Ward van Grimbergen (b. 1972, Genk, Belgium) grew up in Diepenbeek as the son of an architect couple. In 1993, Ward moved to his current home in Antwerp to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Early on in his training as a sculptor, as he is developing his artistic talent, something else is […]

exhibitors Herman Bossert Yalcin Cihangir Damian Valdes Dilla Davood Koochaki Jean-Pierre Nadau Roy Wenzel

Yalcin Cihangir was born 1968, Büyükcamili, Turkey. After having been employed as a blacksmith he became an international truck driver and decided to settle down in Amsterdam in the mid nineties and found work as a dish washer. In love with the national bicycle culture he felt inspired to design a family transport bike that […]

winter exhibition exhibitors Marcel Bascoulard Gorki Bollar Yalcin Cihangir Michel Delannoy Karhang Mui Gilles Manero André Salaün Roy Wenzel

“Virtuoso Designer, Magnificent Tramp, Invented Woman” wrote Patrick Martinat about Marcel Bascoulard (1913-1978, France). One might call the homeless, eccentric Bascoulard the city illustrator of Bourges, and he was able to live off the sale of his realistic drawings. He became so well known for his work that after his violent death, a bust of […]

Alireza was born in 2002 in western Iran. His father is a simple laborer, and the family owns only one cow. The somewhat introverted, quiet Alireza began to take an interest in cows at an early age and immersed himself in the history of Spanish bullfighting. When all schools were closed due to the pandemic, […]

Yalcin Cihangir (b. 1968 in Büyükcamili, Turkey) grew up next door to his uncle, an ironsmith, whom he went to work for after just five years of schooling. The “wild child”, as he describes himself, learned how to handle iron and paint. At the age of 30, he became a truck driver and spent half […]