Kasper Bosmans

Kasper Bosmans (1990) studied in Belgium at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent. The artist’s work has been exhibited at Gladstone Gallery in New York, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.

Education

2014
Higher Institute for Fine Arts, HISK, Ghent, Belgium
2012
Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

Awards and Prizes

2019
Nominee, Future Generation Art Prize
2014
Nominee, Coming People SMAK
2012
Laureate M. Horlait Dapsens
2010
Nottebohn Award
2009
Proost de Barsy Award

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Plums, Under Cover, Mendes Wood DM, Paris, France
2023
Mutualism, Delvaux, Paris, France
Collection Display: Kasper Bosmans, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2022
Kasper Bosmans, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Creatures, Mendes Woods DM, São Paulo, Brazil
Husbandry, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Drowsy & Torpid, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021
Wolf Corridor, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Kasper Bosmans: A Perfect Shop-front, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
2020
Kasper Bosmans: Four, Gladstone 64, New York
2018
Kunstintegratie Kasper Bosmans (In Frascati): Papegaaistraat, Ghent, Belgium
De Veemarkt, Stad Lommel, Lommel, Belgium
Das Verflixte 7. Jahr, Fuerstenberg Zeitgenossich, Donaueschingen, Germany
Chip Log, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2017
The Words and Days (mud gezaaid, free range), De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2016
Model Garden, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Specimen Days, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Decorations, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cintamani Weavings, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Motif (Oil and Silver), Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Loot, Soil, and Cleanliness, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
2015
Correspondence, with Rafaella Crispino, Unosunove, Rome
Yesterday was different, Komplot, Brussels
Little Cherry Virus, P/////AKT, Amsterdam
2014
Made to Measure: Fishing Rod, Experimental Intermedia, Ghent, Belgium
Summary; fox, milk, smoke, Kasper Bosmans, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
2013
Kasper Bosmans & Philippe Van Snick, Nightshop, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Knokke, Belgium
MUHKALUMNI, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium

Group Exhibitions

2024
Stories from the ground, 9th Biennial of Painting,
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
After Paradise, Triennale Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
Dreaming of Spilliaert, Mendes Wood DM at d’Ouwe Kerk, Retranchement, The Netherlands
Ornamenta, Northern Black Forest region, Germany
2023
Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
40th EVA International, Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick, Ireland
A Manual of Errors?, Sgomento Zurigo, Zürich, Switzerland
Spark Birds & the Loneliness of Species, Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre, The Netherlands
DAS 2023: Bonna, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Imaginary Friends, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2022
Barbe à Papa, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Paradys, Oranjewoud park, Heerenveen, The Netherlands
Substance – SUBSTANCES, Collegium, Arévalo, Spain
2021
I Think I Look More like the Chrysler Building, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
Chants of a Gargoyle, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels
2020
The Penumbral Age: Art in the Time of Planetary Change, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
In the Presence of Absence: Proposals for the Museum Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Together, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Four Flags, public installation, Amsterdam
Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2019
It’s Urgent! – Part II, Luma Westbau, Zürich
Blood and Soil: Dark Arts for Dark Times, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Real Beauty, ADN Platform, Barcelona, Spain
Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2019, Palazzo Ca’ Tron, Venice, Italy
Future Genewration Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre. Kyiv, Ukraine
Top Floor, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Feast of Fools: Bruegel Rediscovered, Gaasbeek Castle, Gaasbeek, Belgium
Young Artists in Europe: Metamorphosis, Fondation Cartier, Paris
Push Angle, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
2018
Le Bel t , Noire Gallery, Turin, Italy
Splendor Solis, The Approach, London
The Hum Comes from the Stumuch, curated by Kasper Bosmans, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Kristi Kongi and Kasper Bosmans in Dialogue, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Mystic Properties, Art Brussels, Brussels
Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2017
Kathmandu Triennale 2017, Maligaun, Kathmandu
Jahresgaben 2017, K lnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
All You Need is the Lavatory, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
A Temporary Futures Institute, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Neither, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
2016
Poetica_Politica, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
What’s the Riddle?, Pi Artworks, London
I Wish I Never Kissed that Frog, Jeanine Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam
Terra Incognita: Familiar Infinity, Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
2015
Imagine Istanbul, BOZAR, Brussels
Des h tes: a foreigner, a human, an unexpected visitor, Spring Workshop, Aberdeen, Hong Kong, China
Beyond Borders, Beaufort, Ostend, Belgium
Other Ways and Means, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Un-Scene III, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
Meditations on a hobby horse, Association for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium
2014
ATLAS, Motinternational, Brussels
Het Vierkantigste Rechthoek, Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Raving Disco Dolly on a Rock N’ Roll Trolley, Envoy Enterprises, New York
INBOX, A4 Multiple (4) van Lode Geens, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Het kanaal — le canal, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium
Het kanaal — le canal, Espave 251 Nord, Lige, Belgium
Coming People, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Write of spring, Paviljoen, Ghent, Belgium
Paper Works, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
Re-art, Oud Klooster, Oudenaarde, Belgium
2013
Belgium Performance Festival, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten & MuHkA, Antwerp, Belgium
MUHKALUMNI, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
21 eeuw buiten!, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
Operating Theater, in collaboration with ENSCI, Higher Institute for Fine Arts and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
The Gunshot, Marion de Cannire, Antwerp, Belgium
Open Studios, Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2012
The New Candour!, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
New Ways to Work, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Koker Juffers, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Symprovisation, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
A whitsun wedding, Galerie EL, Welle, Belgium
2011
The Company of Humour, Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands

Publications

Dovetail offers the first monographic overview of Kasper Bosmans’ oeuvre to date. The book is richly illustrated with photographs of individual works and exhibition views, including a collaboration with artist Marina Pinsky. With texts from Piero Bisello, Phillip Van den Bossche, Martin Germann, Zoë Gray & Julia Mullié.

Get the book at:
Walther König Wiels
Or your local bookshop

Press

2023
“SPECIAL FEATURE: Art Viewer in Conversation with Kasper Bosmans”
Art Viewer, September 12, 2023
2022
Vivian Sky Rehberg
“Review of Kasper Bosmans' Husbandry at WIELS”
Artforum, October 1, 2022
“Kasper Bosmans at WIELS”
Art Viewer, June 20, 2022
2021
Francesco Tenaglia
“Kasper Bosmans’s “A Perfect Shop-Front”
Art Agenda. April 13, 2021
Kasper Bosmans
"La Lettura (cover)"
Corriere della Sera, February 2021
2018
Valentina Sarmiento Cruz
“Kasper Bosmans at Gladstone Gallery”
Artforum, February 18, 2018
Osman Can Yerebakan
“A Belgian Artist Uses a Medieval Map to Navigate Modern America”
Garage Magazine, January 22, 2018
2017
Laura Herman
"Kasper Bosmans"
Frieze, December 27, 2016
2016
Sam Steverlynck
"Kasper Bosmans"
De Standaard, November 19, 2016
Sam Steverlynck
"Kasper Bosmans"
Bruzz, November, 2016
Caroline Dumalin
"Nice to Meet You"
Mousse, September 2016
Scott Reyburn
"Brussels Art Week Expands at a Tricky Time"
The New York Times, April 22, 2016
Rudi Smeets
"Volkskunst met een snuifje maatschappelijke verontwaardiging"
De Standaard, April 4, 2016