments of doubt: Where is the work located? Was that already the case? We are often blind.
he artist would prefer nothing more than for visitors to enter into a mutual dialogue about his interventions. And that the work lives on in those conversations.
Tweelinckx works within the trompe l’oeil tradition. He takes a walk with reality.
For example, he cracked the wall in six museums in Ljubljana. However, it turned out to be a screen print that was printed directly on the wall.
Or what about his half empty (or half full?) Bottle of Coke. The soft drink seems to float in the bottle, ignoring gravity or other laws of nature.
The artist likes to lead the visitor astray.
For example, he placed the aforementioned bottle in front of an atypical, whitewashed window that immediately draws the viewer's attention.
As a visual lightning conductor, which means we don't immediately notice the actual work.
It leads to the classic mistake of the detective: the solution was right in front of us, but we didn't see it!
Tweelinckx will often distract our gaze.
For an earlier exhibition, he has arranged a piece of linoleum floor covering that curls upwards so that you look out frontally and did not notice it immediately. The artist adjusts the scenography to an optimal surprise effect.
Tweelinckx makes sculptural objects, he feels mostly in-situ like a fish in the water.
He always starts from the existing space and the potential. His gaze falls on an architectural anomaly or peculiarity that he is going to emphasize extra, so that his intervention is almost unnoticed in reality.
In a house with a striking number of sockets (villa T.D. by Stéphane Beel), he makes an extra copy, whereby the difference between original and copy cannot be distinguished.
It is up to the visitor to guess which was designed by the artist.
In an exhibition hall (De Markten - BE) with a busy constellation of fire extinguishers, signage and pictograms, he adds a fuse box and cables.
The result is a tangle of wires, cables and electrical boxes.
Domestic elements are constantly returning.
But it remains to be seen whether it is so pleasant to be in a house where the ceiling cuts the space in half and you can only crawl through a door and enter.
As if the floor sinks from under your feet, the room narrows.
The artist blocks doors or passages, just as he mentally challenges our perception. For example, he often eliminates contradictions.
Outside becomes inside, inside becomes outside. Like with his intervention at the Berchem station.
A series of stairs under a bridge gets a plinth. As a homely and slightly absurd touch in public spaces.
The artist plays with the properties of his material and our expectations about it.
A rod miraculously bent appears to be made from MDF.
Objects also sometimes have anthropomorphic properties. Like a curved trestle that hangs tired against a wall. Blow out. Because normally it must hang state.
What must stand depends. A series of mossy tiles stand upright, as if risen. A key will soon become a stumbling block. There is often a kink in the cable. At Roeland Tweelinckx, reality is constantly under high voltage.
Sam Steverlynck
A key lifts a wall in the middle.
A radiator seems almost melted by the heat it generates. A plate grows out of the wall.
It is quite an alienating universe that Roeland Tweelinckx (° 1970) puts down.
He does not invent a new world, but starts from the existing one, to which he adds a few new accents or shifts existing elements. Accupuncture of the space, as someone (Beatrijs Eemans) once aptly put it.
Tweelinckx creates surreal situations and short circuits with minor interventions.
He lets pillars float, bends steel beams and makes a knot in a PVC pipe.
Somewhere between John Massis and David Copperfield.
The artist does not work with marble or bronze, but with sockets, electricity cables, pipes, fuses, trestles and baseboards.
His attention shifts from the painting on the wall to the actual wall. As a plumber or electrician of conceptual art.
Tweelinckx plays with our optical perception and perception. "Read, it does not say what it says," wrote the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff.
At Roeland Tweelinckx, that becomes: "Look, it doesn't say what it says."
The artist encourages us to take a closer look at the reality that surrounds us.
With his minimal interventions, he sharpened our perceptive capacity, it is going to be fine. He transforms the daily reality that we are so used to that we no longer pay attention to.
These light, domestic disruptions are often accompanied by moments of doubt: Where is the work located? Was that already the case? We are often blind.
he artist would prefer nothing more than for visitors to enter into a mutual dialogue about his interventions. And that the work lives on in those conversations.
Tweelinckx works within the trompe l’oeil tradition. He takes a walk with reality.
For example, he cracked the wall in six museums in Ljubljana. However, it turned out to be a screen print that was printed directly on the wall.
Or what about his half empty (or half full?) Bottle of Coke. The soft drink seems to float in the bottle, ignoring gravity or other laws of nature.
The artist likes to lead the visitor astray.
For example, he placed the aforementioned bottle in front of an atypical, whitewashed window that immediately draws the viewer's attention.
As a visual lightning conductor, which means we don't immediately notice the actual work.
It leads to the classic mistake of the detective: the solution was right in front of us, but we didn't see it!
