BAS VAN DEN HURK
Tilburg, The Netherlands 1965 Lives and works in Tilburg.
Solo and two person exhibitions
2011	Your so Beautiful, and so on…and so on….and so on..., Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK, with Harm van den Dorpel Beside Itself, Duende, Rotterdam, with Martijn Hendriks
2010	Organizing the Non-Obvious II, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK Organizing the Non-Obvious I, ZINGERpresents, Amsterdam Art Rotterdam, ZINGERpresents, Rotterdam
2009	New Work, Gallery Kokon, Tilburg, Holland
2008	But if Not, Not, Metafora, Barcelona, Spain with Koen Delaere
Selected Group exhibitions
2012	The Autumn of Modernism, De Vleeshal, Middelburg with: Falke Pisano, Batia Suter, Katja Mater, Gweneth Boelens, gerlach en koop a.o curator: Lorenzo Benedetti The December Store, Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghant, Belgium Curators: Jan van Woensel, Vanessa Albury, Sörine Anderson
2011	What's Up!, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht With: Evi Vingerling, Maaike Schoorel, Malin Persson, Claire Harvey, Carl-Johan Hogberg a.o. BOO!, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam With Magnus Clausen, Michael Pirgelis, David Ostrowski, a.o. I Can't, I Can, I Care, De Vleeshal, Middelburg With: Peter Fengler, Vaast Colson, Dennis Tyfus, Koen Delaere, Martijn Hendriks One Place After Another II, Dick de Bruijn Galleries, Middelburg with: Vaast Colson, Dennis Tyfus, Koen Delaere, Bas van den Hurk Incubate, public space, Tilburg The Passenger, Paul Andriesse Galleries, Amsterdam with: Christopher Williams, Sol Lewitt, Daan van Golden, Maria Eichhorn, Gweneth Boellens, Oliver Laric, Ann Lislegaard, Ian Wilson, Sigmar Polke, Yutaka Sone a.o. The Spur of the Moment, Nest, The Hague with: Ghislain Amar, David Bade, Remco Torenbosch, Femke de Vries, Tobias Hoffknecht, Michael Pirgelis, David Ostrowski a.o.
2010	Revolt & Despair I + II, Flipside Eindhoven and Gunter, Antwerp, (B) With: Vaast Colson, Dennis Tyfus, Koen Delaere, Remco Torenbosch a.o. Liste 15 Basel, ZINGERpresents, Basel, Switzerland Kenepa Chiki and Lagun, Curacao, Dutch Antilles Platinum Metre, Gallery Aschenbach & Hofland, Amsterdam with: Wendy White, Michiel Ceulers, Koen Delaere, Ronald de Bloeme, Olaf Hotzapfel, Tatjana Doll, Alivia Zivich & Nate Young, Bas van den Hurk B-sides and Rarities, Extra-City, Antwerp, Belgium (cat.) A THING IS A THING IN A WHOLE WHICH IT'S NOT, Mike Potter projects@ Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne, Germany With: Theodora Djordadze, Hans-Joerg Dobliar, Joep van Liefland a.o NFO/XPO, Chicago, USA Art Amsterdam, Trendbeheer, Amsterdam Inkubáljuk hírlevél Május, Europemania Festival, Pécs, Hungary. Making Do: Uses and Tactics II, Kaplans, Chicago, USA Co-curator: Edmar Marszewski Poster, Making Do: Uses and Tactics, BKKC, Tilburg with Koen Delaere, Marjolijn Dijkman, Piet Dieleman, Bas van den Hurk and MFA AKV/St. Joost The non-obvious Bar, The Boadicea, London, UK with: Markus Vater, Remco Torenbosch, Femke de Vries, Hester Scheurwater a.o. The Destroyed Room, Perron 58, Tilburg with: Lee Ranaldo, Cary Loren, Marc Bijl, Aids 3-D, Paul Lee, Felix Schramm a.o. The Destroyed Room @ The Forgotten Bar, Forgotten Bar, Berlin, Germany London Art Fair, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