Tweelinckx will often distract our gaze.
For an earlier exhibition, he has arranged a piece of linoleum floor covering that curls upwards so that you look out frontally and did not notice it immediately. The artist adjusts the scenography to an optimal surprise effect.
Tweelinckx makes sculptural objects, he feels mostly in-situ like a fish in the water.
He always starts from the existing space and the potential. His gaze falls on an architectural anomaly or peculiarity that he is going to emphasize extra, so that his intervention is almost unnoticed in reality.
In a house with a striking number of sockets (villa T.D. by Stéphane Beel), he makes an extra copy, whereby the difference between original and copy cannot be distinguished.
It is up to the visitor to guess which was designed by the artist.
In an exhibition hall (De Markten - BE) with a busy constellation of fire extinguishers, signage and pictograms, he adds a fuse box and cables.
The result is a tangle of wires, cables and electrical boxes.
Domestic elements are constantly returning.
But it remains to be seen whether it is so pleasant to be in a house where the ceiling cuts the space in half and you can only crawl through a door and enter.
As if the floor sinks from under your feet, the room narrows.
The artist blocks doors or passages, just as he mentally challenges our perception. For example, he often eliminates contradictions.
Outside becomes inside, inside becomes outside. Like with his intervention at the Berchem station.
A series of stairs under a bridge gets a plinth. As a homely and slightly absurd touch in public spaces.
The artist plays with the properties of his material and our expectations about it.
A rod miraculously bent appears to be made from MDF.
Objects also sometimes have anthropomorphic properties. Like a curved trestle that hangs tired against a wall. Blow out. Because normally it must hang state.
What must stand depends. A series of mossy tiles stand upright, as if risen. A key will soon become a stumbling block. There is often a kink in the cable. At Roeland Tweelinckx, reality is constantly under high voltage.
Sam Steverlynck
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Work by Roeland Tweelinckx is included in the collections of, a.o. the Flemish community (BE),
Reyn van der Lugt (NL), PAK Gistel (BE),
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, [+ MSUM] (SI), Museum of Modern Art [MG] (SI),
MGML City Art Museum Ljubljana (SI), Mestna gallery Ljubljana (SI), Tobačna 001, Ljubljana (SI),
MGLC, Ljubljana (SI), FMC, Kasterlee (BE)
and a large number of private collections in
Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom
Reyn van der Lugt (NL), PAK Gistel (BE),
Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, [+ MSUM] (SI), Museum of Modern Art [MG] (SI),
MGML City Art Museum Ljubljana (SI), Mestna gallery Ljubljana (SI), Tobačna 001, Ljubljana (SI),
MGLC, Ljubljana (SI), FMC, Kasterlee (BE)
and a large number of private collections in
Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom
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ROELAND TWEELINCKX
Solo tentoonstellingen (selectie)
2019 Things you can rearrange, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
2018 Art on paper, BOZAR, Brussel (BE)
Pockets full of water, Marion de Canniere , Antwerpen (BE)
2017 Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek Rotterdam (NL)
2016 Images and trumery frome the studio, SECONDRoom, Antwerpen (BE)
DUPLICATES, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
Whatever you do don’t tell anyone, Galerie van den Berge, Goes (NL)
Nothing but good intentions , CC Merksem, Antwerpen (BE)
2015 The Dialectics Of Paper , (Woot), Antwerpen (BE)
SECONDRoom Gent, Gent (BE)
Roeland Tweelinckx, Base Alpha Gallery, Antwerpen (BE)
The lost art of keeping a secret, Galerie De Ziener, Asse (BE)
2014 Domestic, BRDG, Antwerpen
GMSAV, LOMAK, Tessenderlo (BE)
2013 Borders and Perception, Roman Road Brussels, Brussel (BE)
The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+ MSUM) _ Ljubljana _ Slovenia
The Museum of Modern Art (MG), Ljubljana (SI)
City Art Museum, Ljubljana (SI)
Tobačna 001 Museum, Ljubljana (SI)
MGLC Museum, Ljubljana (SI)
Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana (SI)
2012 REGISTATION – HESITATION, ruimte Morguen, Antwerpen (BE)
Groepstentoonstellingen
2019 Achrome, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
Biënnale van België, Gent (BE)
HYDRA, Gent (BE)
Ballroom project, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerpen (BE)
ART-.TECTUUR, CWART, Knokke-Heist (BE)
2018 Slice & Dice at Irene Laub Gallery - Curator: Gregory Lang, Brussel (BE)
2018 ‘Het Voorstel’ een biënnale van ideeën, Menen CC De Steiger (BE)
KRASJ 4, Ninove (BE)
YUGEN#16, Gent (BE)
PRESENT | Van Buuren Museum and Gardens _ Brussel (BE)
Reopening | Museum Hof van Busleyden Mechelen - Curator: Hans M Martens (BE)
VK20, Stombeek-Bever (BE)
Workflow | A Play with Apes and Crafts, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
Politics of Discontent, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
Platvvorm, Platvvorm, Deinze (BE)
2017 BASTION 10, Menen (BE)
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR , Beveren (BE)
ONE NIGHT STAND, 10 years SECONDroom, Antwerpen (BE)
Showroom Robin Pourbaix, Hôte Gallery, Brussel (BE)
NO MODULOR NO MORE, sculpture today, SASK, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
30 jaar De Ziener, De Markten, Brussel (BE)
2016 Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (BE)
True Stories, In de ruimte, Gent (BE)
Group show, Antwerp art weekend, Antwerp en (BE)
Artists for Ringland, Veilinghuis Bernaerts, Antwerpen (BE)
TWINTIG, 20 new multiples, Voorkamer, Lier (BE)
AROUND THE CORNER, CC Zwaneberg.be, Heist-op-den-Berg (BE)
2015 (le) SILANCE, Galerie Valerie Traan, Antwerpen(BE)
Rhizoom #5, W45Kunstruimte, Goes (NL)
Artenova 2015 _ Mechelen (BE)
IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER _ Plataforma Revólver – Lissabon (PT)
TEARDROPS (in my eyes) _ Base Alpha Gallery _ Antwerpen (BE)
A Belgian Politician _ Marion de Cannière Art Space _ Antwerpen (BE)
PRINT ART FAIR _ Frans Masereel Centrum _ Kasterlee
2014 VIRUS, Netwerk / centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst (BE)
VAN STOF TOT ASSE, Triennial of Contemporary Art, Asse (BE)
Concentration(s) _ at Nicolas Tourte _ Roubaix (FR)
Possibly Belonging To Third Parties _ BORG _ Biennial for contemporary art _ Antwerpen (BE)
De Vierkantigste Rechthoek_ Kunsthal KAdE _ Amersfoort (NL)
A SIMPLE PLAN, Group show, Villa T.D.R., Kruiskerke (BE)
ALPINE CLUB BOECHOUT, Group show, Mortsel (BE)
Al mijn vrienden zijn wetenschappers, Kontich (BE)
Not All What I See Is There, eva steynen deviations, Antwerpen (BE)
POPPOSITIONS _ Brussels
PRINT ART FAIR 2014, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
NIEUW/NOUVEAU/ NEU, VOORKAMER, Lier (BE)
(B)elgium, POP-UP, Osijek (HR)
2013 Dublin Doubles, VOORKAMER, Dublin (IE)
Verzameld werk, (Woot), Antwerpen (BE)
Transformaties, De Markten, Brussel (BE)
EEN GROEP, Galery de ZIENER, Asse (BE)
Revisited, SECONDroom, Antwerpen (BE)
Alpine Club Boechout, Berchem (BE)
PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
2012 BONES, CIAP, Hasselt (BE)
BHART#01 EXHIBITION, Antwerpen (BE)
Over de Schutting, Oranjeboomstraat, Breda (NL)
HERE WE ARE, Nicc, Antwerpen (BE)
Contextual Impressions, Domein Le Paige, Herentals (BE)
Kunstbeurzen
2019 Art Brussels (BE)
2018 Art On Paper, Brussel (BE)
Art Brussels (BE)
2017 Art Brussels (BE)
Art Rotterdam [Solo] (NL)
2016 YIA Art Fair, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
2015 PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
2014 POPPOSITIONS, Brussel (BE)
PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
2013 PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
Solo tentoonstellingen (selectie)
2019 Things you can rearrange, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
2018 Art on paper, BOZAR, Brussel (BE)
Pockets full of water, Marion de Canniere , Antwerpen (BE)
2017 Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek Rotterdam (NL)
2016 Images and trumery frome the studio, SECONDRoom, Antwerpen (BE)
DUPLICATES, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
Whatever you do don’t tell anyone, Galerie van den Berge, Goes (NL)
Nothing but good intentions , CC Merksem, Antwerpen (BE)