2009	B-sides and Rarities , Lokaal 01, Breda (archive) (cat.) Auf der Spitze des Eisbergs, Rod Barton Gallery, Londen, UK with: Daniel Pasteiner, Michiel Ceulers, James Ryan, Bas van den Hurk 3.3, Galerie 48, Breda with: Rob Birza, Manon van Trier, Bas van den Hurk Encountering, Stadsgalerie, Breda On a Clear day I can see Forever/ the new sentimentality, @BCM, Tilburg, (cat.) with: Thomas Zipp, Andre Butzer, Bjorn Dahlem, Joep van Liefland a.o. Curators: Remco Torenbosch, Ulrich Wulff and Koen Delaere Whatbar #5, een saluut aan Dan van Severen, Studio Tonnard, Gand, Belgium (cat.) with: Anselm Kiefer, Jens Wolf, Joelle Teurlinckx a.o. Galerie Gallery, @galerie 48, Breda curators: Jan en Michiel Huijben DVD project, Puebla, Mexico & Centro Cultural Huamanga, Ayachucho, Peru Se Permuta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Oaxaca, Mexico
2008	Bozanov, workperiod Bozanov, Tsjechië 038, Bookpresentation Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam Chevou, Workperiod Chevou, Frankrijk DVD project revisited, Ex teresa Arte Actual, Mexico DF, Fabrica de Braco de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Spain, Maus Habitos – Port, Portugal
2007	Hermitage van Helmond, Markt, Helmond curator: Esther Didden BigPowerSmallWorks, Gallery Kathareze, Tilburg Curator : Koen Delaere DVD-editionen Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, Spain , The Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain GHB, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Curator: Phillip van den Bossche
Selected Bibliography:
2011	Marina de Vries, What's Up! review, De Volkskrant, december 2011 Arjan Reinders, What's Up! review, Kunstbeeld, december 2011-januari 2011 Moniek Peters, What's Up! catalogue contribution Booklaunch, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, with: Evi Vingerling, Paula van den Bosch and Frank Maes One Work After Another, publication with text by Jan van Woensel, design by Remco Torenbosch Sanneke Huisman, Spur of the Moment, revieuw, Metropolis M, August 2011 Jenny Cusack, Bas van den Hurk & Harm van den Dorpel, Dazed Digital, april 2011 You're So Beautiful, and so on…and so on….and so on…., Mousse Magazine (website), april 2011 Anneliek van Halen, Tubelight #73 Martijn Hendriks, 'Beside Itself', W139 Issue #5 March- April 2011 Braktalk 2, Duende, Rotterdam, mini symposium with Edward C. Thompson, Sjoerd Westbroek, Lee Welch and Matthew Lutz-Kinnoy (March) Quinn Latimer, Going Dutch, Artforum (website)
2010	Radio Centraal, Antwerpen, broadcast for Revolt & Despair II City TV, Einhoven,12 hours broadcast for Revolt & Despair I Harmen Liemburg, 'List, bedrog, stroperij en hergebruik', Items#4, August Niek Hendrix / Erik van Liere, The Lost Painters interview, July Colin Perry, 'Bas van den Hurk at Rod Barton', Art Review, April Paul Carey-Kent, 'Not so obivious in April', Paul's Art World, April Jan van Woensel, 'Muddy Disco, an introduction to the work of Bas van den Hurk', essay Div. authors B-sides and Rarities , Lokaal 01, catalogue Evelien Baks, 'Fris, jong en veelbelovend op Art Rotterdam', Algemeen Dagblad, February
2009	JJ Charlsworth,'Auf der Spitze des Eisbergs', Time Out, August Marijn van Kreij, 'Met lege Handen', Endless Lowlands, March Bas van den Hurk 2005-2009, publication with text by H. van Boxtel Gerrit vd Hoven, 'Gespeelde nonchalance in werk van Bas van den Hurk', Brabants Dagblad, February
2007	Ingrid van Santen, 'Brutaal en poëtisch tegelijk', hermitage van Helmond, October Rosan Hollak, 'Sommige komen de kluis niet meer uit', NRC Handelsblad, July