2015 The Dialectics Of Paper , (Woot), Antwerpen (BE)
SECONDRoom Gent, Gent (BE)
Roeland Tweelinckx, Base Alpha Gallery, Antwerpen (BE)
The lost art of keeping a secret, Galerie De Ziener, Asse (BE)
2014 Domestic, BRDG, Antwerpen
GMSAV, LOMAK, Tessenderlo (BE)
2013 Borders and Perception, Roman Road Brussels, Brussel (BE)
The Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (+ MSUM) _ Ljubljana _ Slovenia
The Museum of Modern Art (MG), Ljubljana (SI)
City Art Museum, Ljubljana (SI)
Tobačna 001 Museum, Ljubljana (SI)
MGLC Museum, Ljubljana (SI)
Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana (SI)
2012 REGISTATION – HESITATION, ruimte Morguen, Antwerpen (BE)
Groepstentoonstellingen
2019 Achrome, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
Biënnale van België, Gent (BE)
HYDRA, Gent (BE)
Ballroom project, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerpen (BE)
ART-.TECTUUR, CWART, Knokke-Heist (BE)
2018 Slice & Dice at Irene Laub Gallery - Curator: Gregory Lang, Brussel (BE)
2018 ‘Het Voorstel’ een biënnale van ideeën, Menen CC De Steiger (BE)
KRASJ 4, Ninove (BE)
YUGEN#16, Gent (BE)
PRESENT | Van Buuren Museum and Gardens _ Brussel (BE)
Reopening | Museum Hof van Busleyden Mechelen - Curator: Hans M Martens (BE)
VK20, Stombeek-Bever (BE)
Workflow | A Play with Apes and Crafts, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
Politics of Discontent, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
Platvvorm, Platvvorm, Deinze (BE)
2017 BASTION 10, Menen (BE)
LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR , Beveren (BE)
ONE NIGHT STAND, 10 years SECONDroom, Antwerpen (BE)
Showroom Robin Pourbaix, Hôte Gallery, Brussel (BE)
NO MODULOR NO MORE, sculpture today, SASK, Sint-Niklaas (BE)
30 jaar De Ziener, De Markten, Brussel (BE)
2016 Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (BE)
True Stories, In de ruimte, Gent (BE)
Group show, Antwerp art weekend, Antwerp en (BE)
Artists for Ringland, Veilinghuis Bernaerts, Antwerpen (BE)
TWINTIG, 20 new multiples, Voorkamer, Lier (BE)
AROUND THE CORNER, CC Zwaneberg.be, Heist-op-den-Berg (BE)
2015 (le) SILANCE, Galerie Valerie Traan, Antwerpen(BE)
Rhizoom #5, W45Kunstruimte, Goes (NL)
Artenova 2015 _ Mechelen (BE)
IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER _ Plataforma Revólver – Lissabon (PT)
TEARDROPS (in my eyes) _ Base Alpha Gallery _ Antwerpen (BE)
A Belgian Politician _ Marion de Cannière Art Space _ Antwerpen (BE)
PRINT ART FAIR _ Frans Masereel Centrum _ Kasterlee
2014 VIRUS, Netwerk / centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst (BE)
VAN STOF TOT ASSE, Triennial of Contemporary Art, Asse (BE)
Concentration(s) _ at Nicolas Tourte _ Roubaix (FR)
Possibly Belonging To Third Parties _ BORG _ Biennial for contemporary art _ Antwerpen (BE)
De Vierkantigste Rechthoek_ Kunsthal KAdE _ Amersfoort (NL)
A SIMPLE PLAN, Group show, Villa T.D.R., Kruiskerke (BE)
ALPINE CLUB BOECHOUT, Group show, Mortsel (BE)
Al mijn vrienden zijn wetenschappers, Kontich (BE)
Not All What I See Is There, eva steynen deviations, Antwerpen (BE)
POPPOSITIONS _ Brussels
PRINT ART FAIR 2014, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
NIEUW/NOUVEAU/ NEU, VOORKAMER, Lier (BE)
(B)elgium, POP-UP, Osijek (HR)
2013 Dublin Doubles, VOORKAMER, Dublin (IE)
Verzameld werk, (Woot), Antwerpen (BE)
Transformaties, De Markten, Brussel (BE)
EEN GROEP, Galery de ZIENER, Asse (BE)
Revisited, SECONDroom, Antwerpen (BE)
Alpine Club Boechout, Berchem (BE)
PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
2012 BONES, CIAP, Hasselt (BE)
BHART#01 EXHIBITION, Antwerpen (BE)
Over de Schutting, Oranjeboomstraat, Breda (NL)
HERE WE ARE, Nicc, Antwerpen (BE)
Contextual Impressions, Domein Le Paige, Herentals (BE)
Kunstbeurzen
2019 Art Brussels (BE)
2018 Art On Paper, Brussel (BE)
Art Brussels (BE)
2017 Art Brussels (BE)
Art Rotterdam [Solo] (NL)
2016 YIA Art Fair, Irene Laub Gallery, Brussel (BE)
2015 PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
2014 POPPOSITIONS, Brussel (BE)
PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
2013 PRINT ART FAIR, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE)
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